[Opt-net] Book Announcement "Graphs and Algorithms in Communication Networks"

[Arie M.C.A. Koster]

Book Announcement:

Graphs and Algorithms in Communication Networks - Studies in Broadband, 
Optical, Wireless and Ad Hoc Networks

edited by Arie M.C.A. Koster and Xavier Munoz
2010, published by Springer
ISBN 978-3-642-02249-4
http://www.springer.com/978-3-642-02249-4

About this book:

Communication networks are a vital and crucial element of today's world. 
Mobile devices, the Internet, and all new applications and services 
provided by these media have changed dramatically the way both 
individual lives and society as a whole are organized. All these 
services depend on fast and reliable data connections, whether wired or 
wireless. To meet such requirements, information and communication 
technology is challenged again and again to provide faster protocols, 
wireless interfaces with higher bandwidth capacity, innovative 
mechanisms to handle failures, and so on.

Algorithmic discrete mathematics plays a key role in this ongoing 
development, and methods that arise in computer science, mathematics and 
operations research – in particular in algorithms, computational 
complexity, distributed computing and optimization – are vital. This 
book examines communication networking from a mathematical viewpoint. 
The contributing authors took part in the European COST action 293 – a 
four-year program of multidisciplinary research on this subject. In this 
book they offer introductory overviews and state-of-the-art assessments 
of current and future research in the fields of broadband, optical, 
wireless and ad hoc networks. Particular topics of interest are design, 
optimization, robustness and energy consumption.

The book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and 
practitioners in the areas of networking, theoretical computer science, 
operations research, distributed computing and mathematics.

-- 
Prof. Dr. Arie M.C.A. Koster
RWTH Aachen University
Lehrstuhl II für Mathematik
Wüllnerstr. 5b
D-52056 Aachen
E: koster at math2.rwth-aachen.de
W: http://www.math2.rwth-aachen.de/~koster/