Computer networking and communications

Traditional computing concepts are maturing into a new generation of cloud computing systems with wide-spread global applications.

Like electricity and water, data and computing power are necessary commodities in the modern-day economy.

Modern society requires a specialized, persistent approach to IT service delivery.

In the developed world, there is an increasing trend towards the use of e-government to further involve citizens in the maintenance of their country.

The increased use of technology is necessary in order for industrial control systems to maintain and monitor industrial, infrastructural, or environmental processes.

Gaming has long been a means for humans to share knowledge, learn new concepts, and escape the constraints of reality.

Inter-vehicle communication (IVC) systems based on wireless ad-hoc networks have the potential to provide increased automotive safety, to achieve smooth traffic flow on the roads, and to improve passenger convenience by providing information and entertainment.

The book explores important application areas like healthcare, smart cities, agriculture, education, and energy systems, offering workable solutions and creative use cases.

Today's smartphones utilize a rapidly developing range of sophisticated applications, pushing the limits of mobile processing power.

Big data has presented a number of opportunities across industries.

Gaming has long been a means for humans to share knowledge, learn new concepts, and escape the constraints of reality.

Inter-vehicle communication (IVC) systems based on wireless ad-hoc networks have the potential to provide increased automotive safety, to achieve smooth traffic flow on the roads, and to improve passenger convenience by providing information and entertainment.

Embedded systems and real-time computing can be useful tools for a variety of applications.

The ubiquity of technology has not only brought the need for computer knowledge to every aspect of the modern business world; it has also increased our need to safely store the data we are now creating at a rate never experienced before.

Biologically inspired computation methods are growing in popularity in intelligent systems, creating a need for more research and information.

As network science and technology continues to gain popularity, it becomes imperative to develop procedures to examine emergent network domains, as well as classical networks, to help ensure their overall optimization.

Rapidly generating and processing large amounts of data, supercomputers are currently at the leading edge of computing technologies.

As information resources migrate to the Cloud and to local and global networks, protecting sensitive data becomes ever more important.

Biologically-inspired data mining has a wide variety of applications in areas such as data clustering, classification, sequential pattern mining, and information extraction in healthcare and bioinformatics.

Particularly in the fields of software engineering, virtual reality, and computer science, data mining techniques play a critical role in the success of a variety of projects and endeavors.

Software applications once held on local computers and servers are beginning to shift to the public Internet sphere, and private health information is no exception.

Information security systems have become more popular due to the prevalence of criminal activity over benign attacks.

The use of game theoretic techniques is playing an increasingly important role in the network design domain.

Recent advances in internet architecture have led to the advent and subsequent explosion of cloud computing technologies, providing businesses with a powerful toolbox of collaborative digital resources.

With the prevalence of digital information, IT professionals have encountered new challenges regarding data security.

Over the past decade, the Command and Control (C2) field has been making a transformation from top-down, directive command to Network Centric Operations (NCO), peer-to-peer negation, self-synchronization, and agility.

As more and more of our data is stored remotely, accessing that data wherever and whenever it is needed is a critical concern.

Some analysts predict that electronic commerce will grow to more than $300 billion in the next five years.

Developments in telecommunications and networking are rapid and far-reaching.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of Internet and intranet technologies, electronic commerce, and the management of these technologies within organizations.

Beyond enabling ultra-fast data transmission, 5G and next-generation networks represent a fundamental transformation in how individuals and organizations connect and interact.

Beyond enabling ultra-fast data transmission, 5G and next-generation networks represent a fundamental transformation in how individuals and organizations connect and interact.

Broadband internet has the potential to profoundly impact science, business and society, while simultaneously transforming almost every aspect of everyday life.

Modern society exists in a digital era in which high volumes of multimedia information exists.

Emerging developments in cloud computing have created novel opportunities and applications for businesses.

As consumer costs for multimedia devices such as digital cameras and Web phones have decreased and diversity in the market has skyrocketed, the amount of digital information has grown considerably.

Although a number of methods for solving computer vision tasks exist, these methods are often task-specific and can seldom be generalized over a wide range of applications.

Social network analysis has created novel opportunities within the field of data science.

Autonomic computing and networking (ACN), a concept inspired by the human autonomic system, is a priority research area and a booming new paradigm in the field.

Real-time systems are of importance to a large number of university laboratories and research institutes worldwide, and without the proper integration of real-time into distributed computing, institutions simply could not function.

Traditional marketing techniques have become outdated by the emergence of the internet, and for companies to survive in the new technological marketplace, they must adopt digital marketing and business analytics practices.

Electrical energy usage is increasing every year due to population growth and new forms of consumption.

As the applications of the Internet of Things continue to progress, so do the security concerns for this technology.

As cloud technology continues to advance and be utilized, many service providers have begun to employ multiple networks, or cloud federations; however, as the popularity of these federations increases, so does potential utilization challenges.

The ubiquitous nature of the Internet of Things allows for enhanced connectivity between people in modern society.

Today's advancements in technology have brought about a new era of speed and simplicity for consumers and businesses.

Grid computing promises to transform the way organizations and individuals compute, communicate, and collaborate.

Developments in bio-inspired computation have impacted multiple fields and created opportunities for new applications.

Economic globalization and the application of information and communication technologies have offered firms the opportunity to develop and distribute new knowledge.

Advances in computing, communications, and control have bridged the physical components of reality and cyberspace leading to the smart internet of things (IoT).