Wireless Multimedia Network Technologies

✍ Scribed by Robert Verrue, Jorge Pereira (auth.), Rajamani Ganesh, Kaveh Pahlavan, Zoran Zvonar (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 364
• Series: The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 524
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a collection of invited papers that were presented at the Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, September 5-8, 1998, Boston, MA. These papers are meant to provide a global view of the emerging third-generation wireless networks in the wake of the third millennium. Following the tradition of the PIMRC conferences, the papers are selected to strike a balance between the diverse interests of academia and industry by addressing issues of interest to the designers, manufacturers, and service providers involved in the wireless networking industry. The tradition of publishing a collection of the invited papers presented at the PIMRC started in PIMRC’97, Helsinki, Finland. There are two benefits to this tradition (1) it provides a shorter version of the proceedings of the conference that is more focused on a specific theme (2) the papers are comprehensive and are subject of a more careful review process to improve the contents as well as the presentation of the material, making it more appealing for archival as a reference book. The production costs of the book is subsidized by the conference and the editors have donated the royalty income of the book to the conference.

✦ Table of Contents

Ensuring the Success of Third Generation....Pages 3-21
Third Generation Wireless Communication Technologies....Pages 23-44
Perspectives on 3G System Development....Pages 45-55
An Unified, Open Architecture to Deliver Mobile Multimedia....Pages 57-74
UMTS/IMT-2000 Standardisation....Pages 75-93
Intelligent and Flexible Radio Access/Transmission Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communication Systems in the Software Defined Radio Era....Pages 97-116
Current Topics in Wireless & Mobile ATM Networks: QoS Control, IP Support and Legacy Integration....Pages 117-135
Providing Internet Services to Mobile Phones....Pages 137-151
Design, Implementation, and Performance of a Cluster Mobile Switching Center....Pages 153-171
Challenges of Higher Speed Wireless Internet Access....Pages 173-185
Energy Efficient Protocols for Wireless Systems....Pages 187-204
Guaranteed Quality-of-Services Wireless Access to Broadband Networ ks....Pages 205-223
Integrated Circuit Technologies for Wireless Communications....Pages 227-244
Amplifier Linearization....Pages 251-269
Wireless Channel Models-Coping with Complexity....Pages 271-288
A New Framework for Power Control in Wireless Data Networks: Games, Utility, and Pricing....Pages 289-309
A Unified Approach to Performance Evaluation of Diversity systemson Fading Channels....Pages 311-330
mMFSK Frequency Hopping Modulation for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks....Pages 331-349

✦ Subjects

Electronic and Computer Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Multimedia Information Systems