Preface
During the past years, there has been a quickly rising interest in radio access technologies for providing mobile as well as nomadic and fixed services for voice, video, and data. The difference in design, implementation, and use between telecom and datacom technologies is also getting more blurred. One example is cellular technologies from the telecom world being used for broadband data and wireless LAN from the datacom world being used for voice over IP.
Today, the most widespread radio access technology for mobile communication is digital cellular, with the number of users passing 3 billion by 2007, which is almost half of the world's population. It has emerged from early deployments of an expensive voice service for a few car-borne ...
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