'Mobile Communication Systems' provides a comprehensive and complete treatment of the fundamentals of mobile communications, one of the most rapidly progressing areas of the telecommunications industry. Starting with theoretical foundations of mobile communications the contents evolve to a description of channel properties, basic concepts of cellular systems and their design, GSM, CDMA, wireless telephony, UMTS and adaptive antennas. The perspectives of their further development are also discussed. The extensive scope of this volume ensures it will be a valuable reference for every aspect of mobile communications.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
· Elements of the theory of digital communication systems theory.

· Overview and classification of mobile communication systems.

· Characterization of the mobile communication channel.

· Paging systems.

· The cellular system concept.

· First generation cellular telephony- NMT and AMPS examples.

· GSM cellular telephony - architecture and system aspects.

· GSM cellular telephony - physical layer.

· Data transmission in GSM.

· CDMA in mobile communication systems.

· Description of IS-95 system.

· Trunking systems.

· Digital cordless telephony.

· Wireless local loops.

· Satellite mobile communication systems.

· Wireless Local Area Networks.

· Third generation mobile communication systems.

· Application of smart antennas in ceullular telephony.

Index.