Advances in Mobile Radio Access Networks

An engineer with a long background in radio communications, and now with a British company, Guo surveys the technologies for developments in mobile radio access networks from the perspective of system engineering, focusing mainly on high-level architectural issues. He highlights the advantages of advanced technologies, but also discusses major theoretical and practical problems that they raise for system designers. Among his topics are linear transmitters, superconducting filters and cryogenic radio frequency front head, radio over fiber, software radio base stations, mobile terminal positioning, and high- speed downlink packet access.