WCDMA for UMTS: Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications, 3rd Ed. (Hardcover)

by Harri Holma (Editor), Antti Toskala (Editor) "The best known new feature of UMTS is higher user bit rates: on circuit-switched connections 384 kbps, and on packet-switched connections up to 2 Mbps,..." (more)
Key Phrases: more multipath diversity, outer loop power control algorithm, mobile transmission power, John Wiley, Transport Network Control Plane, Antti Toskala (more...)

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Amazon.com Review
As wireless communications technologies evolve, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) seems a strong candidate for providing multimedia to the handset, as well as Universal Mobile Telecommunications Services (UMTS)--which is to say common wireless communications standards over most of the world. WCDMA for UMTS sets out to decipher the standards documents of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Specifically, this book deals with the 3GPP documents on Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) for Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA). This book should prove valuable to readers who plan to implement WCDMA in hardware designs or service offerings.

A series of engineering problems make up the backbone of the book, and each part of the deployment process is explained via text and calculations. For example, in the discussion on planning a radio network for WCDMA service provision, the book explains precisely how to take into account requirements (for quality of service, user capacity, and coverage) and conditions (such as terrain). Readers get formulas into which they can plug relative traffic predictions for voice, real-time data, non-real-time data, and overhead. There's also an explanation of how to interpret the formula output for deploying antennae. This is a serious engineering handbook for those who are involved in deploying WCDMA. --David Wall

Topics covered: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA)--what it is, and (especially) how to implement it in a wireless network. Radio interface protocols, packet traffic, and network planning all are covered. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This volume has matured to … a highly recommended and indispensable. (Computing Reviews, July 15, 2008) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 478 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 33 edition (September 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470870966
• ISBN-13: 978-0470870969
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #215,429 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not for newbies, must for pros, June 4, 2001

By	Marko I. Silventoinen (Newton MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: WCDMA for UMTS: Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications, Revised Edition (Hardcover)

This book delivers exactly what it promises: a profound, compact and clear description of WCDMA for UMTS. The reader is expected to understand quite advanced concepts of mobile communications, hence it is not a good book for managers who want to know what 3G is all about nor for undergraduate students who want to learn cellular system basics. It is an excellent book for experienced network planners, protocol designers or research engineers, for example, who want to move from 2G to 3G. Simple test: if you don't know what are Erlang-B, orthogonal codes or layered protocol architecture, you want to study them first from another book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful compilation of standards, if you need them, June 16, 2001

By	"angyh" (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: WCDMA for UMTS: Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications, Revised Edition (Hardcover)

If you like to read standards or have to in the course of your work, this book offers a useful and succinct compilation. Other than that, there is nothing to recommend this book as it does not help improve your understanding. Then again, this is not the kind of book which people who do not have to work with standards will want to read.

There is a short chapter on cdma2000 at the end.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read "a different" book before this one., February 7, 2003

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This review is from: WCDMA for UMTS: Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications (Hardcover)

Otherwise it might be somehow confusing. This book is a must for professionals as another reviewer stated but it is not very suitable as the first book on UMTS technologies. This book serves best as supplementary reading. For example new-beginner readers might get confused talkink about SIP at the first chapter before explaining W-CDMA and core-network layout. Anyway, this book contains wealth of information on UMTS technologies and warmly recommended for serious readers.