Contents v -- Acknolwedgments xi -- 1 GPRS General Overview 1 -- 1.1 GPRS Logical Architecture 1 -- 1.2 Transmission and Signaling Planes 5 -- 1.3 The Radio Interface 9 -- 1.4 GPRS Mobility Management 35 -- 1.5 PDP Context Management 40 -- 1.6 GPRS Backbone Network 41 -- 1.7 CAMEL for GPRS 44 -- 1.8 Organization of the 3GPP 48 -- 2 Introduction to EDGE 51 -- 2.1 What is EDGE? 51 -- 2.2 EGPRS Services 54 -- 2.3 EGPRS General Principles 57 -- 3 RF Physical Layer 69 -- 3.1 Modulation 70 -- 3.2 RF Characteristics on the Transmitter Side 89 -- 3.3 RF Characteristics on the Receiver Side 91 -- 3.4 Case Studies 94 -- 4 Physical Link Layer 109 -- 4.1 Channel Coding 109 -- 4.2 Link Quality Control 117 -- 4.3 Case Studies 131 -- 5 Impact of EGPRS on the RLC/MAC Layer 139 -- 5.1 New RLC/MAC Procedures Related to TBF Establishment 139 -- 5.2 Transmission of RLC Data BLocks 149 -- 5.3 Case Study: GPRS and EGPRS Mobile Mutilplexing 153 -- 6 Wireless Application Protocol 157 -- 6.1 General Interest of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) 157 -- 6.2 WAP Forum 158 -- 6.3 WAP Services 159 -- 6.4 WAP Architecture 167 -- 6.5 M-Services 197 -- List of Acronyms 203 -- About the Authors 217 -- Index 219.