Emerging Location Aware Broadband Wireless Ad Hoc Networks is a compilation of new material on wireless networking & technology addressing several technical challenges in the field. The contributions are authored by distinguished experts who presented experimental results on their work at the recent International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile, Radio Communications (PIMRC) held in Barcelona, Spain, September 5-8, 2004.

"Emerging Location Aware Broadband Wireless Ad Hoc Networks is a compilation of new material on wireless networking and technology addressing several technical challenges in the field. The contributions are authored by distinguished experts who presented experimental results on their work at the recent International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile, Radio Communications (PIMRC) held in Barcelona, Spain, September 5-8, 2004.

Trends in Wireless Networks.- Cross-Layer Performance in Cellular WCDMA/3G Networks: Modelling and Analysis.- Always on Service Intelligent Network.- Cognitive Trends in Making.- Multiple Antenna Systems: Frontier of Wireless Access.- Fixed Relays for Next Generation Wireless Systems.- Dynamic Enhancement and Optimal Utilization of CDMA Networks.- Wireless Lans and ADHOC Networks.- Architecture and Prototyping of an 802.11 Based Self-Organizing Hierarchical ADHOC Wireless Network (SOHAN).- Voice Capacity in IEEE 802.11 Networks.- ADHOC Wirless Networking Using Mobile Backbones.- Vertex-Linked Infrastructure for ADHOC Networks.- Probabilistic Methods for Location Estimation in Wireless Networks.- Mobile Wireless Internet and Satellite Applications.- Coping with Uncertainty in Mobile Wireless Networks.- Roaming in the Global Wireless Internet.- Proxy Services for the Mobile Internet.- Development and Future Applications of Satellite Communications.- Role of Satellites in Mobile/Wireless Systems.- Encoding, Algorithms and Performance.- Applying Near Shannon-limit Codes to Wireless Communications.- Time-diffusion Concepts and Protocol for Sensor Networks.- Interference, Information and Performance in Linear Matrix Modulation.