Cavalcanti F.R.P. (ed.) Resource Allocation and MIMO for 4G and Beyond

Springer, 2014. — 527 p.Access to Internet and Internet-based services are today fundamental components of society with large impact on business and life. Exploiting the opportunities and benefits of the Internet is no longer a luxury restricted to a few as a rapidly increasing part of the world’s population is getting connected. The large impact it has had on many peoples’ private and professional lives has also changed how we relate to the Internet. To many, Internet and Internet access is seen as a necessity, a commodity, in many aspects not different from how we see upon electricity or water. Enabled by advances in cellular network and handsets technologies during the last decade, the way to access Internet has changed. From something you did in front of a computer it has been integrated with the daily life on the move; it has gone mobile.