This book gives engineers the information they need to plan and build wireless systems using the highly successful global standard GSM. In fact, the fundamentals found here will be valuable to anyone working with any TDMA wireless system. Vijay Garg and J.E. Wilkes provide a complete technical foundation for understanding GSM speech and channel coding, modulation, propagation and other key GSM/TDMA concepts. With extensive practical examples, they cover crucial issues such as network management, security, wireless data services over GSM, and traffic engineering. They compare GSM with other TDMA networks, and preview next-generation UMT-2000 wireless GSM systems.
Vijay K. Garghas been with AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Lucent Technologies) since 1985, designing GSM-based systems, evaluating wireless switching performance and capacity, and defining wireless network operations system requirements.
J.E. Wilkeswas on the team that designed the world's first cellular system, and is principal author of the original EIA compatibility specification for cellular phones. Since 1992, he has been active in many wireless projects, first at AT&T and now at Bellcore.