Broadband Last Mile: Access Technologies for Multimedia Communications

ISBN-13: 9780824758868 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 680 str.

Jayant;Jayant Nikil; Jayant Jayant

Opis

Broadband Last Mile: Access Technologies for Multimedia Communications provides in-depth treatments of access technologies and the applications that rely upon them or support them. It examines innovations and enhancements along multiple dimensions in access, with the overarching goal of ensuring that the last mile is not the weak link in the broadband chain. Written by experts from the academic and commercial segments of the field, the book's self-contained sections address topics related to the disciplines of communications, networking, computing, and signal processing.
The core of this treatment contains contemporary reviews of broadband pipes in the classes of copper, cable, fiber, wireless, and satellite. It emphasizes the coexistence of these classes within a network, the importance of optical communications for unprecedented bandwidth, and the flexibility and mobility provided by wireless.
The book also includes perspective on the increasingly important topic of network management, providing insights that are true regardless of the nature of the pipe. The text concludes with a discussion of newly emerging applications and broadband services.
This book offers an all-in-one treatment of the physical pipes and network architectures that make rich and increasingly personalized applications possible. It serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners working in the increasingly pervasive field of broadband.

Spis treści

BROADBAND IN THE LAST MILE: CURRENT AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS
John Apostolopoulos and Nikil Jayant

THE LAST MILE, THE EDGE, AND THE BACKBONE Benny Bing and G. K. Chang

LAST-MILE COPPER ACCESS
Krista S. Jacobsen

LAST-MILE HFC ACCESS
Daniel Howard, Bruce Currivan, Thomas Kolze, Jonathan Min, and Henry Samueli

OPTICAL ACCESS: NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGY Brian Ford and Stephen E. Ralph

LAST-MILE WIRELESS ACCESS IN BROADBAND AND HOME NETWORKS
Carlos de M. Cordeiro and Dharma P. Agrawal

SATELLITE TECHNOLOGIES SERVING AS LAST-MILE SOLUTIONS
Paul G. Steffes and Jim Stratigos

MANAGEMENT OF LAST-MILE BROADBAND NETWORKS
Mani Subramanian

EMERGING BROADBAND SERVICES SOLUTIONS
Mani Subramanian

O autorze

Nikil Jayant