Friday, December 26, 2008

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism or Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Author: Max Weber

This brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds — an effort that ultimately encouraged capitalism.

Times Higher Education Supplement

Max Weber is the one undisputed canonical figure in contemporary sociology.

Booknews

Arguing that classic works should be translated every generation, and that the essay here was last translated into English some 70 years ago, Kalberg (sociology, Boston U.) strives to make the text accessible to undergraduates and general readers and to retain the integrity of the work with a close-to-the-text translation. In addition to the essay itself, which was published in a two parts in a social science journal in 1904-05, he has included two related documents by Weber (1864-1920). Cited in . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)



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Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols

Author: C Siva Ram Murthy

I have reviewed many books on the topic of Ad Hoc Networks, and this is the finest I have seen on the topic.—Dr. Theodore S. Rappaport, William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering, Director, Wireless Networking and Communications Group, University of Texas.
Practical design and performance solutions for every ad hoc wireless network

Ad Hoc Wireless Networks comprise mobile devices that use wireless transmission for communication. They can be set up anywhere and any time because they eliminate the complexities of infrastructure setup and central administration-and they have enormous commercial and military potential. Now, there's a book that addresses every major issue related to their design and performance. Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols presents state-of-the-art techniques and solutions, and supports them with easy-to-understand examples. The book starts off with the fundamentals of wireless networking (wireless PANs, LANs, MANs, WANs, and wireless Internet) and goes on to address such current topics as Wi-Fi networks, optical wireless networks, and hybrid wireless architectures. Coverage includes:

  • Medium access control, routing, multicasting, and transport protocols
  • QoS provisioning, energy management, security, multihop pricing, and much more
  • In-depth discussion of wireless sensor networks and ultra wideband technology
  • More than 200 examples and end-of-chapter problems

Ad Hoc Wireless Networks is an invaluable resource for every network engineer, technical manager, and researcher designing or building ad hoc wireless networks.



Table of Contents:
1Introduction1
2Wireless LANs and PANs63
3Wireless WANs and MANs109
4Wireless Internet155
5Ad hoc wireless networks191
6MAC protocols for ad hoc wireless networks227
7Routing protocols for ad hoc wireless networks299
8Multicast routing in ad hoc wireless networks365
9Transport layer and security protocols for ad hoc wireless networks451
10Quality of service in ad hoc wireless networks505
11Energy management in ad hoc wireless networks585
12Wireless sensor networks647
13Hybrid wireless networks697
14Recent advances in wireless networks773

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