Communications engineering / telecommunications Books

Currently, around one to two billion users are able to connect to the Internet, most of them living in the industrialized parts of the world. However, if we want to improve the quality of life of the world population with the help of access to...

"Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology - A Practical Engineering Guide" deals with all the most important digital television, sound radio and multimedia standards such as MPEG, DVB, DVD, DAB, ATSC, T-DMB, DMB-T, DRM...

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Mathematical Description of Blind Signal Processing.- Chapter 3. Independent Component Analysis (ICA).- Chapter 4. Non-Linear Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Feature Extraction.- Chapter 5. Non-Linear ICA.-...

I: Systems.- The Co-Opticon System: Interface, System Architecture, and Implementation of a Collaboratively Controlled Robotic Webcam.- The Tele-Actor System: Collaborative Teleoperation Using Networked Spatial Dynamic Voting.- II: Algorithms.- Exact...

A Comprehensive Survey of Nature-Inspired Routing Protocols.- From The Wisdom of the Hive to Routing in Telecommunication Networks.- A Scalability Framework for Nature-Inspired Routing Algorithms.- BeeHive in Real Networks of Linux Routers.- A Formal...

Hardware Platforms for Third-Generation Mobile Terminals.- Nonvolatile Memories: NOR vs. NAND Architectures.- Nonvolatile Memories: Novel Concepts and Emerging Technologies.- Memory Cards.- Multichip.- Software Management of Flash Memories.- Error...

Current research fields in science and technology were presented and discussed at the EKC2008, informing about the interests and directions of the scientists and engineers in EU countries and Korea. The Conference has emerged...

Channel Estimation and Prediction.- Estimation of Channel and Noise Covariance Matrices.- Linear Precoding with Partial Channel State Information.- Nonlinear Precoding with Partial Channel State Information.

This book describes the basic theory of microwave resonators and filters, and practical design methods for wireless communication equipment. The microwave resonators and filters described provide a basis for building more...

The communication complexity of two-party protocols is an only 15 years old complexity measure, but it is already considered to be one of the fundamen­ tal complexity measures of recent complexity theory. Similarly to ...

This is the only book of its scope to comprehensively investigate the performance and problems of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol stack. It is an ideal reference work giving valuable advice...

Ad-Hoc Networks: Sensor Networks.- Calibrating Wireless Sensor Network Simulation Models with Real-World Experiments.- Experimental Study: Link Quality and Deployment Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Aggregation Protocols for High Rate, Low Delay...

The management of telecommunications networks and services is one of the most challenging of software endeavors-partly because of the size and the distributed nature of networks; partly because of the convergence of communications techno- gies; but...

A major challenge in grid computing remains the application software development for this new kind of infrastructure. Grid application programmers have to take into account several complicated aspects: distribution of data and...

This book focuses on the analysis and design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) coded modulations, which are becoming part of several current and future communication systems, such as high-throughput terrestrial and satellite wireless networks. In this...

Developments in network and switching technologies have made telecommu- cations systems and services far more data intensive. This can be observed in many telecommunications areas, such as network management, service mana-...

Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks 2000 (MWCN2000) was the second conference in its series aimed at stimulating technical exchange in the emergingandimportantel dofMobileandWirelessCommunicationsNetworks. Therst...

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are widely used in mobile communications, a rapidly evolving market. This book gives an overview on the latest SAW technologies with an emphasis on the design and simulation of devices, such...

Optoelectronic devices and fibre optics are the basis of cutting-edge communication systems. This monograph deals with the various components of these systems, including lasers, amplifiers, modulators, converters, filters,...

This book consitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing, EvoIASP '99 and of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary ...

New paradigms can popularize old technologies. A new \standalone" paradigm, the electronic desktop, popularized the personal computer. A new \connected" paradigm, the web browser, popularized the Internet. Another new paradigm,...

This book is intended to give an overview of the major results achieved in the field of natural speech understanding inside ESPRIT Project P. 26, "Advanced Algorithms and Architectures for Speech and Image Processing". The...

The European Communications Policy Research Conference has taken place the fourth time since its founding in 1986. The main objective of all conferences held so far was to be a forum where social scientists, economists,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International IFIP TC6 Conference on Autonomic Networking, AN 2006. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book...

Beside technological issues, this book discusses the administrative and industrial aspects of third generation mobile communications. The authors emphasize existing problems and propose solutions. They provide the most...

The first monograph on this rapidly evolving area of research and development, this book presents both the theory and applications of new advances in 3D TV and display techniques. The theoretical concepts are illustrated by...

TheSDLandMSC(SAM)workshop,heldeverytwoyears,providesanopend- cussionarenaontopicsrelatedtothemodellingandanalysisofreactivesystems, distributed systems, and real-time systems (e.g., telecommunications, auto- tive, aerospace,...

The ongoing migration of computing and information access from the desktop and te- phone to mobile computing devices such as PDAs, tablet PCs, and next-generation (3G) phones poses critical challenges for research on ...

Multimedia Interactive Protocols and Systems (MIPS) is the brand new name of a workshop that has been successfully held for the ?rst time in 2002 in Coimbra, as the ?rst joint edition of two well established series of ...

AdHoc Networks are wireless, self-organizing systems formed by co-operating nodes, within communication range of each other which form temporary n- works. Their topology is dynamic, decentralized, and ever-changing, and the...

It is with great pleasure that I respond to the kind invitation of the BAF project to contribute prefatory remarks to this account of their work, carried out under the auspices of the RACE Programme (Research and Development in...

This book provides an overview of modern sensing technologies and reflects the remarkable advances that have been made in the field of intelligent and smart sensors, environmental monitoring, health monitoring, and many other sensing and monitoring...

This book paves the way for researchers working on the sustainable interdependent networks spread over the fields of computer science, electrical engineering, and smart infrastructures. It provides the readers with a comprehensive insight to understand...

This book highlights recent research advances in unsupervised learning using natural computing techniques such as artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, artificial life, quantum computing, DNA...

This book highlights the state of the art and recent advances in Big Data clustering methods and their innovative applications in contemporary AI-driven systems. The book chapters discuss Deep Learning for Clustering, Blockchain data clustering,...

This book presents Networked Control System (NCS) as a particular kind of a real-time distributed system (RTDS), composed of a set of nodes, interconnected by a network, and able to develop a complete control process. It describes important parts of the...

This book contains research contributions from leading global scholars in nature-inspired computing. It includes comprehensive coverage of each respective topic, while also highlighting recent and future trends. The contributions provides readers with a...

This book introduces concepts and technologies of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). It describes state of the art safety communication protocol called Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC), currently being considered for...

The major subjects of the book cover modeling, analysis and efficient management of information in Internet of Everything (IoE) applications and architectures. As the first book of its kind, it addresses the major new technological developments in the...

This book presents state-of-the-art research on robust resource allocation in current and future wireless networks. The authors describe the nominal resource allocation problems in wireless networks and explain why introducing robustness in such networks...

This book is offers a comprehensive overview of information theory and error control coding, using a different approach then in existed literature. The chapters are organized according to the Shannon system model, where one block affects the others. A...

This book investigates the performance limitation issues in networked feedback systems. The fact that networked feedback systems consist of control and communication devices and systems calls for the integration of control theory and information theory...

This book presents high-quality original contributions on the fashion supply chain. A wide spectrum of application domains are covered, processing of big data coming from digital and social media channels, fashion new product development, fashion design,...