Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks

1. Front Matter

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2. Integration of Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks

   • Ronald Beaubrun

   Pages 1-18

3. Integration of Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks with IP-based Core Networks: The Path to Telco 2.0

   • Peyman TalebiFard, Terrence Wong, Victor C.M. Leung

   Pages 1-36

4. Architectures and Protocols for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in HeterogeneousWireless Access Networks

   • Oliver Holland, Alireza Attar, Mahesh Sooriyabandara, Tim Farnham, Hamid Aghvami, Markus Muck et al.

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5. Cognitive Radio Techniques in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks

   • Alireza Attar, Oliver Holland, Tim Farnham, Mahesh Sooriyabandara, M. Reza Nakhai, A. Hamid Aghvami

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6. Radio Resource Management for Heterogeneous Wireless Access

   • Jordi Pérez-Romero, Xavier Gelabert, Oriol Sallent

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7. Radio Resource Management and Admission Control in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks

   • Fei Richard Yu, Helen Tang, Hong Ji

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8. Vertical Handoff and Mobility Management for Seamless Integration of HeterogeneousWireless Access Technologies

   • Nirmala Shenoy, Sumita Mishra

   Pages 1-33

9. Network Selection for HeterogeneousWireless Access Networks

   • Wei Song, Weihua Zhuang

   Pages 1-35

10. Modeling and Performance Analysis of Voice Admission Control in Next Generation Heterogeneous Mobile Networks

    • Racha Ben Ali, Samuel Pierre

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11. Energy Saving Aspects for Mobile Device Exploiting Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

    • Gian Paolo Perrucci, Frank H.P Fitzek, Morten V. Petersen

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12. QoS Aware Routing in HeterogeneousWireless Access Networks

    • Yumin Wu, Kun Yang, Hsiao-Hwa Chen

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13. Congestion Control in the Wired Cum Wireless Internet

    • Shan Chen, Xiaojun Hei, Junhua Zhu, Brahim Bensaou

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14. Adaptive Solutions for Quality Oriented Multimedia Streaming in Heterogeneous Network Environments

    • Gabriel-Miro Muntean

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15. Differentiated Pricing Policies in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

    • Shamik Sengupta, Mainak Chatterjee

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16. Content Discovery in Heterogeneous Mobile Networks

    • Diego Borsetti, Claudio Casetti, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Luigi Liquori

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17. Wireless Networks Test-beds: When Heterogeneity Plays with Us

    • Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapé, Roger Karrer

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18. Back Matter

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Heterogeneous wireless networking, which is sometimes referred to as the fourth-generation (4G) wireless, is a new frontier in the future wireless communications technology and there has been a growing interest on this topic among researchers and engineers in both academia and industry. This book will include a set of research and survey articles featuring the recent advances in theory and applications of heterogeneous wireless networking technology for the next generation (e.g., fourth generation) wireless communications systems. With the rapid growth in the number of wireless applications, services and devices, using a single wireless technology such as a second generation (2G) and third generation (3G) wireless system would not be efficient to deliver high speed data rate and quality-of-service (QoS) support to mobile users in a seamless way. Fourth generation (4G) wireless systems are devised with the vision of heterogeneity in which a mobile user/device will be able to connect to multiple wireless networks (e.g., WLAN, cellular, WMAN) simultaneously. This book intends to provide a unified view on the state-of-the-art of protocols and architectures for heterogeneous wireless networking. The contributed articles will cover both the theoretical concepts and system-level implementation issues related to design, analysis, and optimization of architectures and protocols for heterogeneous wireless access networks.

• Internet
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Routing
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
• WLAN
• architecture
• communication
• communication network
• load balancing
• optimization
• security
• wireless network architecture
• wireless systems

From the reviews: “How can you provide mobile users with seamless access to multiple wireless networks in a given area? Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks addresses this challenge. Providing such a multiple-access environment requires one to take a wide range of factors into consideration, including power optimization, spectrum sharing, mobility management, routing and load balancing-and even novel on-demand pricing strategies. … written by an international cast of experts … . The book is intended as a resource for researchers and practitioners in the field.” (Bogdan Hoanca, Optics & Photonics News, April, 2010)

• Dept. Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

  Ekram Hossain

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