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  • Hardcover: 572 pages
  • Publisher: WileyBlackwell; 4th Edition edition (21 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 047031933X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470319338
  • Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 17.4 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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As the mobile phone revolution brings video, photos and Web pages to our handsets, telecommunications experts from around the globe have been collaborating to develop standards to underpin third-generation phone systems. This book is an in-depth assessment of WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), the main third-generation air interface. WCDMA will be deployed in Europe and Asia at the same frequency band, (around 2GigaHerz) and it is expected to spawn a whole host of new gadgets. It will allow mobile phone companies to launch an array of new services. The authors all work for Nokia, one of the companies leading the move to wideband communications, and as might be expected, this is a comprehensive assessment of the technology.

It explains how WCDMA differs from today's digital interfaces, its main features, the background to it becoming a global standard, and gives valuable advice on getting the best performance from 3G networks. It also examines other technologies which could be used to provide multimedia phone services, such as EDGE, the evolution of GSM for high data rates.

WCDMA for UMTS: Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications is aimed at technology and communications students, technical people working for device manufacturers and service providers and frequency regulators. It includes a comprehensive glossary and lots of diagrams which should make it an invaluable desk reference for anyone working in the rapidly evolving telecoms world. --Shan Ni Ceallaigh --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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This volume has matured to … a highly recommended and indispensable. (Computing Reviews, July 15, 2008)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great theory with more than 3GPP and Nokia studies to boot, 13 Mar 2001
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This review is from: WCDMA for UMTS: Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications (Hardcover)
As a UTRAN designer/troubleshooter for some of the worlds leading operators and vendors, I have found this book invaluable as a theoretical reference. My only complaints are that it always takes best case estimates when radio is a fickle medium which requires worst case calculations, also that the features are described in a manner that is not easily understandable. It is more a collection of articles than a complete reference, with topics scattered around. As with all books on the subject, it relies too heavily on precis from the 3GPP specs and then does not apply this to SW/HW involved.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Improves with each edition, 8 Oct 2004
This review is from: WCDMA for UMTS: Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications (Hardcover)
At the time of writing, this is the third edition of this book. It has improved with each edition - the first edition wasn't really a book, more a collection of white papers hastily stuck together to get it on the market. The second edition was more cohesive, and in this third edition it's finally becoming a book that you could read from beginning to end (if you really wanted to .. it is pretty heavy going at times), although it still retains some of the white paper feel. It's still one of the two essential WCDMA references (the other is Juha Korhonen's book, which is more readable but has slightly less depth).

Also note that this third edition includes a chapter on HSDPA, which makes it fairly essential reading for those in the industry working on 3G/3.5G technologies.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Quite a good review of UMTS, but not a tutorial, 8 Jan 2001
This review is from: WCDMA for UMTS (Hardcover)
This is a fascinating book, packed with detail about UMTS. It covers a wide range of topics from the standards and air interfaces to the details of protocols, and physical properties of the technology. However, it is often very confusing, the style is "difficult" and it is often very hard to answer a simple question such as "how does a mobile phone start a call?" or "how does handover work?". It suffers from having mulitple authors, no coherent line of discussion, and very varied levels of presentation. If you don't know much about UMTS it will be hard to get much from this. If you do, then you probably don't need it. It is also mainly about FDD, and rather little about TDD, or interworking.
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