Wireless Personal Communications The Evolution of Personal Communications Systems

Contains papers from a June 1997 conference held in Blacksburg, Virginia, representing perspectives from industry and academia. Section I focuses on propagation and smart antennas with emphasis on measurements, modeling, and simulation. Section II is devoted to CDMA systems, with coverage of bit error rate calculations, interference cancellation, frequency estimators, and acquisition schemes. Section III covers networking and multiple access issues such as mobility tracking, and Section IV presents software radio technologies, with material on areas including space-borne processing technology for mobile communications systems and unification of MLSE receivers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR