Understanding Weightless
Technology, Equipment, and Network Deployment for M2M Communications in White Space

Essential for getting to grips with Weightless, this definitive guide describes and explains the new standard in an accessible manner.

William Webb (Author)

9781107027077, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 March 2012

220 pages, 30 b/w illus. 20 tables
23.4 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.48 kg

'… Professor Webb's book is an excellent introduction to [Weightless] technology and more widely the applications and business cases. I strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to get involved in this exciting area.' Warren East, CEO, ARM

Essential for getting to grips with the Weightless standard for M2M communications, this definitive guide describes and explains the new standard in an accessible manner. It helps you to understand the Weightless standard by revealing its background and rationale. Designed to make clear the context and the fundamental design decisions for Weightless and to provide a readable overview of the standard, it details principal features and issues of the technology, the business case for deployment, network performance and some important applications. This informative book guides you through the key decisions and requirements involved in designing and deploying a Weightless network. Includes a chapter on applications, explaining the relevance of the standard and its potential. Written by one of the lead designers of Weightless, this is an ideal guide for everyone involved with the standard, from those designing equipment to those making use of the technology.

1. The world of machine communications
2. The need for a new standard
3. Working in white space spectrum
4. Weightless in overview
5. The network
6. The MAC layer
7. The physical layer
8. Further functionality
9. Network design and capacity
10. Application support.

Subject Areas: Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK], Electronics engineering [TJF], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ]