With over four billion subscribers Worldwide, GSM/EDGE is by farthe World's most successful communications technology of all time.Ubiquitous, deployed in every country of the World, except in Japanand South Korea, GSM/EDGE is the result of a continued evolutionthat has spanned over two decades.

A leading team of experts from Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks andInstituto Nokia de Tecnologia, guide you from the history of GSMstandardization to the cutting-edge techniques in the latest 3GPPreleases. Covering 3GPP Release 7 and Release 8, and addressingtheir motivation and detailing their concepts, this book alsooffers insights into further steps in evolution from Release 9 andbeyond.

GSM/EDGE: Evolution and Performance allows you to keepapace with all of the new developments that have occurred in 3GPPon the GSM standard since the introduction of EDGE:

• Covers all the key aspects of GSM/EDGE Evolution from Release 7until Release 9 in a systematic manner.
• Features performance evaluations derived from leading-edgesimulation tools and field trials.
• Addresses network optimization techniques and environmentalaspects.
• Written by leading experts in the field of GSM/EDGE evolutionand standardisation.
• Contributors from Nokia, NSN, Helsinki University of Technologyand Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia.