Mobile Communications - Softcover

Schiller, Dr Jochen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201398362 ISBN 13: 9780201398366

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1999

Synopsis

This is a technical introduction to the current developments within Mobile communications. It allows the reader to assess new developments, how to harness new technologies and how to improve existing systems. Although it does not evangelise, it does allow readers to keep abreast of new technologies and current trends.

About this title

About the Author

Jochen Schiller is an Assistant Professor in the fields of Computer Networks, specializing in Mobile Communications, at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany and Uppsala University, Sweden, and is an Associate Professor attached to the �cole de technologie sup‚rieure, Universit‚ du Qu‚bec, Canada. His research includes work within several European projects and industry co-operations dealing with QoS provisioning for large-scale WWW servers. He also acts as a consultant for several companies in the networking and communication business.

From the Back Cover

The rapid growth and convergence of mobile communications has led to a need for new techniques and solutions and a demand for knowledgeable communication professionals who have a firm grasp of the background theory and technologies and who also understand the future trends and possibilities within the field.

In this book Jochen Schiller draws on extensive experience to present an essential grounding in mobile communications, explaining current developments in industry and research and providing a detailed technical background to the area. The book covers all of the important aspects of mobile and wireless communications from the Internet to signals, access protocols and cellular systems, all presented in a clear and structured way, with a focus on the crucial area of digital data transfer.

The early chapters give a concise overview of mobile communications applications, history and market, and provide a foundation in wireless communication, wireless transmission and Medium Access Control. The book goes on to devote a chapter to each of the 5 different groups of wireless network technologies: telecommunications systems, satellite systems, broadcast systems, wireless LAN and wireless ATM. The final chapters on the network layer and transport layer address problems and provide solutions using well-known Internet protocols such as TCP/IP within a mobile environment, concluding with a focus on WWW and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

If you are a professional networking engineer or manager wanting to know how mobility will affect applications, security and networks, this book will be an invaluable resource.

Mobile Communications will enable you to:
• recognise and understand the future trends in networking
• understand design decisions
• follow through paths of migration from fixed networks towards mixed fixed/mobile networks

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201398362
• ISBN 13: 9780201398366
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416