Part I Background and Fundamentals
1.0 The needs and expectations of the customer
1.1 Personal communications: A Services or A Systems?
1.2 The Technical Challenge
1.3 Technical Developments
1.4 Progress Toward UMTS and FPLMTS/IMT-2000
1.5 Social and Environmental Considerations
1.6 Summary
2.0 Personal Communication Network: Concepts and History
2.1 The Need for New Spectrum
2.2 The Perceived Role of Personal Communications
2.3 Choice of Technology
2.4 The Wider Impact
2.5 Expectations of Second - Generation Systems
2.6 The Promise of Third - Generation Systems
2.7 The Technical Environment
3.0 The Mobile Radio Channel
3.1 Channel Characterization
3.2 Cellular Radio Topology
3.3 Propagation Prediction Models
3.4 Propagation For Personal Communications
3.5 Concluding Remarks
Part II Implementation: Some Real and Emerging Systems
4.0 The TDMA Approach: DECT Cordless Access as a Route to PCS
4.1 PCS
4.2 DECT
4.3 Application with DECT
4.4 PCS in North America
4.5 Conclusions
5.0 PCN Service and its Implementation using DCS 1800
5.1 Marketing Drive
5.2 PCN Standard Requirements
5.3 DCS 1800 RF Aspects
5.4 DCS 1800 Radio Interface
5.5 DCS 1800 Network Interface
5.6 DCS 1800 Infrastructure Sharing
5.7 Short - Message Service
5.8 Implementation of PCN
5.9 PCN Radio Network Design
5.10 PCN Transmission Network
5.11 DCS 1800 Enhancements
5.12 The PCN Vision
6.0 Personal Communication Services in the UK Cellular Environment
6.1 GSM and DCS 1800: Similarities and Differences
6.2 Personal Communications Services
6.3 The Vodafone MCN Infrastructure
6.4 GSM and MCN Infrastructure
6.5 Service Implementation
7.0 Wireless Local Area Networks
7.1 Wireless Data: Market and User Perspectives
7.2 Frequency Administration Issues
7.3 Existing WLLANS
7.4 Radio Propagation in the Office Environment
7.5 Data Rate Limitations for Radio Networks
7.6 Spread Spectrum For WLLANS
7.7 IR Networks in the Office Environment
7.8 Topologies
7.9 Multiple-Access Methods
7.10 Summary
8.0 Spread-Spectrum Systems
8.1 Technical Overview
8.2 System Implementation
8.3 Practical Developments
8.4 Conclusions
9.0 The Role of Satellites in PCS
9.1 Orbit Options
9.2 Proposals for Satellite Personal Communications Networks (S-PCN)
9.3 Integration of Satellite and Terrestrial PCS
9.4 Conclusions
Part III The Way Ahead: Evolution and Convergence
10.0 A North American Perspective
10.1 The Emergence of the Personal Communications Industry
10.2 A Perspective on Universal Personal Communications
10.3 The U.S. PCS Regulatory Environment
10.4 PCS Standards Activities in the United States
10.5 Realization of the Personal Communications Network
10.6 A Selection of North American PCS/PCN Service Trails
10.7 Summary: Key Challenges
11.0 Personal Communications in Japan and Asia
11.1 Liberalization of the Japanese Cellular Market
11.2 Japanese Digital Cellular (JDC): A Potential Pan-Asian Standard?
11.3 Mobile as Overseas Development Assistance
11.4 Prospects for Digital Cellular in the Asian Market
11.5 Conclusions
12.0 The Future: Third-Generation Mobile Systems
12.1 The Need
12.2 The Start
12.3 Fixed and Mobile Convergence: Universal Personal Telecommunication
12.4 The Form of FPLMTS
12.5 Relationship with the European ACTS Research Program
12.6 Conclusions
Length:
Approximately 45 class hours and 15 lab/workshop hours
Method of Evaluation:
1. A mid-term examination, worth 30% of the final grade
2. A final examination, worth 40% of the final grade
3. Several assignments, worth 30% of the final grade
Teaching Method:
The course is to be offered in a standard lecture format.
Textbooks:
Personal Communication Systems and Technology, 1995
John Gardiner and Barry West
Artech House
Location:
All classes will be conducted at the campus of the Institute.
Theory/Skills Objectives:
Upon completion of this subject, the successful student will:
1. Have the background and fundamentals of PCS, such as the concepts and
history of Personal
Communication Network.
2. Have basic knowledge of second-generation systems - GSM, DCS1800, and DECT which are
able to support the personal communications requirement.
3. Have basic knowledge of Wireless Local Area Networks, Spread-
Spectrum Systems, and the
role of satellites in PCS.
4. Have a comprehensive understanding of perspectives of present and
future developments of
PCS in the US, Japan, and Asia, and the third-
generation mobile system development. |