Towards 4G Technologies: Services with Initiative

Find out how the exciting new developments towards 4G mobile services and technologies will put the user at centre stage. Towards 4G Technologies provides a comprehensive explanation of future networking and service delivering technologies for next generation mobile systems. The authors explain how personalization, mobile middleware, peer–to–peer services, semantic computing, and content–awareness fit into this new concept and why they will become a necessity for future mobile services. The book presents the latest challenges and opportunities of Next Generation Mobile Systems, explaining new paradigms of service provisioning that include flexible and adaptable services.[START BOLD & ITALICS] Towards 4G Technologies:
Gives a comprehensive description of future networking and service delivering technologies.
Covers hot topics such as intelligent user profiling, proactive service selection, context–aware service provisioning and ubiquitous computing.
Introduces seemingly diverse technologies to show how they will play together to create a new user experience.
Includes case studies to illustrate the theory.
This invaluable guide will provide telecoms engineers in R&D departments, CTOs, and telecoms managers as well as academic researchers in electrical, electronic engineering and telecommunications with a comprehensive understanding of next generation mobile system technologies and services.

Spis treści:
Introducing 4G Mobile Adventure
1.1 The user takes center stage
1.2 Business model considerations–The need for an Open Programmable Architecture
1.3 Ubiquitous service and network environment
1.4Context Awareness
1.5 Personalization
1.6 Mobile adventure
Part I– The pillars of a new architecture
2 Mobile Communications Networks
2.1 Wireless Technologies at a Glance
2.2 Wireless Networking at a Glance2.3 Next Generation IP–based Mobile Networks
2.4 Ubiquitous Communication
2.5 Programmable Networks
2.6 Summary
3. Mobile Service Systems
3.1 Service Platforms at a glance
3.2 Next Generation Service Architectures
3.3 Ubiquitous Services Example: Session Mobility
3.4 Summary
4 Extension towards Ubiquity: Mobile Peer–to–Peer 
4.1 P2P application scenarios
4.2 Challenges
4.3 Unstructured P2P
4.4 Structured P2P
4.5 Hierachical P2P
5 Mobile Middleware
5.1 Smart Devices
5.2 Mobile Middleware Platforms
6 Cross Layer Design – a new Paradigm for Optimization of Architectures
6.1 Cross–Layer Architectures
6.2 Cross Layer Awareness: Abstracting Layer Parameters
6.3 Cross Layer Optimization: The Cost Function
6.4 Performance and Cost Analysis