Link to Professor R.C. Levine's article
Editor's note: Professor Richard Levine has shared his time and experience with privateline.com readers for many years. His cellular introduction in .pdf remains the best long form piece to that subject on the web. Look below. Consider his resume, please, if you need a consultant or expert witness.
Richard C. Levine, ScD, PE (TX)
Manager
Beta Scientific Laboratory
PO Box 836224
Richardson, TX 75083-6224
Telephone: 972-233-4552
Web site: http://www.betalab.org/ (external link)
E-Mail: r.levine@betalab.org
Introducing cellular radio by Levine (374K in .pdf)
SPECIALIZATIONS
* Expert Witness
* Evaluation of patents
* Evaluation of technical products
* Technology training
Independent telecommunications consultant since 1990. Broad and deep knowledge of digital switching and transmission technology in the public switched telephone network, radio, signal processing, antennas, etc.
Adjunct Professor teaching graduate electrical engineering department courses in Digital Telephony and Digital Switching at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. Co-author (with Lawrence Harte) of Cellular and PCS: The Big Picture (McGraw-Hill Book Co.,1997) and GSM Superphones (McGraw-Hill).
Major participant in design of Nortel DMS-MTX 800 MHz Digital Cellular system (IS-54/IS-136 technology), and participated in the standards development of IS-54 and North American Authentication and Encryption Standard used in IS-136 and IS-95. Involved in staff training and system debugging for original 900 MHz GSM digital cellular systems installations in Germany and France. Familiar with other full range cellular/PCS/SMR/ESMR and short-range or low-tier PCS systems such as: Nextel (Motorola iDEN), Geotek/PowerSpectrum, FHMA/TDMA, and DECT/DCT/PWT.
Developed and delivered industrial training courses to quickly familiarize technical staff with GSM/PCS-1900 and IS-136. These courses have been given to staff of numerous US and foreign manufacturers of both mobile handset, mobile data, and base equipment. Hold numerous patents and also an experienced evaluator of patent and technological intellectual property items for valuation or litigation cases. Designed and evaluated/debugged systems in Brazil, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Finland, Israel, Mexico, and USA.
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