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Ad hoc networking
Perkins C. (ed) Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 2001. Type: Divisible Book
Ad hoc networking sounds like something people do at cocktail parties, but actually it is a new branch of computer networking. Traditional networks and internetworks are based on the following model: there are a number of fixed switchi...
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Feb 1 2002 |
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The telecommunications handbook
Terplan K., Morreale P. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 2000. Type: Divisible Book
Because telecommunications is such a rapidly changing field, there is a need for a book that can help people keep abreast of all the changes. Unfortunately, this is not that book. It is a collection of 30 separate papers with no real f...
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May 1 2000 |
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Data network design
Spohn D., McGraw-Hill, Inc., Hightstown, NJ, 1997. Type: Book (9780070603639)
If you have been looking for a book on networking that devotes 40 pages to X.25, 105 pages to frame relay, and 10 pages to the Internet, this book is for you. Most people nowadays have different priorities, but no doubt X.25 still has ...
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Sep 1 1997 |
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Business data communications and networking (5th ed.)
FitzGerald J., Dennis A., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1996. Type: Book (9780471123651)
When approaching a book on computer networks written by the owner of a company that does corporate training and a professor at a business school, one should not expect too much detailed technical content. In that respect, this book liv...
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Oct 1 1996 |
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Mobile wireless computing: challenges in data management
Imielinski T., Badrinath B. Communications of the ACM 37(10): 18-28, 1994. Type: Article
The rapidly growing world of wireless communication and computing offers many new opportunities and challenges. In the future, people will be able to walk around with laptop, palmtop, and wristwatch computers that send, receive, and st...
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Jul 1 1995 |
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SMDS: wide-area data networking with switched multi-megabit data service
Klessig R., Tesink K., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1995. Type: Book (9780138148072)
The world of telecommunications is changing rapidly. Twenty years ago there was plain old telephone service plus leased lines. Since then, the telephone companies have begun offering new services oriented toward data traffic. Some of t...
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Jun 1 1995 |
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Distributed computing
Umar A., Fraser C., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1993. Type: Book (9780130362520)
As distributed computing comes of age, more courses about it are being taught at universities and more companies are starting to look at it seriously. These events create a need for good books on the subject. This book attempts to dea...
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Mar 1 1994 |
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16- and 32-bit microcomputer interfacing: program examples in C and M68000 family assembly language
Lipovski G., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1990. Type: Book (9789780138120740)
Microcomputers have gone through three phases. In the first phase, the microcomputer owner had to be a hardware expert. Books and papers emphasized how the chips worked and how to build interface boards. In the second phase, most atten...
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Sep 1 1991 |
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Performance of the Firefly RPC
Schroeder M., Burrows M. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 8(1): 1-17, 1990. Type: Article
Most computer science research papers in the systems area focus on the design and sometimes the implementation of the system in question. Rarely is the performance of the resulting system measured (assuming the system is actually built...
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Jun 1 1991 |
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An Overview of the Nexus Distributed Operating System Design
Tripathi A. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 15(6): 686-694, 1989. Type: Article
Nexus is an object-oriented, location-independent distributed operating system. In many ways it closely resembles the Eden system built at the University of Washington. For example, it runs on top of UNIX (an odd place for an operating...
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Oct 1 1990 |
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