The fast‎-growing demand for advanced high‎-speed‎,‎ multimedia wireless services accessible to anyone‎,‎ anywhere‎,‎ requires the building of new ‎"‎third generation‎"‎ mobile communications systems‎.‎ Critical to the development of these systems is the establishment of standards that will allow personalized‎,‎ user‎-friendly wireless access to a widely varied telecommunications infrastructure‎.‎ This volume details the technology underlying these standards and provides an in‎-depth description of all the elements required to create third generation systems and networks‎.‎