Cordless Telecommunications in Europe

The book discusses the evolution of the market for cordless telephones, the establishment of technical standards and describes early digital cordless telephone products.

Inhalt
Section I. Historical and Marketplace Context.- 1 The Emerging Requirement.- 2 Proprietary Digital Cordless Products.- 3 The Development of European Standards.- 4 Telepoint et Pointel: European Perspectives.- Section II. Cordless Technology.- 5 Cordless Networks.- 6 Audio Aspects.- 7 The Radio Channel.- 8 Cordless Data Communications.- 9 Implementation Technology.- Section III. The Future.- 10 The Future of Personal Communications.- Section IV. Technical Appendixes.- Appendix 1. Operation of the DCT900 System.- A1. 1 System Architecture.- A1.2 System Concepts.- A1.2.1 TDMA/TDD Format.- A1.2.2 Multi-Carrier Operation.- A1.2.3 Dynamic Channel Assignment, DCA.- A1.3 Call Protocols.- A1.3.1 Idle State.- A1.3.2 Call Set-up.- A1.3.3 Handover.- A1.4 System Capacity and Interfaces.- A1.4.1 Capacity.- A1.4.2 Interfaces.- Appendix 2. The Common Air Interface MPT 1375.- A2.1 Aims of MPT 1375.- A2.2 Structure of MPT 1375.- A2.3 Part 1: The Radio Interface.- A2.4 Part 2: Signalling Layers 1 & 2.- A2.5 Part 3: Signalling Layer 3.- A2.6 Part 4: Speech Coding and Transmission Plan.- Appendix 3. The Digital European Cordless Telecommunications Specification DECT.- A3.1 The DECT Services.- A3.1.1 Standard (Residential) Cordless Telephony.- A3.1.2 Cordless Business Communications Systems.- A3.1.3 Public Access Telepoint.- A3.1.4 Evolutionary Applications.- A3.2 Structure of the Specification.- A3.3 Part 0: The Introduction.- A3.4 Part 1: The Physical Layer, PHL.- A3.5 Part 2: The Medium Access Control Layer, MAC.- A3.5.1 Allocation and Release of Physical Resources.- A3.5.2 Multiplexing of Logical Channels.- A3.5.3 Error Control.- A3.6 Part 3: The Data Link Control Layer, DLC.- A3.7 Part 4: The Network Layer, NWL.- A3.8 Part 5: The Management Entity, MGE.- A3.9 Part 6: AudioTransmission.- A3.10 Part 7: Data Transmission.- Appendix 4. Glossary of Terms.- Contributors' Biographical Details.