3G Handset and Network Design

Acknowledgments

This book is the product of over 15 years of working with RTT, delivering strategic technology design programs for the cellular design community. This has included programs on AMPS/ETACS handset, base station, and network design in the early to mid-1980s; programs on GSM handset, base station, and network design from the late 1980s to mid-1990s onward; and, more recently, programs on 3G handset, Node B, and network design.

We would like to thank the many thousands of delegates who have attended these programs in Europe, the United States, and Asia and who have pointed out the many misconceptions that invariably creep in to the study of a complex subject.

We would also like to thank our other colleagues in RTT: Dr. Andrew Bateman for keeping us in line on matters of DSP performance and design issues; Miss Tay Siew Luan of Strategic Advancement, Singapore, for providing us with an Asian technology perspective; our valued colleagues from the Shosteck Group, Dr. Herschel Shosteck, Jane Zweig, and Rich Luhr, for providing us with valuable insights on U.S. technology and market positioning; our colleague, Adrian Sheen, for keeping our marketing alive while we were knee-deep in the book; and last but not least, Lorraine Gannon for her heroic work on the typescript.

Also thanks to our families for putting up with several months of undeserved distraction.

Any errors which still reside in the script are entirely our own, so as with all technical books, approach with circumspection. ...