Wireless Internet Access over GSM and UMTS / Edition 1

by Manfred Taferner, Ernst Bonek

Overview

We dedicate this book to students 0/ computer science who want to understand why the radio channel is at the heart of mobile communications, be it data or voice, and to students 0/ communications engineering looking for an introduction to the structure of the Internet prools, and their application to mobile radio. We also welcome the practicing engineer' working for mobile network operators and infrastructure suppliers, and the application program­ mer looking for the underlying reasons for the problems they encounter in their daily work. Given that convergence of the information technology and communications worlds has been talked about for almost 20 years, there is still surpris­ ingly little knowledge among specialists of each others' fields. Data communications over radio, notably Internet access, however, requires fuH understanding of both fields. Internet prools have been designed for fixed networks. There bit errors are so rare that interrupted transmission almost inevitably means congestion. In contrast, the radio channel constitutes a bottleneck for mobile data communications in that it introduces bit errors even at modest data rates. This book is based on the doctoral thesis of one of us (M. Taferner).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642076435
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/07/2010
Series:	Signals and Communication Technology
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Prools for Internet Access.- 3. Data Transmission in GSM.- 4. Data Transmission in UMTS.- 5. TCP in Wireless Environments.- 6. Summary and Conclusions.- A. List of Acronyms.- B. Glossary.- References.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"The book provides a comprehensive investigation of the performance and problems of the TCP/IP prool stack, when data is transmitted over GSM. … This book gives valuable advice to network operators and application programmers to maximize data throughput, and which prools, transmission modes, and coding schemes to use and which to avoid." (Bulletin des Schweizerischen Elektrotechnischen Vereins, Issue 11, 2002)

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