Personal Networks: Wireless Networking for Personal Devices (Hardcover)

This book focuses on networking and security aspects of Personal Networks (PNs). Given a single user, the authors propose an architecture for PNs in which devices are divided into one of two types of nodes: personal nodes and foreign nodes. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate the ways in which PNs can be formed in a self-organized and secure way, how they can be interconnected using infrastructure networks, how multiple PNs can be connected, and how their services and resources can be shared. In addition, the book shows how security and ease-of-use can be achieved through automatic configuration and how mobility can be supported through adaptability and self-organization. The motivations for the PN concept, the PN architecture, its functionalities and features, as well as future challenges are covered in depth. Finally, the authors consider the potential applications for PNs and briefly discuss additional support systems for PN applications. The latter includes service discovery and context information management among others.

Key Features:

• Describes the PN network architecture and its various components in-depth
• Written by experts who developed this concept
• Discusses the newer topic of federations of PNs
• Considers potential PN applications, and demonstrates how applications support systems, such as service discovery and context management, can assist the applications
• Provides an insight into the challenges of future personal networking, architectures for PNs, potential and important solutions, and their implications

This book will serve as an invaluable reference for researchers, developers, and standardization experts in mobile and wireless communication systems and services. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students in the field of telecommunications.

由該領域的專家撰寫，本書描述了個人網絡架構及其各個組件。

本書專注於個人網絡（PNs）的網絡和安全方面。作者提出了一種PNs架構，將設備分為兩種類型的節點：個人節點和外部節點。此外，作者展示了PNs如何以自組織和安全的方式形成，如何使用基礎設施網絡互連，如何連接多個PNs，以及如何共享其服務和資源。此外，本書還展示了如何通過自動配置實現安全性和易用性，以及如何通過適應性和自組織性支持移動性。深入探討了PN概念的動機、PN架構、其功能和特點，以及未來的挑戰。最後，作者考慮了PN的潛在應用，並簡要討論了PN應用的其他支持系統，包括服務發現和上下文信息管理等。

主要特點：
- 深入描述了PN網絡架構及其各個組件
- 由開發此概念的專家撰寫
- 討論了PN聯盟的新話題
- 考慮了PN的潛在應用，並展示了應用支持系統（如服務發現和上下文管理）如何幫助應用
- 提供了對未來個人網絡、PN架構、潛在重要解決方案及其影響的洞察

本書將成為移動和無線通信系統和服務的研究人員、開發人員和標準化專家的寶貴參考資料。對於電信領域的研究生也具有一定的參考價值。