Synopsis
Telecommunications and wireless networks have been the topic of research for several decades. With the employment of telephone and radio a new era in communications has begun. A few generations of telecommunications networks have evolved into a worldwide network with countless applications of various media and interactive users. This course aims to teach the reader to design high-speed wireless networks supporting multimedia applications. Topics covered include: ATM and wireless networks and their architecture; congestion control and protocols; location and tracking strategies; routing and resource management for multimedia applications; synchronization; multicasting; and quality of service for multimedia applications.
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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
Anna Hac received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Department of Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. Her research contributions include system and workload modeling, performance analysis, reliability, modeling process synchronization mechanisms for distributed systems, distributed algorithms, congestion control in high-speed networks, reliable software architecture for switching systems, telecommunications and wireless networks, and network management.
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