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Chapter 1 discusses the handoff, which is the mechanism for transferring an ongoing call from one base station to another as a user moves through the coverage area of a cellular system. Admission control is a related problem, in which the radio resource management system has to decide if a new call arrival, or a request for service or handoff may be allowed into the system. Four conventional handoff schemes in a voice-based, single traffic system are summarized and two handoff schemes for integrated voice and data wireless mobile networks are also covered in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 26 surveys data management schemes in wireless mobile environments. The functionality of a database management system depends on the design of database and replication of data schemes. These issues are handled via caching data in the mobile units and periodically validating these data using different techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 7 discusses the integration of voice and data traffic in wireless networks. It concentrates on Bluetooth technology (de-facto standard for wireless personal area networks), IEEE 802.11 technology (the main standard for wireless local area networks), and the UMTS technology for third generation cellular systems. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 6 focuses on the design and implementation of media access control (MAC) protocols for cellular telephony, wireless ATM and ad hoc networks. Fundamental MAC protocols include frequency division multiple access (FDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), code division multiple access (CDMA), random access schemes such as ALOHA and carrier sense multiple access (CSMA). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 5 gives an overview of algorithms and lower bounds for channel assignment problems in cellular networks, when adjacent and inter-site channel interference are considered in addition to co-channel interference. It also discusses relevant results on graph labelling, which forms the basis of many of the algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 23 reviews multicasting protocols for wired networks, cellular networks (characterized by a fixed infrastructure with mobile end nodes) and ad hoc networks (infrastructure-less mobile networks). In a multicasting problem, a message is to be sent from a node to several other nodes in the network. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]