Fixed broadband wireless communications: principles and practical applications

"Fixed broadband wireless systems give service providers and enterprises flexible, cost-effective ways to deliver, from "long-haul" to "last-mile," voice and Internet/data services at multi-megabit rates. Now, wireless infrastructure consultant Dr. Douglas H. Morais systematically introduces, with the aid of insightful examples, fixed broadband wireless for working professionals: its principles, design techniques, emerging standards, practical applications, and state-of-the-art commercial systems."--Jacket.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Fixed Broadband Wireless -- A Definition -- 1.2 Brief history of Fixed Wireless -- 1.3 Primary Fixed Wireless Applications -- 1.3.1 Mobile cell site connections -- 1.3.2 Broadband access -- 1.3.3 Public network inter-office links -- 1.3.4 Private network links -- 1.4 Alternative Technologies -- 1.4.1 Fiber optic technology -- 1.4.2 T1/E1 carrier -- 1.4.3 DSL -- 1.4.4 Cable modem technology -- 1.4.5 Internet satellite transmission -- 1.5 Coverage Methods -- Chapter 2. Fixed Wireless Payload: Digital Data -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Circuit Switched Data -- 2.2.1 Pulse Code Modulation -- 2.2.2 Fundamentals of time division multiplexing -- 2.2.3 The 24 channel primary PCM system -- 2.2.4 The 30 channel primary PCM system -- 2.2.5 Line codes -- 2.2.6 Synchronous/asynchronous digital multiplexing -- 2.2.7 The Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH): North American -- 2.2.8 The Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH): European -- 2.2.9 Limitations of PDH -- 2.2.10 The benefits of a synchronous digital multiplexing hierarchy -- 2.2.11 Synchronous digital multiplexing hierarchies -- 2.3 Packet Switched Data -- 2.3.1 TCP/IP -- 2.3.2…