This book will provide readers with the most up-to-date technological developments in wireless communication systems/networks and introduces the major 3G standards, such as W-CDMA, CDMA2000 and TD-SCDMA. It also includes a focus on cognitive radio technology and 3GPP E-UTRA technology; areas which have not been well covered elsewhere.
This essential reference will prove invaluable to senior undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and researchers. It will also be of interest to telecommunications engineers wishing to further their knowledge in this field.
Professor Mohsen Guizani is currently an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of the University of Missouri-Columbia. Prior to joining the University, he was with the Faculty of Computer Engineering Department at the University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include Computer Networks, Optical Interconnection Networks for Massively Parallel Computers, Design and Analysis of high-speed network protocols, performance evaluation of computer systems, and wireless communications and networking. He served as a guest editor in the International Journal of Computer Systems and Networks, special issue on "ATM Switching/Networking Architectures and Performance", a guest editor of a special issue in the INFORMATICA Journal on "Design Issues of Gigabit Networking", and a guest editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Communication Systems on "Wireless Local Loops and Wireless ATM Networks".