Since the early 1990s, the wireless communications field has witnessed explosive growth. The wide range of applications and existing new technologies nowadays stimulated this enormous growth and encouraged wireless applications. The new wireless networks will support heterogeneous traffic, consisting of voice, video, and data (multimedia). This necessitated looking at new wireless generation technologies and enhance its capabilities. This includes new standards, new levels of Quality of Service (QoS), new sets of protocols and architectures, noise reduction, power control, performance enhancement, link and mobility management, nomadic and wireless networks security, and ad-hoc architectures. Many of these topics are covered in this textbook. The aim of this book is research and development in the area of broadband wireless communications and sensor networks. It is intended for researchers that need to learn more and do research on these topics. But, it is assumed that the reader has some background about wireless communications and networking. In addition to background in each of the chapters, an in-depth analysis is presented to help our readers gain more R&D insights in any of these areas. The book is comprised of 22 chapters, written by a group of well-known experts in their respective fields. Many of them have great industrial experience mixed with proper academic background.

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Peer-to-Peer Networking in Mobile Communications Based on SIP.- Protocols for Data Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks.- A-Cell: A Novel Architecture for 4G and 4G+ Wireless Networks.- Third Generation WCDMA Radio Evolution.- Evolution of CDMA from Interference-Limited to Noise Limited.- Power Control Implementation in 3rd Generation CDMA Systems.- Power Control in Wireless Networks: Characteristics and Fundamentals.- Average Outage Duration of Wireless Communication Systems.- Enhancing TCP Performance in Wide-Area Cellular Wireless Newtorks: Transport Level Approaches.- Multi-Service Wireless Internet Link Enhancements.- Portability Architecture for Nomadic Wireless Internet Access Users and Security Performance Evaluation.- Design and Implementation of a Softswitch for Third Generation Mobile All-IP Network.- Clustering in Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Issues and Approaches.- Characterizing Uplink Load: Concepts and Algorithms.- Performance Analysis and Optimization of Multi-Hop Communication Systems.- Mobility Management for Wireless Networks: Modeling and Analysis.- Efficient Information Acquisition and Dissemination in Pervasive Computing Systems through Caching.- Security in Wireless Mobile and Sensor Networks.- Waveform Shaping Techniques for Bandwidth-Efficient Digital Modulations.- Multiple Antennas.- Diagnosis STBC's for Fading ISI Channels: Code Design and Equalization.- Fast Routing and Recovery Protocols in Hybrid Ad-hoc Cellular Networks