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An engineer with a long background in radio communications, and now with a British company, Guo surveys the technologies for developments in mobile radio access networks from the perspective of system engineering, focusing mainly on high-level architectural issues. He highlights the advantages of advanced technologies, but also discusses major theoretical and practical problems that they raise for system designers. Among his topics are linear transmitters, superconducting filters and cryogenic radio frequency front head, radio over fiber, software radio base stations, mobile terminal positioning, and high- speed downlink packet access.
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TEAM LinG Advances in Mobile Radio Access Networks TEAM LinG For a listing of recent titles in the Artech House Mobile Communications Series, turn to the back of this book. TEAM LinG Advances in Mobile Radio Access Networks Y. Jay Guo Artech House Boston • London www.artechhouse.com TEAM LinG Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the U.S. Library of Congress. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Guo, Y. Jay Advances in mobile radio access networks—(Artech House mobile communications library) 1. Mobile communications systems I. Title 621.3’845 ISBN 1-58053-727-8 Cover design by Yekaterina Ratner © 2004 ARTECH HOUSE, INC. 685 Canton Street Norwood, MA 02062 All rights reserved. Printed and bound in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. All terms mentioned in this book that are known to be trademarks or service marks have been appr