Deploying Wireless Networks
Deploying Wireless Networks
£80.99
GBPDo you want your wireless network to be profitable? Wireless operators will find this practical, hands-on guide to network deployment invaluable. Based on their own extensive experience, the authors describe an end-to-end network planning process to deliver the guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) that enables today's wireless IP services such as VoIP, WWW and streaming video. The trade-off between enhanced user experience and operator cost is explored in the context of an enhanced business model. Comprehensive examples are provided for:
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• WCDMA-UMTS/HSDPA
• OFDM-WiMAX/LTE
• mesh WiFi
• packet backhaul
Topics addressed include:
• capacity/peak data rates
• service latency
• link budgets
• lifecycle costs
• network optimisation
With a focus on practical design, the book is ideal for radio and core network planners, designers, optimisers and business development staff at operators and network equipment manufacturers. Extensive references also make it suitable for graduate and postgraduate students.
- Covers all aspects of network deployment
- Practical guidelines based on the authors' considerable experience at Motorola
- Mobile operators need to make sure that they develop their network infrastructure to maximise revenue
Product details
September 2008Hardback
9780521874212
384 pages
254 × 179 × 20 mm
0.9kg
101 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Foreword Sir David Brown, FREng
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Author's disclaimer
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Wireless network systems
- 3. Principles of access network planning
- 4. Introduction to RAN planning and design
- 5. GSM RAN planning and design
- 6. UMTS RAN planning and design
- 7. Cellular OFDM RAN planning and design
- 8. Mesh network planning and design
- 9. Core network and transmission
- 10. Network operation and optimisation
- Acronyms
- Index.
