Communications engineering / telecommunications

A Practical Handbook of Speech Coders offers in-depth treatment of the basics of speech coding plus the innovations to the basic methods that make the coders useful and efficient.

Of the two primary approaches to the classic source separation problem, only one does not impose potentially unreasonable model and likelihood constraints: the Bayesian statistical approach.

The Handbook of Algorithms for Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing focuses on several aspects of mobile computing, particularly algorithmic methods and distributed computing with mobile communications capability.

With the massive amount of data produced and stored each year, reliable storage and retrieval of information is more crucial than ever.

The world is rapidly becoming an Internet-based world, with tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions accessing the Internet.

Wireless mesh networking is a new technology that has the potential to revolutionize how we access the Internet and communicate with co-workers and friends.

Until now, developers and researchers interested in the design, operation, and performance of Bluetooth networks have lacked guidance about potential answers and the relative advantages and disadvantages of performance solutions.

The Wireless Security Handbook provides a well-rounded overview of wireless network security.

Broadband Last Mile: Access Technologies for Multimedia Communications provides in-depth treatments of access technologies and the applications that rely upon them or support them.

System state estimation in the presence of noise is critical for control systems, signal processing, and many other applications in a variety of fields.

The hand is quicker than the eye.

Although programming in memory-restricted environments is never easy, this holds especially true for digital signal processing (DSP).

Unsupervised Signal Processing: Channel Equalization and Source Separation provides a unified, systematic, and synthetic presentation of the theory of unsupervised signal processing.

A Complete One-Stop ResourceWhile digital color is now the technology of choice for printers, the knowledge required to address the quality and productivity issues of these devices is scattered across several technologies, as is its supporting literature.

In our modern age of remote sensing, wireless communication, and the nearly endless list of other antenna-based applications, complex problems require increasingly sophisticated solutions.

Shrinking pixel sizes along with improvements in image sensors, optics, and electronics have elevated DSCs to levels of performance that match, and have the potential to surpass, that of silver-halide film cameras.

Taking another lesson from nature, the latest advances in image processing technology seek to combine image data from several diverse types of sensors in order to obtain a more accurate view of the scene: very much the same as we rely on our five senses.

Although it's true that image compression research is a mature field, continued improvements in computing power and image representation tools keep the field spry.

Explaining what CWDM is, how it is achieved, and why it should be deployed, Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing: Technologies and Applications merges coverage of isolated aspects of Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) traditionally found as device-related or specific system topics.

Time series with mixed spectra are characterized by hidden periodic components buried in random noise.

Understanding Broadband over Power Line explores all aspects of the emerging technology that enables electric utilities to provide support for high-speed data communications via their power infrastructure.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) uses services as the baseline for developing new architectures and applications, as networks are built specifically to satisfy service requirements.

The rapid progress of mobile, wireless communication and embedded micro-sensing MEMS technologies has brought about the rise of pervasive computing.

Focusing on the future network architecture and its main principles, Converging NGN Wireline and Mobile 3G Networks with IMS provides a comprehensive view of the methods, functions, network elements, and the interfaces among them that enable the building of a service agnostic and access agnostic session control layer based on the IMS standar

The implementation of IPv6 is essential to the continued growth of the Internet and the development of new applications.

Most conventional networks are passive, with only basic traffic monitoring, management, routing, and congestion control.

Metaheuristics are widely used to solve important practical combinatorial optimization problems.

Organized into three parts, Resource, Mobility, and Security Management in Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications examines the inherent constraint of limited bandwidth and unreliable time-varying physical link in the wireless system, discusses the demand to realize the service continuity in the single-hop or multi-hop wireless networks, and explores trusted communication in mobile computing scenarios.

Carriers and service providers have united around the concept of the Next-Generation Network (NGN).

Driven by a combination of technological improvements and commercial pressure, interest in IPTV services has increasingly grown.

A promising new technology, wireless mesh networks are playing an increasingly important role in the future generations of wireless mobile networks.

In the NGN world, no truer words are spoken than "e;the future is now.

Intellectual property owners must continually exploit new ways of reproducing, distributing, and marketing their products.

Intellectual property owners must continually exploit new ways of reproducing, distributing, and marketing their products.

Over the last three decades, interest in Infrared (IR) technology as a medium to convey information has grown considerably.

With market value expected to reach $5 billion by 2007 and the endorsement of some of the biggest names in telecommunications, World Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is poised to change the broadband wireless landscape.

Examining the technology's global development and deployment activities, WiMAX: A Wireless Technology Revolution presents its unique features and evaluates its revolutionary approach.

Sensor networks differ from traditional networks in many aspects including their limited energy, memory space, and computational capability.

Because fine-tuning the parameters of a system is critical to a developer's success, Performance Optimization of Digital Communications Systems examines particular optimization problems in digital communications, presenting analytical techniques in combination with SystemView and MATLAB simulations.

The evolution of the mobile communication market is causing a major increase in data traffic demands.

A large portion of the network capacity of an ad hoc network can be wasted by the medium access mechanisms of omni-directional antennas.

Device miniaturization, wireless computing, and mobile communication are driving ubiquitous, pervasive, and transparent computing.

The digital subscriber line (DSL) industry is expanding rapidly and a technology once thought to be only transitional will soon clear $100 billion in total annual service revenue.

With modern communication networks continuing to grow in traffic, size, complexity, and variety, control systems are critical to ensure quality and effectively manage network traffic.

Adapted from a successful and thoroughly field-tested Italian text, the first edition of Electromagnetic Waves was very well received.

Because they incorporate both time- and event-driven dynamics, stochastic hybrid systems (SHS) have become ubiquitous in a variety of fields, from mathematical finance to biological processes to communication networks to engineering.

More than a decade ago, world-renowned control systems authority Frank L.

With the rapid evolution of multimedia communications, engineers and other professionals are generally forced to hoard a plethora of different texts and journals to maintain a solid grasp on essential ideas and techniques in the field.

Understanding the nature of random signals and noise is critically important for detecting signals and for reducing and minimizing the effects of noise in applications such as communications and control systems.

Business success hinges on successfully creating products with the right features.