TY - GEN T1 - Mobile and wireless communications key technologies and future applications A2 - Smyth, Peter LA - English PP - London, United Kingdom PB - Institution of Engineering and Technology YR - 2004 UL - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-99796217612476807 AB - The following topics are dealt with: Future of mobile and wireless communications; optical radio-a review of a radical new technology for wireless access infrastructure; wireless LANs-present and future; future applications of bluetooth; ultrawideband and its capabilities; ad hoc wireless networks; scalability, capacity and local connectivity in ad hoc networks; the role of ad hoc networks in mobility; securing mobile ad hoc networks - a motivational approach; the use of satellite for multimedia communications; evolving systems beyond 3G-the 1st brain and mind projects; economic tussles in the public mobile access market; enabling applications deployment on mobile networks; the parlay API-allowing third party application providers safe and secure access to network capabilities; radio spectrum management for tetherless communications; mobile multimedia services; multimodality-the future of the wireless user interface; mobile video-streaming; a social history of the mobile telephone with a view of its future. SN - 9781849190350 (e-ISBN) KW - Wireless communication systems : Technological innovations. KW - Application program interfaces (Computer software) ER -