Mobile Computing Books

It becomes immediately apparent in the first chapter that English is not the language of these authors. Before this book can help you understand IPv6, you must first master the poor grammer and fragmented sentence structure. The book appears to be unedited.

Mun offers a detailed comparison of IPv4 [the current Internet] to the proposed IPv6. The shortcomings of v4 are explained. Notably of course is the limited addressing space of 32 bits. But also the lack of an inherent Quality of Service. v6 fixes both defects.

Attention should be paid to the migration details. A very practical matter, since there needs to be as seamless a transition as possible. The average user should not be burdened. And the sysadmin as little as possible. It may well be that legacy v4 code and addressing will be with us for a long time.

Yes, v6 is clearly more complex. But if nothing else, v4 is running out of addresses.

This book was very attractive to me by its title, so I bought it with a non-low price. However, the contents are neither rich and entensive nor systematic, and the robot systems are not novel at all. So after read it, I found nothing, but waiste of my time, energy and money. The book does really not match its title and price.

Some of the examples in the book are pretty good but for the most part it jumps from subject to subject. Definately not good for beginners and an experienced J2ME programmer would probably find this book to be way off track.

Please dont buy this book.I spent a long time trying to make one of its projects work.The author is not at all clear about what they want to say.one of the worst books on the matket.please dont buy this book.

If you are buying this book hoping to find worthwhile discussion and insight on strategy and techniques for creating and deploying mobile learning-solutions, look elsewhere.

If on the other hand you know nothing about MP3 players, GPS, PDAs and camcorders, and would like a light-weight technology primer heavily padded out with unnecessary screenshots and interviews, this book is definitely for you.

The book is cooking together information about WLAN, 802.11, 802.16, Bluetooth, 802.15, GPRS, UMTS and so forth. It gives a rudimentary overview of mostly the MAC of each standard (and sometimes also PHY and some higher layer protocols), especially with respect to available QoS mechanisms.

Unfortunately, the book only scratches on the surface of each standard. It fails to give the big picture, instead it provides a mosaic of gory details. Sometimes, the pieces selected for presentation seems to be randomly selecled.

The book describes "what" is in the standard (at least some pieces of it) but it fails to explain "why" things are like they are. The reason might be that the authors have not aquired a fundamental understanding of each of the standards presented. (It might be useful as a strange kind of manual, but not at all as a tutorial of any kind.)

Finally, the book needs editing. It is frustrating with chopped figures, strange font policies for headings, and so forth.

The book deserves a star because the last pages of Ch.2 and most of Ch. 3. provided a good overview of QoS that laid a basis for the rest of the book. Also, it must have been quite much work for the authors to gather together all this (incomplete pieces of) information from various standards.