Wireless IP and Building the Mobile Internet

Written by today’s leading experts in industry and academia, Wireless IP and Building the Mobile Internet is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the convergence of wireless and Internet technologies that are giving rise to the mobile wireless Internet. This cutting-edge resource provides you with an overview of all the elements required to understand and develop future IP based wireless multimedia communications and services.

The book shows you how to integrate the latest technologiesin mobility, wireless, and the Internet to achieve workable end-to-endsolutions. You get detailed coverage of wireless IP and its relationship withother mobile technologies such as GPRS and UMTS. Moreover, this essentialreference features discussions on wireless IP evolution; quality of service;resource management; TCP/IP in wireless IP networks; handoff, mobility andsignaling; and services and applications. Essential reading for practicingmobile communications engineers, designers, and engineering managers, the bookis also easily adoptable as a text for graduate-level courses.

Contents:

Part 1: Architecture and Evolution.

Introduction to Wireless IP- History of Wireless IP. Current Status. Important Aspects of the TechnologiesInvolved. The Structure of the Book.

Strategies for Evolution to Wireless IP.

Wireless IP Communications with GPRS.

Integrated Services for IP Applications over UMTS AccessNetworks.

UTRAN Evolution to All IP.

Part 2: Performance and Quality of Service.

Radio Performance for Wireless IP Networks.

Radio Resource Utilization in WCDMA Multimedia Wireless IPNetworks.

Packet Prioritization for Voice over Wireless IP Networks.

Performance of TCP/IP over Next Generation BroadbandWireless Access Networks.

Reliable Multicast Congestion Contrrol for TCP/IP inHeterogeneous (Wired/Wireless/Mobile) Networks.

Performance Analysis of 3G-IX EVDO High Data Rate System.

Content Delivery in Wireless IP Networks: A QoS Perspective.

Provisioning QoS in 3G Networks with RSVP Proxy.

Part 3: Mobility, Routing, and Signaling.

Micro-Mobility ManagementUsing Host Based Routing.

Distributed versus Centralized Bandwidth ReservationProtocols for the Next Generation IP Based Integrated Cellular and Ad-Hoc RelaySystem.

IPv6Mobility Support on Lynx.

Reducing Link and Signaling Costs in Mobile IP.

Active Hierarchical Label Switching Router Architecture andDynamic RSVP Support for MPEG-4 Based Multimedia Wireless Communications.

Part 4: Real-Time Applications.

Video Transcoding for Mobile Internet Access.

IP Telephony.

Part 5: Security.

On Security in Wireless IP Networks.

Secure Sockets Layer for Security in Wireless Handhelds.

Part 6: Architectural Imperatives for 4thGeneration IP-Based Mobile Networks.

Sudir Dixit is a senior R&D and site manager at NokiaResearch Center in Burlington, Massachusetts. He received his B.E. from MaulanaAzad College, Bhopal, India, his M.E. from Birla Institute of Technology andScience, Pilani, India, and Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,Scotland, all in electrical engineering. Dr. Dixit received his M.B.A. from theFlorida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida.

Ramjee Prasad is Director, Center for Teleinfrastruktur (CTIF), Aalborg University. He is the author of CDMA for Wireless Personal Communications (Artech, 1996) and Universal Wireless Personal Communications (Artech, 1998). Dr. Prasad earned his Ph.D. in communications from the Birla Institute of Technology.