Wireless Internet and mobile computing : interoperability and performance /

This book describes the technologies involved in all aspects of a large networking system and how the various devices can interact and communicate with each other. Using a bottom up approach the authors℗¡demonstrate how it is feasible, for instance, for a cellular device user to communicate, via the...

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Main Author: Kwok, Yu-Kwong Ricky
Other Authors: Lau, Vincent K. N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience : IEEE Press, ©2007.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • WIRELESS INTERNET AND MOBILE COMPUTING; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; PART I ESSENTIALS OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; 1 The Mobile Radio Propagation Channel; 2 Modulation Techniques; 3 Multiuser Communications; 4 Diversity Techniques; PART II CELLULAR WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES; 5 Overview and Evolution of Cellular Technologies; 6 CDMA (IS-95); 7 GSM; 8 Wideband CDMA and Beyond; PART III SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES; 9 IEEE 802.11X WLAN Standards; 10 Bluetooth WPAN; 11 Coexistence issues; 12 Competing Technologies; PART IV PROTOCOL ADAPTATIONS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKING.