Wireless Communication Technologies: New MultiMedia Systems

This text is based on a selection of papers presented at the recent International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC '99). The papers have been extended into full chapters, critiqued, and edited into a unified and structured book. The topics represent ideas and research involving wireless multimedia systems and wireless technologies. Part I focuses on key developments and technologies and includes coverage of wireless channel modelling, space-time coding, coding for wireless networks, OFDM, software radio, and spatial and temporal communication theory. Chapters in Part II address many of the new wireless systems currently being standardized such as intelligent transport systems, wireless Internet, digital TV broadcasting, and IMT-2000. Insights into many of the hot and rapidly developing research topics, such as bluetooth, Mobile IP, GPRS, and others, are discussed. Each chapter includes basic concepts and technical trends in addition to providing extensive technical coverage. Researchers and engineers of wireless communication systems shouldbenefit from insights and results reported in this work. This work may also be suitable for graduate level courses on wireless communication systems, cellular communication systems, and mobile communications.