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This new edition of a successful introduction to the topic of mobile communications. It provides a thorough grounding in the field of mobile communications, using a wide range of examples, combined with strong pedagogy to allow its use in high level courses and for self study.
  • New edition of successful introduction to the topic of mobile communications.  
  • Based on a course in the subject originally given by the author at the University of Karlsruhe (now at the Free University in Berlin).
  • It provides a thorough grounding in the field of mobile communications, using a wide range of examples, combined with strong pedagogy to allow its use in high level courses and for self study.
  • Contains over 150 questions, over 250 illustrations, and a comprehensive glossary. 
  • More on applications of mobile communications
  • 2.5G sytems (SSCSD, GP/RS, EDGE)
  • 3 G systems/IMT-2000: UMTS, W-CDMA, TD-CDMA, cdma2000, and others
  • Extended coverage of IEEE 802.11 (802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g) and IEEE -
       802.15
  • More on Ad Hock networks
  • WAP 2.0
  • Mobile execution environments: J2ME, .NET CF, i-appli
  • Look ahead to 4G systems and all-IP networks
  • Comprehensive glossary
  • Solutions available for end-of-chapter exercises.

1 Introduction
2 Wireless transmission
3 Medium access control
4 Telecommunications systems
5 Satellite systems
6 Broadcast systems
7 Wireless LAN
8 Mobile network layer
9 Mobile transport layer
10 Support for mobility
11 Outlook
Appendix 1– Acronyms
Appendix 2 – Glossary

Jochen H. Schiller

received his Master's and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. In 1996 -1997 he was a DFG postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden. Between June 1997 and April 2001 he was researcher at the Institute of Telematics, University of Karlsruhe. In September 1999, he was appointed Associate Professor attached to the École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Université du Québec, Canada. Between April 2000 and July 2000 he was Chair of Distributed Systems, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany, In February 2001 he received his habilitation on the topic "Quality of Service Aspects in Mobile Communication Systems". Since April 2001 he is Full Professor, Chair of Computer Systems & Telematics, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universit™t Berlin, Germany. He co-authored many articles and several book chapters on mobile and wireless networks, quality of service aspects and security issues.

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