Selected Topics In Communication Networks And Distributed Systems

by Sudip Misra (Editor), Subhas Chandra Misra (Editor), Isaac Woungang (Editor)

Overview

Communication networks and distributed system technologies are undergoing rapid advancements. The last few years have experienced a steep growth in research on different aspects in these areas. Even though these areas hold great promise for our future, there are several challenges that need to be addressed. This review volume discusses important issues in selected emerging and matured topics in communication networks and distributed systems. It will be a valuable reference for students, instructors, researchers, engineers and strategists in this field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789812839435
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/05/2010
Pages:	808
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.90(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Mobility in Wireless Communication Networks Ronan Skehill Padraig Scully Eduardo Cano Joseph Johnson Sean McGrath John Nelson 1

Chapter 2 The Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Antonios Alexiou Christos Bouras Vasileios Kokkinos Evangelos Rekkas 43

Chapter 3 WIMAX/802.16 Broadband Wireless Networks Michael Barbeau Paul Boone Evangelos Kranakis 79

Chapter 4 The System Framework and Its Application in a Mobile RFID Service Network Namje Park Rajit Gadh Seungjoo Kim Dongho Won 113

Chapter 5 Using Neural Networks in Wireless Man QoS Architectures Manjunath Ramachandra 141

Chapter 6 Using a Statistical Learning Model and SVM for Location Management in WLANS Abhishek Sisodia Amit Gupta Kunal Kapoor Shashikala Tapaswi 163

Chapter 7 Transmission Power Control for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Basel Alawieh Chadi Assi Hussein Mouftah 193

Chapter 8 Collision Avoidance Aware MAC Protocols for Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks: Challenges, Solutions and Open Issues Basel Alawieh Chadi Assi Hussein Mouftah 217

Chapter 9 A Cross Layer DOA Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks C. Mala S. Vikram N. P. Gopalan 243

Chapter 10 Pervasive Service Discovery Protocol for Power Optimization in an Ad Hoc Network C. Mala S. Sandeep Kumar N. P. Gopalan 261

Chapter 11 Area Coverage Problems in Wireless Sensor Networks Bang Wang Cheng Fu Hock Beng Lim Minghui Li Di Ma 277

Chapter 12 Cognitive Networks Manuel Peralta Supratik Mukhopadhyay Ramesh Bharadwaj Krishna Shenai 321

Chapter 13 Routing and Traffic Management El-Sayed M. El-Alfy 343

Chapter 14 Network Management: A Tutorial and Survey Hui Xu Debao Xiao 401

Chapter 15 The Principles of Network Monitoring Monica Brockmeyer Jawwad Shamsi 433

Chapter 16 Network Information Flow and its Wireless Applications Jiaqing Huang Tegegne Gobana 463

Chapter 17 A Theoretical Model for Grid, Cluster and Internet Computing Mark Burgin Marc L. Smith 485

Chapter 18 Dataflow Computations on Enterprise Grids Chao Jin Rajkumar Buyya 537

Chapter 19 Grid-Based Computing Platform for Large-Scale Online Applications K. L. Eddie Law Y. C. Allen Yu 565

Chapter 20 Adaptive Multimedia Transmission over the Internet Christos Bouras Apostolos Gkamas 589

Chapter 21 Analyzing Bandwidth usage in a Distributed Processing Environment Dennis Guster Mark B. Schmidt Renat Sultanov Charles Hall 607

Chapter 22 Intrusion Detection in Networks and Applications Kapil Kumar Gupta Baikunth Nath Kotagiri Ramamohanarao 635

Chapter 23 Security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Venkat Balakrishnan Vijay Varadharajan Uday Tupakula 671

Chapter 24 Identity Management in Mobile Communication Systems Silke Holtmanns Guenther Horn Wolf-Dietrich Moeller 709

Chapter 25 Proactive Models for Mitigating Internet Denial-of-Service/Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks H. R. Nagesh K. Chandra Sekaran 731

Solutions 753