The scope of new and important book covers: personal portable telephones, multimedia devices, digital assistants, and palmtop computers to communicate; registration and handoff protocols, messaging, and communications and computing requirements, network control and management for protocols associated with routing and tracking of mobile users ; location-independent numbering plan for mobile personal services; personal profiles, personal traffic filtering, and aspects of database-driven other than personal communication, technology, access links and protocols, radio and infrared channel characterization and micro-based personal communications system; system satellite and global personal communications, traffic and performance management issues, policy issues in spectrum allocation, industry structure, and evolution of technology; applications, case studies, and field experience, and, intelligent vehicle highway systems.