Emerging Wireless LANs, Wireless PANs, and Wireless MANs

Yang Xiao, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Alabama. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently serves as Editor in Chief of International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), and International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (IJTA). His areas of research include security, telemedicine, sensor networks, and wireless networks. He has published more than 300 papers in major journals, refereed conference proceedings, and books related to the aforementioned areas.Yi Pan, PhD, is a Yamacraw Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, optical networks, wireless networks, and bioinformatics. His work on computing using reconfigurable optical buses has inspired extensive subsequent work by many researchers, and his research results have been cited by more than 100 researchers worldwide. He is a co-holder of three U.S. patents (pending) and five provisional patents; has coedited eleven books or conference proceedings; and has published more than 130 research papers.

• PREFACE. CONTRIBUTORS.PART I: IEEE 802.11 WIRELESS LANs.Chapter 1 IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control and Physical Layers (Kaveh Ghaboosi, Matti Latva-aho, and Yang Xiao).Chapter 2 Framework for Decentralized Wireless LAN Resource Management (Jiang Xie, Ivan Howitt, and Anita Raja).Chapter 3 Incentive Issues in IEEE 802.11x Wireless Networks (Yu-Kwong Kwok).Chapter 4 Capacity and Rate Adaptation in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs (Ming Li and Yang Xiao).PART II IEEE 802.15.1 BLUETOOTH AND IEEE 802.15.2.Chapter 5 Overview of IEEE 802.15.1 Medium Access Control and Physical Layers (Kaveh Ghaboosi, Yang Xiao, and Jeff J. Robertson).Chapter 6 Overview of IEEE 802.15.2: Coexistence of Wireless Personal Area Networks with Other Unlicensed Frequency Bands Operating Wireless Devices (Kaveh Ghaboosi, Yang Xiao, Matti Latva-aho, and Babak H. Khalaj).Chapter 7 Coexistence of Bluetooth Piconets and Wireless LAN (Jingli Li and Xiangqian Liu).PART III IEEE 802.15.3 WIRELESS PANs.Chapter 8 Frame Format, Channel Access, and Piconet Operation of IEEE 802.15.3 Wireless PANs (Yang Xiao, Michael J. Plyler, Bo Sun, and Yi Pan).Chapter 9 Power Management and Security of IEEE 802.15.3 Wireless PANs (Yang Xiao, Michael J. Plyler, Bo Sun, and Yi Pan).Chapter 10 Performance Evaluation and Optimization of IEEE 802.15.3 Piconets (Zhanping Yin and Victor C. M. Leung).Chapter 11 Performance Analysis of MB-OFDM UWB Systems (Chris Snow, Lutz Lampe, and Robert Schoberg).Chapter 12 Distributed Solution for Resource Allocation in Ultra-Wideband Wireless PANs (Hai Jiang, Kuang-Hao Liu, Weihua Zhuang, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen).PART IV IEEE 802.15.4 AND 802.15.5 WIRELESS PANs.Chapter 13 IEEE 802.15.4 Medium Access Control and Physical Layers (Yang Xiao, Michael J. Plyler, Ming Li, and Fei Hu).Chapter 14 Performance Analysis for IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Personal Area Networks (Hsueh-Wen Tseng, Yu-Kai Huang, and Ai-Chun Pang).Chapter 15 Data Transmission and Beacon Scheduling in Low Rate Wireless Mesh Personal Area Networks (Jianliang Zheng).Chapter 16 Impact of Reliable and Secure Sensing on Cluster Lifetime in IEEE 802.15.4 Networks (Jelena Misic).Chapter 17 IEEE 802.15.5: Recommended Practice for WPAN Mesh Network (Low Data Rate) (Chunhui Zhu and Myung J. Lee).Chapter 18 Power-Saving Algorithms on IEEE 802.15.4 for Wireless Sensor Networks (Tae Rim Park and Myung J. Lee).PART V IEEE 802.16 WIRELESS MANs.Chapter 19 IEEE 802.16 Medium Access Control and Physical Layers (Yang Xiao, Michael J. Plyler, Tianji Li, and Fei Hu).Chapter 20 QoS Support for WiMAX (Usman A. Ali, Qiang Ni, Yang Xiao, Wenbing Yao, and Dionysios Skordoulis).Chapter 21 Subchannel Allocation and Connection Admission Control in OFDMA-Based IEEE 802.16/WiMAX-Compliant Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks (Dusit Niyato and Ekram Hossain).Chapter 22 Universal Authentication and Billing Architecture for Wireless MANs (Xiaodong Lin, Haojin Zhu, Minghui Shi, Rongxing Lu, Pin-Han Ho, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen).Chapter 23 Scheduling Algorithms for WiMAX Networks: Simulator Development and Performance Study (Sai Suhas Kolukula, M. Sai Rupak, K. S. Sridharan, and Krishna M. Sivalingam).INDEX.ABOUT THE EDITORS.