Wireless Mobile Internet Security, 2nd Edition

Chapter 13

4G Wireless Internet Communication Technology

The mobile industry for wireless cellular services has grown at a rapid pace over the past decade. Similarly, Internet service technology has also made dramatic growth through the World Wide Web with a wire line infrastructure. Realization for complete mobile Internet technologies will become the future objectives for convergence of these technologies through multiple enhancements of both cellular mobile systems and Internet interoperability.

Flawless integration between these two wired/wireless networks will enable subscribers to not only roam worldwide but also solve the ever increasing demand for data/Internet services. However, the new technology development and service perspective of 4G systems will take many years to come. In order to keep up with this noteworthy growth in the demand for wireless broadband, new technologies and structural architectures are needed to improve system performance and network scalability greatly while significantly reducing the cost of equipment and deployment. The present concept of P2P (peer-to-peer) networking to exchange information needs to be extended to implement intelligent appliances such as a ubiquitous connectivity to the Internet services, the provision of fast broadband access technologies at more than 50 Mbps data rate, seamless global roaming, and Internet data/voice multimedia services.

The 4G system is a development initiative based on the currently deployed 2G/3G infrastructure, ...