A Background for Networked Digital Media -- Digital Coding of Audio and Video -- Communication Networks and Technologies -- Internet Protocols, Services and Software -- Media Protocols and Applications.This text is a light technical introduction to the three technical foundations for multimedia applications across the Internet: communications (principles, technologies and networking), compressi…
Fuzzy Logic -- Knowledge and Fuzzy Control -- Control of the Service Activities -- Control of the Queue Discipline -- Control of the Admission of Customers -- Coordinating Multiple Control Policies -- Applications of Fuzzy Queuing Control to the Internet -- Closure.Every day we experience the annoyance of having to queue. The phenomenon is becoming more prevalent in our increasingly congested a…
to Network System Modeling -- Layer Structures -- Node Structures -- Modeling Vertical and Horizontal Partitions -- Management and Traffic Systems -- Applying AMLn.The book describes a method for creating models of telecom systems. The method is intended for practicing network architects and designers. This method emphasizes modeling the (very complex) functional structure of networks in a way …
Network Architectures -- Enabling Architectures for Next Generation Optical Networks -- Hybrid Hierarchical Optical Networks -- Advances in Passive Optical Networks (PONS) -- Regional-Metro Optical Networks -- Switching -- Optical Packet Switching -- Waveband Switching: A New Frontier in Optical WDM Networks -- Optical Burst Switching: Quality of Service, Multicast, and Operation and Maintenanc…
Trends in Wireless Networks -- Cross-Layer Performance in Cellular WCDMA/3G Networks: Modelling and Analysis -- Always on Service Intelligent Network -- Cognitive Trends in Making -- Multiple Antenna Systems: Frontier of Wireless Access -- Fixed Relays for Next Generation Wireless Systems -- Dynamic Enhancement and Optimal Utilization of CDMA Networks -- Wireless Lans and ADHOC Networks -- Arch…
Ad Hoc Networks -- Collision Avoidance Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks -- Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- Multicasting in Ad Hoc Networks -- Transport Layer Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks -- Energy Conservation -- Use of Smart Antennas in Ad Hoc Networks -- QoS Issues in Ad-Hoc Networks -- Security in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.Ad Hoc Networks: Technologies and Protocols is a concise in-depth treat…
Long Papers -- Short Papers -- Extended Abstracts for Posters and Demos -- Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Response -- Surveillance, Border Protection, and Transportation Systems.Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) can be broadly defined as the study of the development and use of advanced information technologies and systems for national and international security-related applic…
Mobile GIS and LBS -- Development of an Embedded Spatial MMDBMS for Spatial Mobile Devices -- Design of Query Language for Location-Based Services -- Towards a Taxonomy of Location Based Services -- Refined Route Instructions Using Topological Stages of Closeness -- Mapping and Representation Issues in Web and Mobile GIS -- An Increment Based Model for Multi-resolution Geodata Management in a M…
Survey -- Environments for Multiagent Systems State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges -- Conceptual Models -- AGRE: Integrating Environments with Organizations -- From Reality to Mind: A Cognitive Middle Layer of Environment Concepts for Believable Agents -- A Spatially Dependent Communication Model for Ubiquitous Systems -- Languages for Design and Specification -- ELMS: An Environment Descri…
KEYNOTE SPEECHES -- Ranking Abstraction as Companion to Predicate Abstraction -- Developing High Quality Software with Formal Methods: What Else Is Needed? -- A Testing Architecture for Designing High-Reliable MANET Protocols -- REGULAR PAPERS -- A Composition Operator for Systems with Active and Passive Actions -- A Formal Semantics of UML StateCharts by Means of Timed Petri Nets -- A Hierarch…