Handbook of HSDPA/HSUPA Technology CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group Editors: Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University and Syed Ahson, Microsoft
	Potential contributors: Send an email to: borko@cse.fau.edu s.ahson@att.net

CRC Press, a member of Taylor & Francis Group, is launching a new Handbook of HSDPA/HSUPA with the main objective to provide comprehensive articles (18-36 pages) by world experts in the field. The Handbook will contain 20+ articles. The CRC Press is committed to create a successful Handbook and therefore it intends to support it with a large marketing and advertising effort. Potential contributors should express their interest by sending an email to Borko Furht and Syed Ahson at borko@cse.fau.edu and s.ahson@att.net.

DESCRIPTION

High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is a 3G (third generation) mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) family, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity. Current HSDPA deployments support down-link speeds of 1.8, 3.6, 7.2 and 14.4 Mbit/s, and can provide each customer with 30 gigabytes of data per month.

 

SCHEDULE

Contributors solicited and TOC defined      September/October, 2008 Chapters delivered                                            April 1, 2009 First draft of Handbook completed                 April 15, 2009 Final reviews completed                                   May 15 , 2009 Handbook delivered to the Publisher             May 30, 2009 Handbook production and pageproofs          June 1, 2008 - September 1, 2009 Handbook published                                         Fall 2009

Links to important documents

Table of Contents	Sample Chapter	Contributor's Agreement
Production Standards		Permission Verification Form

TOPICS OF INTERESTS
(Other topics are aslo welcome)

Fundamentals 3G Mobile Systems evolution Mobile broadband deployment strategies and demand analysis Coexistence of WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) and HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) WiMAX and HSDPA Coexistence Receiver architecture for HSDPA/HSUPA HSDPA/HSUPA Principles Adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) Packet scheduling and scheduling algorithms Symbol mapping diversity and power adjustment for HSDPA/HSUPA Turbo-Coded HSDPA/HSUPA Systems Chip level equalization Radio Frequency (RF)-receiver design Advanced receivers based on normalized least mean square (NLMS) equalizers Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) in HSDPA/HSUPA system Technologies Channel quality indication (CQI) reporting Radio Channel Estimation Schemes QoS support for services such as streaming, gaming, and VoIP Bandwidth management techniques for allocation of radio access network resources Circuit switched services on HSDPA/HSUPA Transport control protocol (TCP) layer and the radio interface in HSDPA/HSUPA wireless system. Bit Rates, Capacity and Coverage Models to evaluate HSDPA/HSUPA cell capacity and user bit rate Performance Studies Enhancing HSDPA/HSUPA network performance RF repeaters to improve HSDPA/HSUPA coverage Guidelines for Coverage and Capacity Planning Antenna configurations Measurement results for HSDPA/HSUPA Conformance Metrics and Evaluation of HSDPA/HSUPA Systems Applications Multimedia services over HSDPA/HSUPA VoIP Mobile TV