In the past two decades, grid computing have fostered advances in several scientific domains by making resources available to a wide community and ...

The dynamics of market changes determine new perspectives both in the theory and practice of management science. The mechanisms of doing business a...

The Internet Protocol (IP) is an international communications standard that is essential to the operation of both the public Internet and many priv...

The first six papers deal with computer security technology that operates in rapidly changing environments and has to adapt to their shifting condi...

The concept of Industry 4.0 includes both Internet of Things (IoT) structure and the local networks which need to carry the real-time tasks. The Lo...

The growing complexity of mobile "rich media" digital content and services requires the integration of next generation middleware platform within M...

The mobile network is continuously evolving to fulfill subscribers’ requirements; however, there are still restrictions. In Chapter One, the author...

The research of modelling and simulation has made great progress during the past few decades. A number of institutions and scholars from various do...

The "digital divide" is a term that has been used to characterise a gap between "information haves and have-nots", or in other words, between those...

The central questions around which this book revolves are whether or not communication through technology constitutes so-called real interaction an...

In this book, new developments in network coding and data compression are examined. The first chapter proposes a new multipath transmission scheme ...

This book intends to focus on network protocol and communication in the area of information and industrial control. Various research on sub-layer p...

Organizing for Networked Information Technologies

The issues covered in this book cannot be called hot issues but instead must be called 'boiling' issues. Who, except the senders of this dangerous ...

Creating a successful mobile-web presence is achievable with the tools found in this guide--without needing to learn a programming language or beco...

In November and December of 2013, cyber-criminals breached the data security of Target, one of the largest U.S. retail chains, stealing the persona...

From the past decade vehicular ad hoc networks got tremendous attention from the industry, academia and research community. According to US Nationa...

This book analyzes a new phenomenon in civilization: the transformation of the current "Information Wave" into virtual civilization. In the 21st ce...

This book analyzes a new phenomenon in civilization: the transformation of the current "Information Wave" into virtual civilization. In the 21st ce...

Wireless Local Area Network (LAN) and Bluetooth are two phenomena in wireless networks. They have become very successful in the current market and ...