Wireless Information Networks: Architecture, Resource Management, and Mobile Data / Edition 1

by Jack M. Holtzman

Overview

In April 1995, WINLAB (the Wireless Infonnation Network Lab­ oratory at Rutgers University) hosted the Fifth WINLAB Workshop on Third Generation Wireless Infonnation Networks. This workshop brings together a select group of experts interested in the future of Personal Communications, Mobile Computing and other services supported by wireless communications. As a sequel to Kluwer books on previous WINLAB workshops,l this volume assembles written versions of presentations of the Fifth Workshop. The last few years have been exciting for the field of wireless communications. The second generation systems that have absorbed our attention during those years are becoming commercial realities. Everyone is looking forward to PCS, especially in light of the recent auctions. We see an explosion of technical alternatives for meeting the demand for wireless communications. We also have applications in search of the best technologies rather than the reverse. The papers included provide new insights into many of the issues needing resolution for the successful introduction of the new services by the end of the decade. The authors represent views from both industry and universities from a number of nations. They are grouped into four main categories: Architecture, Radio Resource Management, Access, and Mobile Data, Mobile Networks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792396949
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	03/31/1996
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #351
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	404
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

I. Architecture.- 1. Issues in Wireless Access Broadband Networks.- 2. An ATM Based PCS/Cellular Architecture.- 3. A Distributed, Mobile Wireless Infrastructure for Multimedia Applications.- 4 Issues in Developing Functional Model(s) for Future Mobile Communication Networks.- 5 Mobility Support in a Wireless ATM Network.- 6 Adaptive Paging Algorithms for Cellular Systems.- II. Radio Resource Management.- 7. Distributed Measurement-based Dynamic Channel Assignment for Wireless Personal Communications.- 8. Distributed Radio Resource Allocation in Highway Microcellular Systems.- 9. Handover Performance: Propagation and Traffic Issues.- 10. A Simple Analysis of CDMA Soft Handoff Gain and its Effect on the Cell’s Coverage Area.- 11. An Algorithm for Capacity Allocation in Cellular Spread Spectrum Networks with Nonuniform Traffic Loadings.- 12. Uplink Power Control for CDMA Cellular Systems.- 13. A Distributed Power Control Algorithm for Bursty Transmissions on Cellular, Spread Spectrum Wireless Networks.- 14. Soft Admission in Cellular PCS with Constrained Power.- 15. Performance Analysis of Capture-Division Packetized Access (CDPA) for Cellular Systems.- 16. A Novel Radio Channel Control Method for Improved Multiple Access Schemes.- 17. Successive Interference Cancellation Schemes in Multi-Rate DS/CDMA Systems.- 18. A New Distributed Reservation Multiple Access Scheme for the AVPAC Channel.- 19. Network Simulations for IS-95 CDMA Systems.- IV. Mobile Data, Mobile Networks.- 20. Cellular Wideband Mobile Data Communications.- 21. Experimental Results From Internetworking Data Applications Over Various Wireless Networks Using a Single Flexible Error Control Prool.- 22. Radio Link Prools for Cellular Data.- 23. An Asymmetric Cost Model for Query Processing in MobileComputing Environments.- 24. An Efficient Approach to Updating Replicated Databases in Wireless and Advanced Intelligent Networks.

Editorial Reviews

In 24 papers from an April 1995 workshop at Rutgers University, contributors from industry and academia address issues that need to be resolved before new wireless communication services can be introduced. Among their topics are a distributed mobile wireless infrastructure for multimedia applications, distributed measurement-based dynamic channel assignment for wireless personal communications, cellular wideband mobile data communications, and an efficient approach to updating replicated databases in wireless and advanced intelligent networks. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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