Jack L. Burbank, Julia Andrusenko, Jared S. Everett, William T.M. Kasch.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
[First edition.]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xliii, 666 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 632-649) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Wireless Ecosystem -- Wireless Personal Area Networks -- Wireless Local Area Networks -- Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks -- Second-Generation (2G) Cellular Communications -- Third-Generation (3G) Celluar Communications -- Fourth-Generation (4G) Cellular Communications -- Mobile Internetworking -- Key Wireless Technology Trends: A Look at the Future -- Building the Wireless Internet: Putting It All Together.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book focuses on providing a detailed and practical explanation of key existing and emerging wireless networking technologies and trends,while minimizing the amount of theoretical background information. The book also goes beyond simply presenting what the technology is, but also examines why the technology is the way it is, the history of its development, standardization, and deployment. The book also describes how each technology is used, what problems it was designed to solve, what problems it was not designed to solve., how it relates to other technologies in the marketplace, and internetworking challenges faced withing the context of the Internet, as well as providing deployment trends and standardization trends. Finally, this book decomposes evolving wireless technologies to identify key technical and usage trends in order to discuss the likely characteristics of future wireless networks"--