Readers will gain a thorough and quick understanding of GSM networks-from air interface to core network and the available services. The book provides an exhaustive coverage of protocol architecture and procedures, including ...

The last few years have seen rapid growth in cyberspace social networking, with applications like Facebook, Twitter and many other similar social networking sites growing by leaps and bounds. Huge volumes of data, collected ...

Communication Networks: Principles and Practice is a simple and jargon-free presentation on the core concepts of networking. The book adopts a novel approach, wherein each chapter first details a particular concept of ...

Given a network topology and costs associated with the links, the problem of generating a minimum cost multicast tree can be modelled as a Steiner tree problem. However, many real time applications such as video-conferencing ...

Social IoT (or SIoT) is an alternate architectural pattern for IoT, which involves imparting social behavioral attributes to IoT devices. An SIoT service network uses social collaboration between IoT devices (acting as ...

In many networks, the indegree of a vertex is a measure of its popularity. Past research has studied indegree distributions treating the network as a whole. In the US Patent citation network (USPCN), patents are classified ...