Trends in Communication Technologies and Engineering Science [electronic resource] / edited by Ping-Kong Alexander Wai, Xu Huang, Sio-Iong Ao.

Survivable Architecture with Dynamic Wavelength and Bandwidth Allocation Scheme in WDM-EPON -- Evaluation on Data Modeling Languages for Standardization of NETCONF-Based Network Management: Application of an Evaluation Framework for Data Modeling Languages in Network Management Domain -- Ad Hoc Multiple Source Routing -- Efficient BER Improvement Mechanism for Wireless E1/E1 ATM Links -- Performance of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment -- Predictive Mobility Management with Delay Optimizations in 802.11 Infrastructure Networks -- Decomposition of SQuaRE – Based Requirements for the Needs of SOA Applications -- Utilizing Web Directories for Translation Disambiguation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval -- Ontology Based Improvement of Response Time and Reliability of Web Service Repositories -- Quad-Tree Based Adaptive Wavelet Packet Image Coding -- Plaque Boundary Extraction in Intravascular Ultrasound Image in Conjunction with Image Separability and Fuzzy Inference -- Dedicated Hardware for Hybrid Evolutionary Computation -- Efficient Design of Arbitrary Complex Response Continuous-Time IIR Filter -- Fixed Structure Robust Loop Shaping Controller for a Buck-Boost Converter Using Evolutionary Algorithm -- Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) Technique in Economic Power Dispatch Problems -- Direction of Arrival Estimation Using a Phase Array Antenna -- Grid Computing for Ubiquitous Computing Environment (GCUCE) Mobility Model -- A Novel Fault-Tolerant Multi-EPON System with Sharing Protection Scheme -- Design and Performance Evaluation of Knuth-Bendix Multi-Completion System Using Boolean Constrained Reduction Orders -- Generating Distributed Code from Cola Models -- Outlining a Risk-Driven Development Model (RDD) -- Mining Frequent Itemsets in Distributed Environment -- A Study on the Inequalities for Fast Similarity Search in Metric Spaces -- Discovering Knowledge of Association Using Coherent Rules -- Particle Swarm Optimization with Diversive Curiosity and Its Identification.

Trends in Communication Technologies and Engineering Science contains revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in a large international conference on Advances in Communication Technologies and Engineering Science. The conference is held in Hong Kong, March 19-21, 2008. Topics covered include communications theory, communications protocols, network management, wireless networks, telecommunication, electronics, power engineering, control engineering, signal processing, and industrial applications. Trends in Communication Technologies and Engineering Science offers tremendous state of the art advances in communication systems and engineering science which also serves as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working on communication technologies and engineering science.