Advanced Lectures on Networking: NETWORKING 2002

This book presents the revised version of seven tutorials given at the NETWORKING 2002 Conference in Pisa, Italy in May 2002.

The lecturers present a coherent view of the core issues in the following areas:

— peer—to—peer computing and communications

— mobile computing middleware

— network security in the multicast framework

— categorizing computing assets according to communication patterns

— remarks on ad—hoc networking

— communication through virtual technologies

— optical networks.