Next-Generation Wireless Technologies: 4G and Beyond

✍ Scribed by Naveen Chilamkurti (auth.), Naveen Chilamkurti, Sherali Zeadally, Hakima Chaouchi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Series: Computer Communications and Networks
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive text/reference examines the various challenges to secure, efficient and cost-effective next-generation wireless networking. Topics and features: presents the latest advances, standards and technical challenges in a broad range of emerging wireless technologies; discusses cooperative and mesh networks, delay tolerant networks, and other next-generation networks such as LTE; examines real-world applications of vehicular communications, broadband wireless technologies, RFID technology, and energy-efficient wireless communications; introduces developments towards the ‘Internet of Things’ from both a communications and a service perspective; discusses the machine-to-machine communication model, important applications of wireless technologies in healthcare, and security issues in state-of-the-art networks.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Trends and Challenges of the Emerging Wireless Networks....Pages 3-5
Cooperative Mesh Networks....Pages 7-13
Cooperation in Delay Tolerant Networks....Pages 15-35
Wireless Multimedia (4G and Beyond)....Pages 37-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs): Architecture, Protocols and Applications....Pages 49-70
Broadband Wireless Technologies....Pages 71-103
RFID: Opportunities and Challenges....Pages 105-129
Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 131-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Internet of Things: From Real to Virtual World....Pages 161-188
Communication Issues in the Internet of Things (IoT)....Pages 189-219
Machine-to-Machine Communications....Pages 221-241
Security in Emerging 4G Networks....Pages 243-272
Electronic Health Records: Benefits and Contribution to Healthcare System....Pages 273-281
Back Matter....Pages 283-285

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks