Network Coding Applications looks at how ideas from network coding can have an impact on a number of new applications. Network coding is an elegant and novel technique introduced at the turn of the millennium to improve network throughput and performance. It is expected to be a critical technology for networks of the future. Today, more and more researchers and engineers ask what network coding is, what its benefits are, and how much it costs to design and operate networks implementing network coding. Network Coding Applications deals with wireless and content distribution networks, considered to be the most likely applications of network coding, and it also reviews emerging applications of network coding such as network monitoring and management. Multiple unicasts, security, networks with unreliable links, and quantum networks are also addressed. In tandem with the previous companion text on the theoretical foundations of network coding, Network Coding Applications provides the reader with a comprehensive state-of-the-art of this fast evolving research area.

Network Coding Applications (Foundations and Trends(r) in Networking)

Computers & Technology

Fragouli, Christina

Soljanin, Emina

Computer Science

Now Publishers

Information in Small Bits is a fun and approachable way to learn about Claude Shannon and his world of Information Theory. Comic-style cartoons combined with more comprehensive texts and activities that encourage active participation makes this the perfect learning tool for children and adults alike! For more information, visit www.informationinsmallbits.com. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Christina and Anna have known each other through professional circles for over fifteen years. As Christina was inquiring for ideas to celebrate the accomplishments of Claude Shannon for his centennial, Anna, who has a penchant for drawing cartoons, sketched a story that Christina thought had potential to reach a young audience. It was A (Alice) and B (Bob) complaining about being digitized in the eight bits of an ASCII code. Four cartoons later, the book idea gained momentum, and Dawn was recruited to design it. Christina wrote explanations and problems to explain the true subject of each story and to Anna’s surprise Dawn found a way to make her pencil sketches on copy paper look really good! We hope to have a lot of young friends understand the digital world better and join the many admirers of Claude Shannon, who was one of the best engineering and mathematical minds of the last century. — Christina Fragouli is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA. She has worked on information theory for over 20 years and has won recognitions for her work. Christina loves to read. She has a mischievous cat, a funny dog, and a mischievously funny daughter. She likes reading books to her daughter and realized that there weren’t many books introducing basic concepts of how technology works to children. This, together with Anna’s beautiful sketches, inspired this book. Anna Scaglione is a professor of Electrical Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. She is a Fellow of the International Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) society, in recognition for her research in the areas of signal processing and communication networks. When she was an engineering student, she was struck by the beauty of statistics—especially by the concept that something seemingly ephemeral like "information” and “uncertainty" could be exactly quantified in mathematical terms. She fell in love with information theory and embarked on her research career a few years later, determined to design new information systems. Shannon theory permeates her research and provides the guiding principles to bridge the physical and digital world, to make things and machines more connected and intelligent. Her pen doodles often beyond her will, with cartoon characters emerging between her mathematical derivations. This book is the first time she publishes her drawings and not the equations. Dawn Faelnar is a purveyor of media design and art-science, interested in promoting the collaboration between art, science, design and technology. Through her work, she explores the relationship between multidisciplinary fields, and how they can be interpreted and made more accessible through art and design. An advocate of STEAM education, her penchant for combining the digital with analog, and aesthetic eclecticism with serious socio-environmental undertones, stems from the ultimate goal to better the future of our universe.

Information In Small Bits: Information Theory for Kids

Children's Books

Scaglione, Anna

Faelnar, Dawn

Activities, Crafts & Games

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