This ground-breaking resource offers you a detailed description and specifications for EDGE, a critical system for web browsing and multimedia messaging in the burgeoning field of mobile internet technology. The book also presents and analyzes WAP, and includes a guide to its related technologies such as wml, xml, mms, and wta, as well as their significance. It enables you to become thoroughly knowledgeable of EDGE and explains how it is a key building block technology of the mobile Internet. You learn new concepts pertaining to several domains, including RF, signal processing, digital communications and communication networks. The book opens with a review of GPRS principles and architecture, and then thoroughly explores the general principles, services and applications of EDGE as it relates to GPRS. It provides you with detailed coverage of a wide range of topics, including the RF physical, physical link, and RLC/MAC layers, and modulation. It concludes with a discussion of WAP architecture and services. Case studies throughout present simple approaches to implementation problems, along with proposed resolutions.
Introduction to GPRS - GPRS Logical Architecture. Transmission and Signaling Planes. The Radio Interface. GPRS Mobility Management. PDP Context Management. General Principles of the Gb Interface. General Architecture of the GPRS Backbone Network. ; Introduction to EDGE - What is EDGE. Definition of EGPRS, ECSD, EDGE Compact. E-GPRS Services. Supported Throughput Description. GPRS Improvement Description. Mobile Station Capability Description. E-GPRS General Principles. Same Multislot Classes, Same Logical Channels, Same Layers (RLC/MAC Principles Kept) as GPRS. New Modulation. Coding Families. Link Adaptation, Measurements (BEP/etc.). RLC MAC Improvements. New Bloc Format.; RF Physical Layer - Modulation. RF Characteristics in the Transmit Part. Modulation Blind Detection. Case Studies. ; Physical Link Layer - Channel Coding. Link Quality Control. Case Studies. ; RLC/MAC Layer - Structure of EGPRS Blocks. New RLC/MAC Procedures Related to TBF Allocation on Uplink. Transmission of RLC Data Block. Case Studies. ; WAP - General Interest of WAP. WAP Forum. WAP Services. WAP Architecture. M-Services.
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Pierre-Jean Pietri
Pierre-Jean Pietri works for ST Microelectronics, where he has done extensive work on the development of technical solutions for GSM, GPRS and EDGE handsets. He has also worked on the GSM network infrastructures at Alcatel Mobile Communication Division in a system specification and standardization team. He holds an Engineering Degree from the Institut National des Telecommunications (INT).
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Patrick Savelli
Patrick Savelli is an RF and system engineer at Mitsubishi Electric. He has previously worked at the mobile phone division of Alcatel, especially on GPRS and EDGE, for which he has followed the evolutions in the standard groups. He holds an Engineering Degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST), in Paris.
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Emmanuel Seurre
Emmanuel Seurre is platforms and applications product manager in the handset division of Alcatel Business Systems. He holds an Engineering degree from the Ecole Speciale de Mecanique et d' Electricite.