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Title	Handbook of Mobile Radio Networks (Artech House Mobile Communications Library)
Author(s)	Sami Tabbane
ISBN	1580530095
Language	English
Published	January 2000
Publisher	Artech House

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
This work is a bit too big for the "handy pocket reference" definition of handbook, but as a quick guide to the enormous range of technologies involved in mobile radio it fills the bill nicely. Part one of the book, though not formally delineated, gives the basic concepts behind mobile radio networks. Chapter one is an overview of mobile radio needs, history, and standards. Propagation gets thorough coverage in chapter two, and while there is lots of math there are also good explanations. Medium and channel access is dealt with in chapter three, including a detailed look at frequency, time, and code division multiple access (FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA, respectively). Channel imperfections and recovery, with a good section on adaptive antennae, are in chapter four. Chapter five's review of security has a good general introduction, decent explanations of cryptography, and some standards. Resource management and cell design is in chapter six. Cellular planning and engineering gets covered in chapter seven. Chapter eight deals with mobility management, cell selection, and roaming. Part two looks more at applications and implementations. Professional (sometimes referred to as Private) Mobile Radio (PMR) is the topic of chapter nine. Chapter ten discusses cordless telephony, with the CT2, DECT (Digital European Cordless Telecommunications), PHS (Personal Handyphone System, and PACS (Personal Access Communications System) standards. Paging, and the Eurosignal, POCSAG (Post Office Standardization Advisory Group), and ERMES (Enhanced Radio MEssage System) standards are in chapter eleven. Chapters twelve and thirteen look at various cellular and wireless data networks respectively. (There is reference to a prognosticating chapter fourteen in the book, but my copy had neither it nor any extra space.) All chapters have references and bibliographies, and most have appendices for further study on specialized topics. It's very nice to see a book that covers international standards and systems, although Americans may thereby feel that they don't fare too well on that front (which is as it should be). The material is presented in sufficient depth for a general understanding, but cannot, of course, detail every point of all the topics addressed. For those needing a broad grasp of current mobile radio technology, this is a very useful resource indeed. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2000
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