Cordless Telecommunications in Europe

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. Language: English