Network hardware Books

The Research Agenda of the COST 290.- Packet Scheduling and Congestion Control.- Performance Evaluation and Traffic Modeling.- Mobility Support.- Multihop Wireless Networks.- Services, Optimization, and Economic Aspects.

VBE Management.- Competency Modeling Targeted on Promotion of Organizations Towards VO Involvement.- A Virtual Breeding Environment Reference Model and Its Instantiation Methodology.- Systemic Strategic Management for VBEs in the Manufacturing Sector.-...

Component Programming Models.- Behavioural Skeletons for Component Autonomic Management on Grids.- Towards gcm re-configuration - extending specification by norms.- A Flexible Model and Implementation of Component Controllers.- Analysis of Component...

A Metamodel-Assisted Steady-State Evolution Strategy for Simulation-Based Optimization.- Automatically Defined Groups for Knowledge Acquisition from Computer Logs and Its Extension for Adaptive Agent Size.- Robust Hybrid Sliding Mode Control for...

Foreword.- Service Level Agreement and Quality of Service.- NextGRID Architectural Concepts.- Virtual Domain Sharing in e-Science Based on Usage Service Level Agreements.- Optimal Closest Policy with QoS and Bandwidth Constraints.- An Open Architecture...

Foundations.- Grooming Switches.- Control Plane Support.- Grooming Mechanisms in SONET/SDH and Next-Generation SONET/SDH.- Computational Complexity.- Hierarchical Traffic Grooming.- Techniques.- Traffic Grooming In SONET/SDH Rings.- Traffic Grooming in...

Organisational Dynamics of Technology-Based Innovation: Diversifying the Information Systems Research Agenda.- Turning the Digital Divide into a Digital Divident: Some Experiences from Manchester, UK.- Dropping Your Tools: The Diversity of the Research...

Challenges and Issues in Designing Architectures and Protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks.- Architectures and Deployment Strategies for Wireless Mesh Networks.- End-to-End Design Principles for Broadband Cellular Mesh Networks.- Medium Access Control and...

Backbone Quality-of-Service Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Optimal Path Selection in Ad Hoc Networks Based on Multiple Metrics: Bandwidth and Delay.- Analyzing Voice Transmission Between Ad Hoc Networks and Fixed IP Networks...

Contributing Authors Preface SECTION I. Network Design and Network ModellingChapter 1. A Taxonomy-based Approach to Design Large-scale Sensor Networks (Aravind Iyer, Sunil S. Kulkarni, Vivek Mhatre and Catherine P. Rosenberg)Chapter 2. Algorithms for...

Modeling Frameworks.- A Modeling Framework for Collaborative Networked Organizations.- A Conceptional Framework for Modeling Complex Adaptation of Collaborative Networks.- UEML:Coherent Languages and Elementary Constructs Determination.- Collaborative...

Grid Data Management.- Accessing Data in Grids Using OGSA-DAI.- Service Choreography for Data Integration on the Grid.- Accessing Web Databases Using OGSA-DAI in BDWorld.- Failure Recovery Alternatives in Grid-Based Distributed Query Processing: A Case...

Conflicts between agents acting in a multi-agent environment arise for different reasons, involve different concepts, and are dealt with in different ways, depending on the kind of agents and on the domain where they are...

Load Balancing in Parallel Computers: Theory and Practice is about the essential software technique of load balancing in distributed memory message-passing parallel computers, also called multicomputers. Each processor has...

This book will have a broad appeal in the area of Wireless Networking-Based Control. Various engineering disciplines, control and communication science organizations will be interested in purchasing the book with a new, emerging, and important theme...

Grids, P2P and Services Computing, the 12th volume of the CoreGRID series, is based on the CoreGrid ERCIM Working Group Workshop on Grids, P2P and Service Computing in Conjunction with EuroPar 2009. The workshop will take place August 24th, 2009 in...

Enterprise data is growing at a much faster rate than traditional technologies allow. New enterprise architectures combining existing technologies are desperately needed. This book suggests a way forward by applying new techniques of the World Wide Web...

Preface. Presentation of the PPR-Model. The Activity and Customer Centric Approach. The Domains and Directions of IT Impacts. Digital Wheel barrows in Local Government. E-government Objectives, Means and Reach. The Organizational Membrane Penetrated...

Third generation networks have been specified and are now being deployed in a few countries. They are expected to reach maturity in the next several years and to provide various services including audio, video, and world wide...

Wireless Vehicular Networks for Car Collision Avoidance focuses on the development of the ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) in order to minimize vehicular accidents. The book presents and analyses a range of concrete accident scenarios while...

As Grids and service-oriented architectures have evolved to a common infrastructure for providing and consuming services in research and commercial environments, mechanisms are needed to agree on the objectives and the quality of such service provision...

This invaluable reference book focuses on the air interface of mobile networks at different layers according to the OSI Reference Model. It provides an overview of several wireless communication systems as well as mobile...

This SpringerBrief explores features of digital protocol wireless communications systems, and features of the emerging electrical smart grid. Both low power and high power wireless systems are described.  The work also examines the cybersecurity...

This SpringerBrief introduces key techniques for 5G wireless networks. The authors cover the development of wireless networks that led to 5G, and how 5G mobile communication technology (5G) can no longer be defined by a single business model or a...

Feldbussysteme sind im Zusammenwirken mit LANs (Large Area Network) und WANs (Wide Area Network) als Nervensystem anzusehen, das in Systeme aller Bereiche unseres Lebens eingebettet wird. Die Automatisierung erlebt dadurch zur...

In einer Zeit der unterschiedlichsten Netzwerktypen und ihrer herstellerspezifischen Ausprägungen ist die Schaffung von Standards notwendiger denn je. Diese Standards sollen einen gemeinsamen Nenner darstellen, auf den sich die...

Gegenwartig ist ein starker Trend zu Informationsverbundsyste­ men zu beobachten, die einen von Hardwaretechnologie, Betriebs­ systemen und herstellerspezifischen Architektureigenschaften unab­ hangigen Informationsaustausch...

This textbook details the architecture of a digital coherent optical system and describes its main digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms. The authors first show how the combination of advanced modulation techniques, DSP and coherent detection has...

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Computational Technologies, PCT 2020, held in May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.The 22 revised full papers and 2 short...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Blended Learning, ICBL 2020, held in Bangkok, in August 2020.The 33 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The conference theme...

This hands-on, laboratory driven textbook helps readers understand principles of digital signal processing (DSP) and basics of software-based digital communication, particularly software-defined networks (SDN) and software-defined radio (SDR). In the...

This useful volume adopts a balanced approach between technology and mathematical modeling in computer networks, covering such topics as switching elements and fabrics, Ethernet, and ALOHA design. The discussion includes a variety of queueing models,...

The goal of this textbook is to provide enough background into the inner workings of the Internet to allow a novice to understand how the various protocols on the Internet work together to accomplish simple tasks, such as a search. By building...

This book addresses the fundamental design and technical challenges for fifth generation (5G) wireless channel models, including multi-frequency bands and multi-scenarios. The book presents a strong vision for 5G wireless...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2020, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in January 2020. The 20 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2018, and the 4th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport...

The fourth edition of this classic textbook provides major updates. This edition has completely new chapters on Big Data Platforms (distributed storage systems, MapReduce, Spark, data stream processing, graph analytics) and on NoSQL, NewSQL and polystore...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking, MLN 2018, held in Paris, France, in November 2018.The 22 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully...

This open access book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First IFIP International Cross-Domain Conference on Internet of Things, IFIPIoT 2018, held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznan, Poland, in...

1. Positive matrices and graphs.- 1.1 Generalised permutation matrix, nonnegative matrix, positive and strictly positive matrices.- 1.2 Reducible and irreducible matrices.- 1.3 The Collatz - Wielandt function.- 1.4 Maximum eigenvalue of a nonnegative...

Test Automation is a key aspect of delivering high-quality software and reducing time to market. Several tools and approaches are available today, each with its own constraints and specificity. This book introduces Boozang, a codeless web automation...

Navigating the fragmented IoT connectivity ecosystem of standards, protocols, and architectures can be a challenge. Not to mention scaling a solution to a viable product. This book guides you through this fractured landscape with real world examples and...

Learn about Robotic Processing Automation (RPA) and how to build bots using UiPath. This book uses hands-on examples to explain the basics of UiPath and then walks you through real-world prototypes for testing your knowledge.Organizations around the...

SAS ODS graphics users will learn in this book how to visually understand and communicate the significance of data to deliver images for quick and easy insight, with precise numbers. Many charts or plots require the viewer to run the eye from a bar end...

Apply the basics of security in serverless computing to new or existing projects. This hands-on guide provides practical examples and fundamentals. You will apply these fundamentals in all aspects of serverless computing: improving the code, securing the...

Improve your analytics and data platform to solve major challenges, including operationalizing big data and advanced analytics workloads on Azure. You will learn how to monitor complex pipelines, set alerts, and extend your organization's custom...