Tous les ebooks de la collection "Computer Communications and Networks" - Springer

Social Media Retrieval

Collectif

This comprehensive text/reference examines in depth the synergy between multimedia content analysis, personalization, and next-generation networking. The book demonstrates how this integration can result in robust, personalized services that provide users with an...

Privacy and Security for Cloud Computing

Siani Pearson , George Yee

This book analyzes the latest advances in privacy, security and risk technologies within cloud environments. With contributions from leading experts, the text presents both a solid overview of the field and novel, cutting-edge research. A Glossary is also included at...

Future Wireless and Optical Networks

Shengming Jiang

This book reviews the challenges of all-optical and wireless networks for the future Internet, with a focus on cross-layer design and optimization. Features: presents a thorough introduction to major networking modes and their effect on Internet development; proposes a...

Problem Solving for Wireless Sensor Networks

Collectif

Problem Solving for Wireless Sensor Networks delivers a comprehensive review of the state of the art in the most important technological issues related to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). It covers topics such as hardware platforms, radio technologies, software...

Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures

Richard Hill , Zaigham Mahmood

This important text provides a single point of reference for state-of-the-art cloud computing design and implementation techniques. The book examines cloud computing from the perspective of enterprise architecture, asking the question; how do we realize new business...

Grid Computing

Nikolaos P. Preve

This book presents research from many of the major projects involved in the emerging global grid infrastructure.  With a particular focus on the practical advantages and applications of grid computing – including real case studies – the book provides an in-depth study...

Guide to e-Science

Wei Jie , Lizhe Wang , Xiaoyu Yang

This guidebook on e-science presents real-world examples of practices and applications, demonstrating how a range of computational technologies and tools can be employed to build essential infrastructures supporting next-generation scientific research. Each chapter...

Application and Multidisciplinary Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks

Collectif

It is a general trend in computing that computers are becoming ever smaller and ever more interconnected. Sensor networks – large networks of small, simple devices – are a logical extreme of this trend. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are attracting an increasing...

Grids, Clouds and Virtualization

Giovanni Aloisio , Massimo Cafaro

Research into grid computing has been driven by the need to solve large-scale, increasingly complex problems for scientific applications. Yet the applications of grid computing for business and casual users did not begin to emerge until the development of the concept of...

Cloud Computing

Nikos Antonopoulos , Lee Gillam

Cloud computing continues to emerge as a subject of substantial industrial and academic interest. Although the meaning and scope of “cloud computing” continues to be debated, the current notion of clouds blurs the distinctions between grid services, web services, and...

802.11 Wireless Networks

Alan Holt , Chi-Yu Huang

Guide to Reliable Internet Services and Applications

Charles R. Kalmanek , Sudip Misra , Yang (Richard) Yang

An oft-repeated adage among telecommunication providers goes, “There are ve things that matter: reliability, reliability, reliability, time to market, and cost. If you can’t do all ve, at least do the rst three. ” Yet, designing and operating reliable networks and...

Scheduling for Parallel Processing

Maciej Drozdowski

Overview and Goals This book is dedicated to scheduling for parallel processing. Presenting a research ?eld as broad as this one poses considerable dif?culties. Scheduling for parallel computing is an interdisciplinary subject joining many ?elds of science and te-...

Algorithms for Next Generation Networks

Graham Cormode , Marina Thottan

Data networking now plays a major role in everyday life and new applications continue to appear at a blinding pace. Yet we still do not have a sound foundation for designing, evaluating and managing these networks. This book covers topics at the intersection of...

Computational Social Network Analysis

Ajith Abraham , Aboul-Ella Hassanien , Vaclav Snášel

Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. Web 2.0 has enabled a new generation of web-based communities, social networks, and folksonomies to facilitate collaboration...

Pervasive Computing

Jemal H. Abawajy , Ajith Abraham , Hani Hagras , Aboul-Ella Hassanien

The main objective of pervasive computing systems is to create environments where computers become invisible by being seamlessly integrated and connected into our everyday environment, where such embedded computers can then provide inf- mation and exercise intelligent...

Enabling Optical Internet with Advanced Network Technologies

Javier Aracil , Franco Callegati , Javier Aracil

This book provides a broad overview of IP over WDM technologies, as seen by a group of experts participating in the e-Photon/ONeC and BONE Networks of Excellence funded within the VIth and VIIth Research Framework Programmes (FP6 and FP7) of the European Union. Both...

Information Assurance

Andrew Blyth , Gerald L. Kovacich

When you first hear the term information assurance you tend to conjure up an image of a balanced set of reasonable measures that have been taken to protect the information after an assessment has been made of risks that are posed to it. In truth, this is the Holy Grail...