The Handbook of Personal Area Networking Technologies and Protocols

This definitive handbook demystifies personal-area networking technologies and protocols and explores their application potential in a unique real-world context.

Dean Anthony Gratton (Author)

9780521197267, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 August 2013

416 pages, 200 b/w illus. 100 tables
24.9 x 18 x 2.3 cm, 0.86 kg

'There is enough material in the book to make sense of any wireless standard and to start using the application-programming interface with ease. Software engineers and programmers who need guidance in this field will find great value in this book.' L. Benedicenti, Choice

This Handbook offers an unparalleled view of wireless personal area networking technologies and their associated protocols. It lifts the lid on their growing adoption within the consumer electronics, home automation, sports, health and well-being markets. Bluetooth low energy, ZigBee, EnOcean and ANT+ are comprehensively covered, along with other WPAN technologies including NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth classic and high speed, and WHDI. It also features 802.11ac, the Internet of Things, Wireless USB, WiGig and WirelessHD. The Handbook shows how white space radio, cellular and Femtocells have inadvertently blurred the boundaries between personal and wide area communications, creating disruptive topologies through technology convergence. It explores how pervasive WAN technologies have spawned a new generation of consumers through the Lawnmower Man Effect and explains how our personal space has become integral to social media streams, including Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. An essential read for students, software engineers and developers, product planners, technical marketers and analysts.

Part I. What's in your Area Network?: 1. It's a small wireless world
2. What is a personal area network?
3. The Wireless Melting Pot
Part II. The Wireless Sensor Network: 4. Introducing low power and wireless sensor technologies
5. Bluetooth low energy
6. Low power Wi-Fi
7. Control your world with ZigBee
8. Green, smart and wireless: EnOcean
9. The Power of less: ANT
Part III. The Classic Personal Area Network: 10. Introducing classic personal area networking technologies
11. Simplifying connectivity with NFC
12. 802.11a/b/g/n and Wi-Fi
13. Bluetooth: more than cable replacement
14. Making the universal connection with WirelessUSB
15. One standard, all devices: WHDI
Part IV. Coming Soon, So Watch This Space!: 16. Other technologies and future applications.

Subject Areas: WAP [wireless technology TJKW], Satellite communication [TJKS], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK], Electronics engineering [TJF]