WCDMA for UMTS:

Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications
Third Edition

Edited by: Harri Holma and Antti Toskala

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

July 2004

Prices: $107.50 / £65.00 / €99.90

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Table of Contents (PDF format -- 84 KB)
Chapter 2: UMTS Services and Applications (PDF format -- 2,794 KB)

Highly regarded as the book on the air interface of 3G cellular systems, WCDMA for UMTS has again been fully revised and updated and now covers the key features of 3GPP Release 6.

Provides a deep understanding of the WCDMA air interface:

• Explains the key parts of the 3GPP/WCDMA standard
• Presents network dimensioning, coverage and capacity of WCDMA
• Introduces TDD and discusses its differences from FDD

Key third edition updates include:

• Covers the main 3GPP Release 6 updates
• Further enhances HSDPA chapter with a number of new simulation results
• Explains High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) study item
• Introduces new services including their performance analysis for Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC), streaming, See What I See (SWIS) and multiplayer games
• Presents a number of new WCDMA field measurement results: capacity, end-to-end performance and handovers
• Includes completely updated antenna beamforming and multi-user detection sections featuring new simulation results
• Introduces TD-SCDMA and compares it to Release'99 TDD

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