 
Ambient Networks: Co-operative Mobile Networking for the Wireless World
ISBN: 978-0-470-51103-9
Adobe E-Book
286 pages
July 2007
US $125.00
 Purchase This E-Book
This price is valid for United States. Change location to view local pricing and availability. Other Available Formats: Hardcover
|
1 Introduction.
1.1 The Current Communications Environment.
1.2 The Ambient Networking Concept.
1.3 The Ambient Networks Project.
1.4 How to Read This Book.
1.5 Outlook.
2 Ambient Networks – The Consequence of Convergence.
2.1 Convergence Leading Towards Ambient Networks.
2.2 Realization of Convergence.
2.3 Converged All-IP Networks.
2.4 Network Convergence with the IP Multimedia Subsystem.
2.5 Towards Ambient Networks.
2.6 Motivation for a New Approach.
2.7 Architectural Requirements for Ambient Networks.
2.8 Summary.
3 The Business Environment for Ambient Networks.
3.1 Business Drivers and Benefi ts.
3.2 Business Actors.
3.3 The AN Business Proposition: The Value Network.
3.4 Financial Aspects.
3.5 Network Composition – Business View.
3.6 Migration Aspects.
3.7 Summary.
4 Architecture and Components.
4.1 Introduction.
4.2 The Ambient Network Approach.
4.3 The Ambient Control Space Concept.
4.4 The Ambient Layer Model.
4.5 Summary.
5 Security in Ambient Networks.
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Security Problem Space in Ambient Networks.
5.3 Security Architecture.
5.4 Key Problems and Solutions.
5.5 Conclusion, Outlook and Further Work.
6 Network Composition.
6.1 Introduction and Motivation.
6.2 Composition Procedures.
6.3 Defi nition of Composition Types.
6.4 Conclusions.
7 GANS – Generic Ambient Networks Signalling.
7.1 Introduction.
7.2 State of the Art.
7.3 Protocol Architecture.
7.4 GANS Transport Layer Protocol.
7.5 QoS Signalling Application.
7.6 Conclusions.
8 Multi-Radio Access.
8.1 Introduction.
8.2 Multi Radio Access – Problems and State of the Art.
8.3 The AN Multi-Radio Access Architecture.
8.4 Access Selection.
8.5 Challenging Multi-Radio Access Networking Scenarios.
8.6 Deployment Cost Savings.
8.7 Migration Issues.
8.8 Conclusion, Outlook and Further Work.
9 Ambient Networks Mobility Management.
9.1 Background and Motivation.
9.2 The Framework for Mobility Management.
9.3 Functional Entities.
9.4 Trigger Mechanisms.
10 Overlay Networks for Media Delivery.
10.1 Introduction.
10.2 Why Media Delivery Support in the Network Infrastructure?
10.3 Media Delivery Architecture.
10.4 Concept Evaluation and Demonstration.
10.5 Conclusion, Outlook and Further Work.
11 ContextWare – Context Awareness in Ambient Networks.
11.1 Introduction.
11.2 Network Context Awareness.
11.3 Context Awareness in Ambient Networks.
11.4 Ambient Networks ContextWare: Architecture and System Design.
11.5 ContextWare Prototypes.
11.6 Conclusions.
12 Towards Ambient Networks Management.
12.1 Introduction.
12.2 Ambient Networks Management Challenges.
12.3 Ambient Networks Management Approaches.
12.4 Conclusions.
References.
Abbreviations.
Index.
