Handbook of Research on Progressive Trends in Wireless Communications and Networking

Handbook of Research on Progressive Trends in Wireless Communications and Networking

Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 592

ISBN13: 9781466651708|ISBN10: 1466651709|EISBN13: 9781466651715

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5170-8

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Wireless communications and networks are developing at an accelerated rate. This rapid development has provided individuals with new opportunities for ubiquitous communication accessibility as well as enabled real-time multimedia technologies and their supporting applications.

Handbook of Research on Progressive Trends in Wireless Communications and Networking brings together advanced research on diverse topics in wireless communications and networking including the latest developments in broadband technologies, mobile communications, wireless sensor networks, network security, and cognitive radio networks. This book serves as a comprehensive reference for upper-level students, academicians, and industry professionals interested in uncovering recent advancements in wireless communications and networking.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication (AWTT) Book Series

Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Evolution of Wireless and Mobile Communications (pages 1-17)

M. A. Matin

There has been a tremendous growth of mobile communications markets all over the world, as they provide ubiquitous communication access to citizens. Wireless technologies are the core of mobile communications. They fundamentally...

Chapter 2

Sustainable Growth for Cellular Wireless Networks (pages 18-43)

Siyi Wang, Weisi Guo

It has been widely recognised that the exchange of information is one of the underpinning factors for economic growth in developing and developed nations. One of the fastest growing areas of information transfer is the mobile data...

Chapter 3

IP-Based Virtual Private Network Implementations in Future Cellular Networks (pages 44-66)

Madhusanka Liyanage, Mika Ylianttila, Andrei Gurtov

Virtual Private Network (VPN) services are widely used in the present corporate world to securely interconnect geographically distributed private network segments through unsecure public networks. Among various VPN techniques...

Chapter 4

Self-Organization Activities in LTE-Advanced Networks (pages 67-98)

Ali Diab, Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

A major challenge in the context of LTE networks is a cost-effective network operation, which can be done by carefully controlling the network Operational Expenses (OPEX). Therefore, to minimize OPEX costs while optimizing network...

Chapter 5

Mobility Prediction in Long Term Evolution (LTE) Femtocell Network (pages 99-121)

Nurul ‘Ain Amirrudin, Sharifah H. S. Ariffin, N. N. N. Abd. Malik, N. Effiyana Ghazali

The Long Term Evolution (LTE) femtocell has promised to improve indoor coverage and enhance data rate capacity. Due to the special characteristic of the femtocell, it introduces several challenges in terms of mobility and...

Chapter 6

Software in Amateur “Packet Radio” Communications and Networking (pages 122-188)

Miroslav Škorić

In modern (amateur radio) wireless communications, we use computers. Depending on particular situations, such as employers’ and personal preferences, users can adopt more or less proprietary operating systems and related end-user...

Chapter 7

The Access of Things: Spatial Access Control for the Internet of Things (pages 189-207)

Peter J. Hawrylak, Steven Reed, Matthew Butler, John Hale

Access to resources, both physical and cyber, must be controlled to maintain security. The increasingly connected nature of our world makes access control a paramount issue. The expansion of the Internet of Things into everyday life...

Chapter 8

A Study of Research Trends and Issues in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (pages 208-248)

Noman Islam, Zubair A. Shaikh

Ad hoc networks enable network creation on the fly without support of any predefined infrastructure. The spontaneous erection of networks in anytime and anywhere fashion enables development of various novel applications based on ad...

Chapter 9

Algorithms to Determine Stable Connected Dominating Sets for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (pages 249-274)

Natarajan Meghanathan

This chapter presents three algorithms to determine stable connected dominating sets (CDS) for wireless mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) whose topology changes dynamically with time. The three stability-based CDS algorithms are (1)...

Chapter 10

Incidence of the Improvement of the Interactions between MAC and Transport Protocols on MANET Performance (pages 275-292)

Sofiane Hamrioui, Pascal Lorenz, Jaime Lloret, Mustapha Lalam

In this chapter, the authors present an improvement to the interactions between MAC (Medium Access Control) and TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) protocols for better performance in MANET. This improvement is called IB-MAC...

Chapter 11

A Novel Secure Routing Protocol in MANET (pages 293-316)

Ditipriya Sinha, Uma Bhattacharya, Rituparna Chaki

This chapter gives an overview of research works on secure routing protocol and also describes a Novel Secure Routing Protocol RSRP proposed by the authors. The routes, which are free from any malicious node and which belong to the...

Chapter 12

An Overview of Wireless Sensor Networks: Towards the Realization of Cooperative Healthcare and Environmental Monitoring (pages 317-339)

Thomas D. Lagkas, George Eleftherakis

Wireless Sensor Networks constitute one of the highest developing and most promising fields in modern data communication networks. The benefits of such networks are expected to be of great importance, since applicability is possible...

Chapter 13

Clustering in Wireless Sensor Network: A Study on Three Well-Known Clustering Protocols (pages 340-364)

Basma M. Mohammad El-Basioni, Sherine M. Abd El-Kader, Hussein S. Eissa, Mohammed M. Zahra

The purpose of this chapter is the study of the clustering process in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), starting with clarifying why there are different clustering protocols for WSN by stating and briefly describing some of the variate...

Chapter 14

Performance Improvement of Clustered WSN by Using Multi-Tier Clustering (pages 365-388)

Yogesh Kumar Meena, Aditya Trivedi

In the last few decades, the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) paradigm has received huge interest from the industry and academia. Wireless sensor networking is used in various fields like weather monitoring, wildfire...

Chapter 15

Transport Protocol Performance for Multi-Hop Transmission in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) (pages 389-409)

Farizah Yunus, Sharifah H. S. Ariffin, S. K. Syed-Yusof, Nor-Syahidatul N. Ismail, Norsheila Fisal

The need for reliable data delivery at the transport layer for video transmission over IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has attracted great attention from the research community due to the applicability of multimedia...

Chapter 16

Hybrid MAC Layer Design for MPEG-4 Video Transmission in WSN (pages 410-432)

Nor-Syahidatul N. Ismail, Sharifah H. S. Ariffin, N. M. Abdul Latiff, Farizah Yunus, Norshiela Fisal

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been attracting increasing interest lately from the research community and industry. The main reason for such interest is the fact that WSNs are considered a promising means of low power and low...

Chapter 17

Graph Intersection-Based Benchmarking Algorithm for Maximum Stability Data Gathering Trees in Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks (pages 433-458)

Natarajan Meghanathan, Philip Mumford

The authors propose a graph intersection-based benchmarking algorithm to determine the sequence of longest-living stable data gathering trees for wireless mobile sensor networks whose topology changes dynamically with time due to the...

Chapter 18

Comparative Study of Adaptive Multiuser Detections in Hybrid Direct-Sequence Time-Hopping Ultrawide Bandwidth Systems (pages 459-478)

Qasim Zeeshan Ahmed, Lie-Liang Yang

This chapter considers low-complexity detection in hybrid Direct-Sequence Time-Hopping (DS-TH) Ultrawide Bandwidth (UWB) systems. A range of Minimum Mean-Square Error (MMSE) assisted Multiuser Detection (MUD) schemes are...

Chapter 19

A Survey of MAC Layer Protocols to Avoid Deafness in Wireless Networks Using Directional Antenna (pages 479-517)

Rinki Sharma, Govind Kadambi, Yuri A. Vershinin, K. N. Mukundan

Directional antennas have gained immense popularity among researchers working in the area of wireless networks. These antennas help in enhancing the performance of wireless networks through increased spatial reuse, extended...

Chapter 20

Metamaterial-Based Wearable Microstrip Patch Antennas (pages 518-556)

J. G. Joshi, Shyam S. Pattnaik

This chapter presents metamaterial-based wearable, that is, textile-based, antennas for Wi-Fi, WLAN, ISM, BAN and public safety band applications, which have been designed, fabricated, and tested. Textile substrates like polyester...

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