Cordless Telecommunications Worldwide

Dr. Tuttlebee is the editor of the popular Cordless Communication in Europe, and works at Roke Manor - a division of Siemens. Here, he includes significant new material drawn from contributions by major manufacturers, consultants and research laboratories, such as Ericsson, Olivetti, Philips, Northern telecom, Hutchinson, TRT and PA Consulting.
The result is a global overview of the state of the art, with a detailed look at the applications, markets and standards as they have developed and continue to do so. Provides an essential technical summary for all those considering entering this challenging field or those managing existing operations.

I: Markets and Applications.- 1 The Cordless Market.- 1.1 The cordless telephone and the cellular radio.- 1.2 The global emergence of cordless.- 1.3 Market positioning.- 1.4 Market segments and requirements.- 1.5 Application segments.- 1.6 Interdependence and evolution.- 1.7 Summary.- 2 The Wireless Private Automatic Branch Exchange.- 2.1 The market in the mid-1990s.- 2.2 Users, applications and benefits.- 2.3 Barriers to market development.- 2.4 Addressing the market potential.- 2.5 Case studies.- 2.6 Summary.- 3 Telepoint in Europe.- 3.1 UK - Rabbit and its competitors.- 3.2 France - Bi-Bop et al.- 3.3 The Netherlands - Greenpoint.- 3.4 Belgium - CITEL.- 3.5 Elsewhere in Europe.- 3.6 Summary.- 4 Telepoint in Asia.- 4.1 Cordless evolution and revolution - Europe versus Asia.- 4.2 The Asian marketplace.- 4.3 Hong Kong - the pioneer.- 4.4 Summary.- 5 Cordless in the Local Loop.- 5.1 Why wireless local loop?.- 5.2 Approaches to radio access.- 5.3 Cordless technologies for the local loop.- 5.4 Cordless local loop trials.- 5.5 Economics.- 5.6 Summary.- 6 Cordless Terminal Mobility.- 6.1 The CTM concept.- 6.2 The CTM service.- 6.3 The CTM market.- 6.4 Enabling technologies.- 6.5 The CTM functional architecture.- 6.6 The role of CTM in the evolution to future mobile telecommunications systems.- 6.7 Summary.- II: Standardisation and Industry Development.- 7 Cordless Standards in Europe.- 7.1 European telecommunications standards.- 7.2 Standards - what are they?.- 7.3 Standards - why do we need them?.- 7.4 Analogue standards.- 7.5 Digital standards.- 7.6 Summary.- 8 UPCS Standards in the USA.- 8.1 Who defines standards?.- 8.2 The advent of UPCS.- 8.3 Part 15 Subpart D (Etiquette) rules.- 8.4 Technology proposals.- 8.5 Other cordless technologies.- 8.6 Summary.- 9 Standards Development in Japan.- 9.1 Concept and origins of PHS.- 9.2 Standards development.- 9.3 PHS products.- 9.4 Commercial frameworks.- 9.5 Summary.- 10 Industry Development and Products.- 10.1 CT2.- 10.2 DECT.- 10.3 PHS.- 10.4 Global competition.- 10.5 Summary.- III: Technology.- 11 Audio Techniques.- 11.1 Speech coding.- 11.2 Voice transmission plan.- 11.3 Delay and echo control.- 11.4 Voice security and speech encryption.- 11.5 Summary.- 12 The Radio Channel.- 12.1 Choice of operating frequency.- 12.2 Spectrum requirements.- 12.3 In-building radio coverage.- 12.4 The dispersive channel.- 12.5 System capacity and grade of service.- 12.6 Usage of the radio channel.- 12.7 Modulation schemes.- 12.8 Error correction and detection.- 12.9 Protocol layers.- 12.10 Summary.- 13 Cordless Access Networks.- 13.1 Types of cordless networks.- 13.2 Network functionality.- 13.3 Summary.- 14 Cordless Data and Multimedia.- 14.1 Benefits of cordless data.- 14.2 Data services and attributes.- 14.3 Applications.- 14.4 Architectures.- 14.5 Transmission media.- 14.6 Cordless LAN standards.- 14.7 DECT cordless LAN technology.- 14.8 Cordless multimedia.- 14.9 Summary.- 15 Handset Architectures and Implementation.- 15.1 System architecture.- 15.2 Baseband design.- 15.3 Radio receiver architecture and design.- 15.4 Radio transmitter architecture and design.- 15.5 Antenna diversity.- 15.6 Analogue cordless implementation.- 15.7 Digital cordless implementation.- 15.8 Future trends.- 15.9 Summary.- 16 Future Evolution of Cordless Systems.- 16.1 Drivers and enablers.- 16.2 Digital cordless in public networks.- 16.3 Near-term evolution.- 16.4 Summary.- IV: Technical Standards.- 17 CT2 Common Air Interface.- 17.1 Aims and origins.- 17.2 Structure of the standard.- 17.3 The radio interface.- 17.4 Signalling layer 1.- 17.5 Signalling layer 2.- 17.6 Signalling layer 3.- 17.7 Speech coding and transmission plan.- 17.8 Data services.- 18 The Personal Communications Interface, PCI.- 18.1 Aims and origins.- 18.2 Structure of the standard.- 18.3 Principal changes from CT2.- 18.4 The radio interface.- 18.5 Signalling layer 1.- 18.6 Signalling layer 2.- 18.7 Signalling layer 3.- 18.8 Speech coding and telep