Introduction Fundamentals and overview Market growth and forecast Mobile communications environment Free space vs. multipath propagation Log normal (shadowing) and Rayleigh fading Time dispersion and intersymbol interference Interleaving and equalization Indoor propagation and diversity: macrocells, microcells, and picocells Cellular concepts Hexagon structure and service area C/I ratio and frequency reuse Cellular layout Spectrum resource management Wired line and non-wired line Frequency plan and channel allocation Analog cellular telephone systems Architecture and networking components Mobile terminals Base stations and cell sites Mobile service switching centers Interconnect technologies Operational characteristics (FDD, TDD, FDMA) Call processing Control channel function-paging and access Mobile location identification Mobile incoming and outgoing call sequences Roaming and handoff Mobile and land-initiated release control sequences Examples of world systems

Transition from analog to digital cellular networks Limitations of analog systems Analog-to-digital conversion Techniques for capacity increase Analog-to-digital migration issues Analog-digital hybrid networks and operational trade-offs Comparison of analog FM, digital FDMA, and digital CDMA  TDMA-based digital cellular systems  The European global system for mobile communications (GSM) standard  GSM evolutionary objectives  GSM networking elements  Signal processing  Channel concept  Security and privacy issues The U.S. IS-54 standard  Frame structure  Speech and channel encoding  Modulation and multiple access  Mobile call origination and termination  E-TDMA system (United States)  Operations  Improvement over IS-54  Case studies and economics  The Japanese personal digital cellular (PDC) standard  Comparison with U.S. systems  Application of CDMA technology to cellular  Principles of spread spectrum  The U.S. Qualcomm IS-95 standard   Future of cellular networks   Microcellular personal communications networks (PCN) and PCS   Fixed wireless systems   Application of low earth orbiting (LEO) satellite systems