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This timely Handbook provides a conceptual discussion and a wide
empirical presentation of new disruptive forms of innovation
producing appropriate technologies, addressing the needs of
low-income populations, and providing alternative solutions for
sustainable development. The Handbook of Innovation &
Appropriate Technologies for International Development expertly
analyses and compares contributions of appropriate technologies in
developing, emerging and industrialized economies, including China
and India, and their global development impacts. Additionally, it
covers the transversal role of new international communication
technologies, open access, digital tools as well as
entrepreneurship and innovation from within emerging economies and
in industrialized nations. Using empirical analyses of cases and
experiences in manufacturing sectors and services, it covers both
the formal and informal economy, and provides an insightful focus
on differences and similarities across borders and sectors. NGO and
private sector practitioners, public sector officers as well as
academics specialized in development economics, entrepreneurship
and engineering or management studies will find this Handbook to be
illuminating and very informative. Science and technology producers
and entrepreneurs will appreciate the global look into more
sustainable development as related to appropriate technologies, and
how they can be used across all economic backgrounds.
An authoritative collection of research papers and surveys,
Emerging Wireless Networks: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications
explores recent developments in next-generation wireless networks
(NGWNs) and mobile broadband networks technologies, including 4G
(LTE, WiMAX), 3G (UMTS, HSPA), WiFi, mobile ad hoc networks, mesh
networks, and wireless sensor networks. Focusing on improving the
performance of wireless networks and provisioning better quality of
service and quality of experience for users, it reports on the
standards of different emerging wireless networks, applications,
and service frameworks. The book begins by appraising the
management challenges in emerging wireless networks. It examines
the state-of-the-art in mobility management for IP-based mobile
networks, at both the network and link layers. Proposing an
integrated network architecture design for NGWNs-including wireless
local, metropolitan, and wide area networks-it analyzes WLAN/3G
network convergence and advanced mobility features based on the IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture. It highlights the
challenges and issues related to mobile virtual private networks,
and also: Examines the emerging mobile broadband wireless standards
such as IEEE 802.16 and LTE Introduces a mechanism that provides
service continuity to end-users in self-organizing IP Multimedia
Subsystem environments Considers the challenges, solutions, and
services of vehicular communication networks Unveils a new
transmission paradigm (network coding) to improve the performance
of the transmission control protocol. The book presents a novel
distributed scheme based on the stochastic optimization formulation
of the network selection problem for heterogeneous wireless
networks by using cognitive radio networks concepts. Describing the
issues and schemes for network selection and congestion avoidance
in multi-access networks, it supplies you with a clear perspective
of where the technology is headed and where future opportunities
might be found for mobile broadband technologies.
Communication systems are now ubiquitous and making them more
intelligent remains very challenging. The IFIP International
Conference on Intelligence in Communication Systems is an effort to
bring together researchers and practitioners who represent the
latest developments in this area. This volume contains selected
papers from the conference in the following focus areas: ad hoc
networks / hybrid networks / WLAN; security, privacy and consumer
protection; adaptive architectures and protocols; flexible QoS and
QoS management; flexible service specification, validation,
searching and querying; service composition and Web services;
personal, terminal and node mobility; programmable and active
networks.
This book provides state-of-the-art e-learning networked
environments and architectures carried out over the last few years
from a knowledge management perspective. It contains a
comprehensive discussion of e-learning concepts, models,
experiments and best practices. Presenting a wide-ranging survey of
methods and applications from contributors from around the world,
this book will be a valuable resource for researchers,
practitioners and graduates.
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Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications - Second International Workshop, MATA 2005, Montreal, Canada, October 17 -- 19, 2005, Proceedings (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
Thomas Magedanz, Ahmed Karmouch, Samuel Pierre, Iakovos Venieris
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The beginning of the twenty-first century is characterized by
global markets, and the mobility of people is becoming an important
fact of life. Consequently, the mobile user is demanding
appropriate technical solutions to make use of customized
information and communication services. In this context the notion
of next-generation networks (NGNs), which are driven by the
convergence of the entertainment sector, the mobile Internet, and
fixed/mobile telecommunications, is emerging. Such NGNs are
aggregating a variety of different access networks and supporting
the seamless connection of an open set of end-user devices, and due
to the adoption of an all-IP network paradigm they enable a much
better integration of voice and data services. Coincidently the
buzzword 'fixed mobile convergence' (FMC) describes the current
trend towards providing common services across fixed and mobile
networks resulting in the medium term in the full integration of
fixed and mobile telecommunication networks. The adoption of
appropriate middleware technologies and the provision of - called
service delivery platforms driven by the ongoing innovation in the
field of information technologies provides today the technical
foundation for supporting terminal, personal and service mobility
and thus the implementation of real seamless information and
communication services. Furthermore, users are nowadays looking, in
light of an omnipresent service environment, for a much higher
degree of customization and context awareness in the services they
use. The papers in this volume look at these enabling
mobility-aware technologies and their use for implementing
mobility-aware and context-aware applications.
Communication systems are now ubiquitous and making them more
intelligent remains very challenging. The IFIP International
Conference on Intelligence in Communication Systems is an effort to
bring together researchers and practitioners who represent the
latest developments in this area. This volume contains selected
papers from the conference in the following focus areas: ad hoc
networks / hybrid networks / WLAN; security, privacy and consumer
protection; adaptive architectures and protocols; flexible QoS and
QoS management; flexible service specification, validation,
searching and querying; service composition and Web services;
personal, terminal and node mobility; programmable and active
networks.
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Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks - Second International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2003, Montreal, Canada, October 8-10, 2003, Proceedings (Paperback, 2003 ed.)
Samuel Pierre, Michel Barbeau, Evangelos Kranakis
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AdHoc Networks are wireless, self-organizing systems formed by
co-operating nodes, within communication range of each other which
form temporary n- works. Their topology is dynamic, decentralized,
and ever-changing, and the nodes may move around arbitrarily. The
last few years have witnessed a wealth
ofresearchideasonAdHocnetworkswhicharemovingrapidlyintoimplemented
standards. Mobile computing, particularly wireless-enabled mobile
computing, covers a large area of applications in mobile computing
environments, networking, c-
municationdevicesandsystems.Thisconferenceexposesexperimentalaswellas
theoretical research in adhoc, mobile and wireless networks. The
range of topics covered includes management of power consumption,
architectures and pro- cols, quality of service, and security. The
aim of the conference was to provide a unique opportunity for
researchers and students in industry and academia to participate at
an annual forum and share their research results and experiences.
This conference followed the ?rst successful conference (held at
the Fields -
stituteinTorontoduringSeptember20-21oflastyear),andwasheldattheH-
iday Inn, Midtown in Montreal during October 8-10, 2003. It was
co-sponsored by the Mobile Computing and Networking Research
Laboratory (LARIM) of the ' Ecole Polytechnique de Montr' eal,
theSchool of Computer Science (SCS) of C- leton University, MITACS
(Mathematics of Information Technology and C- plex Systems), and
the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, MATA 2001, held in Montreal, Canada in August 2001. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the volume. Among the topics addressed are network management, mobile applications, nomadic computing, feature interaction, Internet applications, QoS managment, policy-based management, interactive multimedia, tele-learning, and computer telephony integration.
This book provides state-of-the-art e-learning networked
environments and architectures carried out over the last few years
from a knowledge management perspective. It contains a
comprehensive discussion of e-learning concepts, models,
experiments and best practices. Presenting a wide-ranging survey of
methods and applications from contributors from around the world,
this book will be a valuable resource for researchers,
practitioners and graduates.
Explore Twisted, the Python-based event-driven networking engine,
and review several of its most popular application projects. It is
written by community leaders who have contributed to many of the
projects covered, and share their hard-won insights and experience.
Expert Twisted starts with an introduction to event-driven
programming, explaining it in the context of what makes Twisted
unique. It shows how Twisted's design emphasizes testability as a
solution to common challenges of reliability, debugging, and
start-to-finish causality that are inherent in event-driven
programming. It also explains asynchronous programming, and the
importance of functions, deferreds, and coroutines. It then uses
two popular applications, treq and klein, to demonstrate calling
and writing Web APIs with Twisted. The second part of the book
dives into Twisted projects, in each case explaining how the
project fits into the Twisted ecosystem and what it does, and
offers several examples to bring readers up to speed, with pointers
to additional resources for more depth. Examples include using
Twisted with Docker, as a WSGI container, for file sharing, and
more. What You'll Learn Integrate Twisted and asyncio using
adapters Automate software build, test, and release processes with
Buildbot Create clients and servers with Autobahn Transfer files
with Magic Wormhole Distribute cloud-based file storage with Tahoe
LAFS Understand HTTP/2 with Python and Twisted Support for
asynchronous tasks using Django Channels Who This Book Is For
Readers should have some Python experience and understand the
essentials of containers and protocols, but need not be familiar
with Twisted or the associated projects covered in the book.
Next Generation Mobile Networks and Ubiquitous Computing provides a
comprehensive and unified view of the latest and most innovative
research findings for university professors, researchers, students,
and industry professionals alike. Presenting chapters by experts
from across the globe, this reference offers a single body of
knowledge to show the many existing interactions between mobile
networking, wireless communications, and ubiquitous computing.
This work deals with the end-to-end QoS aware path computation
problem under three separate parts: a distributed inter-domain
scheme, a joint inter- layer/inter-domain path computation scheme
and traffic engineering, and an inter-layer path computation
algorithm for GMPLS networks. It first presents a distributed
pre-reservation based procedure for inter-domain path computation
of LSPs within a PCE based architecture. This allows the
computation of optimal inter-domain paths with efficient setup
times. It then extends this solution by considering the joint
inter-layer/inter-domain problem for a complete view and global
optimization. Finally it presents a novel mathematical program
specific to GMPLS multi-layer path computation that solves the
problem of nesting and un-nesting LSPs from one switching region to
another.
So far, rapid progress in wireless networking and mobile computing
has made possible for mobile users to benefit from disparate
wireless systems, such as WPAN, WLAN, WMAN and WWAN. On the other
hand, next generation wireless networks are expected to integrate
existing wireless systems within its all-IP-based infrastructure
while supporting mobility among heterogeneous radio access
technologies. The book describes protocols, architectures,
standards mobility and performance for next generation wireless
system.
An authoritative collection of research papers and surveys,
Emerging Wireless Networks: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications
explores recent developments in next-generation wireless networks
(NGWNs) and mobile broadband networks technologies, including 4G
(LTE, WiMAX), 3G (UMTS, HSPA), WiFi, mobile ad hoc networks, mesh
networks, and wireless sensor networks. Focusing on improving the
performance of wireless networks and provisioning better quality of
service and quality of experience for users, it reports on the
standards of different emerging wireless networks, applications,
and service frameworks.
The book begins by appraising the management challenges in
emerging wireless networks. It examines the state-of-the-art in
mobility management for IP-based mobile networks, at both the
network and link layers. Proposing an integrated network
architecture design for NGWNs including wireless local,
metropolitan, and wide area networks it analyzes WLAN/3G network
convergence and advanced mobility features based on the IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture. It highlights the
challenges and issues related to mobile virtual private networks,
and also:
- Examines the emerging mobile broadband wireless standards such
as IEEE 802.16 and LTE
- Introduces a mechanism that provides service continuity to
end-users in self-organizing IP Multimedia Subsystem
environments
- Considers the challenges, solutions, and services of vehicular
communication networks
- Unveils a new transmission paradigm (network coding) to improve
the performance of the transmission control protocol.
The book presents a novel distributed scheme based on the
stochastic optimization formulation of the network selection
problem for heterogeneous wireless networks by using cognitive
radio networks concepts. Describing the issues and schemes for
network selection and congestion avoidance in multi-access
networks, it supplies you with a clear perspective of where the
technology is headed and where future opportunities might be found
for mobile broadband technologies.
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