Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures

by Imrich Chlamtac and Yi-Bing Lin

"Wireless and Mobile Network Architecture" wurde von fuhrenden Experten auf diesem Gebiet als umfassender Leitfaden zu allen Systemfragen konzipiert. Er erlautert anhand von praktischen Netzwerksituationen detailliert und verstandlich, wie man ein Netz neu organisiert. Daruber hinaus werden auch Themen wie Mobilitatsmanagement, drahtlose Unternehmensnetze, GSM End2End, WAP, und Systeme der dritten Generation (3G) behandelt. Ein unverzichtbarer Leitfaden...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471394920
• ISBN13: 9780471394921
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great overview of wireless and mobile networks

This book provides a great overview of wireless and mobile network architectures, while providing appropriate depth for both the novice to learn and reference for more experienced readers.Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures is an excellent complement to the book Wireless Intelligent Networking, which focuses more on SS7, intelligent mobile network standards and capabilities, related applications and business issues.

Excellent Introduction to Mobile Communications

Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures is an excellent introduction to fundamental concepts of mobile communications. The book's co-authors, who are leading experts in the field, provide a well-written, thorough description of today's wireless mobile systems. Emphasis is on mobile network protocols and standards rather than radio technology. In particular, the book provides in-depth explanations of IS-41 and GSM protocols. Topics covered include international roaming, short message services, OA & M, mobile number portability, mobile prepaid services, mobile VoIP and WAP. 2.5G technology such as GPRS and 3G systems/trials, Bluetooth, and aspects of signal handoff. The explanations and descriptions of architectures and protocols are made clear through the use of many diagrams. Each chapter includes questions that can be used to reinforce the material, or for course assignments. There is also an extensive bibliography for those wishing to further explore mobile networking issues. This book is a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in understanding wireless and mobile networks. It would also make an excellent advanced undergraduate or graduate course textbook.

Unique and Comprehensive

The reviewer was in search of a book that could provide the basis for a course on mobile communications at the graduate level for students from a mixed (EE and CS) background. The new book by Lin and Chlamtac fits the bill perfectly. It assumes neither knowledge of wireless physical layer, nor knowledge of higher layer applications and application interfaces. In fact, it is a book with an original approach, being the first to present mobile networks by emphasizing the services that can be provided and the mobility management schemes needed to support such services. Because of its particular focus, the book is also an excellent text for systems and systems software developers as well as the senior undergrad or grad level science and engineering reader who is curious about the particular subject. Certain decisions were necessary to keep the book focused. For example, it stays clear of elaborating on modulation, coding and modeling for wireless communication (presenting just the essential info). It also avoids being IP-centric, although, naturally, it cannot escape discussing data services, such as SMS, GPRS, WAP etc. An aspect that weighs in favor of the book is the inclusion of research results from the research of its two world renowned authors. The included research results can help the graduate level reader appreciate the available research opportunities, and the context in which solutions can be developed. The researcher will also find the collection of references (as recent as 2000) extremely helpful in studying the area. The teacher can use the material to develop simulation and analytical models for students to gain better insight to the workings of mobile services. Another objective of the book, is to function as reference material. Its authors have done the hard work of distilling the essence of a large collection of standards documents related to mobility management. >From this point of view, the book will be of value in the longer term as well, making it an a perfectly sound investment.<p>A challenge dealt with successfully in this book is that in order to present mobility management, it ultimately needs to discuss about signaling protocols, and SS7 in particular. The book takes an approach of presenting background material on signaling on "as needed" basis. A reader not familiar with signaling, will likely progress slowly when signalling is first introduced, but, at the end, will have the double benefit of being exposed to signaling's central role in advanced communication services, and gain understanding on how mobile networks really work. Certainly, there are parts of the text where the density of acronyms calls for careful parsing of the sentences, but such is the case for any technical book that maintains a formal presentation style. It still beats reading standards documents.<p>After a short review and classification of the systems covered in the text, the book introduces the need and nature of mob

Wonderful and Timely

This is a broad and comprehensive overview of wireless networking architectures. It's timely and very relevant. The book enables the reader to gain a good technical foundation across various wireless networks including PCS, 2.5G, and 3G cellular networks as well as Voice over IP and wireless local loop systems.However, the discussion on Bluetooth is too brief and the book does not cover wireless local area networks (e.g., the 802.11b standard).

an excellent book for PCS network protocols and services

This book provides an excellent background materials for mobile network architectures, mobility management (handoff and roaming), network management and services provisioning for wireless and mobile networks. Unlike many wireless and mobile networks books that focus on radio (physical layer) aspects of the systems, this book emphasizes on network protocols and services facilitating personal communications services (PCS). Topics covered in the book include PCS architectures, mobility management, GSM, GPRS, 3G, VoIP for mobile networks, mobile number portability, WAP, wireless local loop, and others. This book can both be used for an one-semester PCS course for seniors and graduate students, and serve as an informative reference for networking professionals.