Dissemination of Information in Communication Networks - Broadcasting, Gossiping, Leader Election, and Fault-Tolerance

Summary

This text provides an introduction to the theory of design and the analysis of algorithms for the dissemination of information in interconnection networks, with a special emphasis on broadcast. The book starts with the classic telegraph and telephone communication modes and follows the technology up to optical switches. Despite the rigorous presentation, simplicity and transparency are the main learning features of this book. All ideas, concepts, algorithms, analyses and arguments are first explained in an informal way in order to develop the right intuition, and then they are carefully specified in detail. This makes the content accessible for beginners as well as specialists.

Product details

• Authors: Juraj Hromkovič, Ralf Klasing, A. Pelc, Peter Ruzicka, Walter Unger
• Publisher: Springer EN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2005
• EAN: 9783540008460
• ISBN: 978-3-540-00846-0
• No. of pages: 364
• Weight: 1560 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 364 p. 73 illus., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
• Series: Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; B, Algorithms, Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Statistik, computer science, Theory of Computation, Computer Communication Networks, Mathematics of Computing, Computers, Algorithms & data structures, Mathematical & statistical software, Mathematical theory of computation, Computer science—Mathematics, Maths for computer scientists, Mathematical statistics, Probability and Statistics in Computer Science, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity, Computer communication systems