Emerging Wireless and Mobile Technologies

Emerging Technologies in Mobile and Wireless Data Network Evolution

Wireless data service is more and more demanded now. CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) service is one of them, which is very popular in North America, Latin, South America and some Asian Pacific countries. In wide sense, it can be viewed as a kind of service, technology, standard and network. In this sense, CDPD’s success is also because of the factors mentioned above. Nowadays, many public a...

Mobile and Wireless Technologies: Emerging Opportunities for Digital Government

This paper overviews the rapid rise of mobile technologies, particular wireless communications devices. It outlines four emerging application areas where wireless technologies hold great potential for digital government efforts. It concludes by highlight the lack of research on wireless technologies in the social science, and the need to rapidly expand efforts in this area.

Emerging Technologies for Wireless Networks

Wireless network survivability is an issue of great concern to current telecommunication industry. Since loss of service in wireless network, for example cellular system, due to disaster and catastrophic failures could be devastating and result in significant revenue or even lives loss. This becomes apparent during the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Septemb...

Emerging Technologies for Mobile Commerce

The emergence and popularity of 2G and 3G cellular networks as well as the high market penetration of mobile devices have created strong demands for introducing new applications in the area of mobile commerce (MCommerce). M-Commerce deals with selling goods, services, and content, including related functions like advertising and payment transactions, over a cellular network, and hence follows s...

Mobile and Wireless Positioning Technologies