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.