通信行业领导厂商爱立信研发中心工程师经验结晶，无线宽带领域工程师必备参考手册。

本书是爱立信研究院研发人员的经验之谈，描述了3G数字蜂窝系统如何演进成为先进的宽带移动接入技术，重点介绍了3G移动通信标准化开发演进路线、无线接入技术和接入网络的演进。书中内容分为5部分，清晰地勾勒出了3G演进技术取舍的诸多细节。

本书是移动通信行业技术人员的必备参考指南，也是高等院校通信专业师生不可多得的教学参考书。

Part I: Introduction

1 Background of 3G evolution

1.1 History and background of 3G

1.2 Standardization

1.3 Spectrum for 3G and systems beyond 3G

2 The motives behind the 3G evolution

2.1 Driving forces

2.2 3G evolution: Two Radio Access Network approaches and an evolved core network

Part II: Technologies for 3G Evolution

3 High data rates in mobile communication

3.1 High data rates: Fundamental constraints

3.2 Higher data rates within a limited bandwidth: Higher-order modulation

3.3 Wider bandwidth including multi-carrier transmission

4 OFDM transmission

4.1 Basic principles of OFDM

4.2 OFDM demodulation

4.3 OFDM implementation using IFFT/FFT processing

4.4 Cyclic-prefix insertion

4.5 Frequency-domain model of OFDM transmission

4.6 Channel estimation and reference symbols

4.7 Frequency diversity with OFDM: Importance of channel coding

4.8 Selection of basic OFDM parameters

4.9 Variations in instantaneous transmission power

4.10 OFDM as a user-multiplexing and multiple-access scheme

4.11 Multi-cell broadcast/multicast transmission and OFDM

5 Wider-band ‘single-carrier’ transmission

5.1 Equalization against radio-channel frequency selectivity

5.2 Uplink FDMA with flexible bandwidth assignment

5.3 DFT-spread OFDM

6 Multi-antenna techniques

6.1 Multi-antenna configurations

6.2 Benefits of multi-antenna techniques

6.3 Multiple receive antennas

6.4 Multiple transmit antennas

6.5 Spatial multiplexing

7 Scheduling, link adaptation and hybrid ARQ

7.1 Link adaptation: Power and rate control

7.2 Channel-dependent scheduling

7.3 Advanced retransmission schemes

7.4 Hybrid ARQ with soft combining

Part III: HSPA

8 WCDMA evolution: HSPA and MBMS

9 High-Speed Downlink Packet Access

10 Enhanced Uplink

11 MBMS: Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services

12 HSPA Evolution

Part IV: LTE and SAE

13 LTE and SAE: Introduction and design targets

14 LTE radio access: An overview

15 LTE radio interface architecture

16 Downlink transmission scheme

17 Uplink transmission scheme

18 LTE access procedures

19 LTE transmission procedures

20 Flexible bandwidth in LTE

21 System Architecture Evolution

22 LTE-Advanced

Part V: Performance and Concluding Remarks

23 Performance of 3G evolution

24 Other wireless communications systems

25 Future evolution

References

Index