This collection of eighteen articles on distributed computing and next generation networking presents current scholarship in several areas of sensor and Internet technologies. The volume is divided into sections covering Internet-based systems design, wireless sensor networks, and next generation distributive computing systems, and individual papers address such topics as end-to-end dataflow parallelism for transfer throughput optimization, service provision in self managed internet environments, data gathering with multi-attribute fusion in wireless sensor networks, P2P based distributed network polling solutions and service level provisioning for cloud based applications. Individual entries include abstracts, illustrations, bibliographies and notes and a volume-wide compilation of reading resources is provided. Contributors are academics in computer and communications fields from institutions around the world. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)