The mobile communications market remains the fastest growing segment of the global computing and communications business. The rapid progress and convergence of the field has created a need for new techniques and solutions, knowledgeable professionals to to create and implement them, and courses to teach the background theory and technologies while pointing the way towards future trends.

In this book Jochen Schiller draws on his extensive experience to provide a thorough grounding in mobi communications, describing the state of the art in industry and research while giving a detailed technicn background to the area. The book covers all the important aspects of mobile and wireless communications from the Internet to signals, access protocols and cellular systems, emphasizing the area of digital data transfer. It uses a wide range of examples and other teaching aids, making it suitable for self-study and university classes.

The book begins with an overview of mobile and wireless applications, covering the history and market and providing the foundations of wireless transmission and Medium Access Control. Four different gro of wireless network technologies are then covered: telecommunications systems, satellite systems. broadcast systems and wireless LAN. The following chapters about the network and transport layers address the impairments and solutions using well-known Internet protocols such as TCP/IP in a mobile and wireless environment. The book concludes with a chapter on technologies supporting applications mobile networks, focusing on the Web and the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). Each chapter concludes with a set of exercises for self-study (with solutions available to instructors) and references standards, organizations and research work related to the topic.

New to this edition

Integration of higher data rates for GSM (HSCSD, GPRS)

New material on 3rd generation (3G) systems with in-depth discussion of UMTS/W-CDMA Addition of the new WLAN standards for higher data rates: 802. I la, bg and HiperLAN2

Extension of Bluetooth coverage to include IEEE 802. 15, profiles and applications

Increased coverage of ad-hoc networking and wireless profiled TCP

► Migration of WAP I.x and i-mode towards WAP 2.0

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