This authoritative resource provides a comprehensive treatment of the evolution of wireless communications to help practitioners keep pace with the latest developments in their field. Professionals find expert guidance on today's most critical topics, including inter-networking of 3G CDMA (code division multiple access), broadband wireless, CDMA wireless local loop and wireless LAN, security of wireless networks, deployment management, and market implications of wireless technology for business and consumers. The book provides an in-depth understanding of three important standards - CDMA2000, WCDMA, and TD-SCDMA, and explains the synergies among these technologies. This forward-looking book also discusses beyond 3G mobile communication systems, the concept of global roaming, internetworking between LAN and WAN networks, and the future of two-way broadband wireless communications.
Saad Z. Asif has thirteen years of experience in evaluating telecommunications standards and state-of-the-art wireless technologies and providing strategic directions to the companies. Currently, he is working as a Transmission Strategy manager at Telenor Pakistan where his focus is on Millimeter Wave microwave radios and Carrier Ethernet technologies. He also worked for Mobilink (an Orascom Telecom Company), Pakistan as a Manager Technology Development where his primary focus was on WiMAX.
He also previously worked for Sprint Nextel as a Senior Technology Architect in Overland Park, KS, USA for eight years. At Sprint's Technology Development he accessed and conducted proof of concept (POC) trials on a number of state-of-the-art technologies including 3G (CDMA2000), interference cancellation, antenna diversity and smart antennas. He also led a team in conducting POC tests for EV-DO technology and played a major role in designing Sprint's wireless high speed data strategy.
Mr. Asif holds four US patents as a co-patentee and has additional patent applications pending with USPTO. A Senior Member of the IEEE, author of ten technical papers, he holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and an MS in Engineering Management from the University of Kansas.
