Cover image for Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applications, The

Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applications, The

Author Andy Dornan
Release Date: 2000/12/01
ISBN: 0130317160
Topic:
0%
77
Chapters
0-1
Hours read
0k
Total Words
    Start Reading Now    
       Add to Wishlist       
View table of contents

Book Description

Your complete guide to today's "killer" wireless apps-and tomorrow's!

  • Covers EVERYTHING you can do with wireless technology!

  • The wireless Web: WAP and beyond

  • Mobile e-commerce: security, payment systems, and more

  • PCS and high-bandwidth 3G cellular

  • Bluetooth: breakthrough short-range wireless applications

  • For consumers, investors, executives, marketing/PR professionals, and developers

    • The next-generation wireless and mobile Internet revolution is under way! Now here's a complete guide to next-generation wireless applications and their business impact, written specifically for nontechnical professionals. The Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applications covers all the latest developments, from the wireless Web to Bluetooth, WAP to 3G, and beyond. Coverage includes:

  • 3G wireless multimedia and personal services: revolutionary convenience, global compatibility

  • M-commerce: Buy anywhere, anything, right now

  • The wireless Web revolution that's about to explode

  • Bluetooth: wireless computing, networking, conferencing, and beyond

  • Phones or computers: Which platform will drive the wireless Web?

  • Internet in the sky: high-bandwidth Web services via satellite

  • Fixed wireless applications-from SOHO to enterprise

  • Mobile operators vs. content providers: Who "owns" the customer?

  • Mobile OS platforms: Palm, Windows CE, Symbian EPOC

  • A peek into the far future: 4G, holophones, and more

    • Whether you're an investor, decision maker, or consumer, Network magazine editor Andy Dornan delivers all the information you need to identify your best wireless opportunities—and take advantage of them!

    Table of Contents

    1. Copyright
    2. Preface
    3. Acknowledgments
    4. About the Author
    5. The Wireless World
      1. Cellphone Generations
      2. From the 20s to the 2000s
      3. Buying a Cellphone
      4. Summary
    6. Radio Spectrum
      1. Radio 101
      2. Analog vs. Digital
      3. AM and FM
      4. Spectrum Regulation
      5. Licensing Methods
      6. Summary
    7. Cellular Networks
      1. Cells
      2. Duplexing
      3. Multiplexing
      4. Voice Coding
      5. Summary
    8. PCS Standards
      1. Cellular Voice and Data
      2. Packet Data Systems
      3. MCDN
      4. Private Mobile Radio
      5. Summary
    9. Third-Generation Standards
      1. IMT-2000
      2. W-CDMA
      3. CDMA 2000
      4. EDGE
      5. Summary
    10. Mobile Data Services
      1. Messaging
      2. The Wireless Web
      3. WAP
      4. Site Design
      5. Summary
    11. M-Commerce
      1. M-Business Plans
      2. Billing
      3. Security
      4. Summary
    12. Inside a Mobile Network
      1. The Air Link
      2. Voice Infrastructure
      3. Data Infrastructure
      4. Server-side Equipment
      5. The Internet
      6. Summary
    13. Short-range Wireless Networks
      1. Unlicensed Spectrum
      2. Wireless LANs
      3. Cordless Telephony
      4. IrDA
      5. Bluetooth
      6. Summary
    14. Phones or Computers?
      1. Future Phones
      2. Mobile OSs
      3. PDA Hardware
      4. User Input
      5. Summary
    15. Fixed Wireless Technology
      1. Wireless Local Loop
      2. Point-to-Point Microwave
      3. Laser
      4. Summary
    16. Internet in Space
      1. Orbits
      2. VSATs
      3. Mobile Satellite Systems
      4. Mars Online
      5. Summary
    17. Glossary
    18.223.32.230