Description
As the demand for and the variety of 3G services increase, more advanced hardware and software technologies will be needed to enhance the mobile radio communications infrastructure. This forward-looking book delivers a comprehensive overview of the advanced technologies driving the evolution of mobile radio access networks, focusing on high-level architectural issues and system engineering. The book highlights the advantages and drawbacks of these advanced technologies and helps you make strategic decisions on R&D planning and system deployment. By striking a balance between theory and practice, and between technology and economics, it addresses the concerns of system engineering, research and development, and telecom management and analysis. The book covers the critical topics you need to understand for your work in the field, from linear transmitters and radio-over-fiber, to software radio base station and mobile terminal positioning. This unique resource examines such cutting-edge technologies as HSDPA, MIMO, OFDM, and IP based RAN, and presents new concepts in both autonomic and ubiquitous networks.
Table Of Contents
Introduction - Future Evolution of Mobile Radio Access Networks.; Emerging Radio Technologies - Linearised Transmitters. Superconducting Filters and Cryogenic Front Ends. Remote Radio Head and Radio Over Fiber. Software Radio Base Stations.; Mobile Terminal Positioning - Overview of Positioning Techniques. Positioning Techniques in UTRAN. UTRAN Location Service (LCS) Architecture; High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) - Fundamental Principles. Radio Resource Management. Mobility Procedures. HSDPA Impact on Mobile Terminals. HSDPA Deployment.; Multiple Antennas - Smart Antennas. Transmit Diversity Antennas. Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Systems.; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access Systems - Multipath and OFDM, Basic OFDM Transmitter and Receiver, Practical Issues, OFDM/ITOA, OFDM for Mobile Radio Access Systems; RAN Architecture Evolution - Mobile IP. Fast Handover in Mobile IP. HMIP v6, IP Transport in UTRAN. IP Based RAN. 3GPP Architecture Proposals. Software Defined Network Nodes.; Autonomic Networks - O&M of Mobile Radio Networks. Fundamentals of Autonomic Networks. Self-Optimization. Fault Management and Self - Healing. Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Distributed Network Management. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).; Ubiquitous Networks - Requirement on the Network. Convergence Paths of Mobile Networks.;
Author
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Y. Jay Guo
Y. Jay Guo is the manager of system strategy with Mobisphere Ltd, a Siemens and NEC Company, located in Reading, U.K. He has twenty years academic and industrial experience in radio communications. A senior member of the IEEE, he holds a Ph.D. in antennas and propagation as well as a Masters degree in RF engineering and a B.Sc. in electronic engineering.