Convergence of Broadband, Broadcast, and Cellular Network Technologies

Convergence of Broadband, Broadcast, and Cellular Network Technologies

Ramona Trestian, Gabriel-Miro Muntean

Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 333

ISBN13: 9781466659780|ISBN10: 1466659785|EISBN13: 9781466659797

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5978-0

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Trestian, Ramona, and Gabriel-Miro Muntean, eds. Convergence of Broadband, Broadcast, and Cellular Network Technologies. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5978-0

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In the ever-evolving telecommunication industry, technological improvements alone are not able to keep up with the significant growth of mobile broadband traffic. As such, new research on communications networks is necessary to keep up with rising demand.

Convergence of Broadband, Broadcast, and Cellular Network Technologies addresses the problems of broadband, broadcast, and cellular coexistence, including the increasing number of advanced mobile users and their bandwidth demands. This book will serve as a link between academia and industry, serving students, researchers, and industry professionals.

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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

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Convergent Evolution

Chapter 1

Economical Aspects of Heterogeneous Networks: When Money, Quality, and Context Matter (pages 1-15)

Andreea Molnar, Cristina Hava Muntean

The high usage of multimedia content in daily activities has put strains on the network operators as the transmitted content can lead to network congestion. In an effort to control and reduce the traffic, network operators have...

Chapter 2

Towards Smarter Cities and Roads: A Survey of Clustering Algorithms in VANETs (pages 16-50)

Irina Tal, Gabriel-Miro Muntean

This chapter highlights the importance of Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) in the context of smarter cities and roads, a topic that currently attracts significant academic, industrial, and governmental planning, research, and...

Chapter 3

Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Broadband Wireless Access Networks (pages 51-76)

Chetna Singhal, Swades De

The advent of heterogeneous Broadband Wireless Access Networks (BWANs) has been to support the ever increasing cellular networks' data requirements by increasing capacity, spectrum efficiency, and network coverage. The focus of...

Chapter 4

Resource Management of Multicast Services Over LTE (pages 77-93)

Giuseppe Araniti, Massimo Condoluci, Antonella Molinaro

In recent years, mobile operators are observing a growing demand of multicast services over radio cellular networks. In this scenario, multicasting is the technology exploited to serve a group of users which simultaneously request...

Chapter 5

Game Theory for Collaboration in Future Networks (pages 94-123)

José André Moura, Rui Neto Marinheiro, João Carlos Silva

Cooperative strategies have the great potential of improving network performance and spectrum utilization in future networking environments. This new paradigm in terms of network management, however, requires a novel design and...

Chapter 6

Interference Mitigation and Energy Management in Heterogeneous Networks: A Cognitive Radio Perspective (pages 124-142)

Chungang Yang, Jiandong Li

In Long Term Evolution (LTE) 4G systems, coexistence of multiple in-band smallcells defines what is called heterogeneous cellular networks. There is no doubt that the development of heterogeneous networks and the popularization of...

QoS Provisioning Solutions

Chapter 7

DASH: A Solution for Improving Video Delivery Quality in Heterogeneous Network Environments (pages 144-161)

Lejla Rovcanin, Gabriel-Miro Muntean

Multimedia streaming has major commercial potential as the global community of online video viewers is expanding rapidly following the proliferation of low-cost multimedia-enabled mobile devices. These devices enable increasing...

Chapter 8

TraffCon: An Innovative Vehicle Route Management Solution Based on IEEE 802.11p Sparse Roadside-Vehicle Networking (pages 162-195)

Kevin Collins, Gabriel-Miro Muntean

Traffic congestion is a major issue in the modern society, and unfortunately, it continues to worsen as the number of cars on the road grows behind the ability of existing road infrastructures to cope. Additionally, vehicle fuel...

Chapter 9

Data Processing and Exchange Challenges in Video-Based Wireless Sensor Networks (pages 196-215)

Dan Pescaru, Daniel-Ioan Curiac

This chapter presents the main challenges in developing complex systems built around the core concept of Video-Based Wireless Sensor Networks. It summarizes some innovative solutions proposed in scientific literature on this field....

Chapter 10

Simulation of Competition in NGNs with a Game Theory Model (pages 216-243)

João Paulo Ribeiro Pereira

Like in a real competitive market situation, Next Generation Networks (NGN) competitors need to adapt their strategy to face/react the strategies from other players. To better understand the effects of interaction between different...

Chapter 11

Indoor Short Range Wireless Broadband Communications Based on Optical Fiber Distribution (pages 244-276)

Haymen Shams

There is a continuous demand for increasing wireless access broadband services to the end users, especially with widespread high quality mobile devices. The Internet mobile applications and multimedia services are constantly hungry...

Chapter 12

Broadband NG-PON Networks and Their Designing Using the HPON Network Configurator (pages 277-297)

Rastislav Róka

With the emerging applications and needs of ever increasing bandwidth, it is anticipated that the Next-Generation Passive Optical Network (NG-PON) with much higher bandwidth is a natural path forward to satisfy these demands and for...

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