Bedell, Paul. <br/><br/>
Wireless crash course / 
Paul Bedell. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - New York :  McGraw-Hill/Osborne,  c2005. 
 - 533 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Cellular radio history and development -- Basic wireless network design and operation -- The cell base station -- Radio frequency operation and technologies -- Antennas, power, and sectorization -- Digital wireless technologies -- 3G: third-generation wireless -- Personal communication services -- Towers -- Base station equipment and radio frequency (RF) signal flow -- Capacity management, propagation models, and drive testing -- The mobile switching center, the network operations center, and the backhaul network -- Microwave radio systems -- Interconnection to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and the internet -- Roaming and intercarrier networking -- Wireless data technologies -- New age of cell phones -- The business side and wireless applications -- ESMR and Nextel -- Wi-Fi (802.11 wireless fidelity) -- 802.16 WiMAX -- Home networking. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>007145280X 9780071452809 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005283800 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Wireless communication systems.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TK5103.2  / .B43 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>621.384 384.5