Multimedia Applications Support for Wireless ATM Networks [Hardcover]

Anna Hac (Author)

Book Description

Series: Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies Series | Publication Date: May 8, 2000

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.

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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

DR. ANNA HACA A' 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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 310 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition (May 8, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013021437X
• ISBN-13: 978-0130214379
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,536,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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