CDMA: Principles of Spread Spectrum Communication (Addison-Wesley Wireless Communications)

I have studied CDMA and IS-95 using this book. The problems inherent in this book were obvious, surpisingly, to only a few. The truth behind this book is one of intellectual vanity. Is it that post-world war II Engineers, Scientists, and Mathematicians have forgotten, never understood, or never heard of Montaigne? "Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment." -Montaigne "If our souls do not move with a better motion and if we do not have a healthier judgement, then I would just as soon that a pupil spend his time playing TENNIS." -Montaigne

Spread spectrum multiple access communication, known commercially as CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), is a driving technology behind the rapidly advancing personal communications industry. Its greater bandwidth efficiency and multiple access capabilities make it the leading technology for relieving spectrum congestion caused by the explosion in popularity of cellular mobile and fixed wireless telephones and wireless data terminals.

CDMA has been adopted by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) as a wireless standard. As an electrical or communications engineer, you must acquire a thorough grasp of CDMA fundamentals in order to develop systems, products, and services for this demanding but rewarding market.

Written by a leader in the creation of CDMA and an internationally recognized authority on wireless digital communication, this book gives you the technical information you need. It presents the fundamentals of digital communications and covers all aspects of commercial direct-sequence spread spectrum technology, incorporating both physical-level principles and network concepts. You will find detailed information on signal generation, synchronization, modulation, and coding of direct-sequence spread spectrum signals. In addition, the book shows how these physical layer functions relate to link and network properties involving cellular coverage, Erlang capacity, and network control.

With this book, you will attain a deeper understanding of personal communications system concepts and will be better equipped to develop systems and products at the forefront of the personal wireless communications market.

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This book deals with the spread spectrum multiple access communication called CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) analyzing its enhanced bandwidth efficiency and multiple access capabilities -- all critical for cellular and wireless phones and wireless data terminals. This also covers such topics as signal generation, coding and interleaving, as well as capacity coverage, and control of spread spectrum multiple access networks. Viterbi is the creator of the digital coding technique used in direct broadcast satellite TC receivers and cellular phones.

Spread spectrum multiple access communication, known commercially as CDMA, is a driving technology behind the rapidly advancing personal communications industry. Written by a leader in the creation of CDMA and an internationally recognized authority on wireless digital communication, this book gives the reader the technical information necessary to grasp CDMA fundamentals. Spread spectrum technology, used in military applications for a number of years, now provides an innovative solution to the problem of congestion in the cellular network. CDMA is designed to introduce electrical and comunications engineers to this important area of wireless digital communications.