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