[内容简介]
3G is about mobility and bandwidth, 4G will be about services and how communication technology can make our lives easier
This exciting new text starts with an overall system description which illustrates the new underlying network technologies (such as active networks, ad hoc networks). It then continues to describe powerful middleware solutions and service delivery mechanisms. The authors explain how personalization, mobile middleware, peer to peer services, simplicity, semantic computing, and content-awareness fit into this new concept and why they will become a necessity for future mobile services
The book puts the user on center stage and gives details of new exciting ways to communicate. It describes the challenges and opportunities of 4th Generation Mobile Systems and will explain new paradigms of service provisioning that include flexible and adaptable services. These are able to handle intelligent user profiles, proactive service selection, context-aware service provisioning and ubiquitous computing. In this new environment, the use of agents that are empowered to act on the user's behalf becomes very important
Suitable for Telecoms Engineers in R&D departments, CTOs, Telecoms managers. Also, for researchers in academia of electrical and electronic engineering as well as telecommunications.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Richard Mark Soley
Foreword by Atsushi Murase
1、Introducing the 4G Mobile Adventure by Hendrik Berndt
Pt. I、The Pillars of a New Architecture
2、Mobile Communication Networks by Christian Prehofer and Christian Bettstetter and Jorg Widmer
3、Mobile Service Systems by Wolfgang Kellerer
4、Extension to Ubiquitous: Mobile Peer-To-Peer by Zoran Despotovic and Wolfgang Kellerer
5、Mobile Middleware by Chie Noda
6、Cross-Layer Design - a New Paradigm for Optimization of Mobile Communication Systems by Marco Sgroi and Wolfgang Kellerer
Pt. II、Foundations of Smart Service Provisioning
7、Ontologies by Marko Luther
8、Semantic Services by Massimo Paolucci
9、Dynamic Adaptation - Changing Services at Run Time by Robert Hirschfeld
Pt. III、Services and their Intelligent Embedding in the Environment
10、Context-aware Mobility Management by Christian Prehofer
11、Contextual Intelligence by Matthias Wagner and Marko Luther and Massimo Paolucci
12、From Personal Mobility to Mobile Personality by Matthias Wagner
13、Embracing the Real World through Services with Initiative by Hendrik Berndt
Appendix、References and Further Reading
Index