Communications engineering / telecommunications

Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control develops model-based and data-driven reinforcement learning methods for solving optimal control problems in nonlinear deterministic dynamical systems.

Wireless networking technologies are witnessed to become the integral part of industry, business, entertainment and daily life.

This book presents the design of delay-efficient packet schedulers for heterogeneous M2M uplink traffic classified into several classes, based on packet delay requirements, payload size, arrival process, etc.

This book covers the different aspects of modern 3D multimedia technologies by addressing several elements of 3D visual communications systems, using diverse content formats, such as stereo video, video-plus-depth and multiview, and coding schemes for delivery over networks.

This book provides readers with an overview of Cloud Computing, starting with historical background on mainframe computers and early networking protocols, leading to current concerns such as hardware and systems security, performance, emerging areas of IoT, Edge Computing etc.

This book examines the extensive changes in markets, technologies and value chains that telecommunication companies are currently confronted with.

This book presents current developments in smart city research and application regarding the management of manufacturing systems, Industry 4.

This textbook provides engineering students with instruction on processing signals encountered in speech, music, and wireless communications using software or hardware by employing basic mathematical methods.

This book addresses synchronization in networks of coupled systems.

This book presents original contributions on the theories and practices of emerging Internet, data and Web technologies and their applicability in businesses, engineering and academia, focusing on advances in the life-cycle exploitation of data generated from the digital ecosystem data technologies that create value, e.

The goal of this SpringerBrief is to collect and systematically present the state-of-the-art in this research field and the underlying game-theoretic and learning tools to the broader audience with general network security and engineering backgrounds.

This SpringerBrief provides a comprehensive study of the unique security threats to cognitive radio (CR) networks and a systematic investigation of the state-of-the-art in the corresponding adversary detection problems.

This book presents current trends that are dominating technology and society, including privacy, high performance computing in the cloud, networking and IoT, and bioinformatics.

This book on space geodesy presents pioneering geometrical approaches in the modelling of satellite orbits and gravity field of the Earth, based on the gravity field missions CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE in the LEO orbit.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Intelligent and Distributed Environment for Communication (WIDECOM 2018), organized by SRM University, NCR Campus, New Delhi, India, February 16-18, 2018.

This book gathers the latest research results of scientists from different countries who have made essential contributions to the novel analysis of cyber security.

This book provides an introduction to Swarm Robotics, which is the application of methods from swarm intelligence to robotics.

This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, AdHocNets 2017, held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, USA, in September 2017.

This book focuses on the theory and application of interdependent networks.

Interactive mobile technologies have now become the core of many-if not all-fields of society.

This book presents group recommender systems, which focus on the determination of recommendations for groups of users.

This book presents an overview of the different errors-in-variables (EIV) methods that can be used for system identification.

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are characterized as a combination of physical (physical plant, process, network) and cyber (software, algorithm, computation) components whose operations are monitored, controlled, coordinated, and integrated by a computing and communicating core.

This book discusses the architecture of modern automated systems for spectrum monitoring including automation components: technical means for spectrum monitoring, special software and engineering infrastructure.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, INISCOM 2017, held in Ho chi Minh City, Vietnam, in September 2017.

Online fault diagnosis is crucial to ensure safe operation of complex dynamic systems in spite of faults affecting the system behaviors.

Cognitive radio networks (CRN) will be widely deployed in the near future, and this SpringerBrief covers some important aspects of it, as well as highlighting optimization strategies in Resource Allocation and Spectrum Sensing in CRNs.

Currently, Internet and virtual reality communication is essentially audio-visual.

This book offers all important industrial communication systems for buildings in one single book!

This book presents cutting-edge work on real-time modelling and processing, a highly active research field in both the research and industrial domains.

This textbook presents a practical introduction to information security using the Competency Based Education (CBE) method of teaching.

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

This book serves as an easily accessible reference for wireless digital communication systems.

This book, written by an international team of prominent authors, gathers the latest developments in mobile technologies for the acquisition, management, analysis and sharing of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in the context of Earth observation.

This thoroughly revised textbook provides the fundamentals of spread-spectrum systems with a continued emphasis on theoretical principles.

This book features selected contributions in the areas of modeling, simulation, and optimization.

This book, written by experts from universities and major research laboratories, addresses the hot topic of network coding, a powerful scheme for information transmission in networks that yields near-optimal throughput.

This book presents novel communication technology solutions to address the effects of climate change and climate variability on agriculture, with a particular focus on those that increase agricultural production.

This book is written as a very concise introduction for students taking a first course in communication systems.

This proceedings book gathers papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Advanced Engineering Theory and Applications 2017 (AETA 2017), held on 7-9 December 2017 at Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

This book gathers the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Broad-Band Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications, held on November 8-10, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.

This new edition provides an updated and enhanced survey on employing wavelets analysis in an array of applications of speech processing.

Presenting a series of research papers on image processing and communications, this book not only provides a summary of currently available technologies but also outlines potential future solutions in these areas.

This SpringerBrief focuses mainly on the basic theory and applications of massive MIMO in 5G networks.

This SpringerBrief investigates cross layer resource allocation in unlicensed LTE (Long Term Evolution) HetNets.

This book provides engineers with focused treatment of the mathematics needed to understand probability, random variables, and stochastic processes, which are essential mathematical disciplines used in communications engineering.

This book deals with averaging dynamics, a paradigmatic example of network based dynamics in multi-agent systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2017, held in Messina, Italy, in September 2017.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Advanced Networks and Systems, NEW2AN 2017, the 10th Conference on Internet of Things and Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2017.