1st Edition

Broadband Last Mile Access Technologies for Multimedia Communications

Edited By Nikil Jayant Copyright 2005
    674 Pages 185 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Broadband Last Mile: Access Technologies for Multimedia Communications provides in-depth treatments of access technologies and the applications that rely upon them or support them. It examines innovations and enhancements along multiple dimensions in access, with the overarching goal of ensuring that the last mile is not the weak link in the broadband chain. Written by experts from the academic and commercial segments of the field, the book's self-contained sections address topics related to the disciplines of communications, networking, computing, and signal processing.

    The core of this treatment contains contemporary reviews of broadband pipes in the classes of copper, cable, fiber, wireless, and satellite. It emphasizes the coexistence of these classes within a network, the importance of optical communications for unprecedented bandwidth, and the flexibility and mobility provided by wireless.

    The book also includes perspective on the increasingly important topic of network management, providing insights that are true regardless of the nature of the pipe. The text concludes with a discussion of newly emerging applications and broadband services.

    This book offers an all-in-one treatment of the physical pipes and network architectures that make rich and increasingly personalized applications possible. It serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners working in the increasingly pervasive field of broadband.

    BROADBAND IN THE LAST MILE: CURRENT AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS
    John Apostolopoulos and Nikil Jayant

    THE LAST MILE, THE EDGE, AND THE BACKBONE Benny Bing and G. K. Chang

    LAST-MILE COPPER ACCESS
    Krista S. Jacobsen

    LAST-MILE HFC ACCESS
    Daniel Howard, Bruce Currivan, Thomas Kolze, Jonathan Min, and Henry Samueli

    OPTICAL ACCESS: NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGY Brian Ford and Stephen E. Ralph

    LAST-MILE WIRELESS ACCESS IN BROADBAND AND HOME NETWORKS
    Carlos de M. Cordeiro and Dharma P. Agrawal

    SATELLITE TECHNOLOGIES SERVING AS LAST-MILE SOLUTIONS
    Paul G. Steffes and Jim Stratigos

    MANAGEMENT OF LAST-MILE BROADBAND NETWORKS
    Mani Subramanian

    EMERGING BROADBAND SERVICES SOLUTIONS
    Mani Subramanian

    Biography

    Nikil Jayant