Chapter 8. Inside a Mobile Network

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Most mobile phone users come into contact with only a small part of the cellular system: their own handset, and perhaps the increasingly visible base stations. Network managers may be aware of the other end: the Web servers that store pages formatted for wireless access. But these are only a small part of the mobile network. The base stations need to be connected to each other and to the outside world, and each operator needs its own back-end links and switches. Because of the need to keep track of a user's location and manage spectrum efficiently, the whole setup is often more complex than ...

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