Scalable Computing And Communications: Theory And Practice

Scalable computing and communications involved using computer facilities that can readily adapt to the demands of more powerful computing and communication capabilities. It is used in situations where the volume of data or traffic can vary widely, but also, for example, to allow software and hardware to deal with added modules. Computer and information scientists offer a broad reference on theory and practice, software and hardware, and concepts and prototypes. Among the topics are reliable minimum connected dominating sets for topology control in probabilistic wireless sensor networks, fault tolerance and transmission reliability in wireless networks, green and flexible opportunistic grids, data partitioning for designing and simulating efficient huge databases, and virtualization techniques for graphics processing units. Also available in electronic form. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

SAMEE U. KHAN, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University. He is the founding director of the bi-institutional and multi-departmental NDSU-CIIT Green Computing and Communications Laboratory (GCC Lab) and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan.

ALBERT Y. ZOMAYA, PhD, is the Chair Professor of High Performance Computing and Networking, and Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow in the School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney. He is also the Director of the Centre for Distributed and High Performance Computing as well as the Series Editor for the Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing.

LIZHE WANG, PhD, is a Professor at the Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the ChuTian Scholar Chair Professor in the School of Computer, China University of Geosciences. A senior member of the IEEE, professional member of ACM, and member of the IEEE Computer Society, Dr. Wang has published six books and more than fifty technical papers.