Communications engineering / telecommunications

The content of this book is the result of the work and the experiences of an interdisciplinary and strictly European group of researchers who have attempted to give birth to a new fibre communication network concept by exploiting the potential benefits of optical coherent transmission.

Kommunikationsinfrastrukturen sind eine wichtige Voraussetzung für die wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2012 held in Belgrade, Serbia, July 9-11, 2012.

'I'he int,ernational Association for Cryptologic Research (IACK) organizes two inter- tioilill coiifcrcnces every year, one in Europe and one in the United States.

Currently there is considerable interest in the application of optical meth- ods for the measurement of absolute rotation.

This book is intended to be an introductory text for engineers and physicists who are likely to be involved in the area of optical fiber communications.

A new starting-point and a new method are requisite, to insure a complete [classi?

This book provides a discussion of privacy in the following three parts: Privacy Issues in Data Aggregation; Privacy Issues in Indoor Localization; and Privacy-Preserving Offloading in MEC.

Now in its second edition, this book introduces an approach to active system control.

This book provides extended frameworks and models to help with the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) in developing countries.

This book features the latest theoretical results and techniques in the field of guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) of vehicles and aircrafts.

Affirmative legislative action in many countries now requires that public spaces and services be made accessible to disabled people.

"e;A fascinating insight into potentially one of the most exciting developments that affects each and every one of us as we move forward into the 21st Century.

The Internet plays a significant and growing role in real-time industrial manufacturing, scheduling and management.

Enterprise Interoperability is the ability of an enterprise or organisation to work with other enterprises or organisations without special effort.

Network Science is the emerging field concerned with the study of large, realistic networks.

This book focuses on the model and algorithm aspects of securing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks (UAV).

This book offers a systematic view of data services in heterogeneous wireless networks, from the perspectives of cause, governing rules, and impact of data's mobility on such networks.

"e;Real-time Systems' Quality of Service"e; examines the attainability of efficiency, economy, and ease of use, which make up the quality of service of technologically advanced products.

"e;Optimal Observation for Cyber-physical Systems"e; addresses the challenge, fundamental to the design of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), presented by the obligatory trade-off between precise estimates and system constraints.

Collaborative design has attracted much attention in the research community in recent years.

Overview and Goals Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements.

Overview and Goals Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements.

Information consensus guarantees that robot vehicles sharing information over a network topology have a consistent view of information critical to the coordination task.

Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally.

Networked control systems (NCS) confer advantages of cost reduction, system diagnosis and flexibility, minimizing wiring and simplifying the addition and replacement of individual elements; efficient data sharing makes taking globally intelligent control decisions easier with NCS.

This volume is composed of invited papers on learning and control.

The editor of the Handbook of Performability Engineering, Dr.

A rigorous but accessible treatment of the subject intertwining theoretical techniques with hands-on laboratory instruction and divided into three parts, this book covers various aspects of the digital signal processing (DSP) "e;problem"e;.

Overview and Goals Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements.

Many people do not realise that mathematics provides the foundation for the devices we use to handle information in the modern world.

Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally.

We may consider technology as the set of tools, both hardware and software, that help us improve our performance in di?

"e;Modelling and Analysis of Hybrid Supervisory Systems"e; introduces a modelling formalism that merges Petri nets, differential equation systems and object-oriented methods; a formalism that is adequate for modelling complex and large-scale systems.

The intricate relationship between information technologies, community, and social memory is critical to a fuller understanding of the evolution of our societies.

Advances in science and medicine are closely linked; they are characterised by episodic imaginative leaps, often with dramatic effects on mankind and beyond.

focussed on the key steps in soft sensor design: data selection; model structure selection and model validation, respectively.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the inaugural World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) being held at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel on the Gold Coast from July 11 to 14, 2006.

Equal accessibility to public places and services is now required by law in many countries.

Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally.

Internet traffic is increasing by at least 200% per year and the world's largest Internet Service Provider expects traffic on its regional trunks to grow to a 1-10 petabit range over the next four to five years.

Recently, there have been significant developments in robust control of time-delay systems.

A common sense of time among the elements of a distributed measurement and control system allows the use of new techniques in solving problems with complex synchronization requirements or arising from the interaction of many sensors and actuators.