Publications

This state-of-the-art report on “wood adhesion and glued products” was produced under the umbrella of COST Ation A13 (1999-2002).

The State of the Art report summarizes the work done within the COST Action E40 ‘Innovative utilization and products of large dimensioned timber including the whole forest-wood-chain’. It gives an overview about the stock of LDT which is available in various countries as well as the potential for utilisation and processing of this timber. Several projects carried out in the last years on this topic (especially in Germany and Austria) are described. Product ideas and advantages as well as disadvantages of LDT are summarized and evaluated.

This book contains the description of the research work done in COST Action 290 ‘Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks” which ran from March 2004 to June 2008. 24 European countries contributed to the research, with more than 70 institutions involved. The authors address new techniques and approaches to deal with the growth of data traffic in wireless mobile networks and the important need to guarantee differentiated quality of service levels to different traffic classes. The material presents the latest research achievements and rseults in research areas such as traffic engineering, mobility and interoperability, network architectures and planning as well as services, regulations, and economic aspects. This book covers broad areas of research onw ireless communications and networking from the physical layer through the application layer. It is recommended for resarchers and PhD students to receive a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on enigineering approaches, opimization methods and open issues in wireless multimedia networks.

The explosive growth of data, particularly internet traffic, has led to a dramatic increase in demand for transmission bandwidth, imposing an immmediate requirement for a broadband networks. The primary objective of the COST Action 291 ‘Towards Digital Optical Networks’ was to focus on novel network concepts, subsystems and architectures to enable future telecommunication networks, exploiting the features and properties of photonic technologies. Three working groups were established to deal with these research objectives:
WG1, Optical Processing for Digital Network Performance, dealt with the physical layer and implementation-related issues of transparent optical networks such as optical-signal-per-bit processing, optical-switch-architecture designs and implementations as well as transmissino-related issues.
WG2, Novel Network Architectures, focused on the evolution of network scenarios, including novel network architectures. Also different node architectures and technologies in terms of network performance and functionality were investigated. Three different architectures were studied and compared: circuit (wavelength, waveband, etc.), and optical-burst and optical-packet switched networks.
WG3, Unified Control Plane, Network Resilience and Service Security, dealt with the impact of transparency on photonic network architectures and the associated control and protocol issues as well as on network survivability and security issues, covering topics such as protection and restoration, routing and wavelength assignment algorithms, fault isolation, disaster recovery, etc.
The results obtained within these working groups are collected in this volume.