Like LAN interconnect multimedia will grow from humble begining into a robust, wide-area industry. With advent and the forthcoming of high speed networks, we anticipate distributed multimedia applications will become a common place on the desktops[1]. These applications that could be executed locally or remotely, and could access and retrieve data such as text, graphics, digital audio and video...

A personal portal, which is an entrance wherein each user can acquire the information that s/he is interested in on a network, is often used as an alternative means of communication. However, there are a number of problems with the existing personal portals. For example, because the Web page as a personal portal is generated by the program located on the specific Web server which is managed by ...

Infrastructures for the evaluation of the state of health of individuals using a standardized communication network consisting of advanced instruments and subsequent data analysis have been developed. Here we report that this developed infrastructure has been tested in the field in 100 houses and involving almost 300 users. The communication protocol part of this infrastructure has been standar...

Mobile communication plays an important role in the future of communication systems. To meet personalized and intelligent requirements, mobile communication has evolved from single wireless cellular network to heterogeneous mobile communication network, including wireless cellular network, wireless local network, and wireless personal network. In the heterogeneous communication system, to entir...

The trend of dynamically interconnecting the personal devices that people carry with them has led to the introduction of personal area networks (PANs) and personal networks (PNs). The Bluetooth wireless access technology is believed to be a potential enabler of PANs and PNs. This dissertation focuses on Bluetooth intra-piconet scheduling (also referred to as Bluetooth polling) that helps in mak...

The development of information and network technology enables us to share information at anywhere and anytime. The social networks on the Internet, for example BBS, SNS, Twitter etc. in the Web, have become the personal network media of information. They are quite useful in information sharing each other. On the other hand, we faced the difficulties in the confidentiality of sensitive content, ...

With the advent of the 21st century, the way characters and identities interact under the influence of dominant powers has brought a new world into existence, a world dubbed by Manuel Castells as the ‘Fourth World’. Within the Castellsian theoretical matrix of the Fourth World and politics of identity, the present study seeks to investigate the true nature of the futuristic world Margaret Atwoo...