Chapter 1

Wireless and mobile technologies and protocols and their performance evaluation

Salima Samaoui1, Imen El Bouabidi1, Mohammad S. Obaidat2, Faouzi Zarai1 and Wahida Mansouri1,    1University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia,    2Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, USA

Wireless and mobile technologies have experienced exponential growth over the last decade. In fact, cellular networks have experienced four generations of technology revolution, namely from 1G to 4G. In addition, wireless local area networks (LANs) are presently poised to supplement wired networks in most developed countries as well as in many developing ones. The main goal of an evolution to another technology is to offer a considerable improvement in the performance by enabling ...

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