作者：George Aggelou
出版日期：August 14, 2008
出版社：McGraw-Hill
页数：525
ISBN：ISBN-10: 0071482563 ISBN-13: 978-0071482561
文件格式：PDF

Product Description
A Complete Roadmap to Wireless Mesh Network Design Principles and Practices Using WiFi, WiMAX, and ZigBEE!
Wireless Mesh Networking provides everything needed tocreate in-demand wireless mesh networks that provide wireless broadbandaccess over wide areas. This resource presents a complete roadmap tothe design and operation of wireless mesh networks, covering basicprinciples, key standards, and all aspects of network operation-fromantenna technologies to software to energy management.
This skills-building tool is packed with 100 detailed illustrations. Wireless Mesh Networking features:
Expert guidance on integrating WiFi, WiMAX, and ZigBEE into seamless wireless networksThe latest methods for ensuring security across the wireless networkIn-depth coverage of data fusion principlesVital information on SmartMesh networking in SensorNetsAutonomic selfware and bio-inspired communication artifactsInside This One-Stop Guide to Wireless Mesh Networks
• Wireless mesh communications paradigms
• Wireless mesh network theory and models
• Wireless mesh architectures and protocols
• Wireless mesh network standards (WiFi, WiMAX, ZigBEE)
• Use of advanced antenna technologies
• Mechanisms for secure communications
• Software and middleware
• Wireless sensor networking
• Foundations of data fusion, gathering, and processing
• Energy management
• Autonomic selfware communications
• Selfware networking
About the Author
George Aggelou, Prof. Dr., is currently a staff memberof the Greek Ministry of Transport and Communications,Headquarters-General Directorate of Air Navigation, ElectronicsDivision-Telecommunication FacilitiesSection. For 5 years, he wasAssistant Professor of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at theInstitute of Technology in Greece, and the Director of G-AlphaTelecomms, a company that builds next-generation wireless networks forenterprises and industry. Prof. Aggelou is also the co-founder ofMobile E-Commerce Technologies, Ltd., in London. He has been involvedin the standardization of wireless networking for many years, first asa researcher at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York, andthen as a team leader at Cisco Systems in London. He is also the authorof the book Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: From Wireless LANs to 4G Networks,published by McGraw-Hill in 2004. Prof. Aggelou was the recipient ofthe London-based RACAL Prize for Research Excellence in 2000.