Wifi, Wimax, And Lte Multi-Hop Mesh Networks: Basic Communication Protocols And Application Areas

Wei (electrical engineering, National Taiwan U.), Rykowski (information technology, Poznan U. of Economics, Poland), and Indian computer scientist Dixit describe the technology of wireless mesh networks without delving into specialist details and using a minimum of mathematics and formulas. The technology is spreading from military to commercial spheres, and allows mobile and fixed devices to connect through radio interfaces or to extend their range through multi-hopping. They cover architectural requirements for multi-hop and ad-hoc networking, application areas, IEEE 802.11 wireless technologies, WiMAX, and long term evolution. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

HUNG-YU WEI, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering at National Taiwan University. He is an active participant in the IEEE 802.16 and 3GPP standardization.

JAROGNIEW RYKOWSKI, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology at Poznan University of Economics in Poland.

SUDHIR DIXIT, PhD, is the Director of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories India, an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis (2009-2012), and a Docent in Broadband Mobile Communications for Emerging Economies at the University of Oulu in Finland. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, and IETE.