Advanced Lectures on Networking

This book presents the revised version of seven tutorials given at the NETWORKING 2002 Conference in Pisa, Italy in May 2002.
The lecturers present a coherent view of the core issues in the following areas:

• peer-to-peer computing and communications
• mobile computing middleware
• network security in the multicast framework
• categorizing computing assets according to communication patterns
• remarks on ad-hoc networking
• communication through virtual technologies
• optical networks.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Peer to Peer: Peering into the Future.- Mobile Computing Middleware.- Network Security in the Multicast Framework.- Categorizing Computing Assets According to Communication Patterns.- Remarks on Ad Hoc Networking.- Communications through Virtual Technologies.- A Tutorial on Optical Networks.