Vehicles in the future will have significant increases in capability and demands for wireless communications resources. Applications include vehicle status and maintenance information, navigation information, entertainment, and concierge services. To meet these needs, the vehicle must have the capability to allocate and prioritize communications resources in response to the needs of application...

What follows is a summary discussion of the current state and trends in wireless communications. The overview of this rapidly expanding and technologically diverse field is based on the discoveries of the WTEC panelists during their site visits to leading companies and experts in Europe, Japan, and the United States as well as the panelists' expertise in the various areas of wireless communicat...

Visually-assisted optical indoor wireless local area network (LAN) is promising not only for high-speed but for offering intuitive user interface. Free-space optical communications (FSOC)(Jahns, 1994) are a key technology to create image-based ultra-fast wireless communication systems of the future. Compared with radio-frequency (RF) electromagnetic waves, the outstanding features of free-space...

The introduction of cellular systems and evolution of analog wireless communications systems to digital systems opened an era of hundreds of millions of wireless communications users around the globe. Cellular phones are used in the first place in case of extreme situations or emergency cases and rescue-safety operations can benefit from prevalence of cellular wireless technologies during and j...

telemedicine has changed the way of health care. it is an indispensable tool in the hands of doctors to accelerate and facilitate the process of data interchange. wireless networks consist of small nodes with communications capabilities. development of wireless networks of telemedicine system is highly demanded since these networks promise a wide range of potential applications. in this paper t...

Hosted by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 will also be highlighted by the presentations of numerous industry experts who will highlight the advance of the entire range of voice, data, image, and multimedia technologies. Specific topics to be addressed include adaptive wireless communications, green energy, broadband wireless access, smart communications, the future ...

Background: Because of approaches to learning in every place and at any time, ubiquitous learning with knowledge of the context and framework, and due to the development of wireless technologies and sensors, the learning process has changed. Mobile learning and ubiquitous learning as models of e-learning that refer to the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes and skills through wireless technolog...

Mobile computing is a new style of computer access emerging at the intersection of the two currently dominant trends: producing portable computers in computer industry and wireless communications in telecommunication industry. This paper discusses some key issues involved in realizing a mobile wireless computing environment by examining the characteristics required of each main component: mobil...

The rapid progress of wireless communications and the availability of lightweight, smallsize, and portable computing devices have given great impacts on our communities. These technologies have made the dream of communications at anytime and at anywhere come true. A common solution for such ubiquitous communications is the use of the wireless local area network (WLAN). WLAN has been widely stud...

Wireless communication is a core building block for the mobile government. The basic ingredients of the wireless communications include the wireless devices and the wireless infrastructure required for communications among the devices. Wireless devices have rapidly evolved and diffused world-wide. For example, mobile phones, which are common forms of wireless devices, have evolved from the trad...