Gordon A. Gow, Richard K. Smith - Mobile and Wireless Communications [Pdf - Eng] [TNTVillage]

Gordon A. Gow, Richard K. Smith - Mobile and Wireless Communications [Pdf - Eng] [TNTVillage]

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Autore: GORDON A. GOW e RICHARD K. SMITH
Titolo: Mobile and
Wireless
Communications
Anno:
Lingua: Inglese
Genere: Informatica -telefonia mobile
Dimensione del file: 9.69 Mb
Formato del file: pdf

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Contents
List of figures and tables xi
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 Radio basics 5
2.1 Introduction 5
2.2 Radio basics 6
2.2.1 Electromagnetic energy 6
2.2.2 Frequency and wavelength 8
2.3 Spectrum management 10
2.3.1 Managing a natural resource 10
2.3.2 Allocation, allotment, assignment 11
2.4 The ITU and world radio conferences 12
2.4.1 Regional coordination of radio spectrum 14
2.5 Assigning spectrum at the national level 15
2.5.1 The case in Canada 16
2.5.2 Bands, blocks and bandwidth 17
2.5.3 Spectrum release and licensing 17
2.5.4 Licence exempt bands 18
2.6 Contemporary policy issues 19
2.6.1 Convergence of communications industries 19
2.6.2 Globalization of trade 20
2.6.3 Technological change 20
2.7 Marconi’s legacy 21
2.8 Further reading 21
3 Going mobile 22
3.1 Introduction 22
3.2 Origins of the mobile phone 22
3.2.1 Early radiotelephone systems 23
3.2.2 The birth of the ‘mobile’ phone 26
3.3 Wireless networking 27
3.3.1 Communication modes 27
3.3.2 Basic network designs 27
3.3.3 Cellular infrastructure 30
3.4 The first generation mobile phone 32
3.4.1 A phone you could carry anywhere 34
3.4.2 Not for everyone (yet) 34
3.5 Regulatory reform 35
3.5.1 Thomas Carter versus Ma Bell 35
3.6 The seeds of revolution 37
3.7 Further reading 37
4 Getting personal 39
4.1 Introduction 39
4.2 Analogue days 39
4.3 The last mile 40
4.3.1 Squeezing spectrum (some more) 42
4.3.2 Time-division multiplexing 43
4.3.3 Code-division multiplexing 43
4.4 Europe leaps ahead 45
4.4.1 GSM 46
4.5 North America 48
4.5.1 D-AMPS 48
4.5.2 Qualcomm’s cdmaOne 49
4.6 Japan and PDC 49
4.7 The world in 2G 50
4.8 The personal trusted device 51
4.8.1 Nokia and Nuovo 51
4.8.2 The popularity of prepaid 54
4.9 The beep heard around the world 55
4.9.1 SMS in North America 58
4.9.2 Textual politics 59
4.10 A strange attractor 60
4.11 Further reading 61
5 The multitask gadget 62
5.1 Introduction 62
5.2 Defining mobility 62
5.2.1 WANs and LANs 64
5.3 Short Message Service 65
5.3.1 EMS and MMS 66
5.4 Wide area mobile data 66
5.4.1 Circuit switching and packet switching 67
5.4.2 A mobile data network 67
5.5 Air-link standards for data 69
5.5.1 HSCSD 69
5.5.2 GPRS 70
5.5.3 1XRTT 70
5.5.4 Slow speed data services 70
5.5.5 iDEN and TETRA 71
5.6 The first wireless web 72
5.6.1 C-HTML 72
5.6.2 Web clipping 73
5.6.3 HDML 73
5.6.4 WAP 74
5.6.5 The protocol stack 75
5.7 Wireless application environment 76
5.7.1 J2ME 77
5.7.2 BREW 78
5.7.3 GUI 78
5.8 Mobile operating systems 78
viii Mobile and wireless communications
5.8.1 Symbian 79
5.8.2 Microsoft 80
5.9 Division, convergence, emerging practices 80
5.10 Further reading 81
6 Let’s go surfing 82
6.1 A mobile information society 82
6.2 The third generation 82
6.2.1 Virtual home environment 83
6.2.2 IMT-2000 84
6.3 3G in Europe: UMTS 86
6.4 3G in North America: cdma2000 88
6.5 3G in Japan: FOMA 89
6.6 The IMT-2000 family portrait 89
6.7 Stumbling blocks 90
6.7.1 ‘WAP is crap’ 90
6.7.2 ‘The winter of handset discontent’ 91
6.7.3 The crash of the LEOs 92
6.7.4 The spectrum auction 93
6.8 Are we there yet? 94
6.9 Further reading 95
7 La guerre du sans fil 96
7.1 Introduction 96
7.2 3G versus wireless LANs 96
7.3 Hotspots and radio bubbles 97
7.4 What is Wi-Fi? 98
7.4.1 The Wi-Fi alliance 99
7.4.2 Centrino 100
7.4.3 Apple Airport 100
7.4.4 HiperLan and HomeRF 100
7.5 Two cultures of networking 101
7.5.1 Commercial Wi-Fi strategies 102
7.5.2 Community Wi-Fi strategies 104
7.6 Beyond Wi-Fi 105
7.7 User experience 105
7.7.1 Performance, service and reach 107
7.7.2 Form factor issues 107
7.7.3 Interference and discrimination 107
7.7.4 Security 108
7.8 Remember IMT-2000? 108
7.9 Further reading 109
8 Bandwidth bonanza 110
8.1 Introduction 110
8.2 Tragedy of the commons 110
8.2.1 The Coase Theorem 111
8.3 Scarcity in question 113
8.4 Open spectrum 114
8.4.1 Mesh networks 115
8.4.2 Smart radios 116
8.4.3 Spectrum and democracy 118
8.5 The middle ground 120
Contents ix
8.6 Frontier thinking 121
8.7 Further reading 122
9 Into thin air 123
9.1 Wireless, wireless everywhere 123
9.2 Arrival of the personal area network 124
9.2.1 Red before Blue(tooth) 124
9.2.2 King Bluetooth 125
9.2.3 Mobile social software 126
9.2.4 RFID 127
9.3 Emerging issues 129
9.3.1 Ambient intelligence 129
9.3.2 Privacy, surveillance and safety 130
9.3.3 Health and mobile phones 132
9.3.4 Age restricted content 133
9.4 Next, next generation mobile networks 134
9.4.1 Open systems, IP and 4G 135
9.4.2 Mobile TV 136
9.5 Towards the u-society 138
9.6 Recommended reading 139
Notes 140
Glossary 148
Bibliography 156
Index 161
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