Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications

Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications

Provides an overview of how the mobile code can be used in networking with the aim of developing further intelligent information retrieval, network and mobility management, and network services.

Proceedings of the Second International Workshop, MATA, on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, held in Paris, France, September 18-20, 2000. Major paper topics included network management, Ad-hoc networks and applications, and active networks.

This publication is concerned with mobile agents for telecommunication applications. Papers have been selected from those presented during MATA'00 in Paris, the MATA reviewers having reviewed this second version of the papers presented here.

Mobile agents refer to self-contained and identifiable computer programs that can move within the network and can act on behalf of the user or another entity. Most current research work on the mobile agent paradigm has two general goals: reduction of network traffic and asynchronous interaction. These two goals stem directly from the desire to reduce information overload and to efficiently use network resources.

There are certainly many motivations for the use of a mobile agent paradigm. However, intelligent information retrieval, network and mobility management, and network services are currently the three most cited application targets for a mobile agent system.

We provide in this publication an overview of how mobile codes could be used in networking. A huge field of application is now open and a research community really exists. We have tried here to illustrate this emerging application domain of mobile agents and mobile code.

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Error Correcting Coding and Security for Data Networks: Analysis of the Superchannel Concept

Error Correcting Coding and Security for Data Networks: Analysis of the Superchannel Concept
"…a comprehensive view of error coding theory and explores its use and implementation at all network layers…"
(Computing Reviews.com, February 1, 2006)

This book provides a systematic approach to the problems involved in the application of error-correcting codes in data networks.

Over the last two decades the importance of coding theory has become apparent. Thirty years ago developers of communication systems considered error-correcting coding to be somewhat exotic. It was considered as an area of interest only for mathematical engineers or mathematicians involved in the problems of engineering. Today however, theory is an important part of any textbook on communications, and the results of coding theory have become standards in data communication. The increasing demand for communications quality and the progress in information technologies has led to the implementation of error-correcting procedures in practice and an expansion in the area of error-correcting codes applications.

Error correcting coding is often analyzed in terms of its application to the separate levels within the data network in isolation from each other. In this fresh approach, the authors consider the data network as a superchannel (a multi-layered entity) which allows error correcting coding to be evaluated as it is applied to a number of network layers as a whole. By exposing the problems of applying error correcting coding in data networks, and by discussing coding theory and its applications, this original technique shows how to correct errors in the network through joint coding at different network layers.

• Discusses the problem of reconciling coding applied to different layers using a superchannel approach
• Includes thorough coverage of all the key codes: linear block codes, Hamming, BCH and Reed-Solomon codes, LDPC codes decoding, as well as convolutional, turbo and iterative coding
• Considers new areas of application of error correcting codes such as transport coding, code-based cryptosystems and coding for image compression
• Demonstrates how to use error correcting coding to control such important data characteristics as mean message delay
• Provides theoretical explanations backed up by numerous real-world examples and practical recommendations
• Features a companion website containing additional research results including new constructions of LDPC codes, joint error-control coding and synchronization, Reed-Muller codes and their list decoding

By progressing from theory through to practical problem solving, this resource contains invaluable advice for researchers, postgraduate students, engineers and computer scientists interested in data communications and applications of coding theory.

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Network Algorithmics: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Designing Fast Networked Devices - Morgan

Network Algorithmics: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Designing Fast Networked Devices - Morgan Kaufmann
In designing a network device, you make dozens of decisions that affect the speed with which it will performsometimes for better, but sometimes for worse. Network Algorithmics provides a complete, coherent methodology for maximizing speed while meeting your other design goals.Author George Varghese begins by laying out the implementation bottlenecks that are most often encountered [...]

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Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (Second Edition) - Prentice Hall

Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (Second Edition) - Prentice Hall
Most books on operating systems deal with theory while ignoring practice. While the usual principles are covered in detail, the book describes a small, but real UNIX-like operating system: MINIX. The book demonstrates how it works while illustrating the principles behind it. Operating Systems: Design and Implementation Second Edition provides the MINIX source code. The [...]

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Operating Systems Concepts - John Wiley & Sons

Operating Systems Concepts - John Wiley & Sons
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Silberschatz: Operating Systems Concepts, Sixth Edition, continues to provide a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems. The Sixth Edition offers improved conceptual coverage and added content to bridge the gap between concepts and actual implementations. Threads has been added to this latest edition and includes coverage of Pthreads and Java [...]

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