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Amidst the sea of hype that has surrounded the arrival of mobile internet services, one technology in particular has been held up as being the sure promise of a bright, exciting future. UMTS is the mobile communications system on which 3G wireless systems will depend. Using UMTS, we are told, streaming video to mobile devices and a host of other media-rich applications will be possible.
Commercial implementation of UMTS is scheduled for 2002, so this timely publication, UMTS: Mobile Communications for the Future is a valuable analysis of the design and development of the technology. UMTS is the European version of the broader family of 3G technologies, known as IMT-2000 (International Mobile Telecommunications-2000), and this book has been written by a group of authors from CSELT, Telecom Italia Group, which was the Italian delegation to the IMT-2000 international standardisation efforts.
UMTS analyses the requirements the new system had to satisfy, how radio access to the UMTS core system will be implemented and the core network itself, and how the system has been designed as an upgrade to existing GSM and GPRS technologies. It goes on to look at possibilities to integrate satellite communications into the system, and covers the terminals required and the testing infrastructure. Finally, we get a look at innovative mobile communications research such as SDMA and 'software radio'.
All told, a valuable resource for those working in the area of mobile communications. --Andy Wigley
Kurzbeschreibung
UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) bezieht sich auf die 3. Generation mobiler Kommunikationssysteme.
Die Mobilkommunikation der Zukunft wird unseren Alltag und unsere Arbeit nachhaltig verändern: Sie gibt uns die Möglichkeit, zu jeder Zeit, an jedem Ort und auch während der Fahrt zu kommunizieren und bietet verschiedene Dienstleistungen an, die bislang nur Festnetznutzern zur Verfügung standen. Die Mobilsysteme der 3. Generation (IMT-2000) werden ab 2001 in Japan und ab 2002 in allen übrigen Ländern auf den Markt kommen. Bis Ende 2003 wird es mehr als eine Milliarde mobiler Terminals weltweit geben.
