Dissemination of Information in Communication Networks

From the reviews: "The book covers the complexity of communication to disseminate information in networks. ... The book surveys the state of the art of broadcasting and gossiping in the telegraph and telephone modes of communication. ... appears to be especially useful to researchers in the field. ... The exposition is self-contained, including specialized topics." (Bogdan S. Chlebus, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2008 c)

• The Telegraph and Telephone Modes.- Fundamentals.- Broadcasting.- Gossiping.- Systolic Communication.- Fault-Tolerance.- Distributed Networks.- Broadcast on Distributed Networks.- Leader Election in Asynchronous Distributed Networks.- Fault-Tolerant Broadcast in Distributed Networks.