The mobile communications market remains the fastest growing segment of the global computing and communications business‎.‎ The rapid progress and convergence of the field has created a need for new techniques and solutions‎,‎ knowledgeable professionals to create and implement them‎,‎ and courses to teach the background theory and technologies while pointing the way towards future trends‎.‎ In this book Jochen Schiller draws on his extensive experience to provide a thorough grounding in mobile communications‎,‎ describing the state of the art in industry and research while giving a detailed technical background to the area‎.‎ The book covers all the important aspects of mobile and wireless communications from the Internet to signals‎,‎ access protocols and cellular systems‎,‎ emphasizing the key area of digital data transfer‎.‎ It uses a wide range of examples and other teaching aids‎,‎ making it suitable for self‎-study and university classes‎.‎ The book begins with an overview of mobile and wireless applications‎,‎ covering the history and market‎,‎ and providing the foundations of wireless transmission and Medium Access Control‎.‎ Four different groups of wireless network technologies are then covered‎:‎ telecommunications systems‎,‎ satellite systems‎,‎ broadcast systems and wireless LAN‎.‎ The following chapters about the network and transport layers address the impairments and solutions using well‎-known Internet protocols such as TCP/IP in a mobile and wireless environment‎.‎ The book concludes with a chapter on technologies supporting applications in mobile networks‎,‎ focusing on the Web and the Wireless Application Protocol ‎(‎WAP‎)‎‎.‎ Each chapter concludes with a set of exercises for self‎-study ‎(‎with solutions available to instructors‎)‎ and references to standards‎,‎ organizations and research work related to the topic‎.‎ New to this edition * Integration of higher data rates for GSM ‎(‎HSCSD‎,‎ GPRS‎)‎ * New material on 3rd generation ‎(‎3G‎)‎ systems with in‎-depth discussion of UMTS/W‎-CDMA * Addition of the new WLAN standards for higher data rates‎:‎ 802.11a‎,‎ b‎,‎ g and HiperLAN2 * Extension of Bluetooth coverage to include IEEE 802.15‎,‎ profiles and applications * Increased coverage of ad‎-hoc networking and wireless profiled TCP * Migration of WAP 1‎.‎x and i‎-mode towards WAP 2.0 Jochen Schiller is head of the Computer Systems and Telematics Working Group in the Institute of Computer Science‎,‎ Freie Universitat Berlin‎,‎ and a consultant to several companies in the networking and communication business‎.‎ His research includes mobile and wireless communications‎,‎ communication architectures and operating systems for embedded devices‎,‎ and QoS aspects in communication systems‎.‎