Wireless Internet Handbook: Technologies, Standards, and Applications
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Summary
Wireless applications are definitely the next big thing in communications. Millions of people around the world use the Internet every day - to stay in touch with remote locations, follow the stock market, keep up with the news, check the weather, make travel plans, conduct business, shop, entertain themselves, and learn. The logical next step is the development of the wireless Internet, where cell phones, PDAs, and laptops let us receive and send e-mails, and perform all the activities that we are currently performing over the wireline Internet.
Filled with contributions from international experts, Wireless Internet Handbook: Technologies, Standards, and Applications describes basic concepts, current developments, and future trends in designing modern architectures. The book covers:
The scope of the information covered and the expertise of leading researchers and industry professionals combine to make Wireless Internet Handbook: Technologies, Standards, and Applications the definitive resource on current and future trends in designing modern architectures for the wireless Internet.
Table of Contents
BASIC CONCEPTS
The Fundamentals on Wireless Internet, B. Furht and M. Ilyas
Wireless Internet > Wireless + Internet, S. Tekinay and D. Goodman
Wireless Internet Security, D.S. Lee
TECHNOLOGIES AND STANDARDS
Multimedia Streaming Over Mobile Networks - European Perspective, I. Curcio
Streaming Video Over Wireless Internet, H. Zheng and J. Boyce
Clustering and Roaming Techniques for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs, A.K. Elhakeem
VoIP Service in Wireless Networks, S. Das and K. Basu
Wireless Application Protocol and Mobile Wireless Access, A. Llana
NETWORKS AND ARCHITECTURES
User Mobility in IP Networks: Current Issues and Recent Developments, B. Landfeldt, J. Chan, B. Thai, and A. Seneviratne
Wireless Local Access to the Mobile Internet, J.A. Garcia-Macias and L. Toumi
A Survey of Location Prediction Techniques for Mobile Wireless Users, C. Cheng, R. Jain, and E. Van Den Berg
Handoff and Rerouting in Wireless Data Networks, G. Racherla and S. Radhakrishnan
Wireless Communication Using Bluetooth, O. Marques and N. Barman
Multi-Antenna Technology for High-Speed Wireless Internet Access, A. Lozano
Location Management in Mobile Wireless Networks, S. Jha, D. Saha, and A. Mukherjee
Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Principles and Practices, G. Racherla, D. Furnuno, and S. Radhakrishnan
Managing Location in "Universal" Location-Aware Computing, S. K. Das, A. Bhattachacharya, A. Roy, and A. Misra
APPLICATIONS
Wireless Internet Services - From Luxury to Commodity, V. A. Rosenblatt
Wireless Technology Impacts the Enterprise Network, A. Llana
An Efficient WAP-Enabled Transaction Processing Model for Mobile Database Systems, G. Radhamani and M. Umar Siddiqi
Mobile VideoTelephony, I. Curcio
WAP: Transitional Technology for M-Commerce, M. S. Raisinghani
Wireless Internet in Telemedicine, K. Hung and Y.T. Zhang
Delivering Music over the Wireless Internet: From Song Distribution to Interactive Karaoke on UMTS Devices, M. Roccetti, P. Salomoni, V. Ghini, S. Ferretti, and S. Cacciaguerra
Editorial Reviews
"Wireless Internet Handbook is an excellent reference on this next big thing in communications…Highly recommended. Graduate students through professionals."
-C. Tappert, Pace University, in CHOICE
