July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
14h 19m
English
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284 Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing
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Figure 5.9 Gateway location register (GLR) in UMTS.
link layer handoff mechanism for mobile next-generation networks.
Instead, depending on the overlapping or adjacent wireless systems,
specialized MAC-based entities are added to one or both of the inter-
connected networks; for example, the PCA for Bluetooth and wireless
LAN coexistence monitors and controls the MAC operations of both
networks.
5.6 Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have been the subject of mobile
computing research for years. Unlike infrastructure-based networks, ...