WCDMA for UMTS: HSPA Evolution and LTE [Hardcover]

Harri Holma (Editor), Antti Toskala (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 27, 2007 | ISBN-10: 047031933X | ISBN-13: 978-0470319338 | Edition: 4

Written by the leading experts in the field, the best selling book on UMTS is now updated to cover 3GPP High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) evolution (HSPA+) in Release 7 and on-going Long Term Evolution (LTE) activity for Release 8. These technologies enhance the capabilities of the existing WCDMA/HSPA networks to offer higher data rates beyond 100 Mbps.

WCDMA for UMTS, Fourth Edition also covers 3GPP WCDMA Release 99, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) in Release 5 and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) in Release 6, which are already deployed commercially. Multimedia Broadcast Multicast System (MBMS) is also described in detail.

Key updates include:
* Continues to provide both updated descriptions of the 3GPP standard as well as the latest end user and system performance estimates

* Updated HSDPA and HSUPA, including link budgets and Iub dimensioning

* Detailed MBMS description

* 3GPP Release 7 HSPA evolution full description

* 3GPP Release 8 LTE overall description and 3GPP schedule

* Dedicated chapter on terminal design challenges for the new high speed radio technologies

Editorial Reviews

Review

This volume has matured to … a highly recommended and indispensable. (Computing Reviews, July 15, 2008)

From the Back Cover

Written by the leading experts in the field, the best selling book on UMTS is now updated to cover 3GPP High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) evolution (HSPA+) in Release 7 and on-going Long Term Evolution (LTE) activity for Release 8. These technologies enhance the capabilities of the existing WCDMA/HSPA networks to offer higher data rates beyond 100 Mbps.

[WCDMA for UMTS, Fourth Edition  also covers 3GPP WCDMA Release 99, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) in Release 5 and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) in Release 6, which are already deployed commercially. Multimedia Broadcast Multicast System (MBMS) is also described in detail.

Key updates include:

• Continues to provide both updated descriptions of the 3GPP standard as well as the latest end user and system performance estimates

 

• Updated HSDPA and HSUPA, including link budgets and Iub dimensioning

 

• Detailed MBMS description

 

• 3GPP Release 7 HSPA evolution full description

 

• 3GPP Release 8 LTE overall description and 3GPP schedule

 

• Dedicated chapter on terminal design challenges for the new high speed radio technologies

Product Details

• Hardcover: 572 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 4 edition (November 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047031933X
• ISBN-13: 978-0470319338
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,328,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Junky ... but sadly the only one worth reading, May 28, 2010

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This review is from: WCDMA for UMTS: HSPA Evolution and LTE (Hardcover)

If you attend standards meetings - they zig-zag, meander and bend your mind and numb your brain - without being useful. This book has the same feel. And yet everything else on the market is even worse. There is a real opportunity here for someone to come in and write a book that is worth reading. In the meantime, if you can't bear to read standards and you have to read something - this is it.

If you are interested in the core principles of DS spread spectrum applied to cellular then read Viterbi's book. Simple and elegant - if a bit dated. It doesn't have the coherent uplink innovations and all the EVDO/ HSPA (multiuser diversity, MIMO etc.) - but if you use the first principles approach of the book, you will pick up all of these on your own. And then if you need to know the details and the hairly UMTS names (PCCPCH etc.) - you can read this junk.