Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing: Enabling Technologies and Systems

✍ Scribed by Debashis Saha, Amitava Mukherjee, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing: Enabling Technologies & Systems is a comprehensive guide to tomorrow's world of ubiquitous computing where users can access and manipulate information from everywhere at all times.
The emphasis is on networking, systems and standards rather than detailed physical implementation. Addressed are many technical obstacles, such as, connectivity, levels of service, performance, and reliability and fairness. The authors also describe the existing enabling off-the-shelf technologies and its underlying infrastructure known as pervasive networking (PervNet). PervNet ties different sets of smart nodes together enabling them to communicate with each other to provide pervasive computing services to users. Throughout the book, important issues related to scalability, transparency, security, energy management, QoS provisioning, fault tolerance, and disconnected operations are discussed.
This work provides a research and development perspective to the field of PervNet and will serve as an essential reference for network designers, operators and developers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Pervasive Computing....Pages 1-37
Pervasive Networking....Pages 39-57
Backbone Technology....Pages 59-103
Wireless Access Technology....Pages 105-126
Interface Technology....Pages 127-144
Internet....Pages 145-212
Wireless Standards....Pages 213-247
Challenges....Pages 249-264
Vision for the Future....Pages 265-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-287

✦ Subjects

The Computing Profession; Electrical Engineering; Computer Communication Networks