Towards 4G technologies : services with initiative / / edited by Hendrick Berndt

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 621.384
• Soggetto topico: Wireless communication systems
• Altri autori: BerndtHendrick
• Note generali: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-285) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introducing 4G Mobile Adventure 1.1 The user takes center stage 1.2 Business model considerations-The need for an Open Programmable Architecture 1.3 Ubiquitous service and network environment 1.4Context Awareness 1.5 Personalization 1.6 Mobile adventure Part I- The pillars of a new architecture 2 Mobile Communications Networks 2.1 Wireless Technologies at a Glance 2.2 Wireless Networking at a Glance 2.3 Next Generation IP-based Mobile Networks 2.4 Ubiquitous Communication 2.5 Programmable Networks 2.6 Summary 3. Mobile Service Systems 3.1 Service Platforms at a glance 3.2 Next Generation Service Architectures 3.3 Ubiquitous Services Example: Session Mobility 3.4 Summary 4 Extension towards Ubiquity: Mobile Peer-to-Peer 4.1 P2P application scenarios 4.2 Challenges 4.3 Unstructured P2P 4.4 Structured P2P 4.5 Hierarchical P2P 5 Mobile Middleware 5.1 Smart Devices 5.2 Mobile Middleware Platforms 6 Cross Layer Design / a new Paradigm for Optimization of Architectures 6.1 Cross-Layer Architectures 6.2 Cross Layer Awareness: Abstracting Layer Parameters 6.3 Cross Layer Optimization: The Cost Function 6.4 Performance and Cost Analysis
• Sommario/riassunto: Find out how the exciting new developments towards 4G mobile services and technologies will put the user at centre stage. Towards 4G Technologies provides a comprehensive explanation of future networking and service delivering technologies for next generation mobile systems. The authors explain how personalization, mobile middleware, peer-to-peer services, semantic computing, and content-awareness fit into this new concept and why they will become a necessity for future mobile services. The book presents the latest challenges and opportunities of Next Generation Mobile Systems, explaining new paradigms of service provisioning that include flexible and adaptable services.[START BOLD & ITALICS] Towards 4G Technologies: . Gives a comprehensive description of future networking and service delivering technologies. . Covers hot topics such as intelligent user profiling, proactive service selection, context-aware service provisioning and ubiquitous computing. . Introduces seemingly diverse technologies to show how they will play together to create a new user experience. . Includes case studies to illustrate the theory. This invaluable guide will provide telecoms engineers in R&D departments, CTOs, and telecoms managers as well as academic researchers in electrical, electronic engineering and telecommunications with a comprehensive understanding of next generation mobile system technologies and services.
• Titolo autorizzato: Towards 4G technologies
• ISBN: 1-282-11200-7; 9786612112003; 0-470-01033-9; 0-470-01032-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910876649403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wiley series in communications networking & distributed systems.