Wireless Technology, 2009
Applications, Management, and Security
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Series, Vol. 44

Wireless technology and handheld devices are dramatically changing the degrees of interaction throughout the world, further creating a ubiquitous network society. The emergence of advanced wireless telecommunication technologies and devices in today?s society has increased accuracy and access rate, all of which are increasingly essential as the volume of information handled by users expands at an accelerated pace. The requirement for mobility leads to increasing pressure for applications and wireless systems to revolve around the concept of continuous communication with anyone, anywhere, and anytime. With the wireless technology and devices come ?exibility in network design and quicker deployment time. Over the past decades, numerous wireless telecommu- cation topics have received increasing attention from industry professionals, a- demics, and government agencies. Among these topics are the wireless Internet; multimedia; 3G/4G wireless networks and systems; mobile and wireless network security; wireless network modeling, algorithms, and simulation; satellite based s- tems; 802.11x; RFID; and broadband wireless access.

Optimized Seed Node Locations for Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks.- Use of Non-monotonic Utility in Multi-Attribute Network Selection.- RFID Indoor Tracking System Based on Inter-Tags Distance Measurements.- Adaptive Virtual Queue Random Early Detection in Satellite Networks.- News Corporation: Facing the Wireless World of the 21st Century.- Delay Effect on Conversational Quality in Telecommunication Networks: Do We Mind?.- Performance Evaluation of EVRC-Encoded Voice Traffic over CDMA EVDO Rev. A.- Efficient Structures for PLL’s Loop Filter Design in FPGAs in High-Datarate Wireless Receivers – Theory and Case Study.- Finite Automata for Evaluating Testbed Resource Contention.- Performance Analysis of Interference for OFDM Systems.- Maximum-Likelihood Carrier-Frequency Synchronization and Channel Estimation for MIMO-OFDM Systems.- Wireless Communication Systems from the Perspective of Implantable Sensor Networks for Neural Signal Monitoring.- The Modified Max-Log-MAP Turbo Decoding Algorithm by Extrinsic Information Scaling for Wireless Applications.- Getting Network Simulation Basics Right – A Note on Seed Setting Effects for the ns-2 Random Number Generator.- Topology-Based Routing for Xmesh in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Modeling Cell Placement and Coverage for Heterogeneous 3G Services.

Provides an interdisciplinary view of the state of the art in wireless technology