In the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea 2009 (known as "the Rotterdam Rules"), the right of control exists for the first time in the international legislation on the carriage of goods by sea. It was designed to provide those with cargo interests with the right to give instructions to the carrier for variations in the contract of carriage by sea. However, it is unknown whether this right is appropriate for the law and practice of carriage of goods by sea. This book is to examine the right of control in the context of the...

The design of efficient communication is a challenging issue for the success of the next generation WMNs to handle real-time and QoS sensitive applications and to satisfy both service providers and users. Unfortunately, the significant point in the literature is that todays cutting edge routing standards in WMNs are not perfectly equipped to cater to this task as these standards come with an inherent complexity and suffer from innate problems with respect to efficient communication based applications. Thus, the aim of this book is to enable the WMNs to handle efficiently real-time multimedia...