Modern Personal Radio Systems

by R.C.V. Macario

Overview

This topical book builds upon an earlier IEE text Personal & mobile radio systems, by the same editor, which set out the fundamental issues in a discipline that appeared to have global expansion potential. That potential has now become a reality, and something more than a new edition of the previous book was needed to bring it up to date. This book is completely new, drawing on the experience and the many intensive studies that have been concentrated in this field in the past five years.

The book gives a clear and detailed insight into the fundamental problems and solutions found in modern personal communications: service requirements, coverage problems, multipath interference, cellular architectures and signalling, network management, data and supplementary services, satellite services. In particular it describes the approach of the GSM methodology, as one of the most intensively developed standards, to some of these problems, although the same principles also apply to DCS 1800 and other technologies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780852968611
Publisher:	The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Publication date:	06/30/1996
Series:	Telecommunications
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Raymond Charles Vincent Macario studied radio physics at King's College, London, where his studies of complex radio waves propagating in very varied conditions - using a unique contiguous spectrum analyser - stood him in good stead in the embryonic mobile radio industry. He spent several years in industry designing radiofrequency and other circuits before accepting a lectureship post in communications in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Universityof Wales, Swansea. There he has had the opportunity to manage a hundred or more undergraduate and postgraduate projects in the radio business. He has lectured and given courses on mobile radio in most parts of the world; this is his fifth book on the subject.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Modern personal radio systems requirements and services
• Chapter 2: Coverage prediction methodologies
• Chapter 3: Modulation and multipath countermeasures
• Chapter 4: Professional user radio systems
• Chapter 5: Cellular radio planning methods
• Chapter 6: Cellular architectures and signalling
• Chapter 7: Cellular network management centres
• Chapter 8: Mobility handover and power control in GSM
• Chapter 9: Strategies for mobility management
• Chapter 10: Microcellular networks
• Chapter 11: Future systems: cellular access technology
• Chapter 12: GSM data, telematic and supplementary services
• Chapter 13: Future satellite mobile telephone networks

Editorial Reviews

A text providing insight into the fundamantal problems and solutions found in modern personal communications: service requirements, coverage problems, fundamental interference, cellular architectures and signalling, network management, data and supplementary services, and satellite services. Also describes the approach of the GSM methodology to some of these problems, although the same principles apply to DCS 1800 and other technologies. This volume builds on and updates a 1991 IEE text, Personal and Mobile Radio Systems by the same editor. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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