ch. 1. An exciting future / Roberto Saracco -- ch. 2. 802.11n : high throughput enhancement to wireless LANs / Eldad Perahia -- ch. 3. Mobile WiMAX and its evolutions / Fan Wang ... [et al.] -- ch. 4. Service layer for next-generation digital media services / Abhijit Sur and Joe McIntyre -- ch. 5. Enhancing TCP performance in hybrid networks : wireless access, wired core / Milosh V. Ivanovich -- ch. 6. Femtocell-home base station : revolutionizing the radio access network / Manish Singh -- ch. 7. Satellite communications / Sooyoung Kim -- ch. 8. Next-generation wired access : architectures and technologies / Eugenio Iannone -- ch. 9. Broadband over power line communications : home networking, broadband access, and smart power grids / Peter Sobotka, Robert Taylor, and Kris Iniewski -- ch. 10. Ethernet optical transport networks / Raymond Xie -- ch. 11. Optical burst switching : an emerging core network technology / Yuhua Chen and Pramode K. Verma -- ch. 12. Intelligent optical control planes / James J. Zik.