Publisher's Synopsis
High Performance Networking is a state-of-the-art book that deals with issues relating to the fast-paced evolution of public, corporate and residential networks. It focuses on the practical and experimental aspects of high performance networks and introduces novel approaches and concepts aimed at improving the performance, usability, interoperability and scalability of such systems. Among others, the topics covered include:
- Java applets and applications;
- distributed virtual environments;
- new internet streaming protocols;
- web telecollaboration tools;
- Internet, Intranet;
- real-time services like multimedia;
- quality of service;
- mobility.
High Performance Networking is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course on high performance networking, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
