Mobile and wireless communications : key technologies and future applications / edited by Peter Smyth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smyth, Peter, 1955-

Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Series:

BT communications technology series ; 9.

BT communications technology series ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Application program interfaces (Computer software).

Wireless communication systems--Industrial applications.

Wireless communication systems.

Wireless communication systems--Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, U.K. : Institution of Electrical Engineers, c2004.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

Two of the fastest growing sectors of communications today are mobile and Internet, both of which have had a profound effect on people's lives. The convergence between these two sectors not only presents great opportunities for the future of ""unplugged"" telecommunications, but also great challenges in understanding the relative position of different technologies in this future.This book reviews the contribution of different wireless access technologies to that future and looks at the opportunities of opening up access to telecommunications systems, via application programming

Contents:

CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; Contributors; 1 Future of Mobile and Wireless Communications; 2 Optical Radio - a Review of a Radical New Technology for Wireless Access Infrastructure; 3 Wireless LANs - Present and Future; 4 Future Applications of Bluetooth; 5 Ultra-Wideband and its Capabilities; 6 Ad Hoc Wireless Networks; 7 Scalability, Capacity and Local Connectivity in Ad Hoc Networks; 8 The Role of Ad Hoc Networks in Mobility; 9 Securing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks - a Motivational Approach; 10 The Use of Satellite for Multimedia Communications

11 Evolving Systems Beyond 3G - the IST BRAIN and MIND Projects12 Economic Tussles in the Public Mobile Access Market; 13 Enabling Applications Deployment on Mobile Networks; 14 The Parlay API - Allowing Third Party Application Providers Safe and Secure Access to Network Capabilities; 15 Radio Spectrum Management for Tetherless Communications; 16 Mobile Multimedia Services; 17 Multimodality - the Future of the Wireless User Interface; 18 Mobile Video-Streaming; 19 A Social History of the Mobile Telephone with a View of its Future; Acronyms; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-00997-4

9786612009976

1-84919-035-6

OCLC:

505869656