Product Description

2G/GSM and 3G/UMTS are key mobile communication technologies, chosen by more than 2 billion people around the world. In order to adapt to new services, increasing demand for user bandwidth, quality of service and requirements for network convergence, major evolutions are introduced in 3G network standard.

Evolved Packet System (EPS) presents the EPS evolution of the 3G/UMTS standard introduced by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard committee. This new topic is looked at from a system perspective, from the radio interface to network and service architecture. Hundreds of documents being issued by Standard organisations are summarised in one book to allow the reader to get an accessible comprehensive view of EPS evolution.

• Proposes a system view of Evolved UMTS, from the radio to Core and service architecture

• Gives a comprehensive and global view of the system that technical specifications do not provide

• Describes the new system as well as the inheritance and migration from 2G/GSM and 3G/UMTS

• Written by experts in the field who specialise in two complementary but very different technical domains (i.e. "radio interface" and "network architecture")

• Contains many figures and examples for better understanding.

This book is essential for industry professionals in the telecommunication business, telecommunication system architects and designers, product manufacturers and operators and postgraduate students.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #508695 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 350 pages

Review
"The book is essential for industry professionals in the telecommunication business and telecommunication systems postgraduate students." (Computing Reviews, June 6, 2008)

"...this is one of the best GSM texts that we’ve read, and an excellent engineer’s introduction to EPS." (IPL Telecasting, February 2008)

From the Back Cover
2G/GSM and 3G/UMTS are key mobile communication technologies, chosen by more than 2 billion people around the world. In order to adapt to new services, increasing demand for user bandwidth, quality of service and requirements for network convergence, major evolutions are introduced in 3G network standard.

Evolved Packet System (EPS) presents the EPS evolution of the 3G/UMTS standard introduced by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard committee. This new topic is looked at from a system perspective, from the radio interface to network and service architecture. Hundreds of documents being issued by Standard organisations are summarised in one book to allow the reader to get an accessible comprehensive view of EPS evolution.

• Proposes a system view of Evolved UMTS, from the radio to Core and service architecture

• Gives a comprehensive and global view of the system that technical specifications do not provide

• Describes the new system as well as the inheritance and migration from 2G/GSM and 3G/UMTS

• Written by experts in the field who specialise in two complementary but very different technical domains (i.e. "radio interface" and "network architecture")

• Contains many figures and examples for better understanding.

This book is essential for industry professionals in the telecommunication business, telecommunication system architects and designers, product manufacturers and operators and postgraduate students.

About the Author
Pierre Lescuyer – Currently working as a UMTS System Architect in the Strategic Evolutions department of Nortel, France.  For more than 10 years he has worked in different R&D positions, from system and architecture design to participation in 3GPP and ETSI standard committees. He has produced material written in English, mainly about GSM, GSM-R (the Railway declination of GSM) and UMTS features or system general description or specification. Most of these being intended for internal use or external distribution to Nortel customers.

Thierry Lucidarme – also working as a UMTS System Architect in the Strategic Evolutions department of Nortel, France.

Customer Reviews

Good for learning about system architecture
This book was one of the earliest books on LTE, the new cellular wireless standard that is expected to be commonplace in the next few years. This book is very good for people interested in learning about LTE from a systems architecture standpoint. It covers the EPS and SAE aspects of the system. It explains about the evolved packet core which is integral to the LTE system and also the newer and simpler network elements that constitute the overall LTE eco-system. For those interested in obtaining a deeper understanding of the protocol changes and such, I would recommend the following book by Erik Dahlman titled 3G Evolution, Second Edition: HSPA and LTE for Mobile Broadband.
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