Communications engineering / telecommunications

This brief presents a comprehensive review of the network architecture and communication technologies of the smart grid communication network (SGCN).

This book addresses current technology trends and requirements leading towards the next era in mobile communication handsets; and beyond that the book proposes innovative solutions that could be candidate solutions for 5G phones.

This book introduces new concepts and mechanisms regarding the usage of both social media interactions and artifacts for peer education in digital educational games.

This book describes the basic principles of designing and modelling inductors, MIM capacitors and coplanar waveguides at frequencies of several tens of GHz.

This book examines the design of chipless RFID systems.

This book presents an overview of the field of multimodal location estimation.

Healthcare and well-being have captured the attention of established software companies, start-ups, and investors.

This brief focuses on medium access control (MAC) in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), and presents VeMAC, a novel MAC scheme based on distributed time division multiple access (TDMA) for VANETs.

Based on a rigorous selection of submissions to The 29th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2014), this books includes some of the most recent ideas and technical results in computer systems, computer science, and computer-communication networks.

This book presents an examination of the middleware that can be used to configure and operate heterogeneous node platforms and sensor networks.

This book focuses on partitional clustering algorithms, which are commonly used in engineering and computer scientific applications.

This book covers the latest advances in Big Data technologies and provides the readers with a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in Big Data processing, analysis, analytics, and other related topics.

This book serves as a hands-on guide to RF tunable devices, circuits and subsystems.

This monograph presents a collection of major developments leading toward the implementation of white space technology - an emerging wireless standard for using wireless spectrum in locations where it is unused by licensed users.

In this book the authors first describe the background of trusted platforms and trusted computing and speculate about the future.

This monograph introduces methods for handling filtering and control problems in nonlinear stochastic systems arising from network-induced phenomena consequent on limited communication capacity.

The increasing complexity of telecommunication networks requires us to develop adequate mathematical models.

This SpringerBrief presents a survey of dynamic resource allocation schemes in Cognitive Radio (CR) Systems, focusing on the spectral-efficiency and energy-efficiency in wireless networks.

This book treats the topic of extending the adaptive filtering theory in the context of massive multichannel systems by taking into account a priori knowledge of the underlying system or signal.

The Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing and Systems provides the state-of-art developments of Communications, Signal Processing and Systems.

This book investigates the possible circuit solutions to overcome the temperature and supply voltage-sensitivity of fully-integrated time references for ultra-low-power communication in wireless sensor networks.

This book covers the design, construction, and implementation of algebraic-geometric codes from Hermitian curves.

Written to bridge the information needs of management and computational scientists, this book presents the first comprehensive treatment of Computational Red Teaming (CRT).

How could privacy play a key role in protecting digital identities?

This book covers diverse aspects of advanced computer and communication engineering, focusing specifically on industrial and manufacturing theory and applications of electronics, communications, computing and information technology.

This book focuses on protocols and constructions that make good use of the building blocks for symmetric cryptography.

This book provides students with a thorough theoretical understanding of electromagnetic field equations and it also treats a large number of applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Ad-hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2014, held in Benidorm, Spain, in June 2014.

This book covers the state of the art in communication networks with the help of illustrative diagrams and recent references published in reputed journals and magazines.

This Springer Brief covers emerging maritime wideband communication networks and how they facilitate applications such as maritime distress, urgency, safety and general communications.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the medium access control (MAC) principles in cognitive radio networks, with a specific focus on how such MAC principles enable different wireless systems to coexist in the same spectrum band and carry out spectrum sharing.

This book is intended for readers who already have knowledge of devices and circuits for radio-frequency (RF) and microwave communication and are ready to study the systems engineering-level aspects of modern radio communications systems.

This book examines the reasons why various groups around the world choose not to adopt broadband services and evaluates strategies to stimulate the demand that will lead to increased broadband use.

This book reports the latest advances on the design and development of mobile computing systems, describing their applications in the context of modeling, analysis and efficient resource management.

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This SpringerBrief presents the concept of the smart grid architecture and investigates the security issues of the smart grid and the existing encrypted data query techniques.

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This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the available and emerging mobile technologies and explores how these technologies can serve as support tools in enhancing user participation in health care and promoting well-being in the daily lives of individuals, thereby reducing the burden of chronic disease on the health care system.

This book presents effective ways to partition mobile devices such that the enterprise system access and its information are completely separated from the personal information.

This Brief introduces the wireless spectrum market and discusses the current research for spectrum auctions.

This Springer Brief focuses on cognitive resource management in heterogeneous cellular networks (Het Net) with small cell deployment for the LTE-Advanced system.

This SpringerBrief discusses the current research on coordinated multipoint transmission/reception (CoMP) in wireless multi-cell systems.

Access to satellite orbits and spectrum is managed by the ITU, a United Nations body that strives to extend the benefits of new technologies to the world, while ensuring equitable access to these resources.

This book explores the design of ultra wideband (UWB) technology for wireless body-area networks (WBAN).

This work opens with an accessible introduction to computer networks, providing general definitions of commonly used terms in networking.

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems can increase the spectral efficiency in wireless communications.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of D2D communication over LTE-A band.

This brief focuses on the current research on security and privacy preservation in smart grids.

In 2007 INTEROP-VLab defined Enterprise Interoperability as "e;the ability of an enterprise system or application to interact with others at a low cost with a flexible approach"e;.

This brief presents the novel PHY layer technique, attachment transmission, which provides an extra control panel with minimum overhead.