HSPA Evolution: The Fundamentals for Mobile Broadband

This book describes a systems perspective and a broad view on the background, performance and application of the latest developments in High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSPA) in the context of the demands on today's mobile broadband devices and networks. It takes the reader behind the scenes of 3GPP and provides an easily accessible understanding of the basic principles, the latest steps in the standard's evolution, and the motivations behind the development of standardized features. It covers important topics such as: smartphone related features; multi-carrier and multi-antenna operation; interface architecture; heterogeneous networks and HSPA system performance. Offering full coverage of recent developments in HSPA up to Release 13, it provides a comprehensive description of one of the dominating standards for mobile broadband. --