The Future of Wireless Communications / William Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, William, 1967- author.

Series:

Artech House mobile communications series.

Artech House mobile communications series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wireless communication systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Artech House, Inc., [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here's a forward-looking new book that realistically forecasts the changes in mobile communications over the next 20 years to help you make informed decisions and develop successful strategies that address the future challenges of this industry. You get specific recommendations on which technological areas organizations should concentrate on, along with insightful discussions on technology and the limits of efficiency, standardization, radio spectrum, economics, industry structure, user requirements, and other constraints and drivers. Publisher abstract.

Contents:

Contents vii; Preface xvii; 1 Why forecast the future? 3; 1.1 Why forecast the future? 3; 1.2 Why the forecast will be wrong 4; 1.3 Key factors influencing the future 6; 1.4 Methodology adopted in this book 7; 1.5 Structure of this book 9; Reference 10; 2 What might the end user want? 13; 2.1 Why what the user wants is critical 13; 2.2 What are people prepared to pay for? 14; 2.3 What they have today 16; 2.4 What they want now 18; 2.5 What they might want in the future 20; 3 The pieces of the puzzle 25

3.1 The value of a good understanding of the starting position 253.2 Wireless communications 26; 3.3 How well does the current position match user requirements? 72; References 80; 4 Overview of technology development 83; 4.1 Overriding principles of wireless communications 83; 4.2 "Laws" shaping technical development 85; 4.3 The problems associated with small cells 91; 4.4 Technical developments in wireless in the last 20 years 99; 4.5 Summary of the key technical issues 101; References 102; 5 Nontechnical constraints on the future 103; 5.1 Introduction 103

5.2 Standards [1] 1045.3 Spectrum 112; 5.4 Finance 125; 5.5 Environmental issues 129; 5.6 Billing, fraud, security, and numbering issues 132; 5.7 Summary of nontechnical constraints 135; References 137; 6 Organizations and strategy 139; 6.1 Introduction 139; 6.2 Today's wireless communications companies 140; 6.3 Strategy 144; 6.4 How is strategy developed? 146; 6.5 A case study in strategic and organizational behavior 151; 6.6 How is the future invented-do we control it? 153; 6.7 Key issues for organizations and strategy 154; References 155

7 How a 20-year forecast might have looked in 1980 1597.1 A look back in history 159; 7.2 How might an expert have predicted the next 20 years? 161; 7.3 What actually transpired? 170; 7.4 How significant are the differences? 172; 7.5 What lessons can be learned and what is different now? 175; 7.6 What the experts say-the next seven chapters 177; Reference 177; 8 Forecasting the future: a technologist's view 179; 8.1 Introduction 179; 8.2 Key factors 180; 8.3 Applications 182; 8.4 Wide area cellular system considerations 187; 8.5 Nomadic and fixed networks 191

8.6 Business, regulatory, and standards 1968.7 Public acceptance 199; 8.8 Future scenarios 205; 8.9 A day in the life: 20 years out 215; References 217; Appendix 8A: Wide area cellular system considerations 218; 9 A bold view of the future 223; 9.1 Introduction 223; 9.2 Cellular data 224; 9.3 "Centrifugism" of services 226; 9.4 The operator role model 228; 9.5 Overall conclusion 231; 10 Realizing the mobile information society 233; 10.1 Introduction 233; 10.2 Air interface development 238; 10.3 Network development 241; 10.4 Future scenarios 242

10.5 Concluding remarks 243

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-58053-448-1

OCLC:

475973888