It is very difficult to pursue research over real-time networks at the meantime implementation of such components are costly. Network simulators reduce this task in real time and accomplish this task with less time and cost. There are many network simulators available in the market like Ns2,...

Airplanes were invented by hobbyists and experimenters, and some personal computers were as well. Similarly, many open-source software developers are interested in the software they make, and not focused on profit. Based on these cases, this paper has a model of agents called tinkerers who want...

Cultural knowledge economy: education, the new economy, and the communicative turn -- The politics of postmodernity and the promise of education -- Education policy in the age of knowledge capitalism -- National education policy constructions of the knowledge economy -- Universities,...

We develop and test a model of key determinants of software sales based on characteristics of a firm's business scope and network position - especially, cluster coefficient, degree centrality, partner diversity and linkage scope diversity. We use data on a sample of 509 firms in the packaged...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Table -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter 1: A Brief Historical Overview of Networking -- Chapter 2: Current Networking Architecture -- Chapter 3: History of Software-Defined Networking -- Chapter 4: An Overview of Software Defined Networking -- Chapter...