For engineers who want to better understand both the theory and the practical implementation of IS-95 CDMA cellular systems, the Handbook of CDMA System Design, Engineering, and Optimization can help. Members of the staff at Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies (www.lucent.com) wrote the book, which can save you from frustrating Web searches, misinformation, and searches for numerous relevant source documents.
The $80 book (ISBN 0-13-017572-2), which Kyoung Il Kim edited, includes many figures and graphs and covers issues such as system capacity, power control, and spectrum coordination. It also covers tactical factors, such as handoff, link budgets, area coverage, antennas, and protocol and RF issues. It includes underlying equations and analysis; realistic numerical examples; and reasonable expected numbers, worst-case situations, and trade-offs for power, SNR, and other parameters.
If you want to understand the complexities of CDMA at any one of various levels, this book is an excellent resource. The mathematics use extensive matrix analysis and probabilistic factors. The book also includes a CD-ROM with a demo version of Lucent's Cellular Engineering 4 software for predicting coverage area and range.
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