The OECD has adopted a new basket methodology for benchmarking wireless broadband prices. It adds to the existing baskets for voice, leased lines and fixed broadband services and reflects the increasing importance of wireless broadband for laptops, tablets and smartphones.

"This book explores the developments and challenges associated with the successful deployment of e-healthcare systems, including pervasive wireless communications, wearable computing, context-awareness, sensor data fusion, artificial intelligence, neural networks, expert systems, databases, and...

1. Fundamentals of empirical propagation modeling for outdoor scenarios / Sergio Hernández Gaona -- 2. Channel modeling for vehicle-to-vehicle communications and networking / David W. Matolak -- 3. Modulation and coding techniques for inter-vehicular communications / Corneliu Eugen D. Sterian...

The need for ad hoc networking, which can be termed an infrastructureless communication, has been tremendously brought to limelight by the various global communication demands ranging from disaster relief, military and academic usage to several commercial applications. The preference of Dynamic...