Lempiainen Jukka, Manninen Matti. Radio Interface System Planning for GSM/GPRS/UMTS

New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. — 293 p. — ISBN: 0-306-47319-4, ISBN: 0-792-37516-5This book is a part of the solution to understanding detailed technical radio engineering principles for mobile communication systems where all the details have a straight connection with each other. This book tries to bind very detailed pieces of technical information to the system level of thinking and thus to show the correct path at the junction. Mobile communication is full of these junctures because almost all the products are new, and technical development work is only just started. This handbook has been produced mainly with examples from the Global System for Mobile Telecommunication (GSM) because it is one of the most global standards (implemented over 80 countries). There are also many technical topics to be developed for the GSM during the next xiv decade when GSM as a system is combined together with the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) that will be the next GSM compatible standard. The GSM examples in this book, and most of the technologies utilized in the GSM, can also thus be applied in the UMTS. Clear technical differences in the radio system planning between GSM and UMTS system are be explained and discussed in the concluding chapters 10 and 11 but otherwise there is no need to explain the variations between GSM and UMTS in technical detail here because this is covered in several other books. The main purpose of this handbook is to explain the radio interface system planning in the GSM (including GPRS) and to give the main instructions to continue the same work in the UMTS.INTRODUCTION— RADIO PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENT
RADIO SYSTEM PLANNING PROCESS
CONFIGURATION PLANNING AND POWER BUDGET
COVERAGE PLANNING CRITERIA
RADIO PROPAGATION PREDICTION
CAPACITY PLANNING
FREQUENCY PLANNING
OPTIMISATION
RADIO NETWORK MONITORING
GENERAL PACKET RADIO SYSTEM (GPRS)
UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM (UMTS)