| This volume presents the most exciting results of the Mobile and Wireless Communication Summit, held 2007 in Budapest. It contains worked out contributions from all areas of wireless communications, physical layer, access methods, techniques and technologies, networks, applications and systems.
Lectori Salutem!
This is another book – among the myriads – dealing with wireless communications. The reader might be aware: this topic is really among bestsellers in technology – bestsellers in technology itself and that in technical literature. Communications is one of the leading techniques in information society and mobile/wireless communications is one among the (maybe not more than two with optics the second) leading techniques in communications.
Development of wireless communications was and is really spectacular in the last decade of the 20th and first decade of the 21st century. Such topics as MIMO, wireless networking, security in the technological field, new business models in the service providing field, various applications in the users’ side, to mention a few only, were undergoing an unprecedented evolution. So it is not surprising that the number of conferences and the number of books in this field grows and grows, in a nearly unbounded way.
I strongly hope that in spite of this abundance our book yields some valid contribution to this mass. It is a sample (I feel and hope: a rather significant sample) of what was achieved in the last year/last few years in this field in the world. It is also a sample of what topics are felt as important in Information Society Technology by the European Union. And also a sample of what was felt as important by this conference, the 16th IST Mobile and Wireless communication Summit. Our effort was to put together a valid show of communications’ art by these samples. |
