Wireless ATM and Ad-Hoc Networks [Hardcover]

C. K. Toh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1997 | ISBN-10: 079239822X | ISBN-13: 978-0792398226 | Edition: 1st

ATM is regarded as the next high speed multimedia networking paradigm. Mobile computing, which is a confluence of mobile communications, computing and networks, is changing the way people work. Wireless ATM combines wireless and ATM technologies to provide mobility support and multimedia services to mobile users. Wireless ATM and Ad-Hoc Networks: Protocols and Architectures, a consolidated reference work, presents the state of the art in wireless ATM technology. It encompasses the protocol and architectural aspects of Wireless ATM networks. The topics covered in this book include: mobile communications and computing, fundamentals of ATM and Wireless ATM, mobile routing and switch discovery, handover protocol design and implementation, mobile quality of service, unifying handover strategy for both unicast and multicast mobile connections, and roaming between Wireless ATM LANs. A novel routing protocol for ad-hoc mobile networks (also known as Cambridge Ad-hoc) is also presented in this book along with information about ETSI HIPERLAN, the RACE Mobile Broadband System, and SUPERNET. This timely book is a valuable reference source for researchers, scientists, consultants, engineers, professors and graduate students working in this new and exciting field.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 313 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (January 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 079239822X
• ISBN-13: 978-0792398226
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,556,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for design engineers, November 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Wireless ATM and Ad-Hoc Networks (Hardcover)

This book gave me lots of ideas in my work on the design of 3G mobile networks. In particular, the sections on handoff management and QoS are very comprehensive. I now see the various levels of doing handoffs and the new problems on handoffs when crossing into different wireless networks. I also like the section on future research topics. This book, I think, is an advanced text for design engineers and certainly not something from standards bodies. I know there are books which are straight factual representations of standards documents but this book is not. It has its own content.

4.0 out of 5 stars Pioneering book, May 4, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Wireless ATM and Ad-Hoc Networks (Hardcover)

I bought this book in 1997 and it was the pioneering book in this field. In fact, there is no formal archive on this subject and the author is one of the pioneers who worked on the various protocol issues surrounding Wireless ATM. Some of the work eventually got into ATM Forum WATM group. I still think it is a good archive as it covers a good background and technical detail. It laid a good background on how Wireless ATM outperforms IP networks and is accepted for next generation broadband wireless networks. The part of Ad Hoc Networks is again rather new at that time (1997) and again a good archive even though it has 3 chapters on that area of ad hoc networks. The thing I like about the book is the presence of state-of-the-art content. There is no pushing around of information. It is a good archive. A second edition would be great!!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing..., February 19, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Wireless ATM and Ad-Hoc Networks (Hardcover)

Instead of giving an in depth review of Wireless ATM and ad hoc networks, the author rather describes his own work in these fields. The author is one of the leading researchers in the W-ATM arena, but this book doesn't really live up to his name for it. And I hardly learned anything about ad hoc networks from reading this book. His writing style needs some improvements as well. I felt like reading his thesis, instead of a good book. Very disappointing...