Advances in Wireless Communications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Characterizing and Serving Mobile Users

   1. Mobile Communications: Theories, Data, and Potential Impacts a Longitudinal Analysis of U.S. National Surveys

      • James E. Katz, Philip Aspden

      Pages 1-19

   2. The On The Move Project: Description of Mobile Middleware and Experimental Results

      • T. Wierlemann, T. Kassing, Julie Harmer

      Pages 21-35

   3. Information-providing Mechanism Combining Broadcast and On-demand Modes in Mobile Computing Environments

      • Masanori Tanabe, Satoshi Hakomori, Ushio Inoue

      Pages 37-51

3. ATM and Broadband

   1. Wireless ATM - Multimedia Service Platform

      • Tom Leskinen, Markku Niemi

      Pages 53-73

   2. Design and Performance of Radio Access Protocols in WATMnet, A Prototype Wireless ATM Network

      • Parthasarathy Narasimhan, Subir K. Biswas, Cesar A. Johnston, Robert J. Siracusa, Heechang Kim

      Pages 75-92

   3. A Distributed Media Access Control for Wireless ATM Environments

      • Jean-Pierre Ebert, Ralf Holtkamp, Adam Wolisz, Louis Ramel

      Pages 93-108

   4. On Demand Assignment with Centralized Scheduling: A Novel MAC Protocol for Wireless ATM Access Networks

      • M. Artale, R. Winkler

      Pages 109-122

   5. Location Management in Wireless ATM Networks

      • Gopal Dommety, Malathi Veeraraghavan

      Pages 123-140

   6. Phone Number Translation Delay in PCS Systems with ATM Backbones

      • Ravi Jain

      Pages 141-155

   7. Supporting QOS Controlled Handoff in Mobiware

      • Andrew T. Campbell, Raymond R.-F. Liao, Yasuro Shobatake

      Pages 157-169

   8. Bandwidth Allocation in Fixed Broadband Wireless Networks

      • Thomas K. Fong, Paul S. Henry, Kin K. Leung, Xiaoxin Qiu, N. K. Shankaranarayanan

      Pages 171-185

4. Power and Energy Management

   1. A Novel Distributed Power Control Algorithm for Classes of Service in Cellular CDMA Networks

      • Debasis Mitra, John A. Morrison

      Pages 187-202

   2. Fast Power Control in Cellular Networks Based on Short-term Correlation of Rayleigh Fading

      • Z. Rosberg

      Pages 203-217

   3. A Short Look on Power Saving Mechanisms in the Wireless LAN Standard IEEE 802.11

      • Christian Röhl, Hagen Woesner, Adam Wolisz

      Pages 219-226

   4. Energy Management in Wireless Communications

      • Michele Zorzi, Ramesh R. Rao

      Pages 227-240

5. Capacity and Performance

   1. An Access Scheme for High Speed Packet Data Service on IS-95 Based CDMA

      • Sarath Kumar, Sanjiv Nanda

      Pages 241-251

   2. Capacity When Using Diversity at Transmit and Receive Sites and the Rayleigh-faded Matrix Channel is Unknown at the Transmitter

      • G. J. Foschini, M. J. Gans

      Pages 253-267

   3. On the Performance of a Medium Access Control Scheme for the Reconfigurable Wireless Networks

      • Zygmunt J. Haas

      Pages 269-284

   4. Coding and Networking Techniques for Radio Networks

      • Fulvio Babich, Francesca Vatta

      Pages 285-299

Advances in Wireless Communications covers a broad range of topics in the field of wireless communications, with chapters describing state-of-the-art solutions along with basic theoretical studies in information and communications theory. Thus, the book offers a far-reaching panorama of this exciting field.
Contributions have been grouped into six areas. Many of the topics cut across all the protocol layers. In fact, as challenging as the more standard communication theory related problems are, it is the multifaceted and multilayer system problems of wireless and mobile communications that offer the most significant opportunities for breakthroughs.
Advances in Wireless Communications offers an abundance of stimulating ideas and presents state-of-the-art technologies relevant to wireless communications. This book furthers the understanding of this exciting and fast-growing field, and the material presented is useful to students and researchers in their own search for new and better solutions towards the realization of the wireless information age. The book may also be used as a text for advanced courses on the topic.

• IEEE 80
• Potential
• Signal
• Standard
• coding
• communication
• information
• model
• modeling
• multimedia
• network
• radio

• Rutgers University, USA

  Jack M. Holtzman

• University of California at San Diego, USA

  Michele Zorzi

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