With all the groundbreaking developments and advances in wireless communications, today's engineers are faced with the challenge of securing scarce resources including frequency spectrum and terminal battery power. This timely book helps you overcome this struggle by providing a new, unified approach to radio resource management (RRM). It offers you a comprehensive understanding of the interrelationship between important RRM factors such as power control, channel allocation and link performance to help you design more efficient wireless systems. From the design and capacity analysis of cellular systems and advanced radio resource schemes - to the resource management of CDMA systems and wireless communication systems with multiple quality-of-service constraints, this unique reference offers you solutions to your radio resource problems, helping to ensure that your system meets the demands of wireless multimedia traffic. Packed with 430 equations, 130 illustrations and over 60 problems, you get detailed guidance for your work in the field.
Introduction - Historical Perspective on Radio Resource Management. Fundamental Problems in Wireless Networks.; Link Performance in Interference Channels - A Review of Multi-User Access in Mobile Communication Systems. Link Performance Models.; Wireless Network Models - The Resource Management Problem. Quality-of-Service Models and User Behavior.; Principles of Cellular Systems - Frequency Reuse. Static Channel Allocation and Simple Capacity Analysis. Traffic Based Capacity Analysis. Outage Based Capacity Analysis. Directional Antennas and Sectorization.; Handover and Mobility - Mobility Management Fundamentals. Handover Decision Algorithms. Handover Resource Management.; Transmitter Power Control -Introduction. SIR Balancing. Distributed Power Control. Transmitter Removal. Dynamic Behavior of Power Control. Multi-Rate Power Control.; Dynamic Channel Allocation -Introduction. Traffic Adaptive Channel Allocation. Reuse Partitioning. Interference Based DCA Schemes.; Orthogonal Frequency Hopping - Random Channel Allocation. Slow Frequency Hopping System Design.; DS-CDMA in Wireless Networks - DS-CDMA Random Resource Allocation. Simple Capacity Estimation of DS-CDMA. Refined Capacity Estimation of DS-CDMA Systems. Erlang Capacity of DS-CDMA Systems. Capacity of Multi-Service DS-CDMA Systems. Power Control in DS-CDMA Systems. Soft Handoff in DS-CDMA Systems.; Resource Management in Packet Access Systems - Data Traffic and Performance Models. Packet Multiple Access. Some Packet Access Applications.; Cell Planning - The Cellular Concept. Cell-Planning Based on Regular Hexagon Geometry. Hierarchical Cell Structures. Automatic Cell-Planning.; Some Fundamentals of Wireless Infrastructure Economics - Telecommunications Infrastructures. Wireless Access Systems. Cost Models for Wideband Wireless Infrastructures.; Problems. Appendices.
-
Magnus Almgren
Magnus Almgren is a Senior Specialist in Radio Resource Allocation at Ericsson. He holds several patents and has published several papers in the field. The field of work has been in both GSM, TDMA as in 3G. He holds an MS degree in Electrical Engineering.
-
Seong-Lyun Kim
Seong-Lyun Kim is an assistant professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Kim's main research field includes power control, rate control/scheduling, and economic models for wireless infrastructure. He holds a B.S. degree in economics from Seoul National University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in operations research from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
-
Olav Queseth
Olav Queseth is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Previously he worked as a system engineer designing systems for operation and maintenance of telecommunication equipment. He received his M.S. in computer engineering from Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden in 1994.
-
Jens Zander
Jens Zander is a professor and head of the Radio Communication Systems Laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Zander has published numerous papers on the resource management aspects of personal communication systems. He holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden.