Communicating objects : developing technology for usable persuasive computing systems

✍ Scribed by Pierre-Noel Favennec, Claude Kintzig, Gerard Poulain, Gilles Privat

• Publisher: Hermes Penton Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Series: Innovative Technology Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Examines the range of technological capabilities that smart objects' combination of physical interaction, networking, and processing make possible—capabilities whose potential, if allowed to come to fruition, is truly revolutionary.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1. Telecommunications
a general survey: Numerization of the analogue signal
common codes
transmission modes
modulation
signal transmission
types of link
link assemblies
terminals
transmission supports - cable, herzian, satellite
data transmission systems
numerical plesiochronic andsynchronous hierarchy. 2. Network architecture: Normalisation
Open system architecture
layer architecture (levels 1 to 7)
reference model, norms and other protocols
TCP/IP protocol, internet. 3. Networks: Presentation
Transpac and shared networks
videotext
local networks
research networks
satellite communication
telecommunication networks with mobiles
network images, video and multiservices
numerical networks and integration of services
high flow network
optical networks
access networks, high rate
internet networks
intelligent networks
QoS in network IP and the internet
evolution of networks
new generation networks. 4. Administration of networks: General presentation
normalisation
management OSI norms
general architecture of OSI management
SNMO protocol
management of networks and services
approach through processes. Modelisation, perspectives of evolution
the telecom operator
evolution of administrative function of networks
administrative outcomes of proposed networks. Annexes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index