Wireless Crash Course

Now you can get solutions to the most difficult problems facing power supply designers: shrinking size and increased thermal contraints. Christophe Basso's SMPS SPICE Cookbook is a complete designer's toolkit with tested, ready-to-run SPICE models on an accompanying CD-ROM. The models come in all three SPICE flavors with demo versions. You can start from scratch, installing the software and simulating the examples in the book without any SPICE experience whatsoever. All the common SMPS topologies are covered: buck, boost, buck-boost, and SEPIC. Each is described in terms of relative strengths and weaknesses and then modeled. Just turn to the CD, pull out the model in the flavor of SPICE you use, plug in your own values - and out comes a design solution. All the models in the book have been carefully simulated and tested. A special website even lets you access new models that will be posted on a continuing basis.

• A clearly written, jargon-free explanation of how wireless telecommunications work, with an emphasis on the design and management of systems
• Includes issues never before covered such as site acquisition, tower selection and construction, design of the fixed network (a.k.a the "backhaul"), and interconnection to the Public Switched Telephone Network
• Extensive coverage of Bluetooth, WAP, and wireless broadband

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Ch. 1 History of Radio Communications 1
• Ch. 2 The Cellular Market Regulatory Structure 11
• Ch. 3 Fundamental Wireless System Design and Components 17
• Ch. 4 The Cell Base Station 31
• Ch. 5 Radio-Frequency Channelization 41
• Ch. 6 Radio-Frequency Propagation 49
• Ch. 7 Wireless Communication System Towers 63
• Ch. 8 Antennas and Radio-Frequency Power 81
• Ch. 9 Base Station Equipment and Radio-Frequency Signal Flow 93
• Ch. 10 Wireless System Capacity Engineering 101
• Ch. 11 Cellular Regulatory Processes 117
• Ch. 12 Enhancers and Microcells 125
• Ch. 13 Design Tools and Testing Methods 133
• Ch. 14 The Mobile Switching Center 137
• Ch. 15 The N-AMPS Standard 143
• Ch. 16 The Fixed Network and System Connectivity 149
• Ch. 17 Microwave Radio Systems 159
• Ch. 18 Wireless Interconnection to the Public Switched Telephone Network 175
• Ch. 19 Cellular Call Processing 209
• Ch. 20 Roaming and Intercarrier Networking 221
• Ch. 21 Wireless Fraud 239
• Ch. 22 Digital Wireless Technologies 253
• Ch. 23 Personal Communication Services 273
• Ch. 24 Wireless Data Technologies 299
• Ch. 25 Commercial and Business Issues 323
• Ch. 26 Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio 337
• Ch. 27 Satellite PCS Systems 343
• Ch. 28 Broadband Wireless Technologies 359
• Ch. 29 The Future of Wireless Telephony 377
• Test Question Answers 393
• References 399
• Wireless Industry and Telecom Publications and Internet Sites 403
• Index