I bought this book sometime ago because I thought that the author's previous book was well written, however I never found time to read it thoroughly.
Over past few months, I discovered that I kept going back to the book and the author's blog to look for reference (e.g. to get a better understanding on SIM card, or to calculate spectrum efficiency and cell capacity, etc.). So I decided to bring this book with me on a trip and finally read the whole book (well... almost). I have to say this is another very well written book from the author. The writing is very clear and the figures show up at where they are needed, nothing fancy, dry, or redundant. Just enough text and figures to cover the topic and I never had to re-read a section to understand the subject (like I usually do when reading a 3GPP standard).
What I liked the most about this book is that the selected areas that the author chose to dive into reflected not only his thorough understanding of the standard, but also his obvious hands-on experience. This book was not only well comprehensible, but also practical, an excellent reference to have at your desk for a wireless engineer. I look forward to read future publications from the author, either at his blog or a new book.
Author(s): Martin Sauter
Publisher: Wiley
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 362
Cover......Page 1
TOC
......Page 5
Frontmatter......Page 2
First Half of the 1990s - Voice-centric Communication......Page 12
Between 2000 and 2005: Dot Com Burst, Web 2.0, Mobile Internet......Page 13
From 2005 to today: Global Coverage, VoIP and Mobile Broadband......Page 15
The Future - the Need for Beyond 3G Systems......Page 16
All Over IP......Page 19
Summary......Page 22
Overview......Page 23
UMTS, HSPA and HSPA+......Page 24
LTE......Page 55
802.16 WiMAX......Page 80
802.11 Wi-Fi......Page 98
Usage in Developed Markets and Emerging Economies......Page 117
How to Control Mobile Usage......Page 118
Measuring Mobile Usage from a Financial Point of View......Page 121
Cell Capacity in Downlink......Page 122
Example 1: UMTS......Page 125
Example 3: LTE......Page 126
Current and Future Frequency Bands for Cellular Wireless......Page 127
Cell Capacity in Uplink......Page 128
Per-user Throughput in Downlink......Page 130
Per-user Throughput in the Uplink......Page 135
Traffic Estimation Per User......Page 137
Overall Wireless Network Capacity......Page 139
Network Capacity for Train Routes, Highways and Remote Areas......Page 143
When will GSM be Switched Off ?......Page 145
Cellular Network VoIP Capacity......Page 146
Wi-Fi VoIP Capacity......Page 150
Wi-Fi and Interference......Page 151
Wi-Fi Capacity in Combination with DSL and Fibre......Page 153
Backhaul for Wireless Networks......Page 158
A Hybrid Cellular/Wi-Fi Network for the Future......Page 163
Voice over Wireless......Page 167
Circuit-switched Mobile Voice Telephony......Page 168
Packet-switched Voice Telephony......Page 169
SIP Telephony over Fixed and Wireless Networks......Page 174
Voice and Related Applications over IMS......Page 186
Voice over DSL and Cable with Femtocells......Page 234
Unlicensed Mobile Access and Generic Access Network......Page 238
Introduction......Page 244
The ARM Architecture for Voice-optimized Devices......Page 247
The ARM Architecture for Multimedia Devices......Page 250
The x86 Architecture for Multimedia Devices......Page 253
Hardware Evolution......Page 256
Multimode, Multifrequency Terminals......Page 261
Impact of Hardware Evolution on Future Data Traffic......Page 264
The Impact of Hardware Evolution on Networks and Applications......Page 266
Mobile Operating Systems and APIs......Page 267
Overview......Page 282
(Mobile) Web 1.0 - How Everything Started......Page 283
Web 2.0 from the User’s Point of View......Page 284
The Ideas Behind Web 2.0......Page 291
Discovering the Fabrics of Web 2.0......Page 295
Mobile Web 2.0 - Evolution and Revolution of Web 2.0......Page 305
(Mobile) Web 2.0 and Privacy......Page 326
Mobile Applications......Page 331
Conclusion......Page 354
Index......Page 357
