Next Generation Data Communications Technologies : Emerging Trends

Data sharing is central to the existence of any computer network. Research on the types of networks used to transmit data, as well as the nature of the data itself, is essential for computer engineers and information technology professionals. Next Generation Data Communication Technologies: Emerging Trends contains case studies, theories, and empirical research aimed to assist individuals and organizations in understanding the critical concepts of data networking and communications. The transmission of different types of media, along with resulting business implications, is studied in depth and applications for service providers are policymakers are offered in this rigorously researched collection.

Debashis Saha is currently a full professor with the MIS Group, Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Calcutta (Kolkata, India). Previously, he was with CSE Department at Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India). He received his BE (Hons) degree from Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India) and the MTech and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kharagpur (India), all in electronics and telecommunications engineering. His research interests include pervasive communication and computing, network operations, management and security, wireless networking and mobile computing, ICT for development and network economics. He has supervised thirteen doctoral theses, published about 250 research papers in various conferences and journals and directed four funded research projects on networking. He is a member of the organizing/program committee of several international conferences and is a regular reviewer of several international journals. He has co-authored several book chapters, a monograph and five books including Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing: Enabling Technologies and Systems (Norwell, MA: Kluwer, 2002) and Location Management and Routing in Mobile Wireless Networks (Boston, MA: Artech House, 2003). Dr. Saha is the recipient of the prestigious career award for Young Teachers from AICTE, Government of India and is a SERC Visiting Fellow with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. He is a Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAST), Senior Life Member of Computer Society of India, Senior Member of IEEE, member of ACM, member of AIS and member of the International Federation of Information Processing Working Group's 6.8 and 6.10. He was the founding Chair of Calcutta Chapter of IEEE Communications Society (2003-2008) which won the "Best Chapter of the World" award in 2008.

Varadharajan Sridhar is a Research Fellow at Sasken Communication Technologies, Bangalore (India) wherein he looks after strategic research initiatives, knowledge management and academic partnerships. Prior to Sasken, he was a professor of information management and Dean (Research and Consulting) at the Management Development Institute (India). He had also taught at Ohio University and American University in the US; University of Auckland in New Zealand and at the Indian Institute of Management (Lucknow, India). He received his BE from the University of Madras (India), Post Graduate Diploma in industrial engineering from the National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering (Mumbai, India) and PhD in MIS from the University of Iowa (USA). Dr. Sridhar's primary research interests are in the area of telecommunication management and policy and global software development. He has published many research articles, business cases and chapters in edited books in his area of research. The book co-edited by him titled "Recent Advances in Broadband Integrated Network Operations and Services Management" was published by IGI Global in 2011. His latest book titled "The Telecom Revolution in India: Technology, Regulation and Policy" has been published by the Oxford University Press India in October 2011. He has been a member of the Government of India committees in telecom and IT. Dr. Sridhar contributes regularly in leading Indian business newspapers on telecom policy related issues. He is the Co-Editor of International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Global Information Management. He is a member of Association for Computing Machinery and Association of Information Systems.