Advanced Lectures on Networking: NETWORKING 2002 Tutorials

✍ Scribed by Jon Crowcroft, Ian Pratt (auth.), Enrico Gregori, Giuseppe Anastasi, Stefano Basagni (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 203
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2497
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Peer to Peer: Peering into the Future....Pages 1-19
Mobile Computing Middleware....Pages 20-58
Network Security in the Multicast Framework....Pages 59-82
Categorizing Computing Assets According to Communication Patterns....Pages 83-100
Remarks on Ad Hoc Networking....Pages 101-123
Communications through Virtual Technologies....Pages 124-154
A Tutorial on Optical Networks....Pages 155-193

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Computer Science, general; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Multimedia Information Systems; Communications Engineering, Networks