Next Generation Wireless Systems and Networks
Chapter One
Introduction
As everybody is undoubtedly aware, we are living in the midst of rapid information renovation and
innovation. The changing world of information technology (IT) can be challenging or even frightening
to all of us. For any IT engineer who stays out of the technological advancement for even a very short
period of time, he/she will quickly find himself/herself an outsider to the technological transitions,
with difficulty in understanding hundreds and thousands of new terminologies that are invented every
year for newly emerging technologies.
In the last 30 years, the IT industries have witnessed two big waves of revolution, one being the
invention of the Internet, and the other the wide applications of wireless technologies. The Internet
technologies have for the first time in human history provided us with a high-speed information- ... read full excerpt from Next Generation Wireless Systems and Networks ebook
