How Wireless Works (2nd Edition)
by Eric Lindley, Preston Gralla

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Summary of How Wireless Works (2nd Edition)

How Wireless Works, Second Edition continues in the How It Works series tradition by explaining every aspect of wireless communications, from the remote control on your coffee table to the most sophisticated wireless Internet networks. This book will provide you with a basic technical background on wireless technologies, including infrared, radio-frequency, WiFi, and RFID. You'll also go inside each technology's strengths and weaknesses, so that you'll know which technology is best suited to a particular application. In part, you will learn about:

• How data rides on the wireless waves.
• How radio and television broadcasting work.
• How cellular networks, cells and base stations work.
• How Wifi works at home and at the office.
• Privacy and security in a wireless world.

It's very hard to find fault with this book. All the latest technologies receive attention, including the emerging Voice XML (VXML) concept and the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) standard that sees widespread Japanese use in NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service. Gralla also does his readers a service by explaining activities like mobile-phone service theft. --David Wall

Topics covered: Ways of communicating voice, data, video, and pretty much anything else over distances, without having a wired connection. This covers the whole range of technologies, from old-fashioned AM radio to swanky new services like third-generation (3G) mobile and location-based services. Internetworking is explained in the context of the unplugged Internet, and short-range wireless specifications like Bluetooth get attention, too.

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• Subjects > Computers & Technology > Networking > Wireless Networks
• Programming > APIs & Operating Environments
• Professional & Technical > Engineering