Wireless communications : the future /
The definitive assessment of how wireless communications will evolve over the next 20 years. Predicting the future is an essential element for almost everyone involved in the wireless industry. Manufacturers predict the future when they decide on product lines to develop or research to undertake, op...
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Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley,
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Table of Contents:
- Cover Contents Preface Acknowledgements About the Author 1 Predicting the Future is a Necessary Part of Business 2 Previous Predictions have been Accurate
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 There have been Huge Changes in the Telecoms Climate
- 2.3 What we Predicted for the Period 2000 2005
- 2.4 How Well did we do?
- 2.5 Our Predictions for 2005 2010
- 2.6 How Good do these Predictions Look Now?
- 2.7 Implications for Forecasting the Future 3 How to put Together a Forecast 4 The Current Position
- 4.1 The Value of a Good Understanding of the Starting Position
- 4.2 Mobile Communications
- 4.2.1 Cellular
- 4.2.2 Private Mobile Radio
- 4.2.3 Mobile Mesh Systems
- 4.2.4 Cognitive Radio
- 4.3 Fixed wireless
- 4.3.1 Introduction
- 4.3.2 Key Drivers for Fixed Wireless
- 4.3.3 Key Competitors to Fixed Wireless
- 4.3.4 Likely Success of Fixed Wireless
- 4.3.5 Enlarging the Market with a Nomadic Offering
- 4.3.6 The Prognosis for Fixed Wireless
- 4.4 Short-range Devices
- 4.4.1 Introduction
- 4.4.2 Overview of the Standards for Short-range Devices
- 4.4.3 Ultra Wideband (UWB)
- 4.4.4 Wireless LANs [5]
- 4.4.5 BlueTooth [6]
- 4.4.6 DECT
- 4.4.7 Zigbee
- 4.4.8 RFIDs
- 4.4.9 The Prognosis for Short-range Devices
- 4.5 Core Networks
- 4.6 Broadcasting
- 4.6.1 Conventional Broadcasting
- 4.6.2 Mobile Broadcasting
- 4.7 Industry Structure
- 4.8 Summary
- 4.9 Appendix: The Role for OFDM
- OFDM is Increasingly in Favour
- A Quick Introduction to OFDM
- Multipath: the Key Difference between OFDM and SCM
- Equalisers may become too Complex to be Realisable
- Problems Specific to OFDM
- Specific Applications
- So is OFDM the New Technology of Choice?
- References 5 End User Demand
- 5.1 Why What the User Wants is Critical
- 5.2 How People React to New Concepts
- 5.3 Changing Patterns of Spending
- 5.4 What they have Today
- 5.5 What they want Now
- 5.6 Security, Privacy and Health Concerns
- 5.7 The Handset Subsidy Problem
- 5.8 In Summary 6 Technology Progress
- 6.1 Technology is a Critical Input to any Forecast
- 6.2 Key Technical Fundamentals: The True Laws
- 6.3 Key Technical Observations: The Empirical Laws
- 6.3.1 Moore s Law
- 6.3.2 Metcalfe s Law
- 6.3.3 Gilder s Law
- 6.3.4 Cooper s Law
- 6.3.5 Edholm s Law
- 6.3.6 Growth in Disk Size
- 6.3.7 Goodhart s Law
- 6.3.8 Laws or Trends?
- 6.4 Technologies on the Radar Screen
- 6.4.1 Technologies Enhancing the Efficiency of Transmission
- 6.4.2 Technologies Lowering Cost: Backhaul
- 6.4.3 Technologies Enhancing Interaction with Terminals
- 6.4.4 Technologies Leading to Artificial Intelligence
- 6.4.5 Compression Technologies
- 6.5 Technology Prognosis: No Key Breakthroughs
- 6.6 Implications for the Future
- References 7 Major World Events
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 World Events
- 7.3 Events in Related Industries
- 7.4 Summary
- 7.5 The Next Chapters 8 Future Military Wireless Solutions
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Operational Context
- 8.3 Technical Features Important to Secure and Robust Global Military Communications
- 8.4 New Platforms and Missions: Their Impact on Military Communication Systems
- 8.4.1 Impact of Unmanned Vehicles
- 8.4.2 Impact of High-Altitude Platforms (HAPs)
- 8.4.3 Impact of Future Infantry Soldier Technology
- 8.4.4 Impact of Wireless Sensor Networks
- 8.5 Developments in Military Communications Systems
- 8.5.1 Introduction
- 8.5.2 Very Low-Frequency (VLF) Communications.
