Is-95 Cdma and Cdma2000: Cellular/PCs Systems Implementation

The book's content is organized very well. I recommend the book those readers, as it is stated in its preface, who needs an easy and smooth introduction to IS-95 and CDMA 2000, but not requiring a detailed mathematical analysis, or complex and complete systems architectures, network protocols. The book gives a good outline of IS-95 and explain the advances coming with CDMA 2000.

Con este libro,se llega a dominar los conocimientos del IS-95 y tambien se entera uno de su tecnologia hermana futura CDMA2000. Mi opinion muy particular,creo que despues de entender el CDMA( gracias a esta literatura y otras del Dr Garg), llego a la conclusion que el CDMA IS-95, es la mejor tecnologia de acceso inalambrica del mundo, muy superior al GSM( ya que esta basado en el TDMA). De hecho, la evolucion del GSM hacia 3G, era extremadamente obligatoria, ya que estaba en juego su supervivencia, en cambio el CDMA, evoluciona a 3G muy facil, pues crecer sumando codigos es mas facil que crecer compartiendo y limitando cada vez mas el uso de los slot times,para voz y datos.

This is definitely not the right book if you do not know anything about wireless communications and you just want to have an idea of this topic. In order to understand most of the chapters you need quite a strong background on analog (AMPS) and TDMA systems(GSM). If this is the case, this book is helpful to understand all the main features of the IS-95 CDMA standard and the differences between this systems and the previously mentioned ones. The book is complete, well organized and structured even though sometimes it exceeds in details and becomes heavy to read. But if you are not interested in the mathematical parts you can easily skip to the following section without losing anything.

Introduction. Major Attributes of CDMA Systems. Third-Generation Systems. Multiple Access Technologies. Modes of Operation in Wireless Communications