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Wireless ATM and Ad-Hoc Networks

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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.

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!!

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...

Wireless communications anytime and anywhere is highly demanding now. This book provides you the designs of ad-hoc networks to provide boradband wireless communications. It is one of excellent books on this field.