Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request From: TONY@mcgill1.bitnet (Tony Harminc) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Cellular Information Wanted Message-ID: Date: 16 May 91 21:54:01 GMT Article-I.D.: eecs.telecom11.365.9 Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 21 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 365, Message 9 of 10 Can someone recommend a good book or document on cellular mobile ? I am not looking for a Mickey Mouse (tm?) overview, but for something that describes in some detail the process of setting up a call, hand-off, paging, roaming, etc. I have the reference document from the DOC which consists of state descriptions for a finite state machine, and doesn't make a good introduction. Because this document is intended for makers of mobile *sets*, it doesn't cover how the base stations and the overall network work. I am most interested in the North American standard, but also in descriptions of other systems worldwide. I understand the UK system is a minor modification to the NA one. From what I have read, some aspects of the system design seem quite bizarre. I was expecting a neat separation of the hardware and software design, but it looks as though they are sort of munged together. Does someone here know something of the background - i.e. how did this system come to be the way it is ? Tony Harminc