wireless personal communications: improving capacity, services and reliability presents a broad range of topics in wireless communications, including perspectives from both industry and academia. the book serves as a reflection of current research thrusts in wireless communications, an area which continues to grow at a rapid rate as the industry strives to provide a wider range of services with greater reliability and at lower cost. wireless personal communications: improving capacity, services and reliability is organized into four sections. section i focuses on propagation and smart antennas with emphasis on measurements, modeling and simulation. section 2 is devoted to the important subject of code division multiple access (cdma) systems with coverage of bit error rate calculations, interference cancellation, frequency estimators and acquisition schemes. section 3 covers networking and multiple-access issues such as mobility tracking, markov analysis of random access protocols, and the design and development of a prototype system to access low earth orbiting (leo) satellites. section 4 presents software radio technologies, including wideband software-definable base station technology, space-borne processing technology for mobile communications systems, filter design, universal cordless telephone transceivers using dsp, a method for predicting nonlinearities for an rf power amplifier, map symbol detection of cpm bursts, and unification of mlse receivers. wireless personal communications: improving capacity, services and reliability serves as an excellent reference source and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the subject.
