The Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applications: From Cellular Systems to WAP and M-commerce (Essential Guides (Prentice Hall)) Book

Alongside any big leap forward in technology, comes a bewildering new selection of abbreviations and acronyms. So it is with the spread of Web applications to mobile devices, with the advent of WAP, SMS and i-Mode. All of a sudden, we see telecommunications professionals grappling with the problems of Web servers and mark-up languages, and computer programmers are found puzzling over the meaning of GPRS, UMTS, CDPD and all the other wireless communications terms being bandied about.Andy Dornan's The Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applicationsis aimed at that latter group, and is an excellent guide to the major wireless communications technologies in use today, and those that will appear over the next few years. He writes in clear, non-technical language and reading this book will dispel the clouds of confusion over the many three- (and four-) letter abbreviations that litter wireless communications.Senior editor specialising in wireless technology at Networkmagazine, Andy Dornan is well placed to explain how wireless data communications have developed from the early analogue networks, through to today's 2G and 21/2G digital systems, and onto the high-capacity 3G networks of tomorrow. Along the way, he ensures the reader understands how radio is used to transfer voice and data, takes a look at the Mobile Data Services technologies such as WAP, c-HTML(i-Mode), SMS and walks us through the infrastructure of a voice and GPRS network. The book also covers the short range wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and IrDA.This is an excellent book for the mobile computing professional who needs a clear understanding of the wireless communications technologies that make it all work. --Andy WigleyRead More