The Mobile Radio Channel and the Cellular Principle
Jörg Eberspächer, Hans-Jörg Vögel, Christian Bettstetter · 2001
Chapter 2 covers the fundamentals of mobile radio communications and cellular networks. This includes: characteristics of the mobile radio channel (multipath propagation, fading, dispersion, interference); principles of duplex transmission (FDD, TDD); principles of multiple access communications (FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, SDMA); and cellular technology (cluster formation, frequency reuse, traffic capacity, blocking).