NUST Institutions Library Catalogue

http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Computing-Alexander-Joseph-Huber/dp/1580532640/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410599115&sr=1-1&keywords=1580532640

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.1 Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Computing -- 1.2 The Driving Factor of Mobility -- 1.3 Innovation Drivers -- 1.3.1 Moore's Law -- 1.3.2 Compression Standards for Multimedia: JPEG, -- MP3, MPEG-4, MPEG-7 -- 1.3.3 Wireless Technologies Migrate to Configurable Radio -- and Smart Antennas -- 1.3.4 The Internet, Intranets, and Mobility -- 1.3.5 Services and Applications -- References -- 2 The Market for UC -- 2.1 Mobile Market Developments -- 2.1.1 Emerging Wireless Personal Area and Wireless Local -- Area Networks -- 2.1.2 Mobile Satellite Network Markets -- 2.2 Internet Market Developments -- 2.2.1 Challenge: Transition from Circuit Switching to -- Packet Switching -- 2.2.2 Internet Access from Mobile Devices -- 2.2.3 The Web Market -- 2.2.4 Electronic Commerce: A Fundamental Component -- of Future Multimedia Services -- 2.2.5 Intranet Need for Mobile Extensions -- 2.2.6 Intranet Access from Mobile Devices -- 2.3 Fixed and Mobile Convergence -- 2.3.1 Mobile Computer-Based Communications -- and UMTS -- 2.3.2 Increasing Mobility of Individuals and the Pressure -- to Turn Dead Time into Productive Time -- 2.3.3 Key Enablers -- 2.3.4 Broadband Wireless Convergence -- 2.3.5 Broadcasting Convergence -- 2.3.6 Convergence on Devices -- 2.3.7 Convergence and the Creation of New Services -- References -- 3 Technologies -- 3.1 Mobile Wireless Communication Technologies -- 3.1.1 WPANs -- 3.1.2 WLANs -- 3.1.3 Wireless WANs -- 3.1.4 Extended Area Networks -- 3.1.5 Other Technologies -- 3.1.6 Technology Positioning and Comparison -- 3.2 UMTS -- 3.2.1 Value Chain-Developments Towards -- Information-Based Services -- 3.2.2 Network Architecture -- 3.2.3 UMTS Radio Access Techniques -- 3.2.4 Core Network -- 3.2.5 Internet Service Provider's Function -- 3.2.6 Mobile Portal's Function -- 3.2.7 UMTS Terminal Technologies -- 3.2.8 USIM Cards and Smart Cards -- 3.3 UC Appliances (Devices) -- 3.3.1 Card Technologies -- 3.3.2 The iButton -- 3.3.3 Tag Technologies -- 3.3.4 Mobile 3G Devices -- 3.3.5 Devices Summary -- References -- 4 Standardization -- 4.1 WPAN and WLAN Standardization -- 4.1.1 Bluetooth -- 4.1.2 IEEE 802.X Standards -- 4.1.3 DECT and PHS -- 4.2 3G Standardization -- 4.2.1 3GPP Develops Specifications for Global Use -- 4.2.2 Internet-Related Standardization -- 4.2.3 Standard Protocol Layers in UMTS -- 4.3 Addressing and Registration Standards -- 4.4 Standards for Information Encoding -- 4.4.1 Voice Encoding -- 4.4.2 Bitmap, Graphic, and Photographic-Image Encoding -- 4.4.3 Video and Audio Compression ' -- 4.5 Software, Protocols, Computer Languages, and -- Smart Cards -- 4.5.1 SOAP -- 4.5.2 CORBA -- 4.5.3 Java Programming and Java Remote Method -- Invocation -- 4.5.4 Jini -- 4.5.5 HAVi -- 4.5.6 UPnP -- 4.5.7 OSGI -- 4.5.8 Home Plug and Play -- 4.5.9 Web Programming and Markup Language Standards -- 4.5.10 WAP -- 4.5.11 Smart-Card Standardization -- References -- 5 Applications -- 5.1 UMTS Services and Applications -- 5.1.1 Mobile Internet and Intranet Access -- 5.1.2 Customized Infotainment and Edutainment -- 5.1.3 Multimedia Messaging Services -- 5.1.4 Location-Based Services -- 5.1.5 Voice- and Videotelephony and -conferencing -- 5.1.6 UMTS Services Portability -- 5.2 Examples: WAP and i-Mode -- 5.3 Telemetry -- 5.3.1 Vehicle-Related Mobile Computing -- 5.3.2 Health Care -- 5.3.3 Other Applications -- 5.4 Mobile E-Commerce -- References -- 6 Resource Issues -- 6.1 Addressing Capacity in Networked Environments -- 6.L 1 Address Schemes -- 6.1.2 Estimations of Address Capacity -- 6.2 Frequency Spectrum -- 6.2.1 How Much Frequency Spectrum Is Needed for -- 3G Services? -- 6.2.2 3G Traffic Capacity Calculations -- 6.2.3 Worldwide 3G Spectrum Identification -- 6.2.4 What Is the UMTS-Specific Spectrum Demand per -- Operator in the Initial Phase? -- 6.2.5 Spectrum Demand for WLANs or -- Ad Hoc Networks -- 6.2.6 Worldwide WLAN Spectrum -- Identification -- References -- 7 Outlook: Telecom + Datacom + Media = Infocom -- 7.1 Taking Moore's Law into the Future -- 7.2 Future Network Architectures -- 7.3 Devices -- 7.4 The Smart-Card Issue -- 7.5 New Services and Applications -- 7.6 Mobile Agents -- 7.7 Industry Outlook -- 7.8 Researchers Move to 4G Mobile Radio Systems -- 7.9 Market Development -- References.