Contents v -- Foreword 1 xi -- Foreword 2 xiii -- Preface xv -- 1 Introduction 1 -- 1.1 Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Computing 2 -- 1.2 The Driving Factor of Mobility 5 -- 1.3 Innovation Drivers 9 -- References 16 -- 2 The Market for UC 17 -- 2.1 Mobile Market Developments 17 -- 2.2 Internet Market Developments 22 -- 2.3 Fixed and Mobile Convergence 30 -- References 36 -- 3 Technologies 37 -- 3.1 Mobile Wireless Communication Technologies 37 -- 3.2 UMTS 100 -- 3.3 UC Appliances (Devices) 145 -- References 234 -- 4 Standardization 241 -- 4.1 WPAN and WLAN Standardization 243 -- 4.2 3G Standardization 250 -- 4.3 Addressing and Registration Standards 258 -- 4.4 Standards for Information Encoding 263 -- 4.5 Software, Protocols, Computer Languages, and Smart Cards 274 -- References 296 -- 5 Applications 299 -- 5.1 UMTS Services and Applications 304 -- 5.2 Examples: WAP and i-Mode 318 -- 5.3 Telemetry 322 -- 5.4 Mobile E-Commerce 329 -- References 333 -- 6 Resource Issues 335 -- 6.1 Addressing Capacity in Networked Environments 335 -- 6.2 Frequency Spectrum 344 -- References 363 -- 7 Outlook: Telecom + Datacom + Media = Infocom 365 -- 7.1 Taking Moore's Law into the Future 369 -- 7.2 Future Network Architectures 371 -- 7.3 Devices 375 -- 7.4 The Smart-Card Issue 377 -- 7.5 New Services and Applications 378 -- 7.6 Mobile Agents 379 -- 7.7 Industry Outlook 380 -- 7.8 Researchers Move to 4G Mobile Radio Systems 381 -- 7.9 Market Development 383 -- References 384 -- List of Acronyms 387 -- About the Authors 415 -- Index 419.