Being Mobile
Future Wireless Technologies and Applications

Get up to speed quickly on the technologies and services that could transform the wireless world over the coming decade.

William Webb (Author)

9781107000537, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 September 2010

230 pages, 11 b/w illus. 2 tables
25.4 x 17.9 x 1.5 cm, 0.59 kg

Do you need to get up to speed quickly on the technologies and services that could transform the wireless world over the coming decade? Whether you work directly with wireless or in a sector where wireless solutions could be beneficial (e.g. healthcare, transport, sensor networks, location and smart metering), this concise guide provides a critical insight into future developments. For the first time, you will have a clear view of all the key technologies, including mesh networks, white space/cognitive devices, 4G/LTE and femtocells, and all the sectors or applications in which they could be used, with a comparison of the positives and negatives of each technology and sector area. You'll also see where the technologies required overlap and so could bring benefits across multiple areas, as well as how the key drivers of change in the past may impact on the future.

1. Introduction
Part I. Technologies: 2. 4G Cellular
3. Femtocells
4. Cells in the sky
5. Mesh networks
6. Software defined radios and new receiver architectures
7. Cognitive or white space systems
8. Codecs and compression
9. Devices
10. Network architectures
11. The green agenda
Part II. Solutions: 12. The future of users
13. Sensors
14. Social communications
15. Location
16. Healthcare
17. Transport
18. Entertainment
19. Smart grid
20. Assisted living
21. Universal service
22. Summary.

Subject Areas: Signal processing [UYS], WAP [wireless technology TJKW], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK]