mobile radio networks: networking and protocols: b. walke; john wiley and sons, 1999, isbn...
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Book Review
Mobile Radio Networks: Networking and ProtocolsB. Walke; John Wiley and Sons, 1999, ISBN 0-471-97595-8
The book gives a comprehensive and detailed description
of network oriented functions of a variety of digital wireless
and mobile radio systems. It is aimed at engineers in the
industry and graduate and undergraduate mobile communi-
cations students.
The book covers system aspects and fundamentals of
radio transmission, along with an insight into protocols
used by all major mobile providers. Among the systems
described in the book are the Global System for Mobile
Communications (GSM), Terrestrial Trunked Radio
(ETSI/TETRA) and Wireless Local Area Networks
(WLAN). The book also previews the forthcoming stan-
dards like third Generation Mobile Radio UMTS/
IMT2000 and ETSI/ATM-Forum Wireless ATM systems.
ªA picture is worth a thousand wordsºÐfollowing this
principle, the book is easy to read and is full of interesting
and precise illustrations that allow the reader to follow the
book's ¯ow of ideas.
The historical development in the introduction, along
with the last chapter entitled ªThe Future is Wirelessº
describing a typical day in the year 2000 and wireless
communication in the year 2005, give the book a chronolo-
gical aspect which help the reader understand not only the
technical aspects of the described systems but also the
reason behind their developments.
For all these reasons I think that the book is worth reading
and is value for money.
However, on the negative side, I noticed that, Sections
12.3.7.2 and 12.4.2 are a little weak, and many works on
Cross Over Switch discovery and selection and many hand-
off schemes proposed for WATM are not mentioned. The
call admission control scheme is a very important issue in
WATM networks, especially because these networks have
to offer a variety of QoS to users, which makes a detailed
study of the issue a must.
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