High Performance Networking: IFIP TC-6 Eighth International Conference on High Performance Networking (HPN‘98) Vienna, Austria, September 21–25, 1998 ... Information and Communication Technology, 8) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0412846608 ISBN 13: 9780412846601

Publisher: Springer, 1998

Synopsis

High Performance Networking is a state-of-the-art book that deals with issues relating to the fast-paced evolution of public, corporate and residential networks. It focuses on the practical and experimental aspects of high performance networks and introduces novel approaches and concepts aimed at improving the performance, usability, interoperability and scalability of such systems. Among others, the topics covered include:

• Java applets and applications;
• distributed virtual environments;
• new internet streaming protocols;
• web telecollaboration tools;
• Internet, Intranet;
• real-time services like multimedia;
• quality of service;
• mobility.

High Performance Networking comprises the proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on High Performance Networking, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and was held at Vienna Univrsity of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in September 1998.
High Performance Networking is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course on high performance networking, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

About this title

About the Author

Harmen R. van As is full-professor at the Vienna University of Technology and head of the Institute of Communication Networks established in 1996. He has served in technical and organizing committees of many international conferences, and chairs the IFIP Working Group 6.10 on Photonic Networking.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0412846608
• ISBN 13: 9780412846601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 720
• Editor: Van As Harmen R.