| ACM Address Complete Message | |
| AGCH Access Grant Channel | |
| AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System | |
| ANS Answer message | |
| ANSI American National Standards | |
| Institute | |
| AuC Authentication Center | |
| BCCH Broadcast Control Channel | |
| BISDN Broadband ISDN | |
| BOC Bell Operating Companies | |
| BSC Base Station Controller | |
| BSS Base Station Subsystem | |
| BSSMAP BSS Management Application Part | |
| BTS Base Transceiver Station | |
| CATV Cable Television | |
| CBCH Cell Broadcast Channel | |
| CC Call Control | |
| CCIR Comite Consultatif International Radio | |
| CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telephony and Telegraphy (French) | |
| CDMA Code Division Multiple Access | |
| CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data | |
| CEPT European Conference of Posts and Telecommunications | |
| CGSA Cellular Geographic Service Area | |
| CLNP ConnectionLess Network Protocol | |
| CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check | |
| CT2 Cordless Telephone 2 | |
| DCE Data Circuit-terminating Equipment | |
| DCS1800 Digital Communication System | |
| DECT Digital European Cordless Telephone | |
| DNS Domain Name Server | |
| DPC Destination Point Code | |
| DTAP Direct Transit Appl. Part | |
| DTE Data Terminal Equipment | |
| E-TDMA Extended TDMA | |
| EIA Electronic Industries Association | |
| EIR Equipment Identity Register | |
| ETSI European Telecommunication Standards Institute | |
| FACCH Fast Associated Control Channel | |
| FCC Federal Communications Commission | |
| FCCH Frequency Correction Channel | |
| FDD Frequency Division Duplex | |
| FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access | |
| FEC Forward Error Correction | |
| FPLMTS Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication System | |
| GMSC Gateway MSC | |
| GMSK Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying | |
| GPCH GPRS Packet Channel | |
| GPRS General Packet Radio Service | |
| GSM Groupe Speciale Mobile, | |
| Global System for Mobile Communications | |
| HDLC High level Data Link Control | |
| HLR Home Location Register | |
| HSN Hopping Sequence Number | |
| IAB Internet Activities Board | |
| IAM Initial Address Message | |
| IETF Internet Engineering Task Force | |
| IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity | |
| IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity | |
| IMTS Improved Mobile Telephone Service | |
| IN Intelligent Network | |
| IP Internet Protocol | |
| ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISO International Standards Organization | |
| ISP Intermediate Service Part | |
| ISUP ISDN User Part | |
| ITU International Telecommunication Union | |
| ITU-T ITU Telecommunication Sector | |
| IWF Interworking Function | |
| LAI Location Area Identifier | |
| LAN Local Area Network | |
| LAP Link Access Protocol | |
| LAPB Link Access Protocol - B Channel | |
| LAPD Link Access Protocol - D Channel | |
| LAPDm LAPD Mobile | |
| LCI Local Cell Identifier | |
| LSAI Local Service Area identifier | |
| LSB Least Significant Bit | |
| M-ES Mobile End System | |
| MAC Medium Access Control | |
| MAIO Mobile Allocation Index Offset | |
| MAN Metropolitan Area Network | |
| MAP Mobile Application Part | |
| MD-IS Mobile Data Intermediate System | |
| MDBS Mobile DataBase Station | |
| MH Mobile Host | |
| MIN Mobile Identification Number | |
| MM Mobility Management | |
| MNLP Mobile Network Location Protocol | |
| MoU Memorandum of Understanding | |
| MS Mobile Station | |
| MSC Mobile services Switching Center | |
| MSIC Mobile Subscriber Identification Number | |
| MSISDN Mobile System ISDN | |
| MTA Mobile Telephone System A | |
| MTB Mobile Telephone System B | |
| MTD Mobile Telephone System D | |
| MTP Message Transfer Part | |
| MTSO Mobile Telephone Switching Office |
| NEI Network Entity Identifier | |
| NMT Nordic Mobile Telephone | |
| OACSU Off-Air Call Set Up | |
| OAM Operations, Administration, and Maintenance | |
| OPC Origin Point Code | |
| OSI Open System Interconnection | |
| PAD Packet Assembler Disassembler | |
| PCC Power Control Channel | |
| PCCA Portable Computer and Communications Association | |
| PCH Paging Channel | |
| PCS Personal Communications System | |
| PIN Personal Identification Number | |
| PD Protocol Discriminator | |
| PLMN Public Land Mobile Network | |
| PMR Private land Mobile Radio | |
| POTS Plain Old Telephone Service | |
| PSPDN Packet Switched Packet Data Network | |
| PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network | |
| RACE Research on Advanced Communications in Europe | |
| RACH Random Access Channel | |
| RBOCs Regional Bell Operating Companies | |
| RECC Reverse Control Channel | |
| RF Radio Frequency | |
| RIL3 Radio Interface Layer 3 | |
| RLP Radio Link Protocol | |
| RR Radio Resources | |
| SACCH Slow Associated Control Channel |
| General Information | |||
| Jochen Schiller, Mobile Communications, Addison-Wesley 2000, ISBN 0-201-39836-2. | |||
| Ellen Kayata Wesel, Wireless Multimedia Communications, Addison-Wesley 1998, ISBN 0-201-63394-9 | |||
| David J. Goodman, Wireless Personal Communications Systems, Addison-Wesley 1997, ISBN 0-201-63470-8 | |||
| Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd edition, Prentice Hall 1996, ISBN 0-13-349945-6 | |||
| Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 1996, ISBN 1-55860-368-9 | |||
| Uyless Black, Mobile and Wireless Networks, Prentice Hall 1996, ISBN 0-13-440546-3 | |||
| IEEE Communications Magazine | |||
| IEEE Personal Communications Magazine | |||
| Regulatory Issues | |||
| FCC website: http://www.fcc.gov/ | |||
| Industry Canada “working” website on spectrum management: http://spectrum.ic.gc.ca/ | |||
| Fundamentals of Cellular Systems | |||
| Salkintzis and Chamzas, Mobile Packet Data Technology, IEEE Personal Communications, February 1997, pp 10-18 | |||
| Katzela and Naghshineh, Channel Assignment Schemes for Cellular Mobile Telecommunication Systems: A Comprehensive Survey, IEEE Personal Communications, June 1996, pp 10-31 | |||
| Hac, Wireless and Cellular Architecture and Services, IEEE Communications Magazine, November 1995, pp 98-104 | |||
| Khan and Kilpatrick, MOBITEX and Mobile Data Standards, IEEE Communications Magazine, March 1995, pp 96-101 | |||
| Falconer et al., Time Division Multiple Access Methods for Wireless Personal Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, January 1995, pp 50-57 | |||
| Kohono et al., Spread Spectrum Access Methods for Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, January 1995, pp 58-67 | |||
| Pahlahvan and Levesque, Wireless Data Communications, Proc. of the IEEE, September 1994, pp 1398-1430 | |||
| CDMA Development Group Website: http://www.cdg.org/ | |||
| AMPS and CDPD | |||
| The Wireless Data Forum Website: http://www.cdpd.org/cdpd/ | |||
| CDPD Consortium, Cellular Digital Packet Data System Specification, Release 1.1, January 19, 1995 (CD-ROM) | |||
| Abramson, Multiple Access in Wireless Digital Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE, September 1994, pp 1360-1370 | |||
| GSM | |||
| GSM Association Website: http://www.gsmworld.com/ | |||
| John Scourias, Overview of the Global System for Mobile Communications: http://ccnga.uwaterloo.ca/~jscouria/gsm.html | |||
| Rahnema, Overview of the GSM System and Protocol Architecture, IEEE Communications Magazine, April 1993, pp 92-100 | |||
| Mouly and Pautet, The GSM System for Mobile Communication, published by the authors, 1992, 701 pages, ISBN 2-9507190-0-7 | |||
| GPRS | |||
| Roger Kalden, Ingo Meirick, and Michael Meyer, Wireless Internet Access Based on GPRS, IEEE Personal Communications, April 2000, pp 8-18 | |||
| Introduction to GPRS - General Packet Radio Service http://keskus.hut.fi/opetus/s38118/s98/htyo/54/ | |||
| Hannu H. Kari’s webpages: http://www.cs.hut.fi/~hhk/GPRS/gprs_index.html | |||
| Jian Cai and David J. Goodman, General Packet Radio Service in GSM, IEEE Communications Magazine October 1997, pp. 122-131 | |||
| Götz Brasche and Bernhard Walke, Concepts, Services, and Protocols of the New GSM Phase 2+ General Packet Radio Service, IEEE Communications Magazine, August 1997, pp. 94-104 | |||
| 3rd Generation, IMT-2000 | |||
| ITU website: http://www.itu.int/ | |||
| IMT 2000 website: http://www.itu.int/imt/ | |||
| European Union Mobile Communications RTD website: http://www.de.infowin.org/ACTS/ANALYSYS/CONCERTATION/MOBILITY/ | |||
| DaSilva et al., European R&D Programs on Third-Generation Mobile Communication Systems, IEEE Personal Communications, Feb. 1997, pp 46-52 | |||
| Magedanz, Integration and Evolution of Existing Mobile Telecommunications Systems towards UMTS, IEEE Communications Magazine, September 1996, pp 90-96 | |||
| Pahlavan et al., Trends in Local Wireless Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, March 1995, pp 88-95 | |||
| DaSilva and Fernandes, The European Research Program for Advanced Mobile Systems, IEEE Personal Communications, February 1995, pp 14-19 | |||
| Wireless LANs | |||
| WaveLAN website: http://www.wavelan.com/ | |||
| IEEE standards: http://standards.ieee.org/ | |||
| IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/index.html | |||
| Bluetooth website: http://www.bluetooth.com/ | |||
| Bluetooth: The universal radio interface for ad-hoc, wireless connectivity, http://www.ericsson.se/review/pdf/1998031.pdf | |||
| IrDA versus Bluetooth: A Complementary Comparison: http://www.countersys.com/tech/bluetooth.html | |||
| Pravin Bhagwat, Chatschik Bisdikian, Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Mahmoud Naghshineh, and Satish Tripathi, BlueSky: A Cordless Networking Solution for Palmtop Computers, Proc. of the Fifth Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Seattle, USA, August 1999, pages 69-76 | |||
| HIPERLAN/1 Alliance: http://www.hiperlan.com/ | |||
| IP Layer | |||
| IETF website http://www.ietf.org/ | |||
| Internet Protocol, Version 4 Specification (RFC 791): ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc791.txt | |||
| Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification (RFC 2460): ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2460.txt | |||
| MobileIP working group website: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/mobileip-charter.html | |||
| IP Mobility Support (RFC 2002): ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2002.txt | |||
| Dynamic Host Configuration (dhc) Working Group: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/dhc-charter.html | |||
| Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (RFC 2131): ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2131.txt | |||
| Helen Wang et al., ICEBERG: An Integrated Core Network Architecture for Integrated Communications, IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 7, No. 4, August 2000, pages 10-19 | |||
| Peter J. McCann and Tom Hiller, An Internet Infrastructure for Cellular CDMA Networks Using Mobile IP, IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 7, No. 4, August 2000, pages 26-32 | |||
| Ramachandran Ramjee et al., IP-Based Access Network Infrastructure for Next-Generation Wireless Data Networks, IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 7, No. 4, August 2000, pages 34-41 | |||
| Andrew T. Campbell et al., Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Cellular IP, IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 7, No. 4, August 2000, pages 42-49 | |||
| Subir Das et al., TeleMIP: Telecommunications-Enhanced Mobile IP Architecture for Fast Intradomain Mobility, IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 7, No. 4, August 2000, pages 50-58 | |||
| Charles E. Perkins, Mobile IP Joins Forces with AAA, IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 7, No. 4, August 2000, pages 59-61 | |||
| Girish Patel and Steven Dennett, The 3GPP and 3GPP2 Movements Toward an All-IP Mobile Network, IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 7, No. 4, August 2000, pages 62-64 | |||
| Youssef Iraqi, Raouf Boutaba, and Alberto Leon-Garcia, QoS control in wireless ATM, Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 5, No. 2, July 2000, pages 137-145 | |||
| Ralph Droms, Automated Configuration of TCP/IP with DHCP, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 3, No. 4, July/August 1999, pages 45-53 | |||
| Charles E. Perkins, Mobile networking in the Internet, Mobile Networks and Applications, January 1999, pages 319-334 | |||
| Charles E. Perkins, Mobile IP: Design Principles and Practice, Addison-Wesley 1998, ISBN 0-201-63469-4, 275 pages | |||
| Bhagwat et al., Network Layer Mobility: An Architecture and Survey, IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, June 1996, pp 54-64 | |||
| Routing and Ad-Hoc Networks | |||
| Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (manet) Working Group: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/manet-charter.html | |||
| Charles E. Perkins, Ad Hoc Networking, Addison-Wesley 2001, ISBN 0-201-30976-9 | |||
| Nitin Vaidya, Tutorial on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Routing, MAC and Transport Issues, http://www.cs.tamu.edu/faculty/vaidya/presentations.html (last updated August 2000) | |||
| M. Scott Corson, Joseph P. Macker, and Gregory H. Cirincione, Internet-Based Mobile Ad Hoc Networking, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 3, No. 4, July/August 1999, pages 63-70 | |||
| Sze-Yao Noi, Yu-Chee Tseng, Yuh-Shyan Chen, and Jang-Ping Sheu, The Broadcast Storm Problem in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Proc. of the Fifth Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Seattle, USA, August 1999, pages 151-162 | |||
| Robert Castaneda and Samir R. Das, Query Localization Techniques for On-Demand Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks, Proc. of the Fifth Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Seattle, USA, August 1999, pages 186-194 | |||
| Elizabeth M. Royer and Charles E. Perkins, Multicast Operation of the Ad-Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol, Proc. of the Fifth Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Seattle, USA, August 1999, pages 207-218 | |||
| Josh Broch, David A. Maltz, and David B. Johnson. Supporting Hierarchy and Heterogeneous Interfaces in Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Proc. of the Workshop on Mobile Computing, IEEE, Perth, Western Australia, June 1999. | |||
| Elizabeth M. Royer and C.-K. Toh, A Review of Current Routing Protocols for Ad-Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks, IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, April 1999, pp. 46-55. | |||
| C. E. Perkins and E. M. Royer, Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing, Proc. of the Second IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, New Orleans, February 1999, pages 90-100 | |||
| Y.-B. Ko, N. H. Vaidya, Location-Aided Routing (LAR) in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Proc. of the Fourth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Dallas, October 1998, pages 66-75 | |||
| J. Brosch, D. A. Maltz, D. B. Johnson, Y.-C. Hu, and J. Jetcheva, A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols, Proc. of the Fourth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Dallas, October 1998, pages 85-97 | |||
| David B. Johnson and David A. Maltz. Dynamic Source Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks. In Mobile Computing, Chapter 5, pages 153-181, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. | |||
| TCP and TCP over Wireless | |||
| Transmission Control Protocol (RFC 793): ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc793.txt | |||
| A TCP/IP Tutorial (RFC 1180): ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1180.txt | |||
| TCP Congestion Control (RFC 2581): ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2581.txt | |||
| Christina Parsa and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Networks at the Link Layer, Mobile Networks and Applications, April 2000, pages 57-71 | |||
| Nitin Vaidya, Tutorial on TCP for Wireless and Mobile Hosts, http://www.cs.tamu.edu/faculty/vaidya/presentations.html (last updated August 1999) | |||
| Reiner Ludwig, Almudena Konrad, and Anthony D. Joseph, Optimizing the End-to-End Performance of Reliable Flows over Wireless Links, Proc. of the Fifth Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Seattle, USA, August 1999, pages 113-119 | |||
| Gavin Holland and Nitin Vaidya, Analysis of TCP Performance over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Proc. of the Fifth Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Seattle, USA, August 1999, pages 219-230 | |||
| Prasun Sinha, Narayanan Venkitaraman, Rahghupathy Sivakumar, and Vaduvur Bharghavan, WTCP: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Wireless Wide-Area Networks, Proc. of the Fifth Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Seattle, USA, August 1999, pages 231-241 | |||
| K. Chandran, S. Raghunathan, S. Venkatesan, and R. Prakash, A Feedback Scheme for Improving TCP Performance in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks, Proc. of the 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Amsterdam, May 1998, pages 472-479 | |||
| H. Balakrishnan, V. N. Padmanabhan, and R. H. Katz, The Effects of Asymmetry on TCP Performance, Proc. of the Third Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Budapest, Hungary, September 1997, pages 77-8 | |||
| M. Lioy, Providing TCP-level Services to Mobile Computers in a Wireless Environment, Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, September 1997 (available at http://www.shoshin.uwaterloo.ca/) | |||
| H. Balakrishnan, S. Seshan, E. Amir, and R. H. Katz, Improving TCP/IP Performance over Wireless Networks, Proc. of the First Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Communications, Berkeley, USA, November 1995, pages 2-11 | |||
| Bakre and Badrinath, I-TCP: Indirect TCP for Mobile Hosts, Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, May 1995, pp 136-143 | |||
| Services and Service Discovery | |||
| Service Location Protocol (svrloc) Working Group: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/svrloc-charter.html | |||
| Service Location Protocol (RFC 2165): ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2131.txt | |||
| Golden G. Richard III, Service Advertisement and Discovery: Enabling Universal Device Cooperation, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol.4, No. 5, September/October 2000, pages 18-26 | |||
| Erik Guttman, Service Location Protocol: Automatic Discovery of IP Network Services, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 3, No. 4, July/August 1999, pages 71-80 | |||
| Steven E. Czerwinski, Ben Y. Zhao, Todd D. Hodes, Anthony D. Joseph, and Randy H. Katz, An Architecture for a Secure Service Discovery Service, Proc. of the Fifth Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Seattle, USA, August 1999, pages 24-35 | |||
| Jini Connection Technology: http://www.sun.com/jini/ | |||
| System Support for Mobile Applications | |||
| Wireless Application Protocol: http://www.wapforum.org/ | |||
| Cross-Industry Working Team (XIWT): http://www.xiwt.org/ | |||
| Mobile Network Computer Reference Specification (MNCRS): http://www.oadg.or.jp/activity/mncrs/ | |||
| The European ACTS Research Project “Cameleon”: http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/~cameleon/ | |||
| The European ACTS Research Project “On the move”: http://www.sics.se/~onthemove/ | |||
| Upkar Varshney, Ronald J. Vetter, and Ravi Kalakota, Mobile Commerce: A New Frontier, IEEE Computer, Vol. 33, No. 10, October 2000, pages 32-38 | |||