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Taylor & Francis Broadband Last Mile Access Technologies for Multimedia Communications 2005 Edition by Nikil Jayant
Broadband Last Mile: Access Technologies for Multimedia Communications provides in-depth treatments of access technologies and the applications that rely upon them or support them. It examines innovations and enhancements along multiple dimensions in access, with the overarching goal of ensuring that the last mile is not the weak link in the broadband chain. Written by experts from the academic and commercial segments of the field, the book's self-contained sections address topics related to the disciplines of communications, networking, computing, and signal processing.The core of this treatment contains contemporary reviews of broadband pipes in the classes of copper, cable, fiber, wireless, and satellite. It emphasizes the coexistence of these classes within a network, the importance of optical communications for unprecedented bandwidth, and the flexibility and mobility provided by wireless.The book also includes perspective on the increasingly important topic of network management, providing insights that are true regardless of the nature of the pipe. The text concludes with a discussion of newly emerging applications and broadband services.This book offers an all-in-one treatment of the physical pipes and network architectures that make rich and increasingly personalized applications possible. It serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners working in the increasingly pervasive field of broadband. Table of Contents : BROADBAND IN THE LAST MILE: CURRENT AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS John Apostolopoulos and Nikil JayantTHE LAST MILE, THE EDGE, AND THE BACKBONE Benny Bing and G. K. ChangLAST-MILE COPPER ACCESS Krista S. JacobsenLAST-MILE HFC ACCESS Daniel Howard, Bruce Currivan, Thomas Kolze, Jonathan Min, and Henry SamueliOPTICAL ACCESS: NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGY Brian Ford and Stephen E. RalphLAST-MILE WIRELESS ACCESS IN BROADBAND AND HOME NETWORKS Carlos de M. Cordeiro and Dharma P. AgrawalSATELLITE TECHNOLOGIES SERVING AS LAST-MILE SOLUTIONS Paul G. Steffes and Jim StratigosMANAGEMENT OF LAST-MILE BROADBAND NETWORKS Mani SubramanianEMERGING BROADBAND SERVICES SOLUTIONS Mani Subramanian