Abstract :
Summary form only given as follows. This presentation provides an overview of mobile computing technology as it exists today and reviews the promises of tomorrow. Included is a discussion on (a) wireless network advances for circuit switched and packet switched technologies, (b) wireless wide area network (WWAN) compared to wireless local area network (WLAN), (c) radio modulation including effects of latency, error correction, review of the electromagnetic spectrum, (d) mobile network summary, (e) Bluetooth Piconet, (f) wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) along with "success stories of users increasing productivity", (g) cellular data networks and their evolution (CDMA, GSM, TDMA, PDC), and (h) 1G, 2G, 2.5G, 3G technologies (international mobile telephone, enhanced data rates for global evolution, wideband CDMA, synchronous time division, IP networks), and GigE, "the next big thing in Telco Land".
Keywords :
cellular radio; code division multiple access; mobile computing; notebook computers; time division multiple access; wide area networks; wireless LAN; Bluetooth Piconet; CDMA; GSM; GigE; IP networks; PDC; TDMA; cellular data networks; circuit switched technologies; electromagnetic spectrum; enhanced data rates; error correction; global evolution; international mobile telephone; latency; mobile computing technology; mobile network summary; packet switched technologies; radio modulation; synchronous time division; wireless local area network; wireless network advances; wireless personal digital assistants; wireless wide area network; Computers; Digital modulation; Mobile computing; Multiaccess communication; Packet switching; Personal digital assistants; Switching circuits; Wide area networks; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks;
