Description
Sustaining a competitive edge in today’s business world requires innovative approaches to product, service, and management systems design and performance. Advances in computing technologies have presented managers with additional challenges as well as further opportunities to enhance their business models.
Advances in Data Communications and Networking for Digital Business Transformation is a critical scholarly resource that examines transformative technologies from the perspective of data communication and networking and research challenges faced by the industry and research and development laboratories. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as routing protocols, network visualization, and corporate social responsibility, this book is geared towards executives, managers, academicians, researchers, and students.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Debashis Saha (Ed.)
Debashis Saha is a professor with the MIS Group, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. He is the immediate past chairman of the MIS Group. Previously, he was with CSE Department at Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India). He received a BE (Hons) degree from Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India), and the MTech and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) all in electronics and telecommunication engineering. His research interests include pervasive communication and computing, network operations, management and security, wireless networking and mobile computing, ICT for development, and network economics. He has supervised thirteen doctoral theses, published about 200 research papers in various conferences and journals, and directed four funded research projects on networking. He has co-authored several book chapters, a monograph, and five books including
Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing: Enabling Technologies and Systems (Norwell, MA: Kluwer, 2002) and
Location Management and Routing in Mobile Wireless Networks (Boston, MA: Artech House, 2003). Dr. Saha is the recipient of the prestigious career award for Young Teachers from AICTE, Government of India, and is a SERC Visiting Fellow with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. He is a Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAST), Senior Life Member of Computer Society of India, Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of the International Federation of Information Processing Working Group’s 6.8 and 6.10. He is the founding Chair of Calcutta Chapter of IEEE Communications Society.