Mobile and Wireless Internet: Protocols, Algorithms and Systems - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792372085 ISBN 13: 9780792372080

Publisher: Springer, 2003

Synopsis

Recent advances in mobile and wireless communication and personal computer technology have created a new paradigm for information processing. Today, mobile and wireless communications exit in many forms, providing different types of services. Existing forms of mobile and wireless communications continue to experience rapid growth and new applications and approaches are being spawned at an increasing rate. Recently, the mobile and wireless Internet has become one of the most important issues in the telecommunications arena. The development of the mobile and wireless Internet is the evolution of several different technologies coming together to make the Internet more accessible. Technologies such as the Internet, wireless networks, and mobile computing have merged to form the mobile and wireless Internet. The mobile and wireless Internet extends traditional Internet and World Wide Web services to wireless devices such as cellular phones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and notebooks. Mobile and wireless Internet c:an give users access to personalized information anytime and anywhere they need it, and thus empower them to make decisions more quickly, and bring them closer to friends, family, and work colleagues. Wireless data communication methods have been around for sometime.

About this title

Synopsis

This edited book brings together in an organized framework, related new and emerging works on algorithms, protocols and applications on wireless networks and the wireless Internet. The chapters are written exclusively for this volume by the leading international researchers and professionals in this field. The material represents the state-of-the-art research and includes several seminal contributions. Featured is a myriad of valuable discussions of numerous relevant concepts, which examines the various approaches that define emerging mobile and wireless Internet technologies. Included are topics on: Dynamic Configuration of Mobile Devices; Security and Privacy of the PTP; Soft Handoff Support; Node Centric Hybrid Routing; Resource Allocation; Mobile Multicast; TCP/IP and Wireless Networks; Multipath Routing Protocols; Mobility Predication for QoS Provisioning; Handoff Rerouting Algorithms; Seamless Mobility and IP Mobility Protocols; and Compaction Algorithms.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792372085
• ISBN 13: 9780792372080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 412
• Editor: Makki Kia, Pissinou Niki, Makki S. Kami, Park E.K.