Data over wireless networks : Bluetooth, WAP, and wireless LANs
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Data over wireless networks : Bluetooth, WAP, and wireless LANs
McGraw-Hill, c2001
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Includes index
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Description
This work offers a look at the exciting area of data over wireless networks that is the emerging telecommunications revolution. It discusses the next generation of wireless networking technology and vendor-specific applications such as Cisco and Motorola, and how these and the latest protocols will be implemented. There is also a discussion of how cell-phone users and PDA users are able to transmit and receive e-mail, access their LANs and surf the Web.
Table of Contents
- Welcome to the revolution: overview of the wireless revolution
- evolving wireless applications
- email and voicemail
- LAN access
- web surfing
- information services
- mobile banking, security transactions and e-commerce
- vehicle positioning
- book preview
- chapter-by-chapter overview. Communications basics: powers of ten
- frequency
- wavelength
- the frequency spectrum
- bandwidth
- power measurements
- signal to noise ratio
- transmission rate constraints. AMPS: evolution
- components
- network access
- frequency utilization
- signalling
- date over AMPS
- Microcom Networking Protocol. D-AMPS: overview
- TDMA
- digital radio
- Modulation, baud rate
- TDM operation
- frames. Bluetooth: overview
- tecnical details
- applications. Wireless LANs: the IEEE 802.11 standard
- applications. Future directions: overview of existing equipment
- examples of screen displays, data transfer
- emerging equipment
- where we are headed
- equipment constraints.
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