Advances in Mobile and Wireless Communications

Lectori Salutem! This is another book - among the myriads - dealing with wireless communications. The reader might be aware: this topic is really among bestsellers in technology - bestsellers in technology itself and that in technical literature. Communications is one of the leading techniques in information society and mobile/wireless communications is one among the (maybe not more than two with optics the second) leading techniques in communications. Development of wireless communications was and is really spec- cular in the last decade of the 20th and first decade of the 21st century. Such topics as MIMO, wireless networking, security in the technological field, new business models in the service providing field, various applications in the users' side, to mention a few only, were undergoing an unprecedented evolution. So it is not surprising that the number of conferences and the number of books in this field grows and grows, in a nearly unbounded way.

This volume presents the most exciting results of the Mobile and Wireless Communication Summit, held 2007 in Budapest. It contains worked out contributions from all areas of wireless communications. Techno-economic, regulatory and security issues are covered.

Also techno-economic, regulatory and security issues are covered

Physical.- Interleaving Strategies for Multidimensional Concatenated Zigzag Codes.- Simplified Channel-Aware Greedy Scheduling and Antenna Selection Algorithms for Multiuser MIMO Systems Employing Orthogonal Space Division Multiplexing.- On the Impact of Channel Estimation and Quantization Errors for Various Spatio-Temporal Transmission Schemes.- On Multi-Cell Cooperative Signal Processing in Backhaul-Constrained Cellular Systems.- Access.- One-Shot Multi-Bid Auction and Pricing in Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Networks.- Resource Allocation Strategies for SDMA/OFDMA Systems.- Techniques and Technologies.- Moment-Based Estimation of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio for Oversampled Narrowband Signals.- Estimation of Rain Attenuation Distribution on Terrestrial Microwave Links with General N-State Markov Model.- An Investigation of the Applicability of Fade Duration Markov Model in Attenuation Time Series Synthesis for Multipath Fading Channel.- Cost-Optimised Active Receive Array Antenna for Mobile Satellite Terminals.- Scheduling Techniques for Mobile Broadcast and Multicast Services.- Networks.- Body Area Network and Its Standardization at IEEE 802.15.BAN.- Generic Abstraction of Access Performance and Resources for Multi-Radio Access Management.- A Decentralized RAT Selection Algorithm Enabled by IEEE P1900.4.- Applications.- Business Models for Local Mobile Services Enabled by Convergent Online Charging.- Rights Management for User Content.- Systems.- Distributed Cross-Layer Approaches for VoIP Rate Control over DVB-S2/RCS.- Optical Satellite Downlinks to Optical Ground Stations and High-Altitude Platforms.- Wireless Applications in Healthcare and Welfare.- Analytical Analysis of the Performance Overheads of IPsec in MIPv6 Scenarios.