Communications engineering / telecommunications

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.

Thisbook reports on the latest advances in the modeling, analysis and efficientmanagement of information in Internet of Things (IoT) applications in thecontext of 5G access technologies.

This book offers a thorough examination of potential game theory and its applications in radio resource management for wireless communications systems and networking.

This book, fully updated for Python version 3.

This SpringerBrief focuses on crucial issues for device-to-device (D2D) communications within the rapidly expanding 4G LTE toward 5G system.

The aim of this book is to provide someuseful methods to improve the spectrum sensing performance in a systematic way,and point out an effective method for the application of cognitive radiotechnology in wireless communications.

This book covers a series of security and privacy issues in network coding, and introduces three concrete mechanisms to address them.

This book provides an overview of Moving Target Defense (MTD) and the importance of developing novel MTD schemes to protect distributed systems.

This book focuses on optical wireless communications (OWC), an emerging technology with huge potential for the provision of pervasive and reliable next-generation communications networks.

This book presents advances in the field of optical networks - specifically on research and applications in elastic optical networks (EON).

This book presents methods to improve information security for protected communication.

This book addresses a major problem for today's large-scale networked systems: certification of the required stability and performance properties using analytical and computational models.

This expanded textbook, now in its second edition, is a practical yet in depth guide to cryptography and its principles and practices.

This book addresses synchronization in networks of coupled systems.

This volume presents the second part of the proceedings of the MediterraneanConference on Information & Communication Technologies (MedICT 2015), whichwas held at Saidia, Morocco during 7 9 May, 2015.

This volume presents the first part of the proceedings of the MediterraneanConference on Information & Communication Technologies (MedICT 2015), whichwas held at Saidia, Morocco during 7 9 May, 2015.

Thisbook focuses on modeling and optimization of cloud-ready and content-orientednetworks in the context of different layers and accounts for specificconstraints following from protocols andtechnologies used in a particular layer.

This treatment of modern topics relatedto the control of nonlinear systems is a collection of contributionscelebrating the work of Professor Henk Nijmeijer and honoring his 60thbirthday.

Thebook presents the challenges inherent in the paradigm shift of network systemsfrom static to highly dynamic distributed systems it proposes solutions thatthe symbiotic nature of biological systems can provide into altering networkingsystems to adapt to these changes.

This book focuses on how to apply network coding at different layers in wireless networks - including MAC, routing, and TCP - with special focus on cognitive radio networks.

This new edition provides both theoretical and practical background of security and forensics for mobile phones.

This book discusses spectrum sharing between cellular systems and radars.

This book begins with an introduction to PBXs (Private Branch Exchanges) and the scene, statistics and involved actors.

This book addresses the question of how system software should be designed to account for faults, and which fault tolerance features it should provide for highest reliability.

This book examines technical aspects of industrial espionage and its impact in modern companies, organizations, and individuals while emphasizing the importance of intellectual property in the information era.

This fourvolume set of books constitutes the proceedings of the 36th InternationalConference Information Systems Architecture and Technology 2015, or ISAT 2015for short, held on September 20 22, 2015 in Karpacz, Poland.

This fourvolume set of books constitutes the proceedings of the 36th InternationalConference Information Systems Architecture and Technology 2015, or ISAT 2015for short, held on September 20 22, 2015 in Karpacz, Poland.

This fourvolume set of books constitutes the proceedings of the 36th InternationalConference Information Systems Architecture and Technology 2015, or ISAT 2015for short, held on September 20 22, 2015 in Karpacz, Poland.

This fourvolume set of books constitutes the proceedings of the 36th InternationalConference Information Systems Architecture and Technology 2015, or ISAT 2015for short, held on September 20 22, 2015 in Karpacz, Poland.

This brief covers the emerging area of wireless sensor network (WSN)-based structural health monitoring (SHM) systems, and introduces the authors' WSN-based platform called SenetSHM.

This book gives a wide-ranging description of the many facets of complex dynamic networks and systems within an infrastructure provided by integrated control and supervision: envisioning, design, experimental exploration, and implementation.

This brief focuses on the current research on mechanism design for dynamic spectrum sharing in cognitive radio (CR) networks.

This book presents cutting-edge work onthe most challenging research issues concerning intelligent transportationsystems (ITS), introducing selected, highly relevant advanced research onscheduling and real-time communication for vehicular networks, as well as faulttolerance, test beds and simulations for ITS.

This book presents Hyper-lattice, a new algebraic model for partially ordered sets, and an alternative to lattice.

This book investigates energy managementapproaches for energy efficient or energy-centric system design andarchitecture and presents end-to-end energy management in the recentheterogeneous-type wireless network medium.

 This proceeding bookconsists of 10 topical areas of selected papers like: telecommunication, powersystems, robotics, control system, renewable energy, power electronics, computerscience and more.

This bookconstitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on FutureAccess Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures, FABULOUS 2015,held in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, in September 2015.

This book presents a framework for the control of networked systems utilizing submodular optimization techniques.

This book focuses on new methods, architectures, and applications for the management of Cyber Physical Objects (CPOs) in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT).

This book discusses the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework applied in dialogue systems.

This book discusses computational complexity of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) encoders with coverage extending from the analysis of HEVC compression efficiency and computational complexity to the reduction and scaling of its encoding complexity.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking, MSPN 2015, held in Paris, France, in June 2015.

This book offers a collection of selected papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on ICT Innovations held in October 2015, in Ohrid, Macedonia, with main topic Emerging Technologies for Better Living.

This brief introduces overlapping coalition formation games (OCF games), a novel mathematical framework from cooperative game theory that can be used to model, design and analyze cooperative scenarios in future wireless communication networks.

This book addresses the problems of modeling, prediction, classification, data understanding and processing in non-stationary and unpredictable environments.

This SpringerBrief focuses on spectrum trading designs in multi-hop cognitive radio networks.

This brief examines recent developments in the Heterogeneous Vehicular NETworks (HETVNETs), integrating cellular networks with Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) for meeting the communications requirements of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS)services.