Location Management and Routing in Mobile Wireless Networks

Focusing on routing protocols and medium access control techniques for mobile ad hoc networks, this book examines mobility, location management, paging, and radio resources for cellular networks. It discusses the technology's history, its current state, and future prospects from both single-hop and multi-hop mobile wireless networks. The authors include consultants and computer scientists with the Indian Institute of Management. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Amitava Mukherjee is a principal consultant for IBM Global Services, Calcutta, India. A member of the IEEE Communications Society, he receives his Ph.D. in computer science from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.

Somprakash Bandyopadhyay is an associate professor with the MIS Group and Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.

Debasish Saha is an associate professor of computer science with the MIS Group and Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta. A senior member of the IEEE, he holds a Ph.D. in electronics and electrical communications engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur, India.