Marco Conti

Stephan Olariu

Enrico Gregori

Silvia Giordano

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 8th International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, PWC 2003, held in Venice, Italy in September 2003. The 49 revised papers presented together with 6 special track papers, 1 invited paper, 11 project descriptions, 7 work in progress reports, and 8 novel ideas reports were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mobile computing, wireless access, sensor networks, transport protocols, performance models, WCDMA, ad-hoc networks, wireless and mobile systems, cellular networks, IPv6, Bluetooth, and security and cooperations in ad-hoc networks.

IFIP-TC6 8th International Conference, PWC 2003, Venice, Italy, September 23-25, 2003, Proceedings

Personal Wireless Communications

Le identità di Cleo

Marco Pellegrini

Luciano Lenzini

With the continuing success of Local Area Networks (IANs), there is an increasing demand to extend their capabilities towards higher data rates and wider areas. This, together with the progress in fiber-optic technology, has given rise to the so-called Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs). MANs can span much greater distances than current LAN s, and offer data rates on the order of hundreds of Megabits/sec (Mbps). The success of MANs is mainly due to the opportunity they provide to develop new networking products capable of providing high-speed commu nications between applications at competitive prices, which nonetheless give an adequate return on the manufacturers' investments. A major factor in of appropriate networking standards. achieving this goal is the availability Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDl) and Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB) are the two standard technologies for MANs for which industrial products are already available. For this reason, this book focuses mainly on these two standards. Nowadays there are several books dealing with MANs, and these look mainly at FDDI (e.g., [2], [92], [118], [141]). These books focus primarily on the architectures and protocols, whereas they pay little attention to per formance analysis. Due to the capability of MANs to integrate services, a quantitative analysis of the Quality of Service (QoS) provided by these tech nologies is a relevant issue, and is thus covered in depth in this book.

Metropolitan Area Networks

Andrew T. Cambell

Guy Omidyar

Moshe Zukerman

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP-TC6 Netw- king Conference, Networking 2002. Networking 2002 was sponsored bythe IFIP Working Groups 6.2, 6.3, and 6.8. For this reason the conference was structured into three tracks: i) Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols, ii) Perf- mance of Computer and Communication Networks, and iii) Mobile and Wireless Communications. This year the conference received 314 submissions coming from 42 countries from all ?ve continents Africa (4), Asia (84), America (63), Europe (158), and Oc- nia (5). This represents a 50% increase in submissions over the ?rst conference, thus indicating that Networking is becoming a reference conference for wor- wide researchers in the networking community. With so manypapers to choose from, the job of the Technical Program C- mittee, to provide a conference program of the highest technical excellence, was both challenging and time consuming. From the 314 submissions, we ?nallys- ected 82 full papers for presentation during the conference technical sessions. To give young researchers and researchers from emerging countries the oppor- nityto present their work and to receive useful feedback from participants, we decided to include two poster sessions during the technical program. Thirty-one short papers were selected for presentation during the poster sessions. The conference technical program was split into three days, and included, in addition to the 82 refereed contributions, 5 invited papers from top-level rese- chers in the networking community.

Second International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, Pisa, Italy, May 19-24, 2002 Proceedings

NETWORKING 2002: Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communications

Enrico Gregori

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