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The next generation network technology will be a unifier that will allow several communication standards to converge in order to provide an optimum solution for a given situation [1]. For example, as shown in Fig. 3.1, when a mobile user connected to a cellular network enters a WLAN hotspot, the mobile terminal may switch from using a high mobility, low data rate standard such as 3G to a low mobility, high data rate standard such as IEEE 802.11n in order to optimize a certain set of benefits such as cost. When the user leaves the WLAN hotspot, the mobile terminal switches back to 3G. This scenario requires multi-standard support in the mobile terminal itself, a challenge that is partly faced in this work.
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Atallah, J.G., Ismail, M. (2012). Multi-standard Wireless Front-Ends. In: Integrated Frequency Synthesis for Convergent Wireless Solutions. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1466-7_3
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