Distributed Cooperative Laboratories

by Davoli, Franco; Palazzo, Sergio; Zappatore, Sandro

• ISBN13: 9780387298115
• ISBN10: 0387298118
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-31
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Distributed Cooperative Laboratories: Networking, Instrumentation, and Measurements is devoted to the investigation of the main issues related to the sustainable realization of tele-laboratories, where real and virtual instrumentation can be shared and used in a collaborative environment. This is a highly interdisciplinary topic, where various aspects converge: multimedia communications and networking, sensor networks, Grid technology, Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning and control, network management, measurement instrumentation and methodology, architecture of measurement systems. The book contains peer reviewed chapters organized into six parts: Technologies for Real-Time Interactive Multimedia Communications; Monitoring, Management and Configuration of Networks and Networking Devices; Data Acquisition and Aggregation in Sensor Networks; Grid Structures for Distributed Cooperative Laboratories; Architectures and Techniques for Tele-Measurements; and Virtual Immersive Communications and Distance Learning. Each chapter presents a self-contained treatment, within a framework that provides the reader with an up-to-date picture of the state-of-the-art and of the most recent developments of this multi-faceted topic.

Table of Contents

Team collaboration mixing immersive video conferencing with shared virtual 3D objects	p. 3
On the stochastic scalability of information sharing platforms	p. 11
A multimedia adaptive-quality platform for real-time e-learning over IP	p. 29
Real-time applications in 802.11 WLAN using feedback-based bandwidth allocation	p. 45
Audio rendering system for multimedia applications	p. 61
QoS provisioning and control in real-time interactive multimedia communications using digital watermarking	p. 73
A critical view of the sensitivity of transit ASs to internal failures	p. 85
The CoMo project : towards a community-oriented measurement infrastructure	p. 97
TCP anomalies : identification and analysis	p. 113
A high performance IP traffic generation tool based on the Intel IXP2400 network processor	p. 127
IP forwarding performance analysis in presence of control plane functionalities in a PC-based open router	p. 143
On data acquisition and field reconstruction in wireless sensor networks	p. 161
Cost efficient localized geographical forwarding strategies for wireless sensor networks	p. 173
Semi-probabilistic routing for highly dynamic networks	p. 193
S-WiNe test : remote access to a sensor testbed	p. 215
Decentralized detection in sensor networks with noisy communication links	p. 233
Real time streaming data grid applications	p. 253
The gridCC project	p. 269
Collaborative environments for the GRID : the GRIDCC multipurpose collaborative environment	p. 279
Design and development of a GNRB for the coordinated use of network resources in a high performance grid environment	p. 295
A P2P framework for distributed and cooperative laboratories	p. 309
Exposing measurement instruments as grid services	p. 321
Distributed information retrieval in GRID environment : a formal approach	p. 331
Architectures for remote measurement	p. 349
Traceability assurance of tele-measurements	p. 363
Exploring the capabilities of Web-based measurement systems for distance learining	p. 373
A WEB-based architecture enabling cooperative telemeasurements	p. 395
The MOME workstation as a platform for automatic analysis of measurement data	p. 409
LATERE : a remote-access laboratory for experiences on management and control of networking devices	p. 425
The LABNET-server software architecture for remote management of distributed laboratories : current status and perspectives	p. 435
A new perspective in instrumentation interfaces as Web services	p. 451
Architectures for context aware services	p. 465
The Teledoc2 project : a heterogeneous infrastructure for international e-learning	p. 475
The dynamic construction of multi-user VRML 3D environment for immersive learning on the Web	p. 497
NeBULa (network-based user-location sensing system) : a novel and open location sensing framework operating on a WLAN environment	p. 511
The VIL (virtual immersive learning) test-bed : an innovative approach to distance learning	p. 527
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