Title:
Wireless internet crash course
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Publication Information:
New York : McGraw Hill, 2002
ISBN:
9780071382120
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Summary
Summary
This text provides a crash course in the wireless Internet. WAP, SMS, i-mode, and Bluetooth are all compared and contrasted for their respective strengths and weaknesses, along with the existing and potential wireless markets. Other topics are mobile applications development languages and interoperability issues.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxii |
| 1 History of Modern Communications | p. 1 |
| First Voice Communications | p. 2 |
| Cellular, True Mobility for the Masses | p. 5 |
| Computing Power in Mobile Communications | p. 6 |
| The Internet, A New Idea | p. 7 |
| What About the Wireless Internet? | p. 11 |
| Wireless Communications Devices | p. 13 |
| Trends in Next-Generation Mobile Communications | p. 17 |
| The Move to 2G Cellular | p. 19 |
| Onward to 2.5G and 3G | p. 20 |
| Terminal Technologies | p. 24 |
| Infrastructure Challenges | p. 25 |
| Circuit-switched vs. All-IP | p. 25 |
| Service Provisioning | p. 27 |
| Network Switch Requirements | p. 28 |
| 2 Driving Technologies: Competing and Complementary | p. 35 |
| Cellular and PCS-based Technologies | p. 36 |
| Cellular Data Modem Technologies | p. 37 |
| CDPD Modems | p. 38 |
| Traffic Channel Modems | p. 41 |
| Short Message Service (SMS) | p. 42 |
| General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) | p. 45 |
| Application Programming Languages and Protocols | p. 47 |
| A Word About Mark-up Languages | p. 47 |
| Common Ground--XHTML | p. 50 |
| Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) | p. 51 |
| i-Mode (Compact HTML or c-HTML) | p. 55 |
| J2ME | p. 58 |
| Symbian | p. 60 |
| WinCE | p. 61 |
| PDA and Pocket PC Technologies | p. 62 |
| RIM and Blackberry | p. 62 |
| Palm | p. 63 |
| Handspring | p. 63 |
| HP | p. 64 |
| Compaq | p. 64 |
| Proprietary Networks | p. 64 |
| Ardis (DataTAC) | p. 64 |
| Ricochet | p. 64 |
| Mobitex or RAM Mobile Data | p. 65 |
| OmniSky | p. 66 |
| Wireless LANs and Personal Area Networks | p. 66 |
| Bluetooth | p. 67 |
| IEEE 802.11 | p. 68 |
| HiperLAN and HiperLAN2 | p. 71 |
| Home RF | p. 75 |
| Infrastructure Protocols and Applications | p. 76 |
| H.323 | p. 76 |
| MGCP/Megaco | p. 77 |
| Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) | p. 78 |
| 3 The Wireless Internet Market | p. 81 |
| Internet and Broadband | p. 81 |
| Wireless Subscribers and Internet Growth | p. 85 |
| Computer Sales | p. 89 |
| Voice Interaction: Linking the Web by Voice | p. 93 |
| Market Case Studies | p. 95 |
| European and Japanese Envy | p. 95 |
| European Experience | p. 96 |
| Finland: The Land of the Midnight Sun, Reindeer, and Mobile Phones | p. 97 |
| Made in Japan: The Land of the Rising Wireless Internet | p. 98 |
| The New Generation of Customers | p. 103 |
| Teenagers Drive Wireless Internet Growth | p. 103 |
| Wireless Business Enterprise | p. 104 |
| In a Nut Shell... | p. 105 |
| 4 Wireless Internet Applications, Services, and Access-Enabled Solutions | p. 107 |
| Access versus Applications | p. 108 |
| Application and Service Categories | p. 110 |
| Mobility Value | p. 110 |
| Adding Vision to Voice | p. 111 |
| Emerging Devices | p. 112 |
| Mobile Portals | p. 115 |
| Messaging--The First Wireless Internet Application | p. 117 |
| Personalization | p. 119 |
| Content Delivery | p. 120 |
| Personalized Communications | p. 121 |
| Mobile Electronic Mail | p. 121 |
| Instant Messaging | p. 122 |
| Electronic Calendar | p. 125 |
| Mobile Electronic Wallet | p. 126 |
| Identification or Security Access | p. 126 |
| Electronic Photo Album | p. 126 |
| News and Information | p. 128 |
| Entertainment and Lifestyle | p. 130 |
| Location-Based Services | p. 138 |
| Access and Connectivity-Enabled Solutions | p. 140 |
| Manufacturing | p. 144 |
| Telemedicine | p. 145 |
| Distance Learning | p. 147 |
| Security Video Monitoring | p. 151 |
| 5 Billing and Security Issues | p. 153 |
| Metcalfe's Law in Reverse | p. 155 |
| Who Can I Connect With? | p. 156 |
| Universal Messaging--Have It Your Way | p. 157 |
| OK, Now Who's Going to Pay for All This? | p. 159 |
| Enter the Cash Register | p. 160 |
| M-Commerce--Security Pays Off | p. 162 |
| Security and Privacy | p. 163 |
| Data Collection | p. 164 |
| Data Storage | p. 165 |
| Data Analysis and Profiling | p. 165 |
| Personalization Goes Both Ways | p. 166 |
| Freedom of Expression | p. 167 |
| Protecting Content | p. 168 |
| Digital Rights Management | p. 168 |
| A Final Word | p. 171 |
| 6 Communication Past and Future | p. 173 |
| Service Providers of the Future | p. 174 |
| MVNOs--Splitting the System into Transport and Marketing | p. 175 |
| Services Complement Voice | p. 178 |
| 4G Systems--Stay Tuned for 3D! | p. 180 |
| Context-Sensitive and User-Aware | p. 180 |
| Economic Power | p. 188 |
| WLANs and Bluetooth--The New Access Points | p. 188 |
| Bluetooth--Shorter Range but Lower Power Consumption | p. 190 |
| Cellular Threat or Benefit? | p. 190 |
| Changing the Role of Wireless Operators | p. 191 |
| Digital Divide--How Wireless Can Change the World | p. 192 |
| Wireless Bridges the Divide | p. 194 |
| Wireless Internet--This Time It's Personal! | p. 195 |
| Life Turns Digital | p. 195 |
| Technology Improves Social Interaction | p. 196 |
| Multimedia Messaging | p. 196 |
| Wireless Efficiency | p. 197 |
| It's All About Emotion | p. 197 |
| No, I Don't Want to See What You Did Last Summer | p. 198 |
| Eroding Emotion | p. 198 |
| Speed Influences the Volume of Communication | p. 199 |
| Real Time Adds Value | p. 199 |
| The Future of Wireless Internet is Certain--To Change! | p. 200 |
| Will the Wireless Internet Survive? | p. 200 |
| Brandwidth over Bandwidth | p. 201 |
| Appendix A | p. 203 |
| Appendix B | p. 205 |
| Glossary | p. 213 |
| Index | p. 225 |
