Embedded Systems Networking: Applications, Case Studies and Technologies

It includes case studies on:

• Techniques for mapping an application to a network processor
• Networking for consumer applications
• Industrial wireless LAN (WLAN) networking
• Enterprise networking applications
• MIMO parallelization and implementation on heterogeneous GPGPU architectures
• Using hardware/ software co-design methods for implementing efficient small cell solutions
• Software development techniques for embedded networking applications
• Mobile, cloud computing and data security
• Harnessing the power of multicore architecture
• Developing a Network Interface Controller (NIC)
• Low power networking strategies

With this book, you will learn:

• The different uses of computer networks
• How to program and configure network hardware, including the use of hubs, switches and routers
• The varied uses of network software, including networking operating systems
• The structure and features of each layer of the ISO/OSI Reference Model, including physical, datalink, network and application protocols
• How to make use of the software functionality of each layer of the TCP/IP Reference Model compared with the ISO/OSI Reference Model
• How to implement major software components of computer networks including virtualization and offload technologies
• Valuable information on computer network security issues
• How to describe network media and data transmissions
• How to explain network design and describe the various network topologies
• The software features of NetWare and Linux servers
• Software requirements for implementing wide area networks.

• Provides full coverage of networking topics, strategies and implementation for embedded components and systems, including the various topologies, algorithms and protocols necessary to embedded network development
• Numerous code examples illustrate and reinforce the concepts discussed
• Multiple case studies demonstrate techniques across a number of application areas.