Advanced Lectures on Networking - Networking 2002 (Electronic book text)

This book presents the revised version of seven tutorials given at the NETWORKING 2002 Conference in Pisa, Italy in May 2002.The lecturers present a coherent view of the core issues in the following areas: - peer-to-peer computing and communications- mobile computing middleware- network security in the multicast framework- categorizing computing assets according to communication patterns- remarks on ad-hoc networking- communication through virtual technologies- optical networks.