Communications engineering / telecommunications Books

Wearable antennas have gained significant attention in recent years due to their potential applications in healthcare and internet of things (IoT). These antennas are designed to be integrated into wearable devices such as smartwatches, fitness trackers,...

Technological advances allow for improved immersion experiences using information and communication technologies (ITCs) and their respective didactic possibilities. On the other hand, with the expansion of internet, mobile applications, and video games,...

In a rapidly evolving technological landscape, the integration of antenna technologies, electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI) poses a significant challenge: the complexity of these converging domains often surpasses the capacity of traditional...

Já alguma vez sentiu a frustração de não conseguir fazer ouvir a sua voz? A dificuldade em encontrar as palavras certas, o desejo de se exprimir de forma assertiva e o medo de perder a sua confiança e...

¿Ha sentido alguna vez la frustración de no poder hacer oír su voz? ¿La dificultad para encontrar las palabras adecuadas, el deseo de expresarse con asertividad y el miedo a perder la confianza y la convicción?...

Haben Sie schon einmal die Frustration gespürt, sich kein Gehör verschaffen zu können? Die Schwierigkeit, die richtigen Worte zu finden, den Wunsch, sich selbstbewusst auszudrücken, und die Angst, Ihr Vertrauen und Ihre...

Avez-vous déjà ressenti la frustration de ne pas pouvoir vous faire entendre ? La difficulté à trouver les mots justes, le désir de vous exprimer avec assurance et la crainte de perdre votre confiance et votre...

This book is a journey into the world of electromagnetic waves and focuses on a historical and technological account of how they have routinely entered the daily life of society today. All sources of electromagnetic waves, natural or man-made, are...

Das vorliegende Buch wurde für die Ausbildung des Funkpersonals und der Funk­ techniker in der kommerziellen Technik und in anderen Fachgebieten außerhalb der Unterhaltungstechnik geschrieben. Besonderer Wert wurde auf die...

Das vorliegende Buch stellt einige grundlegende Themen der Multirate Systeme, Filterbänke und Wavelets mit Hilfe der MATLAB/Simulink Software nach dem Motto ''Mit Logik wird bewiesen, mit Intuition wird erfunden'' (Henri Poincare) dar. Diesen Gedanken...

The moral economy of mobile phones implies a field of shifting relations among consumers, companies and state actors, all of whom have their own ideas about what is good, fair and just. These ideas inform the ways in which, for example, consumers acquire...

A Genre Analysis of Social Change contributes to current scholarship in rhetorical genre studies and discourse analysis in contexts of social change. Diana Wegner explores the ways that historical genre systems can be transformed through the process of...

In this incisive and timely work, Adrienne L. Massanari discusses how culture is created and challenged on Reddit.com, the self-proclaimed front page of the internet. Massanari's ethnographic work provides a detailed examination of the contradictions...

Focusing on the technoculture of everyday life, this book attempts to zero in on the simplicity and the habitual character of the interaction between humans and material objects, which is often assumed or taken for granted. Because objects are always...

In recent years, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been linked with socioeconomic development with the assumption that they can be harnessed for economic growth in developing countries and facilitate integration into the global...

A complete history of how the telegraph revolutionized technological practice and life in America.Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a...

Since publication of the first edition of Sensor Array Signal Processing in 2000, the field it heralded has come of age. Sensor arrays helped usher in the age of wireless communication by meeting the increasing capacity requirements of ever growing...

Advanced concepts for wireless communications offer a vision of technology that is embedded in our surroundings and practically invisible, but present whenever required. Although the use of deep submicron CMOS processes allows for an unprecedented degree...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a well-known remote sensing technique, but conventional single-antenna SAR is inherently limited by the minimum antenna area constraint. Although there are still technical issues to overcome, multi-antenna SAR offers...

A cognitive network makes use of the information gathered from the network in order to sense the environment, plan actions according to the input, and make appropriate decisions using a reasoning engine. The ability of cognitive networks to learn from...

Explaining how to apply mathematical programming to network design and control, this book fills the gap between mathematical programming theory and its implementation in communication networks. The book's comprehensive coverage provides an...

In many countries, movement parties have swayed large tracts of the electorate. Contributions to this edited book reflect on the place of movement parties in democratic politics through analyses of their communication. Reviewing evidence from several...

This book investigates the most advanced theories and methodologies of array beamforming, with a focus on antenna array enabled wireless communication technology.Combining with the current development needs and trends of wireless communication technology...

This proposed book focuses on the design and development of printed antennas along with modeling aspects for multifaceted applications. It further investigates imperfections in the manufacturing processes and assembly operation during the...

Most of the real-life signals are non-stationary in nature. The examples of such signals include biomedical signals, communication signals, speech, earthquake signals, vibration signals, etc. Time-frequency analysis plays an important role for extracting...

The text covers different printed microstrip antenna designs, such as from rectangular to a circular, broadband, dual-band, and millimeter-wave microstrip antenna to microstrip arrays. It further presents a new analysis of rectangular and circular...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

The Shelf2Life Trains & Railroads Collection provides a unique opportunity for researchers and railroad enthusiasts to easily access and explore pre-1923 titles focusing on the history, culture and experience of railroading. From the revolution of the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This open access book, authored by a world-leading researcher in this field, describes fundamentals of dynamic spectrum management, provides a systematic overview on the enabling technologies covering cognitive radio, blockchain, and artificial...

This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1304 "Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)". The book contains 14 chapters and constitutes a show-case of the main outcome of the Action in line...

This book summarizes work being pursued in the context of the CIPRNet (Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience Research Network) research project, co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project is...

This book discusses both the theory and practical applications of self-correcting data, commonly known as error-correcting codes. The applications included demonstrate the importance of these codes in a wide range of everyday technologies, from...

In New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation, editor Betty Kaklamanidou defiantly claims that "all films are adaptations." The wide-ranging chapters included in this book highlight the growing and evolving relevance of the field of adaptation...

Over the past 40 years, satellites have played a key role in creating a global culture, spreading worldwide entertainment, stimulating technological interchange, and promoting trade around the world. Communications Satellites: Global Change Agents...

Mobile Technologies charts the social, cultural, creative, and design aspects of mobiles as they are being incorporated into and changing the nature of media. It provides rigorous and timely analysis of the new area of mobile media and will be of...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the technology architecture, physical facility changes and - most importantly - the new media management workflows and business processes to support the entire lifecycle of the IP broadcast facility...

Optical networks, undersea networks, GSM, UMTS...The recent explosion in broadband communications technologies has opened a new world of fast, flexible services and applications. To successfully implement these services, however, requires a solid...

The availability of cheaper, faster, and more reliable electronic components has stimulated important advances in computing and communication technologies. Theoretical and algorithmic approaches that address key issues in sensor networks, ad hoc wireless...