As for the other, perhaps you brainiacs can glean something from the below, for it's basically beyond me.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040618063621/http://benoa.net/benoa.htmlPublications
GSM, GPRS and EDGE Performance: This second Edition provides a complete overview of the entire GSM system. GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the digital transmission technique widely adopted in Europe and supported in North America. It features comprehensive descriptions of GSM’s main evolutionary milestones - GPRS, (General Packet Radio Services) is a packet-based wireless communication service that promises data rates from 56 up to 114 Kbps and continuous connection to the Internet for mobile phone and computer users. AMR and EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment), and such developments have now positioned GERAN (GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network) as a full 3G radio standard. The radio network performance and capabilities of GSM, GPRS, AMR and EDGE solutions are studied in-depth by using revealing simulations and field trials.
John Wiley & Sons - ISBN 0470866942
ARQ Considerations for the new GSM/EDGE Flexible Layer One
11th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON 2003)
2003 September 28 - October 1 in Sydney (Australia)
Introducing the GERAN Flexible Layer One Concept
IEEE Wireless Communications - QoS in Next-generation Wireless Multimedia Communications Systems
2003 June Vol.10 No.3
IP Multimedia Services Improvements in the GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network
57th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2003 Spring)
2003 April 22 - 25 in Jeju (Korea)
Flexible Layer One for the GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN)
10th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT2003)
2003 February 23 - March 1 in Tahiti (French Polynesia)
Advances in 3G Enhanced Technologies for Wireless Communications: Broadband wireless communications is profoundly impacting our daily lives, and energizing numerous research projects globally. A compilation of the cutting edge work of leading researchers and engineers from major telecommunications firms worldwide, this timely volume offers you in-depth knowledge of the various technical regimes for implementing third generation (3G) wireless mobile communications systems, and covers the latest enhanced techniques likely to become future standards in 3.5G or 3GPP2. Indispensable for practicing professionals and students, this volume helps you fully understand the concepts behind third generation standards and identify key directions in which research is needed. The book includes chapters on 3G wideband CDMA enhanced technologies, CDMA 2000 high speed packet transmission, EDGE, software radio, and the wireless internet.
Artech House - ISBN 1580533027
Speech Capacity Enhancements in the GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network
9th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT2002)
2002 June 23 - 26 in Beijing (China)
GERAN - Evolution of GSM/EDGE towards 3G Mobile Services
8th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT2001)
2001 June 4 - 7 in Bucharest (Romania)
Honestly, this is all I know of IEEE without having to go to Wikipedia to get back up to speed:
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