Collects 111 papers presented at the May 2002 conference on new developments in third generation mobile communication systems. Several of the contributors discuss coverage and capacity planing, IP- based networks, modulation and coding, quality of service, receiver techniques, security, wireless LANs, smart antennas, and software radio. Specific topics include calculation of soft handoff gain for UMTS, resource allocation algorithms and power control, system level performance of multi-user detection for W-CDMA, 3D facial animation for very low bit rate mobile video, and methods for enabling public key schemes. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
