Communications engineering / telecommunications

This book discusses how smart cities strive to deploy and interconnect infrastructures and services to guarantee that authorities and citizens have access to reliable and global customized services.

This book comprehensively describes an end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) architecture that is comprised of devices, network, compute, storage, platform, applications along with management and security components.

This book provides probabilistic, deterministic and geolocation-aware approaches for adaptive connectivity, robust security and privacy-aware communications for vehicular cyber physical systems (CPS).

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive selection of cutting-edge algorithms, technologies, and applications.

This book highlights several gaps that have not been addressed in existing cyber security research.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the security and privacy research advancements in Internet of Things (IoT).

This book introduces key modulation and predistortion techniques for approaching power and spectrum-efficient transmission for wireless communication systems.

This brief explores the utilization of large antenna arrays in massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) for both interference suppression, where it can improve cell-edge user rates, and for wireless backhaul in small cell networks, where macro base stations can forward data to small access points in an energy efficient way.

In this book, three different methods are presented to enhance the capacity and coverage area in LTE-A cellular networks.

This book examines the interaction between the technical and economic issues in database-assisted dynamic spectrum networks.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of neural networks, their evolution, their structure, the problems they can solve, and their applications.

This book investigates new enabling technologies for Fi-Wi convergence.

This SpringerBrief investigates advanced sensing techniques to detect and estimate the primary receiver for cognitive radio systems.

This SpringerBrief presents research results on QoE management schemes for mobile services, including user services, and resource allocation.

This book provides comprehensive, graduate-level treatment of analog and digital signal analysis suitable for course use and self-guided learning.

This book serves as a single-source reference to the state-of-the-art in Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, services, tools, programming languages, and applications.

This book introduces fundamentals and trade-offs of data de-duplication techniques.

This book gathers visionary ideas from leading academics and scientists to predict the future of wireless communication and enabling technologies in 2050 and beyond.

This book introduces Radio Frequency Modulation to a broad audience.

This book faces the interdisciplinary challenge of formulating performance-assessing design approaches for networked cyber-physical systems (NCPSs).

This book presents current research in privacy-preserving protocols for smart grids.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless, ADHOC-NOW 2016, held in Lille, France in July 2016.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, CROWNCOM 2016, held in Grenoble, France, May 30 - April 1, 2016.

This CIGRE green book begins by addressing the specification and provision of communication services in the context of operational applications for electrical power utilities, before subsequently providing guidelines on the deployment or transformation of networks to deliver these specific communication services.

This brief examines the challenges of integrating distributed energy resources and high-power elastic loads into low-voltage distribution grids, as well as the potential for pervasive measurement.

This book showcases new and innovative approaches to biometric data capture and analysis, focusing especially on those that are characterized by non-intrusiveness, reliable prediction algorithms, and high user acceptance.

This SpringerBrief provides state-of-the-art technical reviews on self-organizing and optimization in 5G systems.

This book discusses in detail the basic algorithms of video compression that are widely used in modern video codec.

This book discusses current theory regarding global mobile satellite communications (GMSC) for maritime, land (road and rail), and aeronautical applications.

This book comprehensively reviews the state of the art in millimeter-wave antennas, traces important recent developments and provides information on a wide range of antenna configurations and applications.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging technologies for next-generation 5G mobile communications, with insights into the long-term future of 5G.

This book reports on a set of new techniques for resolving current issues in networked control systems.

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This book shines a spotlight on software-centric networks and their emerging service environments.

This brief focuses on the use of full-duplex radio in cognitive radio networks, presenting a novel spectrum sharing protocol that allows the secondary users to simultaneously sense and access the vacant spectrum.

This book, edited by four of the leaders of the National Science Foundation's Global Environment and Network Innovations (GENI) project, gives the reader a tour of the history, architecture, future, and applications of GENI.

This brief presents new architecture and strategies for distribution of social video content.

This book describes the technology used for effective sensing of our physical world and intelligent processing techniques for sensed information, which are essential to the success of Internet of Things (IoT).

This SpringerBrief provides essential insights on the SDN application designing and deployment in distributed datacenters.

This book explores how dynamic changes in products' sensory features can be used to convey information to the user in an effective and engaging way.

This book provides an overview of security and privacy issues in smart grid communications, as well as the challenges in addressing these issues.

This SpringerBrief examines the active cooperation between users of Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networking (CCRN), exploring the system model, enabling techniques, and performance.

This book covers the basic principles for understanding radio wave propagation for common frequency bands used in radio-communications.

This book introduces wireless traffic steering as a paradigm to realize green communication in multi-tier heterogeneous cellular networks.

This edited volume features a wide spectrum of the latest computer science research relating to cyber deception.

This book discusses the characteristics of virtualized cloud networking, identifies the requirements of cloud network management, and illustrates the challenges in deploying virtual clusters in multi-tenant cloud data centers.

This book represents a timely overview of advances in systems safety and security, based on selected, revised and extended contributions from the 2nd and 3rd editions of the International Workshop on Systems Safety and Security - IWSSS, held in 2014 and 2015, respectively, in Bucharest, Romania.

The objective of this SpringerBrief is to present security architectures and incentive mechanisms to realize system availability for D2D communications.

This book presents physical-layer security as a promising paradigm for achieving the information-theoretic secrecy required for wireless networks.

A concise reference to the state of theart in systems interoperability, EnterpriseInteroperability VII will be of great value to engineers and computerscientists working in manufacturing and other process industries and tosoftware engineers and electronic and manufacturing engineers working in theacademic environment.