"This book offers over 400 accounts from a wide range of specific research efforts on methodologies, tools, and architectures for complex distributed systems that address the practical issues of performance guarantees, timed execution, real-time management of resources, synchronized...

"This book provide relevant theoretical frameworks covering the latest empirical research findings in the area of grid computing, with a critical perspective bridging the gap between academia and the latest achievements of the computer industry"--Provided by publisher.

1. Visual sensor network technology and its applications / Li-minn Ang and Kah Phooi Seng -- 2. Energy efficiency and reliability considerations of a compressive sensing technique in wireless visual sensor networks / Yinhao Ding and Cheng-Chew Lim -- 3. Wireless video sensor networks: advances...

1. Harnessing the cloud for mobile social networking applications / Juwel Rana ... [et al.] -- 2. Balanced job scheduling based on ant algorithm for grid network / Nikolaos Preve -- 3. Evaluating heuristics for scheduling dependent jobs in grid computing environments / Geoffrey Falzon and...

1. Introduction and overview of wireless sensor networks / Seema Ansari, Syeda Fariha Hasnain and Adeel Ansari -- 2. Topology management in wireless sensor networks / Chiranjib Patra ... [et al.] -- 3. On network management of wireless sensor networks: challenges, solutions and research trends /...

"Distributed computing, through the power of grids or clouds, has allowed software and hardware developers to achieve high performance computing through cutting-edge technologies that are constantly changing. Grid and Cloud Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications presents a...

"This book offers insights into current and future communication technologies for a converged Internet that promises soon to be dominated by multimedia applications, at least in terms of bandwidth consumption"--Provided by publisher.