Workers in hazardous environments such as mining are constantly exposed to the health and safety hazards of dynamic and unpredictable conditions. One approach to enable them to manage these hazards is to provide them with situational awareness: real-time data (environmental, physiological, and physical location data) obtained from wireless, wearable, smart sensor technologies deployed at the work area. The scope of this approach is limited to managing the hazards of the immediate work area for prevention purposes; it does not include technologies needed after a disaster. Three critical technologies emerge and converge to support this technical approach: smart-wearable sensors, wireless sensor networks, and low-power embedded computing. The major focus of this report is on smart sensors and wireless sensor networks. Wireless networks form the infrastructure to support the realization of situational awareness; therefore, there is a significant focus on wireless networks. Lastly, the “Fut… More >>

A Technology Review of Smart Sensors with Wireless Networks for Applications in Hazardous Work Environments

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2006, held in Pathumthani, Thailand, in November 2006.
The 12 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service architecture, multicast, performance in WLAN, routing, and multihoming in mobile networks.This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2006, held in Pathumthani, Thailand, in November 2006.
The 12 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service architecture, multicast, performance in WLAN, routing, and multihoming in mobile networks…. More >>

Technologies for Advanced Heterogeneous Networks II: Second Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2006, Pathumthani, Thailand, November 28-30, … Networks and Telecommunications)

Progress in collaborative networks continues showing a growing number of manifestations and has led to the acceptance of Collaborative Networks (CN) as a new scientific discipline.  Contributions to CN coming from multiple reference disciplines has been extensively investigated.  In fact developments in CN have benefited from contributions of multiple areas, namely computer science, computer engineering, communications and networking, management, economy, social sciences, law and ethics, etc.  Furthermore, some theories and paradigms defined elsewhere have been suggested by several research groups as promising tools to help define and characterize emerging collaborative organizational forms.  Although still at the beginning of a long way to go, there is a growing awareness in the research and academic world, for the need to establish a stronger theoretical foundation for this new discipline and a number of recent works are contributing to this goal.
From a utilitarian perspectiv… More >>

Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environments: IFIP TC 5 WG 5. 5 Sixth IFIP Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES, 26-28 September 2005, Valencia, … in Information and Communication Technology)

This state-of-the-art text is a collection of the effort of experts in the modelling, design and development of information infrastructures for global enterprises and networks working together in an active forum. The problems in establishing and managing the dynamics of inter- and intra-enterprises in the present day fast-changing global operating manufacturing scenario requires universal applicability of enterprise integration architectures, methodologies and information infrastructure support. New requirements are emerging due to advancements in information and telecommunication technologies. In particular, the capability of information infrastructure and intelligent manufacturing systems to capture and transform information in globally distributed enterprise networks into knowledge for decision and action by machine and skilful people is becoming increasingly important for the success of virtual enterprises. These issues are thoroughly discussed in this book under the fields of: V… More >>

Global Engineering, Manufacturing and Enterprise Networks

Smart Networks comprises the proceedings of Smartnet’2002, the seventh conference on Intelligence in Networks, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and organized by Working Group 6.7. It was held in Saariselkä, Finland, in April 2002.
The conference series closely reflects the developments in networking…. More >>

Smart Networks

This publication represents the best thinking and solutions to a myriad of contemporary issues in wireless networks. Coverage includes wireless LANs, multihop wireless networks, and sensor networks. Readers are provided with insightful guidance in tackling such issues as architecture, protocols, modeling, analysis, and solutions. The book also highlights economic issues, market trends, emerging, cutting-edge applications, and new paradigms, such as middleware for RFID, smart home design, and “on-demand business” in the context of pervasive computing.

Mobile, Wireless, and Sensor Networks is divided into three distinct parts:
* Recent Advances in Wireless LANs and Multihop Wireless Networks
* Recent Advances and Research in Sensor Networks
* Middleware, Applications, and New Paradigms

In developing this collected work, the editors have emphasized two objectives:
* Helping readers bridge the gap and understand the relationship between practice and theory
* He… More >>

Mobile, Wireless, and Sensor Networks: Technology, Applications, and Future Directions

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Handbook of Wireless Local Area Networks: Applications, Technology, Security, and Standards

Multi-Protocol Label Switch (MPLS) and Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) are key technologies for next-generation IP backbone networks. Until now, however, engineers have been forced to search for technical papers on this subject and read them in an ad-hoc manner. At last there is a book that explains both MPLS and GMPLS concepts in a systematic way.

GMPLS Technologies: Broadband Backbone Networks and Systems addresses the basic concepts, network architectures, protocols, and traffic engineering needed to operate MPLS and GMPLS networks.

The book begins with an introduction of the nature and requirements of broadband networks. It describes the basics of control-oriented networks and Internet Protocol (IP).
The text then examines the fundamentals of MPLS, explaining why MPLS is preferable to IP packet-based forwarding. This volume covers MPLS applications, details IP router structures, illustrates GMPLS, and explores important studies on traffic engineering in GMPLS Networks…. More >>

GMPLS Technologies: Broadband Backbone Networks and Systems

Collaboration of organizations reshapes traditional managerial practices and creates new inter-organizational contexts for strategy, coordination and control, information and knowledge management. Heralded as organizational forms of the future, networks are at the same time fragile and precarious organizational arrangements, which regularly fail. In order to investigate the new realities created by technology-enabled forms of network organizations and to address the emerging managerial challenges, this book introduces an integrative view on inter-firm network management. Centred on a network life cycle perspective, strategic, economic and relational facets of business networking are explored. The network management framework is illustrated onto a broad range of European inter-firm network examples in various industries rendering insights for new management practices…. More >>

Managing Dynamic Networks: Organizational Perspectives of Technology Enabled Inter-firm Collaboration

This book explores Japanese investment in Europe and Southeast Asia, in relation to the automobile industry…. More >>

Production Networks in Asia and Europe: Skill Formation and Technology Transfer in the Automobile Industry