Efficient Networks

Importance of Networking in Business

The foundation of a thriving and successful business rests on sound communication skills and efficient networking. The latter, though largely dependent on the former is almost indispensable. If you don't have a good network of contacts you can't hope to soar too high in the business field. Irrespective of the area of your specialization, it is essential that you have a fair amount of contacts that will be your support in case of any undesired and unfavorable circumstances. Apart from that, a good network can be instrumental in increasing and spreading your business far and wide, giving a significant boost to your profits.

What is Networking?

If you want your business to be successful, networking is a priceless tool. In plain terms, networking means building relationships with people who are important names in the industry. These are the people who are decision makers and can guide and assist you towards your career goals. Start from your family and friends. Get acquainted with their contacts who you think might be helpful to you and then try and build a healthy rapport with them. This will result in more contacts in your personal network. However it is important that you help the people in your network as well. Business network is like a symbiotic relationship, a give and take one. When you help others, you get their goodwill which translates into bigger profits for you.

It is a good idea to have different kinds of people in your contact list. You never know how and when someone can be of help to you. This also increases your reputation and you can reach out to more number of potential clients. Always remember that efficient networking begins at the very first meeting. It's important that you create a positive and lasting first impression on your prospective contact. Convince him/her about how helpful you can be when the need arises. Networking is a two way traffic, a mutually beneficial relationship is sure to attract any intelligent business professional.

Benefits of Networking

Networking is the base on which you establish your business. Needless to say, the benefits you derive from it are numerous. Here are some of them:

•The direct impact is on the reach of your business. Networking and reputation are directly proportional. The more people you know and connect to, the more known your business becomes.

•Networking can also increase your profits to a considerable degree.

•It gives you the scope to get referrals and helps you to reach your targets more easily.

•You get to know more people and hence get exposed to a lot of new and innovative ideas to promote and grow your business.

•Good network of contacts open new opportunities that probably would have remained unknown or inaccessible to you.

•A healthy rapport and a mutually beneficial relationship with your compatriots, competitors, suppliers and clients, i.e. with all those in your network can be very useful in the long run.

So, if you want a flourishing business, you cannot do without networking. It is essential that you gain access to as many people (who matter) as possible. That way you can enjoy a steady rise in your bank balance too!

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Efficient NextGeneration Optical Networks $106.74 Due to the tremendous growth of traffic volume caused by both exponential increase of number of Internet users and continual emergence of new bandwidth demanding applications, high capacity networks are required in order to satisfactorily handle the extremely large amount of traffic. Hence, optical fiber communication is the key technology for the network infrastructure. This book addresses design and analysis of access and core networks targeting important research problems, which need to be tackled for the effective realization of nextgeneration optical networks. We hope that this book will give the researchers and engineers who work on optical networks an overview of the current trends and contribute to a deeper understanding of problems related to nextgeneration optical access and widearea networks, which have tremendous potential to increase network capacity and support the rapidly growing bandwidth demand. Author: Chen, Jiajia/ Wosinska, Lena Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 Publication Date: 2010/03/15 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.21 inches

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Designing Reliable and Efficient Networks on Chips $119 Developing Networks on Chips (NoC) based interconnect tailored to a particular application domain, satisfying the application performance constraints with minimum power-area overhead is a major challenge. This book aims to offer methods to solve some of the most important and time-intensive problems encountered during NoC design.

Energy Efficient Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks $113.11 Recent advances in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have led to many new protocols specifically designed for sensor networks where energy awareness is an essential consideration. Much attention has been given to the routing protocols since they might differ depending on the applications and network architectures. This proposed work, LEACH with Maximum Lifetime Routing, is based on the objective of maximizing the system lifetime. In this algorithm, clusters are formed randomly in each time period. Cluster heads transmit data to base station via multihop routing. By comparison with LEACH, LEACH with Maximum Lifetime Routing has better performance in time till first node dies and total dead nodes. Furthermore, nodes die in approximately uniformly distributed locations in LEACH with Maximum Lifetime Routing; there is no one section of the environment that is not being sensed as nodes dies, as occurs in the other algorithms. Author: Phyo, Maung Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 84 Publication Date: 2009/08/05 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.20 inches

An Efficient Anycasting Scheme in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks $62.4 No Synopsis Available

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Fragile Networks $128 A unified treatment of the vulnerabilities that exist in real-world network systems—with tools to identify synergies for mergers and acquisitions Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World presents a comprehensive study of network systems and the roles these systems play in our everyday lives. This book successfully conceptualizes, defines, and constructs mathematically rigorous, computer-based tools for the assessment of network performance and efficiency, along with robustness and vulnerability analysis. The result is a thorough exploration that promotes an understanding of the critical infrastructure of today's network systems, from congested urban transportation networks and supply chain networks under disruption to financial networks and the Internet. The authors approach the analyses by abstracting not only topological structures of networks, but also the behavior of network users, the demand for resources, the resulting flows, and the associated costs. Following an introduction to the fundamental methodologies and tools required for network analysis and network vulnerability, the book is organized into three self-contained parts: Part I—Network Fundamentals, Efficiency Measurement, and Vulnerability Analysis explores the theoretical and practical foundations for a new network efficiency measure in order to assess the importance of network components in various network systems. Methodologies for distinct decision-making behaviors are outlined, along with the tools for qualitative analysis, the algorithms for the computation of solutions, and a thorough discussion of the unified network efficient measure and network robustness with the unified measure. Part II—Applications and Extensions examines the efficiency changes and the associated cost increments after network components are eliminated or partially damaged. A discussion of the recently established connections between transportation networks and different critical networks is provided, which demonstrates how the new network measures and robustness indices can be applied to different supply chain, financial, and dynamic networks, including the Internet and electronic power networks. Part III—Mergers and Acquisitions, Network Integration, and Synergies reveals the connections between transportation networks and different network systems and quantifies the synergies associated with the network systems, from total cost reduction to environmental impact assessment. In the case of mergers and acquisitions, the focus is on supply chain networks. The authors outline a system-optimization perspective for supply chain networks and also formalize coalition formation using game theory with insights into the merger paradox. With its numerous network examples and real-world applications, Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World is an excellent book for courses in network science,

Interconnection Networks $88.95 The performance of most digital systems today is limited by their communication or interconnection, not by their logic or memory. As designers strive to make more efficient use of scarce interconnection bandwidth, interconnection networks are emerging as a nearly universal solution to the system-level communication problems for modern digital systems. Interconnection networks have become pervasive in their traditional application as processor-memory and processor-processor interconnect. Point-to-point interconnection networks have replaced buses in an ever widening range of applications that include on-chip interconnect, switches and routers, and I/O systems. In this book, the authors present in a structured way the basic underlying concepts of most interconnection networks and provide representative solutions that have been implemented in the industry or proposed in the research literature. * Gives a coherent, comprehensive treatment of the entire field * Presents a formal statement of the basic concepts, alternative design choices, and design trade-offs * Provides thorough classifications, clear descriptions, accurate definitions, and unified views to structure the knowledge on interconnection networks * Focuses on issues critical to designers

Innovative Networks $109 This book analyses the role of networks in innovation and technology diffusion. It reviews policy initiatives to promote efficient networking in selected OECD countries, and draws the main implications for public policy. It provides both fresh conceptual insights and new factual information on this important mechanism of innovation-led growth. FURTHER READING. Innovative Clusters: Drivers of National Innovation Systems. Innovative People: Mobility of Skilled Personnel in National Innovation Systems. Dynamising National Innovation Systems

Camera Networks $40 As networks of video cameras are installed in many applications like security and surveillance, environmental monitoring, disaster response, and assisted living facilities, among others, image understanding in camera networks is becoming an important area of research and technology development. There are many challenges that need to be addressed in the process. Some of them are listed below: - Traditional computer vision challenges in tracking and recognition, robustness to pose, illumination, occlusion, clutter, recognition of objects, and activities; - Aggregating local information for wide area scene understanding, like obtaining stable, long-term tracks of objects; - Positioning of the cameras and dynamic control of pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras for optimal sensing; - Distributed processing and scene analysis algorithms; - Resource constraints imposed by different applications like security and surveillance, environmental monitoring, disaster response, assisted living facilities, etc. In this book, we focus on the basic research problems in camera networks, review the current state-of-the-art and present a detailed description of some of the recently developed methodologies.The major underlying theme in all the work presented is to take a network-centric view whereby the overall decisions are made at the network level. This is sometimes achieved by accumulating all the data at a central server, while at other times by exchanging decisions made by individual cameras based on their locally sensed data. Chapter One starts with an overview of the problems in camera networks and the major research directions. Some of the currently available experimental testbeds are also discussed here. One of the fundamental tasks in the analysis of dynamic scenes is to track objects. Since camera networks cover a large area, the systems need to be able to track over such wide areas where there could be both overlapping and non-overlapping fields of view of the cameras, as addressed in Chapter Two: Distributed processing is another challenge in camera networks and recent methods have shown how to do tracking, pose estimation and calibration in a distributed environment. Consensus algorithms that enable these tasks are described in Chapter Three.Chapter Four summarizes a few approaches on object and activity recognition in both distributed and centralized camera network environments. All these methods have focused primarily on the analysis side given that images are being obtained by the cameras. Efficient utilization of such networks often calls for active sensing, whereby the acquisition and analysis phases are closely linked. We discuss this issue in detail in Chapter Five and show how collaborative and opportunistic sensing in a camera network can be achieved. Finally, Chapter Six concludes the book by highlighting the major directions for future research. Table of Contents: An Introduction to Camera Networks / Wide-Area Tracking / Distributed Processing i

GPRS Networks $140 GPRS is a packet based wireless communication service that offers data rates from 9.05 up to 171.2 Kbps and continuous connection to the Internet for mobile phone and computer users. GPRS is based on GSM communications and complements existing services such as circuit switched cellular phone connections and the Short Message Service (SMS). GPRS represents the bridge between 2G and 3G mobile telecommunications and is commonly referred to as 2.5G. Implementation of GPRS requires modification of the existing GSM networks in that GSM is a circuit switched technology while GPRS is packet oriented. GPRS enables packet data (the same as is used by an Ethernet LAN, WAN or the Internet) to be sent to and from a mobile station - e.g. mobile phone, PDA or Laptop. WAP and SMS can also be sent using GPRS and individuals working with GPRS need to learn and understand how the mobile stations, the air interface, network architecture, protocol structures and signalling procedures must be modified. GPRS offers much higher data rates than GSM and can be combined with 3G technologies such as EDGE to give even higher bit-rates. It offers many benefits for customers and network operators: such as volume (rather then time) dependent billing and more efficient use of network resources. Due to the worldwide delay in implementing 3G solutions such as CDMA and UMTS the demand for GPRS is still growing. GPRS Networks : Offers detailed information ranging from standards to practical implementation Answers 'how' and 'why' rather than just simply re-stating GPRS specifications Provides comprehensive coverage in a single volume Essential reading for all telecommunications project managers, field engineers, technical staff in network operator and manufacturing organisations, GPRS application and service developers, Datacoms/IT engineers. The comprehensive coverage also makes this a superb reference for students of computer science, telecommunications and electrical engineering.

Advanced Wireless Networks $170 With 40% new material the new edition of Advanced Wireless Networks provides a comprehensive representation of the key issues in 4G wireless networks. Focussing on cognitive, cooperative and opportunistic paradigms to provide further increase in network efficiency, the book explores and addresses issues in wireless internet, mobile cellular and WLAN, as well as sensor, ad hoc, bio-inspired, active and cognitive networks. It examines the problem of cross-layer optimisation and network information theory as well as adaptability and reconfigurability in wireless networks. This book is an integral description of future wireless networks and the interconnection between their elements. The information is presented in a logical order within each chapter making it ideal for all levels of reader including researchers involved in modelling and analysis of future networks as well as engineers working in the area. Each chapter starts with introductory material and gradually includes more sophisticated models and mathematical tools concluding with a comprehensive list of references. Fully updated throughout with five new chapters on Opportunistic Communications; Relaying and Mesh Networks; Topology Control; Network Optimization; and Cognitive Radio Resource Management Unifies the latest research on cognitive, cooperative and opportunistic paradigms in wireless communications Provides efficient analytical tools for network analysis Discusses security issues, an essential element of working with wireless networks Supports advanced university and training courses in the field Companion website containing extra appendix on Queuing theory

Neural Networks in Telecommunications $420.59 Neural Networks in Telecommunications consists of a carefully edited collection of chapters that provides an overview of a wide range of telecommunications tasks being addressed with neural networks. These tasks range from the design and control of the underlying transport network to the filtering, interpretation and manipulation of the transported media. The chapters focus on specific applications, describe specific solutions and demonstrate the benefits that neural networks can provide. By doing this, the authors demonstrate that neural networks should be another tool in the telecommunications engineers toolbox. Neural networks offer the computational power of nonlinear techniques, while providing a natural path to efficient massivelyparallel hardware implementations. In addition, the ability of neural networks to learn allows them to be used on problems where straightforward heuristic or rulebased solutions do not exist. Together these capabilities mean that neural networks offer unique solutions to problems in telecommunications. For engineers and managers in telecommunications, Neural Networks in Telecommunications provides a single point of access to the work being done by leading researchers in this field, and furnishes an indepth description of neural network applications. Author: Yuhas, Ben/ Ansari, Nirwan Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 1993/12/31 Language: English Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.88 inches

A Comparative Study on Biological Networks $180.02 Biological networks encapsulate invaluable information about the roles of different entities and their interactions with each other. Analyzing these networks is essential to reveal evolutionary differences between different cells and organisms. An important type of analysis is the comparative analysis which aims at identifying functionally similar components of these networks. Analogous to sequence alignment which identifies sequence similarity, network alignment reveals similar connectivity patterns such as alternative paths and subnetworks. Additional to the comparative analysis, examining solely the topological structure led to discovery of the steady states and the modular organization that these networks exhibit. This book introduces (i) Alignment algorithms for metabolic networks that account for heterogeneous network elements, connected subnetwork mappings and the scalability problem; (ii) An algorithm that predicts functional similarity between reactions based on metabolic flux analysis; (iii) Efficient methods that identify steady states of Boolean regulatory networks; (iv) An algorithm that identifies dynamic modular structure of regulatory networks. Author: Ay, Ferhat Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Publication Date: 2011/05/30 Language: English Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.49 inches

Green Communications and Networks $469 The objective of "GCN 2011" is to facilitate an exchange of information on best practices for the latest research advances in the area of green communications and networks, which mainly includes the intelligent control, or efficient management, or optimal design of access network infrastructures, home networks, terminal equipment, and etc. Topics of interests include network design methodology, enabling technologies, network components and devices, applications, others and emerging new topics.

Transmission-Efficient Design and Management of Wavelength-Routed Optical Networks $145.28 No Synopsis Available

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Architecture and Protocols for HighSpeed Networks $388.73 Multimedia data streams will form a major part of the new generation of applications in highspeed networks. Continuous media streams, however, require transmission with guaranteed performance. In addition, many multimedia applications will require peertomultipeer communication. Guaranteed performance can only be provided with resource reservation in the network, and efficient multipeer communication must be based on multicast support in the lower layers of the network. Architecture and Protocols for HighSpeed Networks focuses on techniques for building the networks that will meet the needs of these multimedia applications. In particular two areas of current research interest in such communication systems are covered in depth. These are the protocol related aspects, such as switched networks, ATM, MAC layer, network and transport layer; and the services and applications. Architecture and Protocols for HighSpeed Networks contains contributions from leading world experts, giving the most uptodate research available. It is an essential reference for all professionals, engineers and researchers working in the area of highspeed networks. Author: Spaniol, Otto/ Danthine, Andre/ Effelsberg, Wolfgang Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 308 Publication Date: 1994/10/31 Language: English Dimensions: 9.56 x 6.76 x 0.91 inches

Advances in Communication Control Networks $285.17 The area of communication and computer networks has become a very active field of research by the control systems community in the last years. Tools from convex optimization and control theory are playing increasing roles in efficient network utilization, fair resource allocation, and communication delay accommodation and the field of Networked Control systems is fast becoming a mainstay of control systems research and applications. This carefully edited book brings together solicited contributions from experts in the various areas of communication/control networks referring to both networks under control (control in networks) as well as networked control systems (control over networks). The aim of this book is to reverse the trend of fragmentation and specialization in Communication Control Networks connecting various interdisciplinary research fields including control, communication, applied mathematics and computer science. Author: Tarbouriech, S./ Abdallah, C. T./ Chiasson, J. Series Title: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences Series Number: 308 Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 356 Publication Date: 2004/12/03 Language: English Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inches

Analytical Models and Efficient Dimensioning Algorithms $93.99 Analysis and design of communication systems in todays dynamically changing environment face a lot of challenges. Networks can become overloaded at one moment and underutilized at the next. In a randomly changing environment, such as timevarying arrivals, variable bandwidth demands, data traffic integrated with streaming traffic, and burst traffic with correlated arrivals, performance and dimensioning issues become very complicated. Little research has been carried out on dimensioning a system in such an environment to meet quality of service requirement. In this dissertation, one of our contributions is providing efficient dimensioning algorithms in closedform with a constant or near linear complexity. Analytical models and efficient dimensioning algorithms are then proposed for different Scenarios. Author: Tian, Wenhong Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Publication Date: 2010/06/05 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.28 inches

Constraint Networks $258 A major challenge in constraint programming is to develop efficient generic approaches to solve instances of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). With this aim in mind, this book provides an accessible synthesis of the author's research and work in this area, divided into four main topics: representation, inference, search, and learning. The results obtained and reproduced in this book have a wide applicability, regardless of the nature of the problem or the constraints involved, making it an extremely user-friendly resource for those involved in this field.

Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services $130 Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services gives a thorough explanation of the state-of-the-art in Context-Aware-Services (CAS). The authors describe all major terms and components of CAS, defining context and discussing the requirements of context-aware applications and their use in 3rd generation services. The text covers the service creation problem as well as the network technology alternatives to support these services and discusses active and programmable networks in detail. It gives an insight into the practical approach followed in the CONTEXT project, supplying concrete guidelines for building successful context-aware services. Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services: * Provides comprehensive and in-depth information on state-of-the-art CAS technology. * Proposes a system architecture for CAS creation and delivery, discussing service management and active network layers. * Describes the service lifecycle functional architecture, covering service authoring, customization, invocation, and assurance. * Explains system design considerations and details, system evaluation criteria, test-bed requirements, and evaluation results. Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services is an invaluable resource for telecommunications developers, researchers in academia and industry, advanced students in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, telecoms operators, as well as telecommunication management and operator personnel.

NextGeneration Passive Optical Networks $114.71 Research and development on optical networks generally and on Passive Optical Networks (PON) particularly have matured considerably. The exponential increase in the demand for bandwidth has exposed many challenges in the last mile that remains the bottleneck in broadband access networks. Currently, Ethernet PON has emerged as the most inexpensive panacea, providing more bandwidth than Cable Modems and Digital Subscriber Lines. Nevertheless, providing fair and efficient Quality of Service (QoS) has always been a major issue due to the undeterministic nature of Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) technology and the limited 1 Gbps channel speed that EPON relies on; unlike backbone networks that uses the Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology. This book instruments these challenges and issues and offers effective solutions. More specifically, it presents an upgrade from a TDMPON to a Hybrid TDM/WDMPON and proposes and validates the first framework that enables for perstream QoS protection in EPON using a new fair QoS scheduler. The book addresses professionals in optical and access networks. It is also directed towards researchers who would like to get a novel fragrance of EPONs. Author: Dhaini, Ahmad R. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 132 Publication Date: 2008/02/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.61 x 6.69 x 0.28 inches

Charging Communication Networks $116 This book proposes that usage-based charging schemes are essential to generate the incentives necessary for efficient operation of multiservice networks. The rapid development of network technology is enabling sophisticated new services and applications which demand new charging models. The same technology provides the means to operate the right charging schemes.Some of the work done in the European collaborative project CA$hMAN (Charging and Accounting Schemes in Multiservice ATM Networks). This project combined performance and economic models of network resource usage and cutomer utility to construct simple but effective charging schemes which were implemented and trialled in an advanced management platform.

Distributed Storage Networks $120 The worldwide market for SAN and NAS storage is anticipated to grow from US $2 billion in 1999 to over $25 billion by 2004. As business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce matures, even greater demands for management of stored data will arise. With the rapid increase in data storage requirements in the last decade, efficient management of stored data becomes a necessity for the enterprise. A recent UC-Berkeley study predicts that 150,000 terabytes of disk storage will be shipped in 2003. Most financial, insurance, healthcare, and telecommunications institutions are in the process of implementing storage networks that are distributed to some degree. For these institutions, data integrity is critical, and they will spend much time and money on planning. One of the primary obstacles to implementing a storage network cited by enterprise IT managers is a lack of knowledge about storage networking technology and the specific issues involved in extending a Storage Area Network (SAN) or Network Attached Storage (NAS) over the Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) or Wireless Area Networks (WAN). Distributed Storage Networks : Architecture, Protocols and Management addresses the "terminology gap" between enterprise network planners and telecommunications engineers, who must understand the transport requirements of storage networks in order to implement distributed storage networks. Jepsen comprehensively provides IT managers, planners, and telecommunications professionals with the information they need in order to choose the technologies best suited for their particular environment. * Addresses a hot topic that will become increasingly important in the coming years * Enables high-level managers and planners to make intelligent decisions about network needs. * Includes example network configurations providing solutions to typical user scenarios * Fills the "terminology gap" between enterprise network managers and telecommunications engineers who must understand the transport requirements of storage networks in order to implement distributed storage area networks A fundamental resource for all network managers, planners and network design engineers, as well as telecommunications engineers and engineering, computer science, and information technology students.

Wdm Mesh Networks: Management and Survivability $205.52 WDM Mesh Networks: Management and Survivability examines several of the key management and survivability issues related to meshbased WDM networks and proposes new WDM network protocols and algorithms that could make telecommunication networks more efficient. The book focuses on various issues related to wavelength routed networks, namely, routing and wavelength assignment, control and management, fault management, and wavelengthconverter placement. Special consideration has been given to designing optical networks with survivability requirements. Network designers and planners, and research and development engineers active in the field of telecommunications will find this book especially useful. WDM Mesh Networks: Management and Survivability will also serve as a helpful reference for students of optical networking at the senior undergraduate and graduate levels. Author: Zang, Hui E./ Hui Zang, Zang/ Hui Zang Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 200 Publication Date: 2002/12/31 Language: English Dimensions: 9.68 x 6.08 x 0.64 inches

Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks $122 A mixture of theory, experiments, and simulations that provide qualitative and quantitative insights into the technology The important new technology of wireless sensor and actuator networks provides radically new communication and networking paradigms with many new applications. Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks is a timely text that presents a fault-tolerant, reliable, low-latency, and energy-aware framework for wireless sensor and actuator networks, enabling readers to fulfill the ultimate goals of the applications—such as protecting critical infrastructures, achieving timely emergency responses, and monitoring the environment. Taking a problem-oriented approach, this resource discusses a wide range of computing and communication problems and solutions that arise in rapidly emerging wireless sensor and actuator networks, striking a balance between theory and practice. Discusses backbones as subsets of sensors or actuators that suffice for performing basic data communication operations or area sensing coverage Surveys existing data communication schemes (broadcasting, routing, multicasting, anycasting, geocasting) for sensor-actuator coordination Reviews the location service techniques Addresses the problem of energy-efficient data gathering by mobile sinks/actuators Describes protocols for coordination and topology control in sensor, actuator, and robot networks Reviews existing solutions to the sensor placement problem in wireless sensor and actuator networks This book is unique in that it addresses sensor and actuator networking in a comprehensive manner—covering all the aspects and providing up-to-date information—so that industry operators and academics from various areas can learn more about current networking trends, become aware of the possible architectures, and understand the advantages and limits in future commercial, social, and educational applications. Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks is appropriate for graduate students in computer science, electrical engineering, and telecommunications, as well as practitioners working as engineers, programmers, and technologists.

Performance Of Tcp/ip Over Atm Networks $83 This practical text provides an in-depth look at the performance issues central to the planning, designing, and efficient operation of TCP/IP over ATM networks.

Path Routing in Mesh Optical Networks $130 Transport networks evolved from DCS (Digital Cross-connect Systems)-based mesh architectures, to SONET/SDH (Synchronous Optical Networking/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) ring architectures in the 1990’s. In the past few years, technological advancements in optical transport switches have allowed service providers to support the same fast recovery in mesh networks previously available in ring networks while achieving better capacity efficiency and resulting in lower capital cost. Optical transport networks today not only provide trunking capacity to higher-layer networks, such as inter-router connectivity in an IP-centric infrastructure, but also support efficient routing and fast failure recovery of high-bandwidth services. This is possible due to the emergence of optical network elements that have the intelligence required to efficiently control the network. Optical mesh networks will enable a variety of dynamic services such as bandwidth-on-demand, Just-In-Time bandwidth, bandwidth scheduling, bandwidth brokering, and optical virtual private networks that open up new opportunities for service providers and their customers alike. Path Routing in Mesh Optical Networks combines both theoretical as well as practical aspects of routing and dimensioning for mesh optical networks. All authors have worked as technical leaders for the equipment vendor Tellium who implemented such capabilities in its product, and whose product was deployed in service provider networks. Path Routing in Mesh Optical Networks Presents an in-depth treatment of a specific class of optical networks, i.e. path-oriented mesh optical networks. Focuses on routing and recovery, dimensioning, performance analysis and availability in mesh optical networks. Explains and analyses routing specifically associated with Dedicated Backup Path Protection (DBPP) and Shared Backup Path Protection (SBPP) recovery architectures. As most of the core backbone networks evolve to mesh topologies utilizing intelligent network elements for provisioning and recovery of services, Path Routing in Mesh Optical Networks  will be an invaluable tool for both researchers and engineers in the industry who are responsible for designing, developing, deploying and maintaining mesh optical networks. It will also be a useful reference book for graduate students and university professors who are interested in optical networks or telecommunications networking. With a foreword by Professor Wayne D. Grover, author of the book Mesh-Based Survivable Networks .

Understanding and Designing Computer Networks $97.19 Understanding and Designing Computer Networks considers the ubiquitous nature of data networks, with particular reference to internetworking and the efficient management of all aspects of networked integrated data systems. In addition it looks at the next phase of networking developments; efficiency and security are covered in the sections dealing with data compression and data encryption; and future examples of network operations, such as network parallelism, are introduced. A comprehensive case study is used throughout the text to apply and illustrate new techniques and concepts as they are introduced. Presented in a format which is specifically tailored to modular courses, this comprehensive text should be essential reading for undergraduates in the fields of computer science, electronics or telecommunications. Author: King, G. A./ King, Andrew Nancy Irani Laur Irani Laur/ King, Graham Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 1995/03/31 Language: English Dimensions: 9.62 x 7.42 x 0.55 inches

Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks $205 A handbook on recent advancements and the state of the art in array processing and sensor Networks Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks provides readers with a collection of tutorial articles contributed by world-renowned experts on recent advancements and the state of the art in array processing and sensor networks. Focusing on fundamental principles as well as applications, the handbook provides exhaustive coverage of: wavelets; spatial spectrum estimation; MIMO radio propagation; robustness issues in sensor array processing; wireless communications and sensing in multi-path environments using multi-antenna transceivers; implicit training and array processing for digital communications systems; unitary design of radar waveform diversity sets; acoustic array processing for speech enhancement; acoustic beamforming for hearing aid applications; undetermined blind source separation using acoustic arrays; array processing in astronomy; digital 3D/4D ultrasound imaging technology; self-localization of sensor networks; multi-target tracking and classification in collaborative sensor networks via sequential Monte Carlo; energy-efficient decentralized estimation; sensor data fusion with application to multi-target tracking; distributed algorithms in sensor networks; cooperative communications; distributed source coding; network coding for sensor networks; information-theoretic studies of wireless networks; distributed adaptive learning mechanisms; routing for statistical inference in sensor networks; spectrum estimation in cognitive radios; nonparametric techniques for pedestrian tracking in wireless local area networks; signal processing and networking via the theory of global games; biochemical transport modeling, estimation, and detection in realistic environments; and security and privacy for sensor networks. Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks is the first book of its kind and will appeal to researchers, professors, and graduate students in array processing, sensor networks, advanced signal processing, and networking.

Efficient Routing of Snow Removal Vehicles $96.59 The routing of vehicles is an important area in the field of transportation and logistics. Efficient routing of vehicles can save the transportation industry millions of dollars every year. This book addresses the problem of finding a minimum cost set of routes for vehicles in a road network subject to some constraints. Extensions, such as multiple service requirements, and mixed networks have been considered. Variations of this problem exist in many practical applications such as snow removal, refuse collection, mail delivery, etc. An algorithm was developed based on the GRASP heuristic to develop good quality solutions and a simulated annealing heuristic was developed to improve the solutions obtained from the construction heuristic. The heuristic developed in this study improved the best known solution found by other authors on several of the tested instances obtained from the literature. The results obtained prove that the heuristic can be applied and adapted to practical problems having operational constraints such as oneway streets, restricted junctions, different costs for servicing, and traveling without servicing. Author: Omer, Masoud Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 108 Publication Date: 2008/09/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 inches

International Business Networks and Networking $25.58 Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Economics / Business, Miscellaneous, grade: 1,5, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Department of Englisch Business Communication), course: Englisch Business Communication, language: English, abstract: Personal connections between people have always been a major factor for success in business, and networking nowadays has become a major trend in all kind of industries. With the increasing availability of internet connections (comScore Networks 2006) and use of social networking platforms (Trend IQ 2004: 15), networking and internetworking has become an important activity for most employed and selfemployed people these days networking is easier, more effective and efficient than it has ever been before.This paper has a dual objective. On the one hand, it seeks to explore four of the most interesting and important social networks for people in Europe to extend their own networks and thus to increase their success in business (Open Business Club GmbH 2006: 12). On the other hand, it aims to highlight the dos and donts of networking that should allow the reader to avoid the most common pitfalls in networking as well as to increase his own networking efficiency and effectiveness. Author: Steiner, Robert Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 28 Publication Date: 2009/08/07 Language: English Dimensions: 8.50 x 5.50 x 0.07 inches

Synchronization in Complex Computing Networks $117.9 In this book we study synchronization phenomena in natural and artificial coupled multicomponent systems, applicable to the scalability of parallel discreteevent simulation for systems with asynchronous dynamics. We also study the role of various complex communication topologies as synchronization networks. We analyze the properties of the virtual time horizon or synchronization landscape (corresponding to the progress of the processing elements) of these networks by using the framework of non equilibrium surface growth. When the communication topology mimics that of the shortrange interacting underlying system, the virtual time horizon exhibits KardarParisiZhang kinetic roughening. Although the virtual times, on average, progress at a nonzero rate, their statistical spread diverges with the number of processing elements, hindering efficient data collection. We show that when the synchronization topology is extended to include quenched random communication links between the processing elements, as in smallworld and scalefree networks, they make a scalable and closetouniform progress with a nonzero rate, without global synchronization. Author: Gl, Hasan Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Publication Date: 2009/12/03 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.28 inches

High Performance Networks $35 Datacenter networks provide the communication substrate for large parallel computer systems that form the ecosystem for high performance computing (HPC) systems and modern Internet applications. The design of new datacenter networks is motivated by an array of applications ranging from communication intensive climatology, complex material simulations and molecular dynamics to such Internet applications as Web search, language translation, collaborative Internet applications, streaming video and voice-over-IP. For both Supercomputing and Cloud Computing the network enables distributed applications to communicate and interoperate in an orchestrated and efficient way. This book describes the design and engineering tradeoffs of datacenter networks. It describes interconnection networks from topology and network architecture to routing algorithms, and presents opportunities for taking advantage of the emerging technology trends that are influencing router microarchitecture. With the emergence of "many-core" processor chips, it is evident that we will also need "many-port" routing chips to provide a bandwidth-rich network to avoid the performance limiting effects of Amdahl's Law.We provide an overview of conventional topologies and their routing algorithms and show how technology, signaling rates and cost-effective optics are motivating new network topologies that scale up to millions of hosts. The book also provides detailed case studies of two high performance parallel computer systems and their networks. Table of Contents: Introduction / Background / Topology Basics / High-Radix Topologies / Routing / Scalable Switch Microarchitecture / System Packaging / Case Studies / Closing Remarks

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