Estimation of signal strength, a measure of channel quality, and Doppler spread which is
proportional to the mobile speed, are important for handoff algorithms and optimal tuning of …

Principles of Mobile Communication, Fourth Edition, like its earlier editions, stresses
mathematical modeling of physical layer wireless communication systems. The basic …

Wireless communication is playing an important role in our daily life since it offers flexibility
and mobility. New multimedia services demand data-rates of up to hundreds of Mbps and …

Facilitating Cooperation for Wireless Systems Cooperative Communications: Hardware,
Channel & PHY focuses on issues pertaining to the PHY layer of wireless communication …

Handover is the mechanism that transfers an ongoing call from one cell to another as a user
moves through the coverage area of a cellular system. As smaller cells are deployed to meet …

One of the main assumptions in Clarke's classic channel model is isotropic scattering, ie,
uniform distribution for the angle of arrival (AOA) of multipath components at the mobile …

With the increasing market penetration of cellular telephones, the number of E-911 calls
placed by cellular telephones has grown cons-erably. This growth in E-911 calls led to a …

Wireless ATM networks require efficient mobility management to cope with frequent mobile
handoff and rerouting of connections. Although much attention has been given in the …

Next-generation wireless systems (NGWS) integrate different wireless networks, each of
which is optimized for some specific services and coverage area to provide ubiquitous …

This article presents an overview of soft handoff, an idea which is becoming quite important
because of its use in the IS-95 code-division multiple access (CDMA) cellular phone …