The Handbook of Computer Networks, Volume 2 LANs, MANs, WANs, the Internet, and Global, Cellular, and Wireless Networks

Part 1: LANs, MANs, and WANs.

Local Area Networks (Wayne C. Summers).

Ethernet LANs (William Stallings).

Token Ring LANs (Norman C. Strole, Werner Bux, and Robert D. Love).

Optical Fiber LANs (Mo Adda, Amanda Peart, and Jau Ming Chew).

Windows 2000 Operating System (Dario Forte).

Linux Operating System (Mark Shacklette).

Metropolitan Area Networks (Richard J. Nieporent).

Terrestrial Wide Area Networks (Gurdeep Singh Hura).

Packet Switching (Qinqing Zhang and Qi Bi).

Circuit Switching (Farid Farahmand and Qiong (Jo) Zhang).

Message Switching (Farid Farahmand).

Frame Relay (Eddie Rabinovitch).

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) (Arjan Durresi and Raj Jain).

Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B. Muthukumaran).

DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) (Milos Milosevic).

Cable Modems (Shaheed N. Mohammed).

Home Networking (Sherali Zeadally).

Multimedia Networking (Hans-Peter Dommel).

Part 2: The Internet, Global Networks, and VoIP.

The Internet Fundamentals (Hossein Bidgoli).

History of the Internet (John Lucas Sherry and Nicholas David Bowman).

Internet2Â (Linda Bruenjes and Carolyn Siccama).

Internet Domain Name System (Krishna Jayakar).

Information Retrieval on the Internet (Raymond F. Wisman).

Internet Architecture (Geoffrey G. Xie).

TCP/IP Suite (Prabhaker Mateti).

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) (Vladimir V. Riabov).

IP Multicast (Emilia Rosti).

Network QoS (Ying Lu).

Internet Security Standards (Raymond R. Panko).

Technology and Standards for Low-Bit-Rate Vocoding Methods (Miguel Arjona Ramírez and Mário Minami).

Voice Over Internet Protocol (Sherali Zeadally and Farhan Siddiqui).

Signaling Approaches (Edmundo Monteiro, Fernando Boavida, Marilia Curado, and Luís Cordeiro).

Voice over MPLS and VoIP over MPLS (Junaid Ahmed Zubairi).

Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM) (Leslie L. Daigle).

Web Hosting (Thomas C. Bressoud).

End-System QoS (Tarek F. Abdelzhaer and Chengdu Huang).

Web Services (Mei-Ling L. Liu).

Part 3: Cellular and Wireless Networks.

Cellular Communications Channels (Aarne Mämmelä and Risto Wichman).

Cellular Telephony (Elyes Ben Ali Bdira).

Mobile Radio Communications (Chi Zhou).

Evolution of Mobile Cellular Networks (Jiang Xie and Xiaoyuan Gu).

Global System for Mobile Communications (Mohamed A. Haleem and Koduvayur P. Subbalakshmi).

General Packet Radio Service (Allen H. Levesque).

Location Management in Personal Communication Systems (Jingyuan Zhang and Ivan Stojmenovic).

Mobility Management in Heterogeneous Networks (Guangbin Fan, Xuming Lu, and Song Ci).

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (Faouzi Zarai, Noureddine Boudriga, and Mohammad S. Obaidat).

International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 and 3G Wireless Systems (Mustafa M. Matalgah and Omar M. Hammouri).

Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) (Frank H.P. Fitzek and Marcos Katz).

Time-Division Multiple Access (Tom S. Chan).

Carrier Sense Multiple Access Protocols (Wei Ye).

Bluetooth Technology (Brent A. Miller).

Satellite Communications Basics (Michele Luglio and Antonio Saitto).

Land-Mobile Satellite Channel (Emilio Matricciani).

Geosynchronous Fixed Satellite Communications (Michele Luglio and Antonio Saitto).

Satellites in IP Networks (Fatih Alagöz and Abbas Jamalipour).

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (Omar Al-Bayari and Balqies Sadoun).

Wireless LANs (Mohammad S. Obaidat, G. I. Papadimitriou, and S. Obeidat).

Wireless LAN Standards (Prashant Krishnamurthy).

Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation (Yuheng Huang and James A. Ritcey).

The Wireless Application Protocol (Lillian N. Cassel and Arun Srinivasa Murthy).

Wireless ATM (Amel Meddeb and Noureddine Boudriga).

Wireless IP Telephony (Manish Marwah and Shivakant Mishra).

Wireless Internet (Abbas Jamalipour).

Internetworking of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (Sherali Zeadally and Farhan Siddiqui).

Principles and Applications of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (Marco Conti).

Medium Access in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (Vojislav B. MiÅ¡ić and Jelena MiÅ¡ić).

Emerging Trends in Routing Protocols in Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (Jamal N. Al-Karaki).

Broadcasting in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (François Ingelrest, David Simplot-Ryl, Hong Guo, and Ivan Stojmenović).

Data Monitoring and Gathering in Sensor Networks (Symeon Papavassiliou, Stella Kafetzoglou, and Jin Zhu).

In-Network Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks (Kemal Akkaya and Ismail Ari).

Cognitive and Software Defined Radios for Dynamic Spectrum Access (Troy Weingart and Douglas C. Sicker).

Localization in Wireless Networks (Slim Rekhis, Noureddine Boudriga, and Mohammad S. Obaidat).

Interference Management in Wireless Networks (Keivan Navaie and Shahrokh Valaee).

Wireless Wide Area Networks (Anthony H. Smith and Raymond A. Hansen).

Wireless Broadband Access (Hsiao-Hwa Chen and Mohsen Guizani).

Indoor Wireless Infrared Communications (Z. Ghassemlooy).

Dr. Bidgoli also serves as the editor-in-chief of The Internet Encyclopedia, The Handbook of Information Security, and The Encyclopedia of Information Systems. The Encyclopedia of Information Systems was the recipient of one of the Library Journal's Best Reference Sources for 2002 and The Internet Encyclopedia was recipient of one of the PSP Awards (Professional and Scholarly Publishing), 2004. Dr. Bidgoli was selected as the California State University, Bakersfield's 2001–2002 Professor of the Year.