During the past two decades there has been a substantial growth in research in
wireless communications. The number of journals published from various parts of
the world catering to the research community has grown exponentially. Despite
such a growth, the engineering community still needs more infor ...
Cellular communications is one of the fastest growing and most challenging telecom-
munication applications ever. Today, it represents a large and continuously increasing
percentage of all new telephone subscribers around the world. In the long term,
cellular digital technology may become the univer ...
The third generation (3G) mobile communication system is the next big thing
in the world of mobile telecommunications. The first generation included
analog mobile phones [e.g., Total Access Communications Systems
(TACS), Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT), and Advanced Mobile Phone
Service (AMPS)], and t ...
During the 400 days and nights before we finalized this book on January 1, 2012,
we saw the sunset decorated by the raindrop, and were accompanied by the flowers
blooming to withering. All those past memories are engraved on our hearts and will
last eternally, cementing the most profound friendship ...
There is a phenomenal burst of research activities in mobile cloud
computing systems, which extends cloud computing functions, ser-
vices, and results to the world of future mobile communications
applications, and the paradigm of cloud computing and virtualization
to mobile networks. Mobile applicat ...
Mobile radio networks have risen in prominence over the last few years, primarily by the rise
in popularity of cellular phones. It is important to recognise however that mobile radio
technology fulfils a far wider range of applications that meet the demands of the modern
world. These include the net ...
One of the very first books published on the social impact of the mobile phone
was Timo Kopomaa’s The City in Your Pocket: Birth of the Mobile Information Society.
The book, published in 2000, was based on research that Kopomaa had under-
taken for Nokia and Sonera as part of his doctoral studies i ...
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 ...
In case you haven’t noticed, multimedia communication over IP and wireless net-
works is exploding. Applications such as BitTorrent, used primarily for video
downloads, now take up the lion’s share of all traffic on the Internet. Music file
sharing, once on the legal cutting edge of massive copyri ...
This is believed to be the first book that takes a view of nanotechnology from a
telecommunications and networking perspective. Nanotechnology refers to the manip-
ulation of materials at the atomic or molecular level. Nanotechnology is getting a lot
of attention of late not only in academic setting ...
