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Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-416) and index.

Front Cover; Wireless Networking; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 Networking as Resource Allocation; 1.2 ATaxonomy of Current Practice; 1.3 Technical Elements; 1.4 Summary and Our Way Forward; Chapter 2. Wireless Communication: Concepts, Techniques, Models; 2.1 Digital Communication over Radio Channels; 2.1.1 Simple Binary Modulation and Detection; 2.1.2 Getting Higher Bit Rates; 2.1.3 Channel Coding; 2.1.4 Delay, Path Loss, Shadowing, and Fading; 2.2 Channel Capacity; 2.2.1 Channel Capacity without Fading; 2.2.2 Channel Capacity with Fading

2.3 Diversity and Parallel Channels: MIMO2.4 Wideband Systems; 2.4.1 CDMA; 2.4.2 OFDMA; 2.5 Additional Reading; Chapter 3. Application Models and Performance Issues; 3.1 Network Architectures and Application Scenarios; 3.2 Types of Traffic and QoS Requirements; 3.3 Real-Time Stream Sessions: Delay Guarantees; 3.3.1 CBR Speech; 3.3.2 VBR Speech; 3.3.3 Speech Playout; 3.3.4 QoS Objectives; 3.3.5 Network Service Models; 3.4 Elastic Transfers: Feedback Control; 3.4.1 Dynamic Control of Bandwidth Sharing; 3.4.2 Control Mechanisms: MAC andTCP; 3.4.3 TCP Performance over Wireless Links

3.5 Notes on the LiteratureChapter 4. Cellular FDM-TDMA; 4.1 Principles of FDM-TDMA Cellular Systems; 4.2 SIR Analysis: Keeping Cochannel Cells Apart; 4.3 Channel Reuse Analysis: Hexagonal Cell Layout; 4.3.1 Cochannel Cell Groups; 4.3.2 Calculating Nreuse; 4.3.3 DRRatio: Simple Analysis, Cell Sectorization; 4.4 Spectrum Efficiency; 4.5 Channel Allocation and Multicell Erlang Models; 4.5.1 Reuse Constraint Graph; 4.5.2 Feasible Carrier Requirements; 4.5.3 Carrier Allocation Strategies; 4.5.4 Call Blocking Analysis; 4.6 Handovers:Techniques, Models, Analysis

4.6.1 Analysis of Signal Strength Based Handovers4.7 The GSM System for Mobile Telephony; 4.8 Notes on the Literature; Chapter 5. Cellular CDMA; 5.1 The Uplink SINR Inequalities; 5.2 A Simple Case: One Call Class; 5.2.1 Example: Two BSs and Collocated MSs; 5.2.2 Multiple BSs and Uniformly Distributed MSs; 5.2.3 Other Cell Interference: Hard and Soft Handover; 5.2.4 System Capacity for Voice Calls; 5.3 Admission Control of Multiclass Calls; 5.3.1 Hard and Soft Admission Control; 5.4 Association and Power Control for Guaranteed QoS Calls; 5.5 Scheduling ElasticTransfers

5.6 CDMA-Based 2G and 3G Cellular Systems5.7 Notes on the Literature; 5.8 Appendix: Perron-Frobenius Theory; Chapter 6. Cellular OFDMA-TDMA; 6.1 The General Model; 6.2 Resource Allocation over a Single Carrier; 6.2.1 Power Control for Optimal Service Rate; 6.2.2 Power Control for Optimal Power Constrained Delay; 6.3 Multicarrier Resource Allocation: Downlink; 6.3.1 Single MS Case; 6.3.2 Multiple MSs; 6.4 WiMAX:The IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access Standard; 6.5 Notes on the Literature; Chapter 7. Random Access and Wireless LANs; 7.1 Preliminaries; 7.2 Random Access: From Aloha to CSMA

7.2.1 Protocols without Carrier Sensing: Aloha and Slotted Aloha

Over the past decade, the world has witnessed an explosion in the development and deployment of new wireless network technologies. From cellular mobile telephony to the ubiquitous "WiFi? networks in coffee-shops and airports, to the emerging WiMAX wireless broadband access networks, the menu of wireless access systems has become so comprehensive that wireline access to user devices may soon become a relic of the past. Wireless Networking serves as a one-stop view of cellular, WiFi, and WiMAX networks, as well as the emerging wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Rather than provide descriptive

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