Wireless Internet and mobile computing interoperability and performance

• Main Author: Kwok, Yu-Kwong Ricky (Author)
• Other Authors: Lau, Vincent K. N.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, NJ Wiley-Interscience IEEE Press 2007; ©2007
• Series: Wiley series on information and communications technologies
• Subjects: Wireless communication systems; Mobile computing; Internetworking (Telecommunication)
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• Physical Description: xxxiv, 731 pages illustrations 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 701-723) and index
• ISBN: 9780471679684 (cloth); 0471679682 (cloth)

This book describes the technologies involved in all aspects of a large networking system and how the various devices can interact and communicate with each other. Using a bottom up approach the authors demonstrate how it is feasible, for instance, for a cellular device user to communicate, via the all-purpose TCP/IP protocols, with a wireless notebook computer user, traversing all the way through a base station in a cellular wireless network (e.g., GSM, CDMA), a public switched network (PSTN), the Internet, an intranet, a local area network (LAN), and a wireless LAN access point. The information bits, in travelling through this long path, are processed by numerous disparate communication technologies. The authors also describe the technologies involved in infrastructure less wireless networks.