Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing

20 Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing

dramatic advances in the research and development of a number

of research fields, including mobile hardware, wireless sensing, net-

working, software design, middleware, and HCI. Needless to say, it is

literally impossible to cover all of the challenges in these fast chang-

ing areas. This book focuses on networking-related issues, as well as

service and application design issues, by using the smart phone as

a vehicle for discussion and analysis of terminal design and service

delivery.

1.4 Summary

As explained in this chapter, mobile computing is an enormously

broad area, encompassing enabling wireless technologies, evolving

wireless networks, novel service and applications, standardization,

and of course ...