Overview
- Editors:
-
-
Mihaela Cardei
-
Florida Atlantic University, Boca-Raton
-
Ionut Cardei
-
Florida Atlantic University, Boca-Raton
-
Ding-Zhu Du
-
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- This book is the collective contribution of top world researchers in the field of wireless communications and networking
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Access this book
Other ways to access
Table of contents (23 chapters)
-
-
Resource Management Architectures
-
-
- Klara Nahrstedt, Samarth H. Shah, Kai Chen
Pages 41-62
-
-
Channel Allocation and Scheduling
-
- Shengquan Wang, Ripal Nathuji, Riccardo Bettati, Wei Zhao
Pages 81-102
-
- Insik Shin, Sanjeev Khanna, Insup Lee
Pages 103-121
-
- Yasuhiko Matsunaga, Randy H. Katz
Pages 122-141
-
- Rene L. Cruz, Arvind Santhanam, Bongyong Song
Pages 142-164
-
- Xiang-Yang Li, WeiZhao Wang
Pages 165-197
-
Medium Access Control
-
-
-
-
- Fang Liu, Kai Xing, Xiuzhen Cheng, Shmuel Rotenstreich
Pages 300-341
-
Routing and Resource Discovery
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Dmitri D. Perkins, Ramesh Tumati, Hongyi Wu, Ikhlas Ajbar
Pages 507-542
-
Broadcast and Multicast
-
- François Ingelrest, David Simplot-Ryl, Ivan Stojmenović
Pages 543-582
About this book
Following the pattern of the Internet growth in popularity, started in the early 1990s, the current unprecedented expansion of wireless technology promises to have an even greater effect on how people communicate and interact, with considerable socio-economic impact all over the world. The driving force behind this growth is the remarkable progress in component miniaturization, integration, and also devel- ments in waveforms, coding, and communication protocols. Besides established infrastructurebased wireless networks (cellular, WLAN, sat- lite) ad-hoc wireless networks emerge as a new platform for distributed applications and for personal communication in scenarios where deploying infrastructure is not feasible. In ad-hoc wireless networks, each node is capable of forwarding packets on behalf of other nodes, so that multi-hop paths provide end-to-end connectivity. The increased flexibility and mobility of ad-hoc wireless networks are favored for appli- tions in law enforcement, homeland defense and military. In a world where wireless networks become increasingly interoperable with each other and with the high-speed wired Internet, personal communication systems will transform into universal terminals with instant access to variate content and able of handle demanding tasks, such as multimedia and real-time video. With users roaming between networks, and with wide variation in wireless link quality even in a single domain, the communications terminal must continue to provide a level of Quality of Service that is acceptable to the user and conforms to a contracted Service Level Agreement.
