Wireless technologies like GSM, UMTS, LTE, Wireless LAN and Bluetooth have revolu-
tionized the way we communicate and exchange data by making services like telephony and
Internet access available anytime and from almost anywhere. Today, a great variety of techni-
cal publications offer background information about these technologies but they all fall short
in one way or another. Books covering these technologies usually describe only one of the
systems in detail and are generally too complex as a first introduction. The Internet is also a
good source, but the articles one finds are usually too short and superficial or only deal with
a specific mechanism of one of the systems. For this reason, it was difficult for me to recom-
mend a single publication to students in my telecommunication classes, which I have been
teaching in addition to my work in the wireless telecommunication industry. This book aims
to change this.
