This paper deals with sensor networking frameworks, namely interconnected fieldbuses and IEEE 1451 smart transducer interface architecture. The contribution begins with interconnected fieldbuses mediating an access from an Intranet to sensors; particularly, coupling architectures are treated both from the viewpoint of more classical interconnections of wide-area and local-area networks, and fro...

This report describes the progress in CESNET2 NREN and results achieved in 2006. It includes optical DWDM and IP/MPLS network layers deployment and further describes the current network status and network services.

Toady’s telecommunication network serves as an essential platform in our society for exchange of information in its various possible forms, viz., voice, data and video, and thus helps us in living the life of this modern era. Networking practices have evolved almost over two centuries with an unbelievable range of technologies, services and standards, calling for accommodation of heterogeneous ...

In this article, we describe five inter-related projects, dealing with the problem of heterogeneity in networks. We consider the case of multicast transmission of multimedia information, which improves efficiency of network resource usage, but aggravates the problem of heterogeneity. A number of researchers have proposed layered encoding as a solution to this problem. We consider some of the op...

The recent advent of social networking has changed the way people communicate and connect with each other. As a result, several studies have been conducted on social networking, but they rarely touched on the user acceptance of social networking by employees. This study, in turn, attempts to fill this gap by explaining the user acceptance of social networking by proposing a research model for t...

To address the need for autonomous control of remote and distributed mobile systems, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications are rapidly gaining attention from both academia and industry. M2M communications have recently been deployed in smart grid, home networking, health care, and vehicular networking environments. This paper focuses on M2M communications in the vehicular networking context a...

Resource dependence theory suggests that to function successfully, organizations must obtain certain resources controlled by actors in their environment. To do this effectively, managers often develop networking relationships with key stakeholder groups in order to make critical resources available. Managers in public service organizations, in particular, are frequently under great pressure to ...