The Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470112689 ISBN 13: 9780470112687

Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press, 2007

Synopsis

The Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research consists of a group of 50 papers selected as the best published by ComSoc in its various journals in the Society’s 50-year history. The editors of the collection have written an essay to introduce the papers and discuss the historical significance of the collection and how they were selected for the collection.

The book divides the papers into two major categories (Communications and Networking) and groups them by decade within these major subdivisions.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The culmination of a half century's work from the most distinguished researchers in the communications and networking field

To mark its fiftieth anniversary, the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) culled five decades' worth of articles from its various journals to present a thorough, single-volume retrospective of the most notable works. The Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research presents fifty-six papers, divided into two categories―Communications and Networking―and grouped chronologically. This landmark resource provides readers with:

• Research articles that have set the standard for quality, selected from the most respected journals in the field
• An introductory essay by the editors that explains the selection process and puts the collection in historic context

Selected by a team of today's finest researchers in the field, each of the featured articles is a milestone unto itself. For everyone interested in communications and networking research, The Best of the Best serves as a guide to the field's history and as a benchmark for future research.

About the Author:

Founded in 1952, the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) is a community comprised of a diverse group of industry professionals with a common interest in advancing all communications technologies. To that end, the Society sponsors publications, conferences, educational programs, local activities, and technical committees that: Foster original work in all aspects of communications science, engineering, and technology; Encourage the development of applications that use signals to transfer voice, data, image, and/or video information between locations; Promote the theory and use of systems involving all types of terminals, computers, and information processors; all pertinent systems and operations that facilitate transfer; all transmission media; switched and unswitched networks; and network layouts, protocols, architectures, and implementations; And strongly advance developments toward meeting new market demands in systems, products, and technologies such as personal communications services, multimedia communications systems, enterprise networks, and optical communications systems.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0470112689
• ISBN 13: 9780470112687
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 712
• Editor: Tranter William H., Taylor Desmond P., Ziemer Rodger E., Maxemchuk Nicholas F., Mark Jon W., IEEE Communications Society