The World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC) of the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU), in March 1992, identified global bands 1885-2025 and …

A future Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), encompasses the concept
of an air-interface that is able to deliver a variety of services to the mobile user, in the full …

The RACE ATDMA [1] project is currently engaged in a research and development program
to design and evaluate an advanced Adaptive TDMA air-interface, to meet the predicted …

This thesis treats the development of wireless infrastructure standards resulting from co-
operative research, development and standardisation efforts. It strives to identify key …

Third generation mobile radio systems like UMTS/FPLMTS will supply a large variety of
voice and data services with variable service bit rates. In Europe investigation and …

To assess the performance of an advanced mobile radio access system, it is important to
make use of suitable simulation tools in order to evaluate the impact on the system of the …

The RACE Advanced Mobile Access (ATDMA) project is considering the application of
advanced TDMA techniques for the design of the Radio Access system for UMTS. In the …

Burst-level ARQ, a new error protection scheme for speech transmission, is based on ARE
(automatic repeat request) which is used on burst level, ie, only the erroneous bursts are …

This paper deals with the design of a simulation testbed for assessing the performance of
the radio access segment in adaptive TDMA cellular systems. The testbed considers the …

Studies a mutual synchronisation technique between base stations (BSs) which operates
over the air. First, the different possible structures for broadcast control channels (BCCHs) …