Product Description

Detailing the recent advances in telecommunications and wireless networks, this book reviews telecommunication network architecture and design principles. Focusing on the newest technology (high-speed networks, bursty traffic, multimedia wireless) and adapting old and new solutions to the newest technology, it presents a real applications-oriented approach to solving network problems, and analyzes architecture and design issues in modern telecommunication and wireless networks.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3260161 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 310 pages

From the Back Cover

Architecting and designing high-speed wireless multimedia networks

• Real-world applications and traffic patterns
• New routing and congestion control solutions
• Tracking and location management for mobile networks
• Multicasting, synchronization, QoS, and more

High-speed wireless multimedia networks: State-of-the-art design and architecture

In Multimedia Applications Support for Wireless ATM Networks, Dr. Anna Hac´ presents the state-of-the-art in design and architecture for tomorrow's high-speed, wireless multimedia, voice, data, and video networks. Beginning with a lucid, example-rich introduction to today's leading broadband and wireless ATM network technologies, Hac´ addresses every key issue facing the designer of advanced multimedia networks. Coverage includes:

• Architectures based on distributed control, hierarchical organization, ATM LANs, LANE, and the Intelligent Network
• New solutions for routing and congestion control in bursty, high-speed multimedia and mobile networks
• Tracking strategies, location management schemes, and location update/routing schemes for mobile environments
• Finding minimum cost multicast trees with bounded path delay
• Mobile host protocols for the Internet
• Key approaches to resource allocation: dynamic channel assignment, distributed dynamic channel assignment, and hybrid channel allocation
• Multicasting, synchronization, Quality of Service (QoS), and more

From start to finish, Hac focuses on real-world applications and traffic patterns-helping network designers and engineers evaluate alternatives, project performance, and make better decisions.

About the Author

DR. ANNA HAC´ is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, and a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. She has been a Visiting Scientist at the Imperial College, University of London, England; a Post-Doctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley; an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins University, and a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Her research contributions include system and workload modeling, performance analysis, reliability, modeling process synchronization mechanisms for distributed systems, congestion control, and wireless networking.