Communications engineering / telecommunications Books

Because fine-tuning the parameters of a system is critical to a developer's success, Performance Optimization of Digital Communications Systems examines particular optimization problems in digital communications, presenting analytical techniques in...

Provides a digest of the current developments, open questions and unsolved problems likely to determine a new frontier for future advanced study and research in the rapidly growing areas of wavelets, wavelet transforms, signal...

This book is a comprehensive presentation of recent results and developments on several widely used transforms and their fast algorithms. In many cases, new options are provided for improved or new fast algorithms, some of...

This book presents connections between the different aspects of wavelet and subband theory.

129 6.2 Representation of hints. 131 6.3 Monotonicity hints .. . 134 6.4 Theory ......... . 139 6.4.1 Capacity results 140 6.4.2 Decision boundaries 144 6.5 Conclusion 145 6.6 References....... ... 146 7 Analysis and Synthesis...

It is hardly a profound observation to note that we remain in the midst of a wireless revolution. In 1998 alone, over 150 million cell phones were sold worldwide, representing an astonishing 50% increase over the previous year...

The aim of this book, Future of the Telecommunications Industry: Forecasting and Demand Analysis, is to describe leading research in the area of empirical telecommunications demand analysis and forecasting in the light of...

Today, wireless infrared transmission has entered our homes, offices, industry and health care, with applications in the field of remote control, telemetry, and local communication. This book is about the underlying technology...

Radio-Frequency Microelectronic Circuits for Telecommunication Applications covers the design issues of radio-frequency microelectronic circuits for telecommunication applications with emphasis on devices and circuit-level...

Mobile Computing Environments for Multimedia Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Mobile Computing Environments for Multimedia Systems serves...

MPEG-4 is the multimedia standard for combining interactivity, natural and synthetic digital video, audio and computer-graphics. Typical applications are: internet, video conferencing, mobile videophones, multimedia...

In the signal-processing research community, a great deal of progress in higher-order statistics (HOS) began in the mid-1980s. These last fifteen years have witnessed a large number of theoretical developments as well as...

Telecommunications - central to our daily lives - continues to change dramatically. These changes are the result of technological advances, deregulation, the proliferation of broadband service offers, and the spectacular...

This book discusses the practical aspects of electrical and thermal modeling of packages. In addition, processing concerns for plastic packaged GaAs parts are also covered. The book emphasizes low cost industry standard...

This book concerns two major topics, smart antenna systems and wireless local-area-networks (LANs). For smart antenna systems, it d- cusses the mechanics behind a smart antenna system, the setup of a smart antenna experimental...

Recent Developments in Time-Frequency Analysis brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Recent Developments in Time-Frequency Analysis serves as an ...

Perspectives in Spread Spectrum brings together studies and recent work on six exciting topics from the spread spectrum arts. The book gives a wide, collective view of trends, ideas, and techniques in the spread spectrum...

Multicarrier Modulation with Low PAR: Applications to DSL and Wireless provides the first comprehensive formulation of the PAR problem for multicarrier modulation and proposes three new methods for PAR reduction. The...

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. " - Henry David Thoreau, Walden Although engineering is a study entrenched firmly in belief of...

Coding and Modulation for Digital Television presents a comprehensive description of all error control coding and digital modulation techniques used in Digital Television (DTV). This book illustrates the relevant elements...

This volume brings together academic economists and lawyers to evaluate and compare the regulation of telecommunications markets in Germany and the United States. The unifying theme in all of the pa­ pers is that the goal of...

An important aspect of wireless networks is the deployment of their infrastructure. In this book, the Editors have invited a number of experts from industry to write on a variety of topics associated with deployment of...

Endorsed by an array of current international experts, this book is a fully up-to-date reference guide for microwave radio transmission planners, equipment designers, Network Operations Centre (NOC) staff as well as field operations...

After thirty-eight years in television, working on more than one thousand Outside Broadcasts, Mike Humphry has many memories. Most good, some not so good. Some are still in sharp focus and some merge into the fog of the past. In this...

With urbanization as a global phenomenon, there is a need for data and information about these terrains. Urban remote sensing techniques provide critical physical input and intelligence for preparing base maps, formulating planning proposals, and...

Machine Learning in Signal Processing: Applications, Challenges, and the Road Ahead offers a comprehensive approach toward research orientation for familiarizing signal processing (SP) concepts to machine learning (ML). ML, as the driving force of the...

The subject of Discrete Signals and Systems is broad and deserves a single book devoted to it. The objective of this textbook is to present all the required material that an undergraduate student will need to master this subject matter and the use of...

The desired objective of this book is to investigate diversity and mutual coupling effects on MIMO antenna designs for WLAN/WiMAX/LTE applications, controlled with diversity and ground modification techniques including equivalent circuit diagrams...

An exploration of the many faces of televangelism in our world today, including Christian, Islamic and Hindu. The collection analyses the correspondences and major differences between global and local televangelism, focusing on the main individuals...

Your latest marketing campaign cost more than the last, yet reached half as many people.Your celebrity endorsement deal has yet to generate any measurable returns.Your online marketing campaign yielded no significant web traffic increase, and your...

"WhatsApp Evolution and Digital Responsibility" is a comprehensive exploration of the transformative journey undertaken by communication platforms, with a focus on the paradigm-shifting evolution of WhatsApp. This illuminating book navigates...

 While mobile phones enjoy the largest production volume ever of any consumer electronics products, the demands they place on radio-frequency (RF) transceivers are particularly aggressive, especially on integration with digital processors, low area,...

The huge potential in future connected services has as a precondition that privacy and security needs are dealt with in order for new services to be accepted. This issue is increasingly on the agenda both at company and at individual level.Cybersecurity...

Analysis, design, and realization of digital filters have experienced major developments since the 1970s, and have now become an integral part of the theory and practice in the field of contemporary digital signal processing.Digital Filter Design and...

The internet of things (IoT) is by now nothing new, but widespread adoption and increasing dependence on IoT services mean that we must ensure that the IoT systems we design, develop, and deploy are resilient and trustworthy. Almost universal...

Imagination depicts earthquakes as a mysterious and magic matter. However, as scientists and technical experts, we do have to consider them also from a different perspective: they are natural´phenomena that evolve with time and depend on a number of...

In the last two decades, the wireless arena has witnessed the emergence of an astonishing number of technologies which play a part in the definition of new wireless systems. Driven by the pressing capacity demand, the research community has developed...

Multihop Cellular Networks, Multihop Sensor Networks and Multihop Cellular Sensor Networks are fast-emerging, utilitarian multihop mobile networking paradigms that promise increased transmission rates and network capacity. Multihop Mobile Wireless...

Over the last few decades wireless communications, especially Mobile Communication Technology, has evolved by leaps and bounds. The mobile communication industry has named the different major changes as generations namely 1G, 2G,..5G. We are presently...

Half of the world's population has never made or received a phone call and perhaps the same half lives on less than $2 a day. If this is not just a statistical coincidence, is there causality between the lack of telecommunication and poverty? The digital...

Future wireless systems are expected to reliably communicate broadband da­ta in high mobility environments. Such communication systems encounter fa­ding channels whose response exhibits significant variations across both time and frequency. In this book,...

Current market analysis indicates that the most challenging issue in IPTVrelates to content security. To achieve high access control a sophisticatedgroup key management is required. This key must be updated and distributedeach time a new member joins the...

Robustness to acoustic background noise is a highly challenging field in modern speech communications. A state-of-the-art research of the techniques has been motivated by the need for efficient speech feature extraction methods, the need for enhancing...

The object-detection system, which is used to find the velocity, range, and angle of the objects with the help of radio waves is called the radar. The detection of weather formations, aircrafts, guided missiles, terrain, spacecrafts, motor vehicles, etc...

Computer networks which use wireless data connections for transfer of information between two network nodes are known as wireless networks. Most of the wireless networks make use of radio waves for transferring data between different nodes of a network...