Networking and communication has created a global village in terms of immediacy within which people across the world can share audio, video and text data. This has made notable impact on social and national life. Instant access to databanks for information has increased the speed of the process of making decisions. It has brought about great changes in jobs, working locations, and cultures as well. The emerging technologies give an impetus to globalisation, increase competition and make it imperative for the organizations to incorporate and adopt new developments in their manufacturing and service applications. Communication and networking constitutes the nervous system of the information technology-enabled economic scenario. In the present era of globalisation, one has to constantly keep pace with new avenues and growth in order to be competitive in various endeavors. The book covers all the pertinent topics on the subject which include Broadband Wireless Communication System; Mobile Computing; Wireless Personal Communications; Mobile Database; Wireless ad hoc Sensor and Bluetooth Networks; Multimedia Communications; Advances in Satellite Communication; Networking Protocols, Routing and Algorithms; Optical Communication; Parallel and Distributed Architectures and Algorithms; Antennas, Propagation and Transmission Technology; Network Security; Communication Software Techniques; Wi-fi Systems; Information Theory and Coding; and Grid Computing. Latest trends in networking and communication have been incorporated at appropriate places. The book will be highly useful to the students and teachers of Engineering particularly Computer Science, IT, Electronics and Communication. It will also prove highly beneficial to research scholars working in these fields.

Table of Contents:
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Cryptographic Protocols: Security and Composition–Sunder Lal, Santosh Kumar Yadav and Kuldeep Bhardwaj; 2. Cryptographic Attacks and Steganography–Brijesh Kumar Chaurasia and Rajendra Singh Kushwah; 3. Cryptography: Study on Use of Cryptography Technique in Digital Signature and, an Overview of Legal Framework of Digital Signature in an IT Act–Snehalata Bhat (Kaul) and Hemlata Jankinath Bhat; 4. Role of IPTV in Entertainment–Saurabh Pareek; 5. Voice over IP Security and Law Enforcement–Gunjan Verma, Akanksha Rastogi and Parul Verma; 6. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) “Why everybody doesn’t use it”–Neeraj Varshney and Juginder Pal Singh; 7. Network Security Issues and Internet Protocol IPv6–Brijesh Kumar Chaurasia; 8. Nonlinear Equalizers and Near-Maximum Likelihood Detectors for Future Mobile Systems–Mohd. Israil and M. Salim Beg; 9. Demystifying High Speed Wireless Technologies–Abha Agarwal and Abhinav Agarwal; 10. An Introduction to Fuzzy Control Systems–Bharat Bhushan Agarwal, Manoj Kumar and Sumit Prakash Tayal; 11. ON-OFF Traffic Model for Simulation for Calculating Threshold in ATM Network using Fuzzy in Multicasing Routing in ATM Networks–Vinita Dutt; 12. Scholastic Study of Replication of Multimedia System in Distributed Environment–Rohit Chandra and Vishal Srivastava; 13. Multi-function “Smarter” Cards in Universities: Issues and Trends–Sanjeev Sharma and Narendra Mohan; 14. Intelligent Multimedia Tutoring System for Effective Pedagogical Planning–D.S. Gangwar and V.K. Deolia; 15. Requirements of Location Management in Wireless Networks: Efficiency and Scalability–Charul Bhatnagar and Umesh Kumar Tiwari; 16. ARM: The Platform for Mobile Applications–Vijeta Verma and Bhumika Gupta; 17. Caching and Replication in Mobile Data Management–Manoj Yadav, Mohd. Zuaib and Diwakar Bhardwaj; 18. Modeling and Verification of a Next Generation Mobile Channel–Mohd. Israil and M. Salim Beg; 19. OFDM and Its Interferences–Surabhi and Rajni; 20. Segmentation of Satellite Images Using Mean Shift Algorithm for Coastal Boundary Extraction–Musheer Ahmad, Rashid Ali and M. Qasim Rafiq; 21. Identity Based Strong Bi-Designated Verifier (t, n) Threshold Proxy Signature Scheme–Sunder Lal and Vandani Verma; 22. Networking of Home Appliances to Assist the Persons with Movement Disabilities–Mohd. Rihan, M. Sarfaraz Alam, M. Salim Beg; 23. Role of Morphological Filter for Compressed Medical Image–Syed Abdaheer, M. Ekram Khan and Ravi Kumar; 24. High Speed Ethernet Technologies for Telemedicine and E-Health–Salma Shaheen and Mohd. Ajmal Kafeel; 25. Analysis of Near Far Problem in Spread Spectrum System–Amit Rathi, Bramha Prasad Pandey, Rakesh Kumar, Arun Kumar Verma and Abhay Chaturvedi; 26. On the Scalability of Ad Hoc Networks: A Traffic? Analysis at the Center of a Network–Sumit Agrawal, Chhavi Kaushik and Diwakar Bhardwaj; 27. An Architectural Framework for Video Retrieval based on Key Frame Extraction–Pallavi Sinha, Udayan Ghose and Anurag Jain; 28. Survey of Estimation of Network Reliability–Diwakar Bhardwaj and Manu Pratap Singh; 29. Possible Optimization Approaches of Network Search Algorithm in GSM+UMTS Environment–Tathagato Mukhopadhyay and Balaram Bhattacharyya; 30. Load Balancing Using Application Server Approach–Gagan Garg, Pallavi Chaudhary and Ashish Sharma; 31. Use of FPGA for Future Software Defined Radio Systems–Pallavi Gupta and M. Salim Beg; 32. Emerging Trends in Wireless Communication–Indu Agrawal; 33. Decision Making Techniques: Application Areas and Limitations–Ashish Sawhney, Sanjay Kumar and Abid Haleem; 34. Virtual Private Networks: An Overview with Performance–Vijay Kumar; 35. An Implementation of Handoff in Wireless Networks Using Fuzzy Logic–Manoj Sharma and Yogesh Misra; 36. Effect of Probe Radius for a Coaxially Fed Rectangular Microstrip Antenna–D.K. Srivastava, R.C. Saraswat, B.R.Vishvakarma and D.C. Dhubkarya; 37. Security Analysis of a Remote User Authentication Scheme–Sunder Lal and K.K. Goyal; 38. Virtualization Effects on the Security–Dinesh Kumar Agarwal and Garima Singh; 39. Broadband Wireless Communication System–An Emerging Future–S.K. Pandey; Bibliography; Contributors