Description

Part 1 of this text, “Key Radio Concepts,” is provided for readers who
are not already familiar with the engineering principles of radio and
how they apply to cellular systems. It also will benefit radio experts
in two ways. First of all, it will help our readers explain these
concepts to people in other fields and to businesspeople. Second,
today’s code division multiple access (CDMA) wireless technology is
built on a series of developments going back over 30 years. It is easy
to be expert in a system and not to know where it came from or to
have an in-depth knowledge of how it works.