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N

NACK, see Negative acknowledgment

Napster, 540

NASA, see National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NA-TDMA, see North American time division multiple access

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 514

NC, see Number of connections

NCNR, see Nearest Common Neighbor Routing

Nearest Common Neighbor Routing (NCNR), 268

NEC, wireless PBX products introduced by, 444

Negative acknowledgment (NACK), 317

Neighborhood-based allocation, 218

NeoPoint, 499

Nested cluster architecture, 144

NetChaser, 207

Netscape, 507

Network(s)

ad hoc

energy-efficient routing in, 49

flat, 47

management, 136

ATM, handoff schemes for, 270

Bayesian, 246

Bluetooth, 15, 34

carriers, 22

cellular, 16, 266

complexity of, 198

survey of routing techniques for, 269

channels, video telephony, 473

circuit-switched, 9, 479

communication, hierarchical nature of, 419

congestion

data loss due to, 116

packet losses due to, 117

connectionless, 266

connection-oriented, rerouting schemes for, 270

content distribution, 559

deployment, selection of zone size and, 135

digital, 78

E-GRPS, bit rates for, 89

failure, gateway detection of, 546

GERAN, user plan protocol stack for, 93

GPRS, 84, 152

GSM

enhancement of, 81

WAP applications available over, 502

HSCSD, bit rates for, 82

impediments, 150

Infostation, 45

Internet, wireless, 16

IP

-based core, 48–50

best-effort, 153

mobility functions of wireless, 158

layer

data PDUs (N-PDUs), 164, 168

mobility, 199

management, 48

mobile

ad hoc, 382

congestion issues, 80

mobility, 81

radio link quality, 81

Motient, 434

packet-switching, 17, 432

partition, 385

peer-to-peer topology, 44

personal access communications system, 370

Personal communication services, 375

picocellular, 266

public switched telephone, 69

quality requirements, 155

radio access, 44

satellite, 17, 269

simulator, 391

topology, importance of, 290

UMTS, 22

classes defined for, 90, 91

GPRS Tunneling Protocol in, 208

QoS profile for, 92–93

Virtual Terminal (NVT), 386

voice quality, 156

wireless, 3G, 105

New connection setup time

cell forwarding, 280, 289

full rerouting, 274, 289

partial rerouting, 277, 289

New Zealand Web server, 556

Next-generation HTML (HTML-NG), 186

NineWest, 499

Ninja clustering platform, 207

Node

-based topology, 131

mobility, effect of on clusters, 138

Noise code, pseudorandom, 60

Nokia, 20, 69, 234, 308, 446

alliance between CNN and, 504

mobile E-site developed by, 498

Mobile Internet Toolkit, 464, 465

9000 Communicator, 516

9200 Communicator, 19

7190, 193

System Developers Kit from, 463

WAP Toolkit, 527

Nortel, wireless PBX products introduced by, 444

North American time division multiple access (NA-TDMA), 37

Notebook computer, 72

wireless connection of to Internet, 516

WLAN modem built into, 32

Novell Netware LAN, 451

N-PDUs, see Network layer data PDUs

(N)SRP, see (Numbered) Simple Retransmission Protocol

NTT DoCoMo, mobile E-site developed by, 498

Number of connections (NC), 295

Number-crunching simulation, 139

(Numbered) Simple Retransmission Protocol [(N)SRP], 477, 478

NVT, see Network Virtual Terminal