Cellular Radio Analog and Digital Systems (Artech House Mobile Communications Series)

A complete coverage of analog and digital cellular communication systems, this book outlines solutions to the problem of analog cellular dignal coverage. The text describes practical digital microwave schemes used to transfer information and digitized speech among cell sites, the Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO) and the local telephone exchange. It explains how cellular radio systems can be tied to a nationwide network, and provides current knowledge on the forthcoming digital cellular radio systems in Europe, the US and Japan.

Mehrotra received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Gengal Engineering College, Sibpur, India, his M.S. in electrical engineering from Nova Scotia Technical College, Halifax, Canada, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York. He is working as a member of the technical staff at The Analytic Sciences Corporation in Reston, Virginia. He as been an adjunct professorial lectural at George Washington University for the past 13 years, teaching graduate courses in communication engineering. He is a member of IEEE Communication and Computer Society.