Papers from a July 2001 symposium shed light on practical problems related to the design, deployment, and use of information and networking systems. They are presented in sections on security and authentication, World Wide Web and distributed systems, multicast communications, optimization of wireless networks, ATM traffic analysis, quality of service, MPLS and routing, packet video communications, and packet voice. Other topics include satellite communications, network management and traffic scheduling, mobile IP, mobile architecture, quality of service in wireless networks, channel coding, performance analysis of wireless networks, access protocols and LANs, testing and formal verification, electronic commerce systems and software, and TCP/IP issues. This volume lacks a subject index. c. Book News Inc. |