Network-Centric Service Oriented Enterprise

Corporate information is skyrocketing in business values; for enterprise, what is best practice for developing and maintaining goals and standards to enhance information management and business operations? The growing need to incorporate and exchange information across n- works has driven corporations to establish infrastructure for high-distribution communities in a timely and safe manner. Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE) is lauded as a mainstream business-information collaboration solution due to its decentralized, loosely coupled, and highly interoperable nature. Through SOE, composite applications can be created, modified, and removed in a dynamic use of services. This allows corporate information to be abstracted from existing applications and data, and creating new possibilities for assets to be either provided by external platforms or provisioned from external sources. Within a business/commercial paradigm, SOE translates to a set of flexible services and processes that an organization wishes to make available to its customers, partners, and/or associates. From a technical perspective, SOE evolves existing integration concepts into the notion of a contract – a technology-neutral and business-specific representation of the function. The history of the term network-centricity has represented different p- ceptions in the realm of enterprise services. In such traditional Information Technology (IT) domains as the telecommunications industry, networking has comprised a complex and expensive asset-management effort for service carriers. Network operators are consistently challenged to manage techno- gies and associated procedures that are continually growing and changing. Efficiency of resource management via network-centricity has widely been regarded as a cornerstone of business assurance. ix x Preface There is a major effort underway in the area of network-centric operations that promises to redefine networking applications. These applications have the potential to raise Enterprise operational efficiency to a whole new level. Following the successful invention of TCP/IP and the Internet, which have tremendous economic impacts on our society, the Department of Defense (DoD) is initiating a new IT revolution, based on Global Information Grid (GIG) model, with a focus on performance outcomes of organizational adaptation, survival, and competence. To ignore this technological trend of converging business and process management would be to jeopardize our competitive edge. The emergence of Enterprise services has triggered a major paradigm shift in distributed computing: from Object-Oriented Architecture (OOA) to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). As the need grows to incorporate and exchange information across wire-line and wireless networks, so grows the necessity to establish an infrastructure for high-distribution communities in a timely and safe manner. Network-Centric Service-Oriented Enterprise (NSCOE) is seen as heralding the next generation of mainstream Enterprise-business information collaboration solution that can enforce information and decision superiority in the decentralized, loosely-coupled, and highly interoperable service environments. Network-Centric Service Oriented Enterprise establishes a system-of-systems (SoS) view of information technologies, offering a synergistic combination of data and information-processing capacity upon an innovative networked-management framework "The emergence of Enterprise services has triggered a major paradigm shift in distributed computing: from Object-Oriented Architecture (OOA) to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). As the need grows to incorporate and exchange information across wire-line and wireless networks, so grows the necessity to establish an infrastructure for high-distribution communities in a timely and safe manner. Network-Centric Service-Oriented Enterprise (NSCOE) is seen as heralding the next generation of mainstream Enterprise-business information collaboration solution that can enforce information and decision superiority in the decentralized, loosely-coupled, and highly interoperable service environments. Network-Centric Service Oriented Enterprise establishes a system-of-systems (SoS) view of information technologies, offering a synergistic combination of data and information-processing capacity upon an innovative networked-management framework."--Amazon web site. Springer Contents 6 Dedication 5 Preface 7 Foreword 12 Acknowledgments 14 Information Superiority 16 Enabler of Information Superiority 62 Wireless Network Technologies 116 Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications 172 Building a Wireless Transport Service 225 Network and Service Monitoring 275 Service Quality Management 318 Integrated Information Assurance 365 Service Knowledge Management 414 Network-Centric Service-Oriented Enterprises 460 References 512 Index 534 A 534 B 535 C 536 D 537 E 538 F 539 G 539 H 540 I 540 J 541 K 542 L 542 M 542 N 543 O 544 P 544 Q 545 R 545 S 546 T 548 U 549 V 550 W 550 X 550 Z 550 ISBN-13:,9781402064555 This is the first comprehensive book about the emerging technology of Network-Centric Service-Oriented Enterprise (NCSOE). It establishes a system-of-systems (SoS) view of information technologies. The book discusses the practical capability of a competitive ecosystem in terms of how to achieve decision superiority from exploiting information and situation awareness as a key enabler in multiple sectors of the economy.