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MOBILE AND PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES AND SYSTEMS IEEE Press 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331 Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 IEEE Press Editorial Board Robert J. Herrick, Editor in Chief J. B. Anderson P. M. Anderson M. Eden M. E. El-Hawary S. Furui A. H. Haddad S. Kartalopoulos D. Kirk P. Laplante M. Padgett W. D. Reeve G. Zobrist Kenneth Moore, Director of IEEE Press Karen Hawkins, Executive Editor John Griffin, Acquisition Editor Marilyn G. Catis, Assistant Editor Anthony VenGraitis, Project Editor IEEE Communications Society, Sponsor COMM-S Liaison to IEEE Press, Salah Aidarous Cover design: William T. Donnelly, WT Design Technical Reviewers Dr. Mehmet Ulema, Daewoo Telecom Ltd., New Jersey R&D Center Professor Roshdy H.M. Hafez, Carleton University, Ontario, Canada Books in the IEEE Press Series on Digital & Mobile Communication DIGITAL TRANSMISSION ENGINEERING John B. Anderson 1999 Hardcover 400 pp IEEE Order No. PC5714 ISBN 0-7803-3457-4 FUNDAMENTALS OF CONVOLUTIONAL CODING Rolf Johannesson and Kamil Sh. Zigangirov 1999 Hardcover 448 pp IEEE Order No. PC5739 ISBN 0-7803-3483-3 WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: Principles and Practices A Prentice-Hall book published in cooperation with IEEE Press Theodore S. Rappaport 1996 Hardcover 656 pp IEEE Order No. PC5641 ISBN 0-7803-1167-1 FUTURE TALK: The Changing Wireless Game Ron Schneiderman 1997 Hardcover 272 pp IEEE Order No. PC5679 ISBN 0-7803-3407-8 MOBILE AND PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES AND SYSTEMS Raj Pandya IEEE Communications Society, Sponsor IEEE PRESS John B. Anderson, Series Editor The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., New York This book and other books may be purchased at a discount from the publisher when ordered in bulk quantities. Contact: IEEE Press Marketing Attn: Special Sales Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 Fax: (732) 981-9334 For more information about IEEE Press products, visit the IEEE Home Page: http://www.ieee.org/press © 2000 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10016-5997 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, nor may it be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form, without written permission from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America 1 0 9