Cooperative Networking (ePub)

This book focuses on the latest trends and research results in
Cooperative Networking

This book discusses the issues involved in cooperative
networking, namely, bottleneck resource management, resource
utilization, servers and content, security, and so on. In addition,
the authors address instances of cooperation in nature which
actively encourage the development of cooperation in
telecommunication networks. Following an introduction to the
fundamentals and issues surrounding cooperative networking, the
book addresses models of cooperation, inspirations of successful
cooperation from nature and society, cooperation in networking (for
e.g. Peer-to-Peer, wireless ad-hoc and sensor, client-server, and
autonomous vehicular networks), cooperation and ambient networking,
cooperative caching, cooperative networking for streaming media
content, optimal node-task allocation, heterogeneity issues in
cooperative networking, cooperative search in networks, and
security and privacy issues with cooperative networking.

It contains contributions from high profile researchers and is
edited by leading experts in this field.

Key Features:

* Focuses on higher layer networking

* Addresses the latest trends and research results

* Covers fundamental concepts, models, advanced topics and
performance issues in cooperative networking

* Contains contributions from leading experts in the field

* Provides an insight into the future direction of cooperative
networking

* Includes an accompanying website containing PowerPoint slides
and a glossary of terms (href="http://www.wiley.com/go/obaidat_cooperative">www.wiley.com/go/obaidat_cooperative)

This book is an ideal reference for researchers and
practitioners working in the field. It will also serve as an
excellent textbook for graduate and senior undergraduate courses in
computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering,
software engineering, and information engineering and science.