BAHAMA scheme, 269
Balance Inquiry application, 193
Baltimore Telepathy, 190
Bandwidth, 8
efficiency, 336, 338, 341, 343
repartition, 489
Banking
mobile commerce and, 62
transaction costs, 26
Baseband specification, 315
Base station (BS), 266, 415
arrays, deployment of, 342
of paging (BSPs), 355
subsystem, 85
Base Station Controllers (BSC), 164, 178
Basic service set (BSS), 128, 229
Basic service set identification (BSSID), 128, 129
Basic trading area (BTA), 450
Batteries, smart, 401
Bayesian learning, 413
Bayesian network, 246
Bayes' rule, 255
B2B E-commerce, 508
B2B environment, see Business-to-business environment
Beam-forming techniques, 337
Bell Labs layered space-time (BLAST) scheme, 347
BellSouth
Data Network, 432
VeriSign plan endorsed by, 506
BER, see Bit error rate
Billable events, 505
Billing possibilities, 505
Binary phase shift keying (BPSK), 399
Biswas' scheme, 295, 297, 302
Bit error(s), 471
rate (BER), 81, 82, 152
quality loss at higher, 487
retransmission of voice packets under, 176
ratio, undetected, 92
recovery from, 78
BLA, see Boundary location area
Blanket paging, 353
BLAST scheme, see Bell Labs layered space-time scheme
BLER, see Block error rate
Block error rate (BLER), 90
BLR, see Boundary location register
Bluetooth, 127, 228, 232, 516
AP, 374
-based services, affordability of, 194
core protocol stack, layers of, 309
device authentication, 325
link
encryption, 325
state transitions involved in establishing and terminating, 321
modems, 39
networks, 15, 34
original aim of, 39
packet types, 318
protocol stack, 312, 313
scatternet, 234
security, 321
Special Interest Group, 308
technology, 14
Web site, 308
Bluetooth, wireless communications using, 307–333
additional considerations, 331–332
power management, 331–332
security, 332
Bluetooth profiles specification, 329–331
GAP, 329–330
GOEP, 331
SDAP, 330
SPP, 330
overview, 309–311
frequency hopping spread spectrum and time-division duplexing, 310
masters and slaves, 310
piconets and scatternets, 310–311
protocol stack, 311–328
baseband layer, 314–322
L2CAP layer, 325–327
LMP layer, 322–325
radio layer, 313–314
SDP layer, 327–328
Boundary location
area (BLA), 364
register (BLR), 364
BPSK, see Binary phase shift keying
BRAN, see Broadband Radio Access Networks
Branch-point-traversal-based rerouting, 270
BREW, see Qualcomm Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless
Broadband
Internet access, 449
Radio Access Networks (BRAN), 233
wireless, 435
Broadcasting applications, use of satellite communications for, 6, 7
BroadVision, 498
BS, see Base station
BSC, see Base Station Controllers
BSPs, see Base station of paging
BSS, see Basic service set
BSSID, see Basic service set identification
BTA, see Basic trading area
Buffer exhaustion, data loss due to, 116
Bundling factor, 177
Burst
level blocking performance, 180
source model, on-off, 178
Business-to-business (B2B) environment, 499
Butterworth lowpass filter, 527