Index_P

P

PA, see Profile agent

PACCH, see Packet associated control channel

Pacific Exchange, wireless terminals deployed by, 452

Packet(s)

access grant channel, downlink (PAGCH), 165

ACL, 319

associated control channel (PACCH), 165

-based metrics, 486

-based transmission, 150

broadcast control channel (PBCCH), 165

bundling, 177

channel allocation, 357

data

channels (PDCH), 164

-medium rate, 318

transfer channel (PDTCH), 165

Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP), 90

Data Protocol (PDP), 471

definitions, 316

delay, RTCP:CNAME, 169

forwarding, 202

frequency hop selection, 318

-handling process, 153

IP, experiments with, 552

loss(es)

rate, 117, 486

visual effect of, 111, 112

paging channel, uplink (PPCH), 164

radio networks, survey of routing techniques for, 269

random access channel, uplink (PRACH), 164

RTCP, 492

SCO, 318

size, GPRS, 177

structure, multiplexer, 479

-switched (PS) channels, 84, 473

-switched streaming service (PSS), 94

server, 98

service, end-to-end architecture for, 94

specifications, 101

switching

circuit switching versus, 11

networks, primitive digital data over, 432

technology, 16

types, 317, 318

WTLS, 189

Packetization algorithm, 480

PACS network, see Personal access communications system network

PAGCH, see Packet access grant channel, downlink

Pager(s)

network, 432

two-way, 19

Paging

areas (PAs), 353, 355, 367, 371

base station of, 355

blanket, 353

costs, 361

failures, 359

intersystem, 363

IP micromobility and, 365

mechanism, perfect, 358

procedures, 354

requests (PRs), 357

reverse, 362

scheme, intelligent, 355–361

comparison of paging costs, 361

parallel-o-sequential, 359–360

sequential, 358–359

semireverse, 363

signaling, 376

uniform, 363

Palm, 431

OS , 19, 32

Query Applications (PQAs), 432

VII

compatibility of with eBay, 508

personal digital assistant, 498

Palm.Net services, 432

PAMAS protocol, see Power Aware Multiaccess with Signalling protocol

PANs, see Personal area networks

Parallel-o-sequential intelligent paging (PSIP), 358, 359, 360

Parsing algorithm, LZ, 251

Partial rerouting, 270, 272, 274, 276

new connection setup time, 277, 289

old connection teardown time, 277, 289

partial reuse efficiency, 277, 289

Partial reuse efficiency, partial rerouting, 277, 289

PAs, see Paging areas

Passwords, purging of from mobile device memory, 64

Path

extension(s)

preconfigured, 216, 217

scheme, 271

rerouting, 271

Patient general data, display of, 530, 531

Pattern of device movement, 420

PBCCH, see Packet broadcast control channel

PC, see Personal computers

PCF, see Point coordination function

PCG, see Potential Conflict Graph

PCM, see Pulse Code Modulation

PCS infrastructure, 419

PCSN, see Personal communication services network

PCU, see Process control unit

PDAs, see Personal digital assistants

PDC, see Personal Digital Cellular

PDCH, see Packet data channels

PDCP, see Packet Data Convergence Protocol

PDD, see Postdialing delay

PDP, see Packet Data Protocol

PDTCH, see Packet data transfer channel

PDUs, see Protocol data units

Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), 486

Peer-to-peer communication, 36

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Computing, 395

Peer-to-peer mode, 230

PEPs, see Performance enhancing proxies

Performance enhancing proxies (PEPs), 220

Perl

Database Interface (DBI), 521

QRS detection program written in, 525

Personal access communications system (PACS) network, 370

Personal area networks (PANs), 14, 308

Bluetooth technology used in, 38

wireless, 14, 27

Personal communication services network (PCSN), 375

Personal computers (PC), 514, 526, see also Computer

-based database, 526

handheld, 439

wireless desktop, 448

Personal digital assistants (PDAs), 32, 40, 54, 186, 227, 383

medical doctor use of handheld, 499

Palm VII, 498

phones, 532

Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), 13, 37

Personal identification numbers (PINs), 59

Personal information management, 26

Personalization support, 207

Personal mobility, 203

support, 203

system, 222

Personal online IDs (POID), 206

Personal operating space (POS), 400

PET, see Priority Encoding Transmission

Phase shift keying (PSK), 7

Phone(s)

BREW-enabled, 442

CDMA, 62

conversations, TDMA, 58

i-mode, 18

landline, 156

TDMA, 62

Web, 18, 66

Phone.com, 189, 192, 431, 463

PhoneOnline.com, 193

Picocellular networks, 266

Piconets, 310

coordinator (PNC), 394, 400

hop frequency, 331

PINs, see Personal identification numbers

Pixel aspect ratio, 98

PKI, see Public key infrastructure

Plain old telephone system, 431

PLCs, see Programmable logic controllers

PNC, see Piconet coordinator

PN code, see Pseudorandom noise code

PNG, see Portable network graphics

Pocket Excel, Windows CE software configured with, 447

Pocket Word, Windows CE software configured with, 447

POID, see Personal online IDs

Point coordination function (PCF), 231

Polling

cycle, 362

scheme, fineness in, 354

Portable network graphics (PNG), 98

Portals servers, 94

POS, see Personal operating space

Postdecoder buffer, 98

Postdialing delay (PDD), 481, 490, 491

Potential Conflict Graph (PCG), 466

Power

conservation, 401

management transactions

hold mode, 324

park mode, 324

sniff mode, 324

Power Aware Multiaccess with Signalling (PAMAS) protocol, 393

PPCH, see Packet paging channel, uplink P2

P Computing, see Peer-to-Peer Computing

PPM algorithm, see Prediction by partial match algorithm

PPM transmissions, see Pulse position modulation transmissions

PQAs, see Palm Query Applications

PRACH, see Packet random access channel, uplink

PRC, see Pseudorandom code

Predecoder buffer, 98

Prediction

algorithm, 248, 249, 258

location, 260

methods, LZ, 255

mobility, 255

by partial match (PPM) algorithm, 255

Predictor(s)

arbitrary binary sequences, 253

average error rate, 252

LZ-based, 251, 252

Print servers, 451

Priority Encoding Transmission (PET), 114

Process control unit (PCU), 178

Profile(s)

agent (PA), 207

-Based Next-Cell Prediction, 218

MPEG-4, 108

servers, 94

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs), 451

Propagation

delay, variable, 431

exponent, 345

scenario, 340

Protocol

adapters, 22

data units (PDUs), 238, 322, 473

Proximity-based communications, 43, 44

Proxinet, 561

Proxy

-call session control function, 482

server, 119, 205

PRs, see Paging requests

PS channels, see Packet-switched channels

Pseudorandom code (PRC), 12

Pseudorandom frequency hop sequence, 318

Pseudorandom noise (PN) code, 60

PSIP, see Parallel-o-sequential intelligent paging

PSK, see Phase shift keying

PSNR, see Peak signal-to-noise ratio

PSS, see Packet-switched streaming service

PSTN, see Public switched telephone network

Public key encryption, 63

Public key infrastructure (PKI), 63, 189

customer security and, 192

roaming model, gateway-assisted, 506

Public switched telephone network (PSTN), 69, 152, 222

Pulse Code Modulation (PCM), 154

Pulse position modulation (PPM) transmissions, 399

PWS, see Microsoft Personal Web Server