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Readers will progress from an understanding of what the Internet is now towards an understanding of the motivations and techniques that will drive its future.Book InformationISBN 9789400736108Author Antonio LiottaFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint...

Resource Management for Distributed Multimedia Systems addresses the problems and challenges of handling several continuous- media data streams in networked multimedia environments. The work demonstrates how resource management mechanisms can be...

This book is the third of three volumes that illustrate the concept of social networks from a computational point of view. The book contains contributions from a international selection of world-class experts, with a specific focus on knowledge discovery...

Building Scalable Network Services: Theory and Practice is on building scalable network services on the Internet or in a network service provider's network. The focus is on network services that are provided through the use of a set of servers. The...

This book presents a review of the latest advances in speech and video compression, computer networking protocols, the assessment and monitoring of VoIP quality, and next generation network architectures for multimedia services. The book also concludes...

In recent years, with the rapid growth of the Internet, the bandwidth demand for data traffic is exploding. Optical networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technology offer the promise to satisfy the bandwidth requirements of the...

This book surveys the outstanding work of physical-layer (PHY) security, including the recent achievements of confidentiality and authentication for wireless communication systems by channel identification. A practical approach to building unconditional...

Networked control systems (NCS) confer advantages of cost reduction, system diagnosis and flexibility, minimizing wiring and simplifying the addition and replacement of individual elements; efficient data sharing makes taking globally intelligent control...

Problem Solving for Wireless Sensor Networks delivers a comprehensive review of the state of the art in the most important technological issues related to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). It covers topics such as hardware platforms, radio technologies,...

The birth of RFID technology is credited to the 1948 research paper by H. Stockman on "Communication by Means of Re?ected Power" [109]. After describing the main principle of communication by re?ection and reporting his experiments, he concluded that...

This book reviews the challenges of all-optical and wireless networks for the future Internet, with a focus on cross-layer design and optimization. Features: presents a thorough introduction to major networking modes and their effect on Internet...

If we are to believe in Moore's law, then every passing day brings new and advanced changes to the technology arena. We are as amazed by miniaturization of computing devices as we are amused by their speed of computation. Everything seems to be in ? ux...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Networked Systems, NETYS 2017, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in May 2017. The 28 full and 6 short papers presented together with 3 keynotes were...

This unique text/reference provides an overview of crossbar-based interconnection networks, offering novel perspectives on these important components of high-performance, parallel-processor systems. A particular focus is placed on solutions to the...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2007, held in Castiglioncello, Italy in June 2007. The 23 revised full papers and four invited talks cover...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudComp 2014, held in Guilin, China, in October 2014. The 25 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2019, held in Uberlandia, Brazil, in May 2019. The 17 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from...

Mobile devices allow users to access information resources and services over many different distribution channels - anywhere, anytime, anyhow. Technical and usage characteristics of mobile systems are highly variable with respect to user capabilities and...

This book presents MOSFET-based current mode logic (CML) topologies, which increase the speed, and lower the transistor count, supply voltage and power consumption. The improved topologies modify the conventional PDN, load, and the current source...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems, MobiWIS 2021, held as a virtual event, in August 2021. The 15 full papers presented in this book were carefully...

This book presents high-quality original contributions on the development of automatic traffic analysis systems that are able to not only anticipate traffic scenarios, but also understand the behavior of road users (vehicles, bikes, trucks, etc.) in...

This book introduces a promising design for future Internet, the Smart Collaborative Identifier NETwork (SINET). By examining cutting-edge research from around the world, it is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of SINET, including its...

The book proposes new technologies and discusses innovative solutions to various problems in the field of communication, circuits, and systems, as reflected in high-quality papers presented at International Conference on Communication, Circuits, and...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2017, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in September 2017. The 33 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and...

The five-volume set LNCS 9786-9790 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2016, held in Beijing, China, in July 2016. The 239 revised full papers and 14 short papers...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications, GridNets 2008, held in Beijing, China in October 2008. The 19 revised full papers presented together with...

Optical networks, employing Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) and wavelength routing, are believed to be the answer for the explosion in IP traffic and the emergence of real-time multimedia applications. These networks offer quantum leaps in...

For the first time in history, the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) held the joint "E-Health" Symposium as part of "Treat IT" stream of the IFIP...

It is a pleasure to present the proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2008) held in Paphos, Cyprus. The conference continues to serve a broad object-oriented community with a tech- cal program spanning theory...

Making networks and services dependable is, of course, extremely high on the priority list of any network manager and that makes this book a vital tool in the armory of any researcher or professional in the field. These are carefully revised texts of...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Interoperability, InterIoT 2017, which was collocated with SaSeIoT 2017, and took place in Valencia, Spain, in November 2017. The 14 revised full...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Cloud Comp 2013, held in Wuhan, China, in October 2013. The 28 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from...

Answering the need for an accessible overview of the field, this text/reference presents a manageable introduction to both the theoretical and practical aspects of computer networks and network programming. Clearly structured and easy to follow, the book...

This book focuses on methods for service-differentiated and constraint-based wavelength routing and resource allocation for multi-service WDM networks. A number of unique routing solutions are proposed, and an extensive analysis of dynamically...

Communication protocols form the operational basis of computer networks and tele communication systems. They are behavior conventions that describe how com munication systems inter act with each other, defining the temporal order of the interactions and...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2020, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in January 2021. The 13 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were...

This SpringerBrief provides a concise guide to applying wireless energy transfer techniques in traditional battery-powered sensor networks. It examines the benefits and challenges of wireless power including efficiency and reliability. The authors build...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2012, held in Thessanoliki, Greece, in June 2012. Out of numerous submissions the Program Committee finally selected 51 full papers. These papers cover topics such...

These proceedings contain the papers selected for presentation at the 6th - ternational Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks - SecureComm 2010 - held on September 7-9, 2010 in Singapore. In response to the call for papers, 112...

As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fr- mented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to others. Presentation of...