Telecommunication Systems and Technologies

Edited by : Paolo Bellavista,

DEIS-LIA, Universita deli Studi di Bologna, Italy

Telecommunication Systems and Technologies

Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy

Roberto Saracco, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy

Fundamentals of Communication Systems

Przemysław Dymarski and Sławomir Kula, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Fundamentals of Telecommunications

Khaled M. Fouad Elsayed, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Models and Layered Protocol Organization

oan Garcia-Haro, Josemaría Malgosa-Sanahuja, Pablo Pavón-Mariño, and Javier Vales-Alonso, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain

Analog and Digital Switching

Wojciech Kabaciński, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Antenna System in Telecommunications

Shaoqiu Xiao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, P.R. China
Ya n Z h a n g, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Honglin Hu, Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications (SHRCWC), P. R. China
Bailong Xiao and Bing-Zhong Wang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, P.R. China

Analog and Digital Transmission of Data

Simon Haykin, McMaster University, Canada

Optical Fibers

Atousa Vali Sichani and Hussein T. Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Wireless Terrestrial Communications: Cellular Telephony

Ariel Pashtan, Aware Networks, Inc., Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA

Wireless Terrestrial Communications: Non-Telephony-Oriented Technologies

Marco Chiani DEIS and Andrea Giorgetti DEIS, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Communication Satellites – Technologies and Systems

Lillian L. Dai, Jihwan (Patrick) Choi, and Vincent W. S. Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Mobile and Wireless Positioning Technologies

Vasileios Zeimpekis, Panos E. Kourouthanassis, and George. M. Giaglis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

Telecommunication Network Management

Raouf Boutaba and Jin Xiao, University of Waterloo, Canada

Telecommunication Network Reliability

S. Rai, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
S. Soh, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia

Quality of Service in Telecommunication Networks

Fabricio Carvalho de Gouveia and Thomas Magedanz, Technical University of Berlin, Franklinstr., Berlin, Germany

Power Management

G. Anastasi, Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy
M. Conti, E. Gregori, and A. Passarella, CNR-IIT Institute, Italy

Wireless networks: Opportunities for Infrastructure-related Optimization

Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668,USA
Stephan Olariu, Ekaterina Shurkova, Lan Wang, and Qingwen Xu, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA

Mobility Management in Wireless Systems

Jiang Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Shantidev Mohanty, Intel Corporation, USA

Location-Aware Telecommunication Services

Dario Bruneo, Luca Paladina, Maurizio Paone and Antonio Puliafito, Università di Messina, Italy

Session Management in Advanced Telecommunication Services

Anand Ranganathan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Dipanjan Chakraborty, IBM India Research Lab, India

Context-Aware Telecommunication Services

Bill N. Schilit, David M. Hilbert, and Jonathan Trevor, Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory, CA, USA

Network Security

Christos Douligeris and Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece

Telecommunication Network Interoperability

Paulo Teixeira de Sousa and Peter Stuckmann, European Commission, Belgium

Telecommunication Project Management

Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T, Middletown New Jersey, USA

Standards for Networked Equipment and Services

Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T, Middletown New Jersey, USA