Brings you up to speed on mobile data system design, current and emerging wireless network and systems standards, and network architectures. Describes mobile data applications and wireless LANs, and analyzes and evaluates current technologies.

Western and Central Europe contains both strong established and new, emerging markets for US and European mobile communications companies. This book is a comprehensive analysis of the current status and future integration prospects in these markets, with clear, in-depth explanations of standards, regulations and technology. Markets are identified and compared, showing where future growth will happen and when.

The most comprehensive reference available on GSM applications and services, this new title is intended to build on the basic technical information in the authors' original bestseller, An Introduction to GSM (Artech House, 1995). The book provides a close-up look at this hot technology, offers in-depth discussions of the features and services available through GSM, and includes new and more in-depth coverage of applications and implementations of the GSM standard. It also explains how GSM has succeeded in becoming the major digital wireless standard - and addresses both past and future...

Drawing upon his experience in building the first major CDMA network in North America, Samuel Yang explains the essentials of CDMA wireless technology, helping the reader acquire the knowledge needed to engineer and implement an IS-95 based CDMA system.

Professionals new to the business will appreciate this outstanding introduction to intelligent network (IN) concepts, technology, and applications for use in mobile communications networks. The book helps assure success in bringing new services to market by clearly explaining the technology, relevant standards, marketability concerns, product development issues, and even evolutionary trends.

This practical new resource gives you a comprehensive understanding of the design and deployment of transmission networks for wireless applications. From principles and design, to equipment procurement, project management, testing, and operation, it's a practical, hands-on engineering guide with numerous real-life examples of turn-key operations in the wireless networking industry. This book, written for both technical and non-technical professionals, helps you deal with the costs and difficulties involved in setting up the local access with technologies that are still in the evolutionary...

SMS (short message service) and MMS (multimedia message service) are two of the hottest services in wireless communications today, offering customers exciting ways to communicate by sending text and multimedia messages. This comprehensive book offers wireless engineers and managers practical guidance in the planning and implementation of SMS and MMS services with interworking (the ability to successfully send a message when the origin and destination cellular phones do not use the same wireless operator). The book offers professionals various solutions to the common problem of number...

Covering all the latest advances in technology, applications, and systems associated with the Global Positioning Systems (GPS), this second edition includes new chapters that explore the integration of GPS with vehicles and cellular telephones, new classes of satellite broadcast signals, the emerging GALILEO system, and new developments in the GPS marketplace.