Communication Networks and Computer Systems

ISBN 10: 1860946593 / ISBN 13: 9781860946592

Published by Imperial College Press, 2006

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pp. xiv + 261 Illus.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Communication Networks and Computer Systems
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860946593
• ISBN 13: 9781860946592
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Communication networks and computer systems research is entering a new phase in which many of the established models and techniques of the last twenty years are being challenged. The research community is continuing to free itself from past intellectual constraints so that it may fully exploit the convergence of computing and communications. Evaluating the performance of emerging communications and computer systems constitutes a huge challenge. Thus, current research provides a set of heterogeneous tools and techniques embracing the uncertainties of time and space varying environments when the requests for diverse services are made in real time, and with very different quality of service expectations. These novel techniques will lead to fast and economic service deployment and effective dynamic resource management, and hence to new business strategies and infrastructures that will facilitate the emergence of future services and applications. This volume contains contributions and presentations made by leading international researchers at a workshop which was held in April 2004 to honour Professor Erol Gelenbe on the occasion of his inaugural lecture as the Dennis Gabor Chair at Imperial College London.