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Edited by
STEPHEN B. MILES
SANJAY E. SARMA
JOHN R. WILLIAMS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge University Press 2008
ISBN-13 978-0-511-39669-4
Page: 244

This book is addressed to business management and project managers as well as researchers who are evaluating the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) for tracking uniquely identified objects. In an effort to make RFID project management less of an art form and more of a science RFID Technology and Applications brings together pioneering RFID academic research principals to analyze engineering issues that have hampered the deployment of RFID and to share ‘‘best practices’’ learnings from their work. By extending the original work of the Auto-ID Center at MIT and the subsequent Auto-ID Labs consortium led by MIT that now comprises seven world-renowned research universities on four continents, this book seeks to establish a baseline for what RFID technology works today and identifies areas requiring research on which other researchers in academic, commercial, and regulatory agencies can build.

The researchers represented in these pages have gathered on three continents in the course of the RFID Academic Convocations, a research collaboration hosted by the Auto-ID Labs that started in January of 2006, at MIT, and was followed by events co-hosted with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Auto-ID Labs at Fudan University in Shanghai, as RFID Live! 2007 pre-conference events, and by the event in Brussels organized with the European Commission Directorate-General for Informatics (DGIT) and the Auto-ID Labs at Cambridge University.
These Convocations bring together academic researchers with industry representatives and regulatory stakeholders to collaborate across disciplines and institutions to identify challenges faced by industry in adopting RFID technology. As summarized by Robert Cresanti, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, United States Department of Commerce in his remarks that day, ‘‘the two primary challenges facing this new technology are standards and interoperability issues across various RFID systems, companies, and countries, and privacy and security concerns.

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WiMAX/MobileFi
Advanced Research and Technology
Edited by Yang Xiao
Page: 450

IEEE 802.16 working group was set up in 1999 to develop a new standard for broadband wireless access (BWA) and published the fi rst IEEE 802.16 standard in October 2001. An industrial association, namely worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) forum was formed to promote the 802.16 standards by defi ning the interoperability specifi cations between 802.16 products from different vendors. Th us, the IEEE 802.16 networks are also often referred to as WiMAX networks. In October 2004, the new standard 802.16-2004 was published, which is actually an amalgamation of 802.16 and 802.16a. Recently, the 802.16e standard was also ratifi ed in December 2005 by allowing the upgrade from fi xed BWA systems to mobile service provision up to vehicular speeds.

WiMAX provides a worldwide revolution in BWA including both fixed and mobile handsets. Th is book addresses many research-oriented issues in WiMAX such as connection admission control, integration with WiFi networks, quality of service (QoS) support, security issues, mobility support, terminal energy consumption, frequency reuse, confi guration issues, QoS architecture, handoff management, architecture for wireless IP networks, scheduling algorithms, mesh networks, load-balancing, radio resource management, systems deployment, performance modeling and analysis, and simulations. Th e goal of this edited book is to provide an excellent reference for students, faculty, researchers, and people in the industry related to these fields.

This edited book contains chapters written by experts on a wide range of topics that are associated with novel methods, techniques and applications of WiMAX systems. The book contains 17 chapters from prominent researchers working in these areas around the world. Although the covered topics may not be an exhaustive representation of all issues in WiMAX, they do represent a rich and useful sample of the strategies and contents.

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• Hardcover: 1004 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 4 edition (March 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131873741
• ISBN-13: 978-0131873742