Wireless personal communications: trends and challenges

Author

Rappaport, Theodore S.

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Polytech, Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

33

Issue

5

fYear

1991

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

29

Abstract

The rapid expansion of the field of wireless personal communication services is described, focusing on statistics showing demands and on recent events on the industry. Some propagation research results that should have an impact on the design and implementation of future cellular and personal communication services are surveyed. A number of antenna and propagation research problems which need to be solved to improve the spectral efficiency, and thus the system capacity, of emerging high-density personal-communication systems are discussed.<>

Keywords

cellular radio; personal communication networks; radiowave propagation; cellular services; industry; propagation research results; spectral efficiency; statistics; system capacity; wireless personal communication services; Antennas and propagation; Area measurement; Communication industry; Data communication; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Predictive models; Recruitment; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1045-9243

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/74.97946

Filename

97946