Communications engineering / telecommunications

This thesis focuses on the problem of optimizing the quality of network multimedia services.

This SpringerBrief presents interference coordination techniques for future 5G cellular networks.

This book examines state-of-art research on designing healthcare applications with the consideration of security and privacy.

This book discusses the analysis, circuit modeling, and applications of transmission lines loaded with electrically small resonators (mostly resonators inspired by metamaterials), focusing on the study of the symmetry-related electromagnetic properties of these loaded lines.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, CROWNCOM 2015, held in Doha, Qatar, in April 2015.

This SpringerBrief examines anti-jamming transmissions in cognitive radio networks (CRNs), including several recent related research topics within this field.

This book summarizes the state-of-the-art in unsupervised learning.

This dissertation provides the first systematic analysis of the dynamic energy efficiency of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for optical interconnects, a key technology to address the pressing ecological and economic issues of the exponentially growing energy consumption in data centers.

This Springer Brief introduces wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and the need for resilient WSN operations in application domains.

This volume provides an introduction to and overview of the emerging field of interconnected networks which include multilayer or multiplex networks, as well as networks of networks.

This book focus on Long Term Evolution (LTE) and beyond.

This book contains papers accepted for IP&C 2015, the International Conference on Image Processing and Communications, held at UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 9-11, 2015.

This book focuses on techniques that can be applied at the physical and data-link layers of communication systems in order to secure transmissions against eavesdroppers.

This book covers key topics in the field of intelligent ambient adaptivesystems.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Advanced Networks and Systems, NEW2AN 2015, and the 8th Conference on Internet of Things and Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2015, held in St.

This book describes the fundamental building-block of many new computer vision systems: dense and robust correspondence estimation.

This important text/reference presents the latest research and developments in the field of mobile payment systems (MPS), covering issues of mobile device security, architectures and models for MPS, and transaction security in MPS.

The 30th Anniversary of the ISCIS (International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences) series of conferences, started by Professor Erol Gelenbe at Bilkent University, Turkey, in 1986, will be held at Imperial College London on September 22-24, 2015.

The book emphasizes a contemporary view on the role of higher level fusion in designing crisis management systems, and provide the formal foundations, architecture and implementation strategies required for building dynamic current and future situational pictures, challenges of, and the state of the art computational approaches to designing such processes.

This book offers means to handle interference as a central problem of operating wireless networks.

This brief introduces a class of problems and models for the prediction of the scalar field of interest from noisy observations collected by mobile sensor networks.

This book explains how to combine and exploit sensor networks and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies and Web-service design patterns to enrich and integrate Building Information Models (BIMs).

This book provides readers with a state-of-the-art description of techniques to be used for ultra-low-power (ULP) and ultra-low-cost (ULC), short-range wireless receivers.

This book sheds light on networked control systems; it describes different techniques for asynchronous control, moving away from the periodic actions of classical control, replacing them with state-based decisions and reducing the frequency with which communication between subsystems is required.

This monograph covers different aspects of sensor network security including new emerging technologies.

This book introduces Radio Frequency Channel Coding to a broad audience.

This book examines signal processing techniques used in wireless communication illustrated by using the Matlab program.

This brief presents a unified analytical framework for the evaluation of drive-thru Internet performance and accordingly proposes an optimal spatial access control management approach.

The brief focuses on applying sublinear algorithms to manage critical big data challenges.

This brief examines current research on improving Vehicular Networks (VANETs), examining spectrum scarcity due to the dramatic growth of mobile data traffic and the limited bandwidth of dedicated vehicular communication bands and the use of opportunistic spectrum bands to mitigate congestion.

This brief investigates the role of interference management in Heterogeneous Networks (Het Nets), focusing on cognitive approaches and the use of beamforming.

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless, ADHOC-NOW 2015, held in Athens, Greece in June/July 2015.

This book describes the theoretical foundations of cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom), and provides a survey on state-of-the-art solutions and applications within the field.

This book examines real-time target tracking and identification algorithms with a focus on tracking an agile target.

This book introduces the reader to the MIMO-OFDM system, in Rayleigh frequency selective-channels.

This book presents recent research work and results in the area of communicationand information technologies.

This book provides a comprehensive set of optimization and prediction techniques for an enterprise information system.

This SpringerBrief explores the advantage of relaying techniques in addressing the increasing demand for high data rates and reliable services over the air.

The book, in addition to the cyber threats and technology, processes cyber security from many sides as a social phenomenon and how the implementation of the cyber security strategy is carried out.

This brief presents emerging and promising communication methods for network reliability via delay tolerant networks (DTNs).

This SpringerBrief provides a concise guide to applying wireless energy transfer techniques in traditional battery-powered sensor networks.

This book investigates tradeoff between security and usability in designing leakage resilient password systems (LRP) and introduces two practical LRP systems named Cover Pad and ShadowKey.

This book offers a fascinating exploration of the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and spatial planning, expanding the concept of "e;urban smartness"e; from the usual scale of buildings or urban projects to the regional dimension.

This book includes the original, peer reviewed research from the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Engineering Systems (ICITES2014), held in December, 2014 at Cheng Shiu University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Chaos and nonlinear dynamics initially developed as a new emergent field with its foundation in physics and applied mathematics.

This SpringerBrief presents research in the application of Stochastic Petri Nets (SPN) to the performance evaluation of wireless networks under bursty traffic.

This book examines recent developments in semantic systems that can respond to situations and environments and events.

This book concentrates on a wide range of advances related to IT cybersecurity management.

This brief examines the current research in cognitive wireless networks (CWNs).