Mohammad S. Obaidat & Sudip Misra 
Cooperative Networking 

This book focuses on the latest trends and research results in
Cooperative Networking

This book discusses the issues involved in cooperative
networking, namely, bottleneck resource management, resource
utilization, servers and content, security, and so on. In addition,
the authors address instances of cooperation in nature which
actively encourage the development of cooperation in
telecommunication networks. Following an introduction to the
fundamentals and issues surrounding cooperative networking, the
book addresses models of cooperation, inspirations of successful
cooperation from nature and society, cooperation in networking (for
e.g. Peer-to-Peer, wireless ad-hoc and sensor, client-server, and
autonomous vehicular networks), cooperation and ambient networking,
cooperative caching, cooperative networking for streaming media
content, optimal node-task allocation, heterogeneity issues in
cooperative networking, cooperative search in networks, and
security and privacy issues with cooperative networking.

It contains contributions from high profile researchers and is
edited by leading experts in this field.

Key Features:

* Focuses on higher layer networking

* Addresses the latest trends and research results

* Covers fundamental concepts, models, advanced topics and
performance issues in cooperative networking

* Contains contributions from leading experts in the field

* Provides an insight into the future direction of cooperative
networking

* Includes an accompanying website containing Power Point slides
and a glossary of terms (href=’http://www.wiley.com/go/obaidat_cooperative’>www.wiley.com/go/obaidat_cooperative)

This book is an ideal reference for researchers and
practitioners working in the field. It will also serve as an
excellent textbook for graduate and senior undergraduate courses in
computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering,
software engineering, and information engineering and science.

About the author

Mohammad Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA

Mohammad Obaidat received his Ph.D. and M. S. degrees in
Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Dr. Obaidat is currently a
full Professor of Computer Science at Monmouth University, NJ, USA.
His research interests are: wireless communications and networks,
pervasive computing, networking and communications, modeling and
simulation, performance evaluation of computer systems, and
telecommunications systems, security of computer and network
systems, high performance computing/computers, applied neural
networks and pattern recognition, security of e-based systems, and
speech processing.

Dr. Sudip Misra, the Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur, India

Sudip Misra is an Assistant Professor in the School of
Information Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur, India, and is also an Adjunct Professor in the
Department of Computer Science at Ryerson University, Toronto,
Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from
Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada, and the masters and
bachelor’s degrees respectively from the University of New
Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, and the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, India. His current research interests
include algorithm design and engineering for telecommunication
networks, software engineering for telecommunication applications,
and computational intelligence and soft computing applications in
telecommunications.