Duringthe past years, there has been a quickly rising interest in radio access technologies for providing
mobile as well as nomadic and fixed services for voice, video, and data. This proves that the difference
in design, implementation, and use between telecom and datacom technologies is also becom ...
The Internet of Things is considered to be the next big opportunity, and challenge, for the
Internet engineering community, users of technology, companies and society as a whole. It
involves connecting embedded devices such as sensors, home appliances, weather stations
and even toys to Internet Prot ...
Many times I have been asked to explain “ briefl y ” how SDH, SONET, and the
OTN “ exactly ” work. The questions came mainly from new colleagues, stu-
dents, and users of these technologies, personally or via the usenet newsgroup
comp.dcom.sdh - sonet. I could have referred them to the standards ...
During the past decade, many wireless communication techniques have been
developedto achievevariousgoals suchas higherdata rate,morerobustlink quality,
and higher number of users in a given bandwidth. For wireless communication
systems, depending on the availability of a feedback link, two approache ...
This book is an entry-level text on the technology of telecommunications. It has been
crafted with the newcomer in mind. The eighteen chapters of text have been prepared
for high-school graduates who understand algebra, logarithms, and basic electrical prin-
ciples such as Ohm’s law. However, many ...
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 gener-
ation (3G) wireless system would not be efficient to deliver high speed data rate and
quality-of-service (QoS) support to mobile us ...
Due to the asymmetry between the amount of data traffic in the downlink and
uplink direction of nowadays and future wireless networks, a proper design of the
transceivers in the broadcast channel is inevitable in order to satisfy the users’
demands on data rate and transmission quality. This book d ...
There are few technologies that have had a more profound effect on people’s lives
than mobile communications. As recently as twenty years ago no one had a mobile
phone, while today 1.4 billion men, women and children depend on them. This now
exceeds the number of landline users, where it took the p ...
Mobile and wireless application development has come a long way in the past few
years. It has progressed beyond the hype of wireless Web applications for consumers
to the reality of high-value mobile applications for corporate users. Opportunities
abound for creating new mobile and wireless applicat ...
The growth of mobile technologies is remarkable. At a recent Mobile World Congress Conference, Eric
Schmidt, CEO of Google predicted that within three years, smart phones will surpass Personal Com-
puter sales. The number of mobile phones used worldwide has exceeded 4.6 billion with continued
growth ...
