Understanding Weightless

by Webb, William

• ISBN13: 9781107027077
• ISBN10: 1107027071
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-23
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Essential for getting to grips with the Weightless standard for M2M communications, this definitive guide describes and explains the new standard in an accessible manner. It helps you to understand the Weightless standard by revealing its background and rationale. Designed to make clear the context and the fundamental design decisions for Weightless and to provide a readable overview of the standard, it details principal features and issues of the technology, the business case for deployment, network performance and some important applications. This informative book guides you through the key decisions and requirements involved in designing and deploying a Weightless network. Includes a chapter on applications, explaining the relevance of the standard and its potential. Written by one of the lead designers of Weightless, this is an ideal guide for everyone involved with the standard, from those designing equipment to those making use of the technology.

Table of Contents

The world of machine communications

The need for a new standard

Working in white space spectrum

Weightless in overview

The network

The MAC layer

The physical layer

Further functionality

Network design and capacity

Application support

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