Wireless Internet Handbook - Technologies, Standards, and Applications | Wireless Internet Handbook: Technologies, Standards, and Applications (Internet and Communications)

Edited by Borko Furht, Ph.D.

Mohammad Ilyas, Ph.D.

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 Wireless internet handbook : technologies, standards, and applications / editors, Borko Furht, Mohammad Ilyas.        p. cm.    Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. Wireless Internet--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Furht, Borivoje. II. Ilyas, Mohammad, 1953-

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The Editors-in-Chief and Authors

Borko Furht is a professor and chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. Before joining FAU, he was a vice president of research and a senior director of development at Modcomp, a computer company of Daimler Benz, Germany, and a professor at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Professor Furht received Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Belgrade. His current research is in multimedia systems, Internet computing, video coding and compression, video databases, and wireless multimedia. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the areas of multimedia, computer architecture, real-time computing, and operating systems. He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Kluwer). He has received several technical and publishing awards, and has consulted for many high-tech companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, General Electric, JPL, NASA, Honeywell, and RCA. He has also served as a consultant to various colleges and universities. He has given many invited talks, keynote lectures, seminars, and tutorials.

Mohammad Ilyas received his Ph.D. degree from Queens' University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 1983. His doctoral research was about switching and flow control techniques in computer communications networks. Since September 1983, he has been with the College of Engineering at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, where he is currently Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research. From 1994 to 2000, he was chair of the department. During the 1993–1994 academic year, he was on sabbatical leave with the Department of Computer Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ilyas has conducted successful research in various areas including traffic management and congestion control in broadband/high-speed communications networks, traffic characterization, wireless communications networks, performance modeling, and simulation. He has published 1 book and over 130 research articles. He has supervised 10 Ph.D. dissertations and 32 Master's theses to completion. He has been a consultant to several national and international organizations. Dr. Ilyas is an active participant in several IEEE technical committees and activities.

Contributors

Kalyan Basu
Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas

Nitish Barman
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida

Amiya Bhattacharya
Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas

Jill Boyce
Corporate Research
Thomson Multimedia
Princeton, New Jersey

Stefano Cacciaguerra
Department of Computer Science
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy

Jonathan Chan
CSIRO Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy
Collingswood, Australia

Christine Cheng
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Igor D.D. Curcio
Nokia Corporation
Tampere, Finland

Sajal K. Das
Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas

Ahmed K. Elhakeem
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Stefano Ferretti
Department of Computer Science
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy

Mark L. Ferrey
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Site Remediation Section
St. Paul, Minnesota

David Furuno
Advanced Wireless Group
General Atomics, Photonics Division
San Diego, California

Borko Furht
Florida Atlantic University
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Boca Raton, Florida

Jos Antonio Garcia-Macias
CICESE Research Center
Esenada, Mexico

Vittorio Ghini
Department of Computer Science
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy

David Goodman
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Polytechnic University
Brooklyn, New York

Kevin Hung
Joint Research Center for Biomedical Engineering
Department of Electronic Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, Hong Kong

Mohammad Ilyas
Florida Atlantic University
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Boca Raton, Florida

Ravi Jain
DoCoMo USA Labs
San Jose, California

Sanjay Jha
School of Computer Science and Engineering
University New South Wales
Sydney, Australia

Bj rn Landfeldt
School of Information Technologies and School of Electrical and Information Engineering
The University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia

Dennis Seymour Lee
Forest Hills, New York

Andres Llana, Jr.
Vermont Studies Group, Inc.
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

Angel Lozano
Wireless Communication Research Department
Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies)
Holmdel, New Jersey

Oge Marques
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida

Archan Misra
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, New York

Amitava Mukherjee
IBM Global Service
Calcutta, India

Gopal Racherla
Advanced Wireless Group
General Atomics, Photonics Division
San Diego, California

Sridhar Radhakrishnan
School of Computer Science
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma

G. Radhamani
Faculty of Information Technology
Multimedia University
Cyberjaya Campus
Selangor D.E., Malaysia

Mahesh S. Raisinghani
Center for Applied Information Technology
Graduate School of Management
University of Dallas
Dallas, Texas

Marco Roccetti
Department of Computer Science
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy

Valerie A. Rosenblatt
W Style
Burlingame, California

Abhishek Roy
Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas

Debashis Saha
Indian Institute of Management
Calcutta, India

Paola Salomoni
Department of Computer Science
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy

Aruna Seneviratne
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
The University of New South Wales
Kensington, Australia

Mohammad Umar Siddiqi
Faculty of Engineering
Multimedia University
Cyberjaya Campus
Selangor D.E., Malaysia

Sirin Tekinay
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, New Jersey

Binh Thai
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
The University of New South Wales
Kensington, Australia

Leyla Toumi
LSR-IMAG
CNSR/INPG
Grenoble, France

Eric van den Berg
Applied Research
Telcordia Technologies
Morristown, New Jersey

Yuan-Ting Zhang
Joint Research Center for Biomedical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, Hong Kong

Haitao Zheng
Bell Laboratories
Lucent Technologies
Holmdel, New Jersey