Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is a very promising switching technique to support huge bandwidth requirements in optical backbone networks that use Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM). This book will be devoted to a comprehensive discussion on the quality of service (QoS) issues and mechanisms to provide QoS in OBS networks. This book is intended for researchers, senior undergraduate and graduate students in the field of optical networking in particular, and networking in general.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2007, held in Wuhan, China, in September 2007. The 71 revised full papers cover such topics as evolutionary computation, evolutionary learning, neural networks, swarms, pattern recognition, and data mining.

Network calculus is a theory dealing with queuing systems found in computer networks. Its focus is on performance guarantees. Central to the theory is the use of alternate algebras such as the min-plus algebra to transform complex network systems into analytically tractable systems. To simplify the ana- sis, another idea is to characterize tra?c and service processes using various bounds. Since its introduction in the early 1990s, network calculus has dev- oped along two tracks-deterministic and stochastic. This book is devoted to summarizing results for stochastic network calculus that can...

Network calculus is a theory dealing with queuing systems found in computer networks. Its focus is on performance guarantees. Central to the theory is the use of alternate algebras such as the min-plus algebra to transform complex network systems into analytically tractable systems. To simplify the ana- sis, another idea is to characterize tra?c and service processes using various bounds. Since its introduction in the early 1990s, network calculus has dev- oped along two tracks-deterministic and stochastic. This book is devoted to summarizing results for stochastic network calculus that can...

Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is a very promising switching technique to support huge bandwidth requirements in optical backbone networks that use Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM). This book will be devoted to a comprehensive discussion on the quality of service (QoS) issues and mechanisms to provide QoS in OBS networks. This book is intended for researchers, senior undergraduate and graduate students in the field of optical networking in particular, and networking in general.

Power Electronic Packaging presents an in-depth overview of power electronic packaging design, assembly, reliability and modeling. Since there is a drastic difference between IC fabrication and power electronic packaging, the book systematically introduces typical power electronic packaging design, assembly, reliability and failure analysis and material selection soreaders can clearly understand each task's unique characteristics. Power electronic packaging is one of the fastest growing segments in the power electronic industry, due to the rapid growth of power integrated circuit (IC)...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2012, held in Wuhan, China, in October 2012. The 72 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on artificial life, adaptive behavior, agents, and ant colony optimization; combinatorial and numerical optimization; communications and computer networks; data mining; evolutionary multi-objective and dynamic optimization; intelligent computation, intelligent learning...

Power Electronic Packaging presents an in-depth overview of power electronic packaging design, assembly, reliability and modeling. Since there is a drastic difference between IC fabrication and power electronic packaging, the book systematically introduces typical power electronic packaging design, assembly, reliability and failure analysis and material selection so readers can clearly understand each task's unique characteristics. Power electronic packaging is one of the fastest growing segments in the power electronic industry, due to the rapid growth of power integrated circuit (IC)...

Analog and Power Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging presents a state-of-art and in-depth overview in analog and power WLCSP design, material characterization, reliability and modeling. Recent advances in analog and power electronic WLCSP packaging are presented based on the development of analog technology and power device integration. The book covers in detail how advances in semiconductor content, analog and power advanced WLCSP design, assembly, materials and reliability have co-enabled significant advances in fan-in and fan-out with redistributed layer (RDL) of analog and power device...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2015, held in New York, NY, USA, in March 2015. The 27 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: DNS and Routing, Mobile and Cellular, IPv6, Internet-Wide, Web and Peer-to-Peer, Wireless and Embedded, and Software Defined Networking.