Includes index.

Introduction to cellular telecommunications -- Beginnings -- Overview of the systems -- Radio waves and propagation -- Electric fields -- Magnetic fields -- Radio waves -- Frequency-to-wavelength conversion -- Polarization -- How radio signals travel -- Refraction, reflection and diffraction -- Coverage and network planning -- Modulation -- Radio carrier -- Amplitude modulation -- Modulation index -- Frequency modulation -- Modulation index and deviation ratio -- Sidebands -- Bandwidth -- Improvement in signal-to-noise ration -- Frequency shift keying -- Phase modulation -- Phase shift keying -- Minimum shift keying -- Quadrature amplitude modulation -- Spread spectrum techniques -- Frequency hopping -- Direct sequence spread spectrum -- Orthogonal frequency division multiplex -- Bandwidth and data capacity -- Cellular basics -- Spectrum re-use -- Multiple access schemes -- Duplex operation -- Setting up calls -- Receiving and making a call -- Handover and handoff -- Channel usage -- Infrastructure -- Base transceiver station -- Mobile switching centre -- Mobile phone -- Voice coding -- Digital data structures -- Analogue systems -- Today -- Basic system -- Base station -- Mobile switching centres -- Mobile equipment -- Voice messaging -- Signaling methods -- Control channels -- Froward control channel -- Reverse control channel -- Call initiation -- Paging and incoming call set-up -- Handoff -- GSM -- System architecture -- Equipment and subscriber identifiers -- Air interface -- Power levels -- Multiple access and channel structure -- Vovoders -- Operation -- General packet radio service -- GPRS network structure -- Layers -- GPRS mobiles -- GPRS coding -- GPRS physical channel -- Channel allocation -- GPRS operation -- EDGE -- Time slots -- Data coding and throughput -- Operation -- North American TDMA -- System overview -- RF signal -- Channels -- Paging -- Handoff -- Authentication -- PDC -- cdmaOne/IS-95 -- Standards -- Spreading codes -- Radio signal construction -- Channels -- Froward link code channels -- Reverse channels -- Power control -- Handoff -- Discountinuous reception -- Call processing -- vocoders -- Advantages of CDMA -- CDMA2000 -- 1X and 3X -- Radio configurations -- CDMA2000 1X -- Power control -- Beam formatting -- Channels -- Packet data -- Handoff -- CDMA 1xEV-DV -- New features -- Base station selection -- Release D -- Broadcast and multicast services -- Fast call set-up -- Mobile equipment identifier -- CDMA2000 1xEV-DO -- EV-DO air interface -- Froward link -- Reverse link -- Mobile IP -- UMTS -- Capabilities -- System architecture overview -- User equipment -- Radio network sub-system -- Protocols -- Air interface -- Spreading -- Synchronization -- Power control -- Frames, slots and channels -- Logical channels -- Transport channels -- Physical channels -- Packet data -- Speech coding -- Discountinuous reception -- Access stratum protocol layers -- Handover -- inner-system handover -- The evolution of 3G networks -- Position location -- Cell ID -- TDOA -- A-GPS -- GPS -- Assistance from the base station -- A-GPS -- Conformance and interoperability testing -- Types of test -- Test cases -- CDMA system.