... the use of smoke signals and the creation and evolution of languages, mail systems, messenger services, the telegraph, wireless broadcast, telephony, wireless telephony, and now e-mail and wireless messages. ... essential to the understanding and design of a cellularsystem. As such, an overview of this topic is presented in Chapter 2.Chapter 3 describes the basic principles of wideband CDMA and deals with various ... systems of the nineties and leading up to 3G systems.Included in this chapter is an overview of 3G capabilities, features, and requirements.Knowledge of the propagation characteristics of a mobile...