Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing : Enabling Technologies and Systems

**Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing: Enabling Technologies & Systems** is a comprehensive guide to tomorrow's world of ubiquitous computing where users can access and manipulate information from everywhere at all times. The emphasis is on networking, systems and standards rather than detailed physical implementation. Addressed are many technical obstacles, such as, connectivity, levels of service, performance, and reliability and fairness. The authors also describe the existing enabling off-the-shelf technologies and its underlying infrastructure known as pervasive networking (PervNet). PervNet ties different sets of smart nodes together enabling them to communicate with each other to provide pervasive computing services to users. Throughout the book, important issues related to scalability, transparency, security, energy management, QoS provisioning, fault tolerance, and disconnected operations are discussed. This work provides a research and development perspective to the field of PervNet and will serve as an essential reference for network designers, operators and developers.

Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing: Enabling Technologies & Systems is a comprehensive guide to tomorrow's world of ubiquitous computing where users can access and manipulate information from everywhere at all times.
The emphasis is on networking, systems and standards rather than detailed physical implementation. Addressed are many technical obstacles, such as, connectivity, levels of service, performance, and reliability and fairness. The authors also describe the existing enabling off-the-shelf technologies and its underlying infrastructure known as pervasive networking (PervNet). PervNet ties different sets of smart nodes together enabling them to communicate with each other to provide pervasive computing services to users. Throughout the book, important issues related to scalability, transparency, security, energy management, QoS provisioning, fault tolerance, and disconnected operations are discussed.
This work provides a research and development perspective to the field of PervNet and will serve as an essential reference for network designers, operators and developers.

The authors (two of whom are from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India) argue that the possibilities of "Pervasive Computing" promises to extend the information-networked environment to practically every technological device, but that the current networking and communication infrastructure doesn't support those possibilities. Largely concerning themselves with networking technologies, they provide advice on the problems of addressing this gap between promise and infrastructure. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Pervasive Computing....Pages 1-37 Pervasive Networking....Pages 39-57 Backbone Technology....Pages 59-103 Wireless Access Technology....Pages 105-126 Interface Technology....Pages 127-144 Internet....Pages 145-212 Wireless Standards....Pages 213-247 Challenges....Pages 249-264 Vision for the Future....Pages 265-276 Back Matter....Pages 277-287