Description:

This text provides comprehensive coverage of the fundamental aspects of wireless technology and brings into focus the recent developments in the field. It introduces the students to the various mobile communication standards, artificial intelligence techniques for mobility management, and the methods adopted for frequency management.

The book explains the cordless mobile systems and mobile computing and elaborates the satellite techniques essential for global mobile communication and co-channel interference to manage frequency reuse hazards. It deals with important design parameters of mobile communication system and discusses the various security measures adopted to prevent the irregularities in wireless networking. Wideband code division multi-access (WCDMA), Bluetooth technology, and the intelligent mobile communication system that provides better service quality are also described. Finally, the book discusses the fourth generation mobile communication system to provide user-controlled services, internetworking and reconfigurable technology.

The book includes a large number of solved problems to give a thorough grounding in the concepts. It also provides chapter-end exercises to test students’ understanding of the subject.

The text is designed for undergraduate students of electrical and electronics engineering, electronics and communication engineering, computer science and engineering, and information technology (IT).