Books in the IEEE Press Series on Networks and Service Management series

Cloud Services, Networking and Management provides a comprehensive overview of the cloud infrastructure and services, as well as their underlying management mechanisms, including data center virtualization and networking, cloud security and reliability, big data analytics, scientific and commercial applications.

This book provides robust and useful information for improving the security of enterprise and service provider networks everywhere. It covers network management security issues and currently available security mechanisms by discussing how network architectures have evolved into the contemporary next-generation networks.

Electrical Engineering Telecommunications Network Management: Technologies and Implementations A follow-up to Telecommunications Network Management into the 21st Century: Techniques, Standards, Technologies, and Applications (IEEE Press 1994), this collection of original chapters written by leading experts in the field brings together a full range of applications topics in telecommunications network management. Telecommunications Network Management illustrates how related technology advancements in the telecommunications and computing industries can help engineers achieve cost-effective, end-to-end management of networks. The reader will understand how information modeling and distributed management help to simplify network representation, introduce computing platforms, and reduce operations costs. This book will help engineers and technical managers who face the challenge of integrating multiple technologies, working with multiple vendors, and identifying different management requirements. Topics covered include: Information modeling New software paradigms Distributed management Management of CATV and wireless networks Software applications lifecycle

Written to identify IP based network and service issues and the challenges facing its growth, as well as to assist the research and development community to prioritize their work in order to solve the problems facing the industry.

The telecommunications industry has advanced in rapid, significant and unpredictable ways into the 21st century.

The first and only up-to-date guide offering complete coverage of HetNets written by top researchers and engineers in the field Small Cell Networks: Deployment, Management, and Optimization addresses key problems of the cellular network evolution towards HetNets.

Evolving network topologies and complex operational models require a new, more sophisticated approach to reliability and availability prediction in telecommunications systems.

With the announcement in 2011 that the current Internet Protocol (IP), IPv4, has nearly run out, interest in IPv6 -- the latest IP version -- has grown substantially.

As multiple system operators provide several types of voice, video, and data services to residential and commercial customers, with equipment from various vendors, it becomes increasingly difficult to comply with international standards. This book covers current technologies used by MSOs and future directions.

An advanced Domain Name System (DNS) security resource that explores the operation of DNS, its vulnerabilities, basic security approaches, and mitigation strategies DNS Security Management offers an overall role-based security approach and discusses the various threats to the Domain Name Systems (DNS).

A timely overview of a complete spectrum of technologies specifically designed for public safety communications as well as their deployment as managementIn our increasingly disaster-prone world, the need to upgrade and better coordinate our public safety networks combined with successful communications is more critical than ever. Fundamentals of Public Safety Networks and Critical Communications Systems fills a gap in the literature by providing a book that reviews a comprehensive set of technologies, from most popular to the most advanced communications technologies that can be applied to public safety networks and mission-critical communications systems. The book explores the technical and economic feasibility, design, application, and sustainable operation management of these vital networks and systems.Written by a noted expert in the field, the book provides extensive coverage of systems, services, end-user devices, and applications of public-safety services and technologies. The author explores the potential for advanced public safety systems, and this comprehensive text covers all aspects of the public safety and critical communications network field. This important book:* Provides an introduction to and discussion of the common characteristics of our critical communications systems* Presents a review of narrowband technologies such as Project 25, TETRA, and DMR as well as the broadband technologies such as the LTE technology* Focuses on the emerging technologies that can be adopted to improve our vital communications systems* Discusses deployment of such technologies, including economics and finance, planning and project management* Provides, in detail, the issues and solutions related to the management of such communications networks* Offers a complete list of standards documentsWritten for professionals in the industry, academics, and government and regulatory agencies, Fundamentals of Public Safety Networks and Critical Communications Systems offers a review of the most significant safety technologies, explores the application for advanced technologies, and examines the most current research.