Wiley Series in Communications Networking & Distributed Systems

The 'Wiley Series in Communications Networking & Distributed Systems' is a series of expert-level, technically detailed books covering cutting-edge research, and brand new developments as well as tutorial-style treatments in networking, middleware and software technologies for communications and distributed systems. The books will provide timely and reliable information about the state-of-the-art to researchers, advanced students and development engineers in the Telecommunications and the Computing sectors.

Topics of interest include, but are by no means restricted to the following:

• Middleware for comms
• P2P
• Self-organizing networks
• Security
• Resource Management
• Network management
• Charging & billing
• Grid technology and applications
• (Mobile) ad hoc networks
• Ubiquitous / wearable / pervasive computing
• Context-awareness
• Intelligent networks
• Switching/routing (optical, GMPLS)
• sensor networks
• DTNs
• IPTV

If you have an idea for a new book that seems relevant to the series but is not listed, please feel free to contact the series editor or any of the advisers for their feedback.

Joe Sventek
David Hutchison
Serge Fdida

Or, you may download the proposal form.

Wiley Series in Communications Networking & Distributed Systems (24)

Security for Ubiquitous Computing

by Frank Stajano

March 2002, Hardcover

* Ubiquitous computing refers to computers embedded in everyday devices communicating with each other over ad-hoc wireless networks
* Focuses on two very hot topics: ad-hoc wireless networking and security
* Covers security issues for well-established and widely used technologies such as GSM, Bluetooth, and IP
* Presents a framework to make sense of the many and varied issues at stake, a taxonomy of the major problems and in-depth discussion of some Read More

Secure Communication: Applications and Management

by Roger Sutton

February 2002, Hardcover

If you need to know more about communication's security management, this is the perfect book for you...

Secure Communications confronts the practicalities of implementing the ideals of the security policy makers. Based on 15 years experience, the author addresses the key problems faced by security managers, starting from network conception, initial setting up and the maintenance of network security by key management. Many different types of communications Read More

Java in Telecommunications: Solutions for Next Generation Networks

by Thomas C. Jepsen (Editor), Farooq Anjum, Ravi Raj Bhat, Ravi Jain, Anirban Sharma, Douglas Tait

August 2001, Hardcover

US $125.00 Add to Cart

Java has taken the computing world by storm - now it arms itself to conquer telecommunications!

What links today's hottest programming language to telecommunications? The same characteristics that brought about Java's remarkable success on the Internet: its platform independence and mobility.

Recent developments such as JAIN (Java APIs for Integrated Networks), JAIN Parlay and the Java Telephony API equip Java for the next generation of telecommunications Read More

Voice Over Packet Networks

by David J. Wright

March 2001, Hardcover (E-book also available)

US $190.00 Add to Cart

One of the hottest topics in the telecommuncations industry today is the migration of voice traffic from the circuit switched Telco networks to packet switched networks such as IP, ATM, Frame Relay and access technologies such as DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) and Packet Cable. The sheer volume of voice traffic, together with the efficiencies of packet transport and the opportunity to offer new features on voice calls, has made internetworking, between Read More