This one-stop resource offers you complete, state-of-the-art coverage of wireless personal area networks, including critical discussions on current standards, important research, and applications in the field. The book gives you a solid overview of Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15, the foundations of WPAN technology, and explains how the Personal Operating Space (POS) concept is ushering in the WPAN revolution. It details how invisibility, automatic connection, service discovery, and security form the POS and how the POS is the universal interface in WPANs. The book covers a range of application scenarios from sensor networks to Ambient Intelligence, as well as the role wireless ad-hoc networks, low-power devices, and security play in these applications. It provides scenarios on how WPANs can be integrated into the current commercial wireless market and how WPANs are emerging as the key component in 4G networking. Whether you need solutions for personal connectivity, a quick reference to current WPAN standards, or insider insight to upcoming WPAN products, this book is your roadmap to the WPAN revolution.
Introduction - Possible Devices. PAN Challenges and Open Issues. WLANs Versus PANs. Personal Networks (PN) Concept. 4G. Review of the Book.; WLANs - MAC in WLAN Standards. QoS over Wireless LANs. Security in IEEE 802.11. ; Bluetooth: First and Second Generations of WPANs - Technical Overview of Bluetooth 2.0. Core Specification. Profiles. Security. Future of Bluetooth: Team Up with UWB.; 802.15 Overview - 802.15: The high-Rate WPAN (HR-WPAN). TG3A: The (Very) High-Rate WPAN. 802.15.4: the Low-Rate WPAN (LR-WPAN). ZigBee and 802.15.4. Products.; Why Personal: Overview of the Motivations - Classical WPAN Scenarios. The Disappearing Computer. Security Aspects.; From Pervasive Computing to Personal Networks: A Research Perspective - Overview of WPAN Projects. Ambient Intelligence: The OXYGEN Project. Ambient Intelligence and WPANs: Bases for Personal Networking. From WPAN to PN: When Persons Count.; Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET) - Medium Access Control. Routing Techniques. Power Management. Cooperation Diversity: The New Revolution.; Security for Wireless Networks - Heterogeneous Networks. Applications and Services. Security Requirements. Research Challenges.; The Unpredictable Future: WPAN as a Part of 4G - Personal Network: Definition. Personal Networks: The Challenges. A Sample Interworking System Architecture. A Handover Example.; PN Applications - Healthcare. Smart Shopping Case. Student Case. Mobile Gaming. Distributed Work Case.;
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Ramjee Prasad
Ramjee Prasad is director of the Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF), Aalborg University. He is the author of OFDM for Wireless Communications Systems (Artech House, 2004), coauthor of Applied Satellite Navigation Using GPS, GALILEO, and Augmentation Systems, Multicarrier Techniques for 4G Mobile Communications, and WLANs and WPANs towards 4G Wireless, (Artech House, 2005, 2003, 2003), co-editor of Wireless IP and Building the Mobile Internet (Artech House, 2003), and is the author/coauthor of several other books published by Artech House.