Enabling Technologies for Wireless E-Business

✍ Scribed by W. Kou, Y. Yesha (auth.), Weidong Kou, Yelena Yesha (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 395
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Advances in wireless technologies promise to reshape the way we conduct business. Yet to make wireless e-business work effectively, a variety of enabling technologies are needed.

Kou and Yesha and their contributors provide comprehensive information on these technologies, including, for example, wireless security, mobile payment, location-based services, mobile data management, and RFID technologies. The presentation is targeted at students, lecturers, e-business developers, consultants, and business managers, and this book is an ideal introduction for both self-study and taught e-business classes or commercial training courses.

"I believe this is an excellent book to acquire comprehensive knowledge on enabling technologies for the blooming wireless e-business. I highly recommend this book!" Robert Mayberry, Vice President, Sensors and Actuators, IBM Software Group

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction to Enabling Technologies for Wireless E-Business....Pages 1-6
Fundamentals of Wireless Communications....Pages 7-43
Wireless Security....Pages 44-75
Wireless Application Protocol....Pages 76-88
RFID Technologies and Applications....Pages 89-108
Software Infrastructure for Context-Aware Mobile Computing....Pages 109-131
Data Management for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks....Pages 132-176
Mobile Agents: The State of the Art....Pages 177-198
Multiagent Communication for e-Business using Tuple Spaces....Pages 199-232
Mobile Payment....Pages 233-252
Mobile Content Delivery Technologies....Pages 253-298
Mobile Services Computing....Pages 299-311
Location-Aware Services and its Infrastructure Support....Pages 312-334
Mobile Commerce and Wireless E-Business Applications....Pages 335-360
Back Matter....Pages 361-387

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); e-Commerce/e-business; Business Information Systems