3330

Institution of Electrical Engineers

c2004

xviii, 392 p. ill. 24 cm

BT communications technology series

Includes bibliographical references and index , Future of mobile and wireless communications -- Optical radio - a review of a radical new technology for wireless access infrastructure -- Wireless LANs - present and future -- Future applications of Bluetooth -- Ultra-wideband and its capabilities -- Ad Hoc wireless networks -- Scalability, capacity and local connectivity in Ad Hoc networks -- The role of Ad Hoc networks in mobility -- Securing mobile Ad Hoc networks - a motivational approach -- The use of satellite for multimedia communications -- Evolving systems beyond 3G - the IST BRAIN and MIND projects -- Economic tussles in the public mobile access market -- Enabling applications deployment on mobile networks -- The parlay API - allowing third party application providers safe and secure access to network capabilities -- Radio spectrum management for tetherless communications -- Mobile multimedia services -- Multimodality - the future of the wireless user interface -- Mobile video-streaming -- A social history of the mobile telephone with a view of its future

Smyth, Peter, , Institution of Electrical Engineers