[The latest issue of the ACM Queue Magazine is focused on Wireless Data.
The articles are available online if you don't get the magazine.
Shameless Plug: I authored one of the articles ("Open Spectrum: A Path to
Ubiquitous Connectivity")... The
articles on WLAN were pretty good as well. -Rob]About Queue Magazine http://www.acmqueue.com/ A practical publication that will frame and define the technical problems and challenges that loom ahead, and just around the technical curve, helping readers to sharpen their own thinking as they pursue innovative solutions. Vol 1 No. 3 May 2003 Are You Ready for the Wireless Revolution? The Future of WLAN http://www.acmqueue.com/issue3/futurewlan1.cfm What challenges must we overcome to deliver ubiquitous wireless connectivity to the world? by Michael W. Ritter, Mobility Network Systems more>> The Family Dynamics of 802.11 http://www.acmqueue.com/issue3/802111.cfm How will the various members of this family of wireless standards help drive growth in the WLAN market? by Bill McFarland and Michael Wong, Atheros Communications Designing Portable Collaborative Networks http://www.acmqueue.com/issue3/portable1.cfm Collaborative applications for mobile workers pose special design challenges. Does PCN offer a solution? by Lyn Bartram and Michael Blackstock, Colligo Networks Self-Healing Networks http://www.acmqueue.com/issue3/selfhealing1.cfm Broken communication links can render wireless networks next to useless, but do decentralized "self-healing" networks provide the prescribed dose of reliability? by Robert Poor, Cliff Bowman, and Charlotte Burgess Auburn, Ember Corporation Open Spectrum: A Path to Ubiquitous Connectivity http://www.acmqueue.com/issue3/openspec1.cfm What advantages do the new open-spectrum techniques, such as ultra-wideband, mesh networks and software-defined radios, bring to the wireless table? by Robert Berger, Internet Bandwidth Development, LLC Caching XML Web Services for Mobility http://www.acmqueue.com/issue3/caching1.cfm Disconnected operations will likely be a problem for wireless environments for some time to come. Can local HTTP caching provide a way around such outages? by Douglas Terry and Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Microsoft Research -- Robert J. Berger - Internet Bandwidth Development, LLC. Voice: 408-882-4755 eFax: +1-408-490-2868 http://www.ibd.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
