The book provides detailed coverage of the air-interface technologies and protocols that
withstood the scrutiny of the highly sophisticated technology evaluation process typically
used in the 3GPP physical layer working group.We describe why certain technology choices
were made in the standard development process and how each of the technology components
selected contributes to the overall system performance improvement.As such, the book serves
as a valuable reference for system designers and researchers not directly involved in the
standard development phase.