Testing UMTS: Assuring Conformance and Quality of UMTS User Equipment (Hardcover)

A modern mobile phone is a highly complex electronic system made up from a variety of diverse sub-systems, all of which must work seamlessly together. Today's users have very high expectations which set tough demands on manufacturers as they introduce third generation technology. While quality, in terms of the phone's stability, performance and behaviour on the network, originate from good design, the only way to be sure of quality is by testing it. This makes testing a very important part of any mobile phone's life cycle, from development through to manufacture and beyond, touching a number of different disciplines and departments.

Testing UMTS is divided in three sections. Section One provides an overview of major types of testing and the organisations and tasks involved. In particular it looks at what is involved in conformance testing and device certification. Section Two is more technical and looks at the UMTS standard itself, working through the protocol layers. Future trends and their impact on testing mobile devices are examined in Section Three, including the emergence of new technologies both in the access network and the core network and the evolution of new testing methodologies.

• Examines UMTS and the testing of UMTS devices which are huge areas in the testing process
• Provides essential information on processes and techniques for mobile phone testing
• Operation of the UMTS standard is described from a test point of view
• Focuses on most important areas of the 3rd-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard from a test perspective
• Offers advice on products, services and resources that aid the testing process.

This book is an ideal text for engineers and managers who are either directly involved in the process of testing UMTS mobiles, or who are looking for an understanding of what is involved in testing. Professionals involved in the development of UMTS mobiles, integration and verification, conformance testing, operator acceptance testing, manufacturing and servicing will find this book indispensable.

現代手機是一個由各種不同子系統組成的高度複雜的電子系統，所有這些子系統都必須無縫地協同工作。如今的用戶對手機有非常高的期望，這對製造商在引入第三代技術時提出了嚴格的要求。儘管手機的穩定性、性能和在網絡上的行為等方面的質量源於良好的設計，但確保質量的唯一方法是通過測試。這使得測試成為手機生命周期的一個非常重要的部分，從開發到製造以及之後，觸及多個不同的學科和部門。

《測試UMTS》分為三個部分。第一部分概述了主要的測試類型以及相關的組織和任務。特別是它介紹了符合性測試和設備認證所涉及的內容。第二部分更加技術性，介紹了UMTS標準本身，並深入研究了協議層。第三部分探討了未來趨勢及其對測試移動設備的影響，包括新技術在接入網絡和核心網絡中的出現以及新測試方法的演進。

本書涵蓋了UMTS和UMTS設備測試的重要領域，提供了關於移動電話測試的流程和技術的基本信息。從測試的角度描述了UMTS標準的運作方式，並專注於第三代合作夥伴計劃（3GPP）標準的最重要領域。還提供了有關產品、服務和資源的建議，以幫助測試過程。

這本書是工程師和經理的理想教材，他們直接參與UMTS手機測試過程，或者想要了解測試過程的內容。從事UMTS手機開發、集成和驗證、符合性測試、運營商驗收測試、製造和維修的專業人士將會發現這本書是不可或缺的。