Pablo Tapia & Harri Holma 
HSPA+ Evolution to Release 12 
Performance and Optimization

A comprehensive reference book codifying the various
standards releases for High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) wireless
technology

HSPA evolution has maintained its prominence through Releases
7-11 but the evolution is coming to an end with Release 12, with
the focus moving to LTE. However, HSPA network and terminal sales
will continue for many years: HSPA is expected to remain as the
number one radio access technology from the sales point of view far
beyond 2015. This timely book examines the complete HSPA evolution,
and will be the ultimate long term reference for HSPA
evolution.

Headed by the successful editing team of Holma, Toskala and
Tapia, industry experts look at HSPA evolution including complete
Release 11 and the main additions in Release 12. They describe 3GPP
definitions, field measurement, expected performance, practical
optimization guidelines and the implications to the devices and to
the networks. The book also covers MIMO antenna solutions and
multicarrier evolution to provide higher data rates. Dedicated
chapters include Continuous Packet Connectivity and High Speed
Common Channels which provide major improvement to the smartphone
capacity, end user performance and power consumption. The book
assumes basic understanding of mobile communications yet the
material is presented in an understandable way which can be enjoyed
without any pre-information about MIMO or other technology
solutions.

* A comprehensive reference book codifying the various standards
releases for High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) wireless
technology

* Leading editor and contributor team focusing their expertise on
3GPP features and performance, including Self Organizing Networks,
LTE Interworking, Smartphone Optimization and Voice Evolution

* Dedicated chapter covering Vo IP over HSPA, recognizing that
telephony will continue to bring most of the revenues to mobile
operators in the near future

* Includes tables, figures and plots illustrating the concepts or
simulation results, to aid readers‘ understanding of the
topic

An essential resource for R&D engineers by network, terminal
and chip set vendors, network engineers with operators, application
developers, regulators.

Über den Autor

Editors:
Harri Holma, Antti Toskala, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland and Pablo Tapia, T-Mobile, USA