Revised and enlarged version that discusses how to design a mobile communications system. Comprehensively examines the mobile radio environment. Covers prediction of propagation loss, calculation and methods of reducing fades, interference, frequency plans and associated schemes, design parameters, signaling and channel access, cellular CDMA, microcell systems, and miscellaneous related systems. Contains chapter-by-chapter references and problems. Common terms and phrases:bit-error rate CDMA cell site co-channel interference coherence bandwidth diversity scheme FDMA microcell mobile unit path loss Rayleigh fading