Drawn from a July 2001 conference in France, this collection of 24 papers explores solutions for wireless network management and open system architectures that can ease the development of new applications and services. The contributors discuss QoS profiling, multiple media access, security, content protection, and adaptable applications for variable bandwidth. Specific topics include a digital nominative proxy signature scheme, heterogeneous video transcoding in compressed format, the effect of radio cell size in WmATM-based 3G mobile systems, and H263 clip file generation in a distributed multimedia stream engine. Originally published in French by Hermes Science Publications in 2001. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Recent developments to wireless networks bring with them the questions of service offers, service management, service control, and quality of service that are examined in this collection of perspectives on emerging wireless technologies.
