This book describes the physical layer of UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) which is one of the five members of the IMT-2000 family of standards. It compiles in a clear fashion the main technical features of the physical layer standard together with a description of the basics of digital communications and spread spectrum technology on which UMTS relies. In addition the test cases specified in the standard are described together with their implications on any practical front-end design. The reader will benefit from the standard description which frees him from studying lots of standardization documents. Additional explanations of the standard and especially the test cases will help to better understand the effects on any front-end system design. Many references are provided for readers interested in in-depth treatments of certain topics.

Written with the expert in mind the book describes the physical layer of UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System). In a clear fashion it compiles the main technical features of the physical layer standard together with a description of the basic digital communications and spread spectrum technology. In addition the test cases specified in the standard are described together with their implications on any practical front-end design. The reader will benefit from the standard description which frees him from studying lots of standardization documents. Additional explanations of the standard and especially the test cases will help to better understand the effects on any front-end system design. Many references are provided for readers interested in in-depth treatments of certain topics.

Gandy Dancer is an online literary magazine, publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama and visual art. We welcome student writers and artists from all the SUNY campuses to submit. Edited by students at SUNY Geneseo, Gandy Dancer will be published twice yearly. We've titled our journal Gandy Dancer after the slang term for the railroad workers who laid and maintained the railroad tracks before the advent of machines to do this work. Most theories suggest that this term arose from the dance-like movements of the workers, as they pounded and lifted to keep tracks aligned. This was grueling work, which required the gandy dancers to endure heat and cold, rain and snow. Like the gandy dancers, writers and artists arrange and rearrange, adjust and polish to create something that allows others passage. For more information, visit http: //gandydancer.org Gandy Dancer 1.1 is the inaugural issue, published Fall 2012.