THIRD GENERATION SYSTEMS AND INTELLIGENT WIRELESS NETWORKING: SMART ANTENNAS AND ADAPTIVE MODULATION

• Intelligent networking provides value-added communications capabilities such as cost reduction, improved service delivery, increased variety, and quality of services
• Provides an all-encompassing self-contained treatment of adaptive modulation, adaptive antennas, and adaptive networking
• Provides an overview of the various CMA-based 3G wireless standards--UTRA, IMT 2000, and cdma 2000
• Presents the principles of beamforming and the various techniques used for its implementation
• Quantifies the UTRA network capacity under various channel conditions

Lajos Hanzo (http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk) received his degree in electronics in 1976 and his doctorate in 1983. During his 25-year career in telecommunications he has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been with the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he holds the chair in telecommunications. He has co-authored eight books on mobile radio communications, published over 300 research papers, organised and chaired conference sessions, presented overview lectures and been awarded a number of distinctions. Currently he is managing an academic research team, working on a range of research projects in the field of wireless multimedia communications sponsored by industry, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK, the European IST Programme and the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE), UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial and academic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses. He is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. For further information on research in progress and associated publications please refer to http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk