Location Management and Routing in Mobile Wireless Networks

As wireless users have become increasingly mobile, tracking their location and establishing communications links between them has become critical. Location management, paging, and routing are the key technologies for performing these crucial functions. This comprehensive book covers past, present, and future advances in location management and routing protocols for both single-hop and multi-hop mobile wireless networks.

Amitava Mukherjee is a principal consultant for IBM Global Services, Calcutta, India. A member of the IEEE Communications Society, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India Somprakash Bandyopadhyay is an associate professor with the MIS and Computer Science Group of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India Debashis Saha is an associate professor with the MIS and Computer Science Group of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India. A senior member of the IEEE, he holds a Ph.D. in both electronics and electrical communications engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India