Pervasive Computing is an important area in current computer science research and industrial development. It relates to smart phones, sensors and other computing devices which, by being sensitive to the user, are disappearing into the background of life. The computing systems challenges are significant and it is here (rather than on life or social sciences, interaction design, electronics or formal approaches) that this book focuses. Success requires considering a broad range of issues, in...

Over the past three decades, the Internet's rapid growth has spurred the development of new applications in mobile computing, digital music, online video, gaming and social networks. These applications rely heavily upon various underlying network protocols and mechanisms to enable, maintain and enhance their Internet functionalityThe Effects of Traffic Structure on Application and Network Performance provides the necessary tools for maximizing the network efficiency of any...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2017, held in Toulouse, France, in May 2017.The 12 full papers presented together with 2 demo papers in this volumewere carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions.The volume features contributions in the theory or practice of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and communication technologies for:...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudComp 2015, held in Daejeon, South Korea, in October 2015. The 36 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions and cover topics such as virtualization and management on cloud; resource management, models and performance; mobile cloud and media services; pervasive cloud applications, services and testbeds; cloud-enabling techniques and devices.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th CCF Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, NCCET 2015, held in Hefei, China, in October 2015.The 18 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on processor architecture; application specific processors; computer application and software optimization; technology on the horizon.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2016, held in San Sebastián, Spain, in June 2016.The 13 papers presented together with 2 keynote papers, 2 invited papers, and 1 demo paper in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 initial submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: road, rail, and air.

Understand how to utilize the workbench, console, adapters, publisher, and other components in Scribe to ensure you have a rapid development toolkit that will drastically reduce your workload and timeline. In Using Scribe Insight, you’ll learn to build your integrations and migrations with the minimal amount of effort, what shortcuts can be taken to simplify and reduce your labor, and what techniques can be used to keep your solutions as simple as possible.You’ll find disc...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Personal Satellite Services, PSATS 2014, held in Genova, Italy, in July 2014.The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and present the latest advances in the next generation satellite networking and communication systems.

This work opens with an accessible introduction to computer networks, providing general definitions of commonly used terms in networking. This is followed by a detailed description of the OSI model, including the concepts of connection-oriented and connectionless communications. The text carefully elaborates the specific functions of each layer, along with what is expected of protocols operating at each layer. Next, the journey of a single packet, from source to destination, is described i...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2017, held in Sydney, Australia, in March 2017.The 20 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on IPv6, Web and applications, security, performance, latency, characterization and troubleshooting, and wireless.

Learn the key standards—iBeacon, Eddystone, Bluetooth 4.0, and AltBeacon—and how they work with other proximity technologies. Then build your understanding of the proximity framework and how to identify and deploy the best solutions for your own business, institutional, or consulting needs.Proximity technology—in particular, Bluetooth beacons—is a major source of business opportunity, and this book provides everything you need to know to architect a solution to capitalize on that o...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, MONAMI 2016, held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in October 2016.The 14 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers are organized thematically in four parts, starting with cloud computing and software defined networking followed by Internet-of-the-things, vehicular networks and novel techniques and alg...