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Enabling Technologies for Wireless E-Business

  • Provides complete coverage on enabling technologies for wireless e-business

  • Explains both industry standards and relevant academic research

  • Ideally suited for classes and training courses in e-business or wireless technologies

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Fundamentals of Wireless Communications

    • D. Shen, V. O. K. Li
    Pages 7-43
  3. Wireless Security

    • W.-B. Lee
    Pages 44-75
  4. Wireless Application Protocol

    • W. Kou
    Pages 76-88
  5. RFID Technologies and Applications

    • D. Kou, K. Zhao, Y. Tao, W. Kou
    Pages 89-108
  6. Software Infrastructure for Context-Aware Mobile Computing

    • C. L. Wang, X. L. Zhang, N. Belaramani, P. L. Siu, Y. Chow, F. C. M. Lau
    Pages 109-131
  7. Data Management for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

    • F. Perich, A. Joshi, R. Chirkova
    Pages 132-176
  8. Mobile Agents: The State of the Art

    • B. Yang, J. Liu
    Pages 177-198
  9. Multiagent Communication for e-Business using Tuple Spaces

    • H. F. Li, T. Radhakrishnan, Y. Zhang
    Pages 199-232
  10. Mobile Payment

    • Y. Liu, X. Cao, L. Dang
    Pages 233-252
  11. Mobile Content Delivery Technologies

    • Y. Yang, R. Yan
    Pages 253-298
  12. Mobile Services Computing

    • L. J. Zhang, B. Li, Y. Song
    Pages 299-311
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 361-387

About this book

Advances in wireless technologies promise to reshape the way we conduct business. Yet to make wireless e-business work effectively, a variety of enabling technologies are needed.

Kou and Yesha and their contributors provide comprehensive information on these technologies, including, for example, wireless security, mobile payment, location-based services, mobile data management, and RFID technologies. The presentation is targeted at students, lecturers, e-business developers, consultants, and business managers, and this book is an ideal introduction for both self-study and taught e-business classes or commercial training courses.

"I believe this is an excellent book to acquire comprehensive knowledge on enabling technologies for the blooming wireless e-business. I highly recommend this book!" Robert Mayberry, Vice President, Sensors and Actuators, IBM Software Group

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chinese State Key Laboratory of ISN, China

    Weidong Kou

  • Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA

    Yelena Yesha

About the editors

Dr. Weidong Kou is a Chief Architect and a Senior Manager of IBM Greater China Group, and an Adjunct Professor of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He was a Dean of the School of Computer Science at Xidian University, a Director of the Chinese Key Laboratory on Integrated Services Networks (ISN), and an Associate Director of the E-Business Technology Institute at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Kou is a Laureate of 2004 Friendship Award of China, the most prestige award and the highest honor from Chinese National Government to recognize an international expert. He has over 12 years of industry experience in IBM, AT&T, and Siemens in North America. Dr. Kou was elected as a Member of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1992. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE.

Dr. Yelena Yesha is an Exceptional Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Formerly, she served as the Director of the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences at NASA. Dr. Yesha is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member of the ACM.

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