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Wireless Internet Handbook

Technologies, Standards, and Applications

Edited by Borko Furht, Mohammad Ilyas

Contributors: Ahmed Elhakeem, Oge Marques, Dennis Seymour Lee, Jose Antonio Garcia-Macias, Sajal K. Das, Igor Curcio, Kevin Hung, Bjorn Landfeldt, Angel Lozano, Amitava Mukherjee, Gopal Racherla, G. Radhamani, Marco Roccetti, Valerie A. Rosenblatt, Haitao Zheng, Andres Lhana, Mahesh S. Raisinghani, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Sirin Tekinay, Christine Cheng, Ravi K. Jain, Leyla Toumi, Kalyan Basu, Jill Boyce, Jonathan Chan, Stefano Ferretti, Vittorio Ghini, Stefano Cacciaguerra, Yuan-Ting Zhang, Mohammad Umar Siddiqi, Debashis Saha, Paola Salomoni, Aruna Seneviratne, Binh Thai, David Furuno, David Goodman, Eric van den Berg, Nitish Barman, Sanjay Jha, Amiya Bhattacharya, A. Roy, Archan Misra

Published March 28th 2003 by Auerbach Publications – 632 pages

Series: Internet and Communications

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Description

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:

  • Wireless local access techniques to the mobile Internet

  • User mobility in IP networks

  • Multimedia streaming over wireless Internet

  • Quality of service issues

  • Location management techniques and clustering architectures

  • Wireless Internet security issues

  • Bluetooth, CDMA, TDMA, Wireless Application Protocol, 802.11x, and more

  • Different mobile and wireless Internet services

  • Wireless Internet enterprise applications

  • Mobile multimedia and graphics applications

  • Mobile video telephony

  • Wireless video surveillance

  • Wireless applications in medicine

    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.

    • 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

    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

    Name: Wireless Internet Handbook: Technologies, Standards, and Applications (Hardback) – Auerbach Publications 
    Description: Edited by Borko Furht, Mohammad IlyasContributors: Ahmed Elhakeem, Oge Marques, Dennis Seymour Lee, Jose Antonio Garcia-Macias, Sajal K. Das, Igor Curcio, Kevin Hung, Bjorn Landfeldt, Angel Lozano, Amitava Mukherjee, Gopal Racherla, G. Radhamani, Marco Roccetti, Valerie A. Rosenblatt, Haitao Zheng, Andres Lhana, Mahesh S. Raisinghani, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Sirin Tekinay, Christine Cheng, Ravi K. Jain, Leyla Toumi, Kalyan Basu, Jill Boyce, Jonathan Chan, Stefano Ferretti, Vittorio Ghini, Stefano Cacciaguerra, Yuan-Ting Zhang, Mohammad Umar Siddiqi, Debashis Saha, Paola Salomoni, Aruna Seneviratne, Binh Thai, David Furuno, David Goodman, Eric van den Berg, Nitish Barman, Sanjay Jha, Amiya Bhattacharya, A. Roy, Archan Misra. 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...
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