With billions of ‘people and things’ becoming increasingly connected, the need to combine the potential
of unlicensed and licensed wireless services has become an imperative for the operators, cities, high
density venues and players focused on key market opportunities such as IoT, big data and 5G. ...
From the transition of analog to digital communication along with seamless mobility and
high computing power of small handheld devices, the wireless communications industry has
seen tremendous changes leading to the integration of several telecommunication networks,
devices and services over last 30 ...
The past two decades have witnessed the introduction and unprecedented growth of cellular
mobile telephony and wireless communications. Numerous wireless access technologies
have been introduced in the mobile communications market. While some have flourished
and formed the basis of successful manufa ...
Mobile communication has gained significant importance in today’s society. As
of 2010, the number of mobile phone subscribers has surpassed 5 billion [ABI10],
and the global annual mobile revenue is soon expected to top $1 trillion [Inf10].
While these numbers appear promising for mobile operators ...
A series of features makes the mobile telecommunications industry an
interesting field of investigation for economists: the industry is experi-
encing veryfastmarketgrowthcombinedwithrapidtechnological change;
regulatory design in setting market structure is playing a very important
role; and oligop ...
With the advancement of technology and miniaturization of electronic devices, applications of
wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be seen in diverse areas in our lives. In fact, these WSNs
have gained a lot of attention from both the research community and industry, making them
easily available on t ...
Wirelessmeshnetworkingisahotandgrowingtopic,stillinitsinfancyin
some ways, whilst already shown to be capable in others. From a military
beginning, mesh networks moved to civilian use and are now being
deployed worldwide as both local area networks (LANs) and metro-
politan area networks (MANs). How ...
The wireless market has experienced a phenomenal growth since the first second-
generation (2G) digital cellular networks, based on global system for mobile
communications (GSM) technology, were introduced in the early 1990s. Since then,
GSM has become the dominant global 2G radio access standard. A ...
This book was conceived in such a special way. From our experience, and despite the
increasing interest that we perceived amongst the research community in HAPS,
there was not any book in the market entirely devoted to HAPS. We could only find
some satellite communications books including only fragm ...
The market for cellular phones and wireless data transmission equipment has changed
dramatically since the late 1970s when cellular phones were first introduced and the
late 1980s when wireless data equipment became available. As would be expected,
duringthistime RF test requirements and RF test equ ...
