Computer Networks and Communications

An overview of the operating theory and practical applications of voice processing technology. From the basics of telephonics, to speech recognition and coding and language processing, all the essential concepts are explored, with an emphasis on applied science.

This book highlights the work of the ICM project, addressing the technologies and methods required for the management of broadband networks and services. It introduces relevant background information and presents detailed technical descriptions of ICM's results, covering a range of topics related to TMN realisation - from definition of case studies, through design and implementation, to validation and experimentation.

The subject of interest in this book is premises data communications using fiber optic cable as the transmission medium. This is at once a very specific yet very extensive topic. It is an important topic both within the context of data communications today and into the future. All, or almost all, aspects of this subject will be explored.

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) has revolutionized telecommunications, and has become an integral part of the networking infrastructure.

This book is a comprehensive reference that enables networking professionals to understand and implement contemporary internetworking technologies. Master the terms, concepts, technologies, and devices used in today's networking industry. Learn how to incorporate internetworking technologies into a LAN/WAN environment. Complete with new and updated chapters on security, storage, optical networking, scalability, and speed, this book is a complete and up-to-date reference to the topics that are essential to all networking professionals, regardless of expertise.

Designed as an advanced text on interneworking technologies for senior undergraduate/graduate students of computer science, this unique book provides an introduction to the key concepts relatedto front line areas of interwork specific research and development. The book focuses on IPv6 and design and implememtations issues specific to the next generation internetworking using it.

Ultrawideband (UWB) communication systems offer an unprecedented opportunity to impact the future communication world. The enormous available bandwidth, the wide scope of the data rate / range trade-off, as well as the potential for very low-cost operation leading to pervasive usage, all present a unique opportunity for UWB systems to impact the way people and intelligent machines communicate and interact with their environment.

This book presents a broad overview on the emerging technology of very-high-speed communication. It is written at the technical conceptual level with some areas of greater detail.

This book describes different aspects of knowledge-based networks and is both important and timely for future Internet/mobile-based information networks. This book combines Artificial Intelligence, service-based systems and distributed knowledge management.

The book begins with data compression for arbitrary sources. Gallager then describes how to modulate the resulting binary data for transmission over wires, cables, optical fibers, and wireless channels. Analysis and intuitive interpretations are developed for channel noise models, followed by coverage of the principles of detection, coding, and decoding. The various concepts covered are brought together in a description of wireless communication, using CDMA as a case study.

The renowned communications theorist Robert Gallager brings his lucid writing style to the study of the fundamental system aspects of digital communication for a one-semester course for graduate students.

This book is an introduction to several fundamental ideas in electrical engineering and computer science, using digital communication systems as the vehicle. The three parts of the course - bits, signals, and packets - cover three corresponding layers of abstraction relevant to the system:

The purpose of this book is to fill this void and introduce the concepts of data communication with a slight leaning towards the Linux operating system.

The book has been structured around the Next Generation Network (NGN) framework, which separates the transport network, services, and signaling protocols into the service stratum and the transport stratum.

There are many different computing and networking technologies -- some available today, some just now emerging, some well-proven, some quite experimental. Understanding the computing dilemma more completely involves recognizing technologies; especially since a single technology by itself seldom suffices, and instead, multiple technologies are usually necessary.