Communications engineering / telecommunications

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).

In this brief the authors establish a new frequency-sweeping framework to solve the complete stability problem for time-delay systems with commensurate delays.

This brief presents an alternative viewpoint on processing technology for wireless communications based on recent research advances.

This textbook presents the mathematical theory and techniques necessary for analyzing and modeling high-performance global networks, such as the Internet.

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

This book demonstrates that a quantum communication system using the coherent light of a laser can achieve performance orders of magnitude superior to classical optical communicationsQuantum Communications provides the Masters and PhD signals or communications student with a complete basics-to-applications course in using the principles of quantum mechanics to provide cutting-edge telecommunications.

This Springer Brief investigates spectrum sharing with limited channel feedback in various cognitive radio systems, such as point-to-point, broadcast scheduling and ad-hoc networks.

This book presents vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) from the their onset, gradually going into technical details, providing a clear understanding of both theoretical foundations and more practical investigation.

This work provides an assessment of the current state of near field communication (NFC) security, it reports on new attack scenarios, and offers concepts and solutions to overcome any unresolved issues.

This SpringerBrief presents adaptive resource allocation schemes for secondary users for dynamic spectrum access (DSA) in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) by considering Quality-of-Service requirements, admission control, power/rate control, interference constraints, and the impact of spectrum sensing or primary user interruptions.

This brief presents research results on social cognitive radio networks, a transformational and innovative networking paradigm that promotes the nexus between social interactions and cognitive radio networks.

This book presents a paradigm for designing new generation resilient and evolving computer systems, including their key concepts, elements of supportive theory, methods of analysis and synthesis of ICT with new properties of evolving functioning, as well as implementation schemes and their prototyping.

Recently, we proposed a completely novel and efficient way to design differential beamforming algorithms for linear microphone arrays.

The work presented in this book focuses on modeling audiovisual quality as perceived by the users of IP-based solutions for video communication like videotelephony.

This textbook provides a concise but lucid explanation of the fundamentals of spread-spectrum systems with an emphasis on theoretical principles.

This brief explores current research on dynamic spectrum auctions, focusing on fundamental auction theory, characteristics of the spectrum market, spectrum auction architecture and possible auction mechanisms.

This SpringerBrief presents intelligent spectrum sharing technologies for future wireless communication systems.

This book offers readers a quick, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the most important methodologies, technologies, APIs and standards related to the portability and interoperability of cloud applications and services, illustrated by a number of use cases representing a variety of interoperability and portability scenarios.

This work addresses stealthy peripheral-based attacks on host computers and presents a new approach to detecting them.

This book addresses the problems that hinder image authentication in the presence of noise.

Though noise reduction and speech enhancement problems have been studied for at least five decades, advances in our understanding and the development of reliable algorithms are more important than ever, as they support the design of tailored solutions for clearly defined applications.

This book is written for academic and industry professionals working in the field of sensing, instrumentation and related fields, and is positioned to give a snapshot of the current state of the art in sensing technology, particularly from the applied perspective.

This book offers a comprehensive report on the technological aspects of Mobile Health (mHealth) and discusses the main challenges and future directions in the field.

This SpringerBrief presents recent advances in the cognitive MAC designs for opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) networks.

This SpringerBrief examines the use of cheap commercial passive RFID tags to achieve accurate device-free object-tracking.

This SpringerBrief investigates the special challenges of broadcast design in cognitive radio (CR) ad hoc networks.

This brief examines current research on cooperative device-to-device (D2D) communication as an enhanced offloading technology to improve the performance of cognitive radio cellular networks.

This SpringerBrief explains how to leverage mobile users' social relationships to improve the interactions of mobile devices in mobile networks.

This volume illustrates the continuous arms race between attackers and defenders of the Web ecosystem by discussing a wide variety of attacks.

This SpringerBrief proposes a trust model motivated by virtue epistemology, addressing the need for a more efficient and flexible trust model for wireless next generation networks.

This book presents bond graph model-based fault detection with a focus on hybrid system models.

This book provides a hands-on approach to learning ARM assembly language with the use of a TI microcontroller.

This brief presents several enhancement modules to Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) in order to support stable and efficient multipath transmission with user cooperation in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) network.

This SpringerBrief presents channel estimation strategies for the physical later network coding (PLNC) systems.

This book introduces Radio Frequency Propagation to a broad audience.

This book aims to examine innovation in the fields of computer engineering and networking.

This book fills an information gap on cognitive radios, since the discussion focuses on the implementation issues that are unique to cognitive radios and how to solve them at both the architecture and circuit levels.

This book contains a collection of selected works stemming from the 2013 International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), which was held in Wellington, New Zealand.

This book focuses on emerging technologies in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) namely efficient information dissemination between vehicles, infrastructures, pedestrians and public transportation systems.

This book collects a series of research papers in the area of Image Processing and Communications which not only introduce a summary of current technology but also give an outlook of potential feature problems in this area.

This book provides thorough coverage of error correcting techniques.

This book deals with a number of fundamental issues related to the practical implementation of ultrasonic NDT techniques in an industrial environment.

This book describes how control of distributed systems can be advanced by an integration of control, communication, and computation.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Advanced Networks and Systems, NEW2AN 2014, and the 7th Conference on Internet of Things and Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2014, held in St.