Best-selling author, William Stallings, gives an up-to-date coverage of both wireless communications and wireless networks with new expanded coverage of Wi-Fi and WiMax. Designed for students and professionals, this text explores the key networking topics with a unique approach covering: technology and architecture, network design approaches, and types of networks and applications. DISTINGUISHING KEY FEATURES *Provides an entire chapter on spread spectrum, which is pervasive in wireless technology today. *Also provides an entire chapter on satellite communications. This topic remains an important area within wireless communications. *Thorough coverage of cordless systems. This is an interesting and important new area that extends the traditional cordless telephone technology over greater distances and for greater numbers of users. *Extensive coverage of fixed wireless access, also known as wireless local loop, and IEEE 802.16 standards. This has become a very important area for bringing high-speed access to subscribers in place of land lines. *Devotes a whole chapter on Mobile IP Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).Wireless Internet and Web access are driving forces in the evolution of wireless technology and are a must have.
*Complete coverage of Wireless LANs, including IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth. This is a broad and important area, and the book devotes three chapters to this realm.
- ISBN10 1408207079
- ISBN13 9781408207079
- Publish Date 10 April 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 January 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Language English