Mobile and wireless communications key technologies and future applications (Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2004)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Future of mobile and wireless communications -- Optical radio -- a review of a radical new technology for wireless access infrastructure -- Wireless LANs -- present and future -- Future applications of Bluetooth -- Ultra-wideband and its capabilities -- Ad Hoc wireless networks -- Scalability, capacity and local connectivity in Ad Hoc networks -- The role of Ad Hoc networks in mobility -- Securing mobile Ad Hoc networks -- a motivational approach -- The use of satellite for multimedia communications -- Evolving systems beyond 3G -- the IST BRAIN and MIND projects -- Economic tussles in the public mobile access market -- Enabling applications deployment on mobile networks -- The parlay API -- allowing third party application providers safe and secure access to network capabilities -- Radio spectrum management for tetherless communications -- Mobile multimedia services -- Multimodality -- the future of the wireless user interface -- Mobile video-streaming -- A social history of the mobile telephone with a view of its future