October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
36h 13m
English
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The overall learning objective of Chapter 5 is to help you understand a category of probability distributions that produces only discrete outcomes, thereby enabling you to:

Life with a Cell Phone
As early as 1947, scientists understood the basic concept of a cell phone as a type of twoway radio. Seeing the potential of crude mobile car phones, researchers understood that by using a small range of service areas (cells) with frequency reuse, they could increase the capacity for mobile phone usage significantly even though the technology was not then available. During that same year, AT&T proposed the allocation of a large number of radio-spectrum frequencies ...