TY - BOOK AU - Bedell,Paul TI - Wireless crash course SN - 007145280X AV - TK5103.2 .B43 2005 U1 - 621.384 22 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill/Osborne KW - Wireless communication systems N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0627/2005283800-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0627/2005283800-d.html ER -