Any Time, Anywhere Computing: Mobile Computing Concepts and Technology

✍ Scribed by Abdelsalam Helal, Bert Haskell, Jeffery L. Carter, Richard Brice, Darrell Woelk, Marek Rusinkiewicz (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 175
• Series: The International Series In Engineering and Computer Science 522
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The proliferation of wireless networks and small portable computing devices has led to the emergence of the mobile computing paradigm. Mobile and nomadic users carrying laptops or hand-held computers are able to connect to the Internet through publicly available wireline or wireless networks. In the near future, this trend can only grow as exciting new services and infrastructures delivering wireless voice and multimedia data are deployed.
Any Time, Anywhere Computing: Mobile Computing Concepts and Technology is intended for technical and non-technical readers. It includes substantial coverage of the technologies that are shaping mobile computing. Current and future portables technology is covered and explained. Similarly, current and future wireless telecommunication networks technology is covered and reviewed. By presenting commercial solutions and middleware, this book will also help IT professionals who are looking for mobile solutions to their enterprise computing needs. Finally, this book surveys a vast body of recent research in the area of mobile computing. The research coverage is likely to benefit researchers and students from academia as well as industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction to Mobile Computing....Pages 1-11
Wireless Telecommunication Networks....Pages 13-25
Portable Information Appliances....Pages 27-47
Future Information Appliances....Pages 49-62
Future Wireless Communication Networks....Pages 63-88
State of Industry: Mobility Support Software....Pages 89-98
Research in Wireless and Mobile Computing....Pages 99-135

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Electronic and Computer Engineering; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Multimedia Information Systems