Towards 4G Technologies : Services with Initiative

3G is about mobility and bandwidth, 4G will be about services and how communication technology can make our lives easier.

This exciting new text starts with an overall system description, which illustrates the new underlying network technologies (such as active networks, ad hoc networks).

It then continues to describe powerful middleware solutions and service delivery mechanisms.

The authors explain how personalization, mobile middleware, peer to peer services, simplicity, semantic computing, and content-awareness fit into this new concept and why they will become a necessity for future mobile services.

The book puts the user on center stage and gives details of new exciting ways to communicate.

It describes the challenges and opportunities of 4th Generation Mobile Systems and will explain new paradigms of service provisioning that include flexible and adaptable services.

These are able to handle intelligent user profiles, proactive service selection, context-aware service provisioning and ubiquitous computing.

In this new environment, the use of agents that are empowered to act on the user's behalf becomes very important.It is suitable for Telecoms Engineers in R&D departments, CTOs, Telecoms managers, and, also for researchers in academia of electrical and electronic engineering as well as telecommunications.