Electronics and communications engineering

This SpringerBrief provides a concise guide to applying wireless energy transfer techniques in traditional battery-powered sensor networks.

This book presents approaches to address key challenges based on a vehicle level view and with a special emphasis on Drive-by-Wire systems.

This monograph presents a novel method of sliding mode control for switch-regulated nonlinear systems.

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 discusses state estimation and control procedures for a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

This book focuses on increasing the energy-efficiency of electronic devices so that portable applications can have a longer stand-alone time on the same battery.

This book provides in-depth coverage of transformer-based design techniques that enable CMOS oscillators and frequency dividers to achieve state-of-the-art performance.

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

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the human dimension of social robots by discussing both transnational features and national peculiarities.

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 book introduces optical soliton control in micro- and nanoring resonator systems.

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 provides a comprehensive introduction to spintronics-based computing for the next generation of ultra-low power/highly reliable logic.

This thesis analyzes and explores the design of controlled networked dynamic systems - dubbed semi-autonomous networks.

This book explores the design of ultra-low-power radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), with communication distances ranging from a few centimeters to a few meters.

This book describes for readers technology used for effective sensing of our physical world and intelligent processing techniques for sensed information, which are essential to the success of the Internet of Things (IoTs).

The book reports on the author's original work to address the use of today's state-of-the-art smartphones for human physical activity recognition.

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

This book presents the basics and applications of superconducting magnets.

The book addresses issues towards the design and development of Wireless Sensor Network based Smart Home and fusion of Real-Time Data for Wellness Determination of an elderly person living alone in a Smart Home.

This book is devoted to the analysis of measurement signals which requires specific mathematical operations like Convolution, Deconvolution, Laplace, Fourier, Hilbert, Wavelet or Z transform which are all presented in the present book.

This book deals with timing attacks on cryptographic ciphers.

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

This book assesses the current development and potential applications of nanoparticle technology in oil industry and explores new research directions in this frontier field.

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.

Exploring the synthesis, characterization, surface manipulation, electron transfer and biological activity of silver nanoparticles, this book examines the fundamentals of the properties and synthesis of these particles.

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

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the latest trends/advances in subjective and objective quality evaluation for traditional visual signals, such as 2D images and video, as well as the most recent challenges for the field of multimedia quality assessment and processing, such as mobile video and social media.

This book describes the state-of-the-art in trusted computing for embedded systems.

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

The core of this textbook is a systematic and self-contained treatment of the nonlinear stabilization and output regulation problems.

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.

Maximizing reader insights into the latest technical developments and trends involving wind turbine control and monitoring, fault diagnosis, and wind power systems, 'Wind Turbine Control and Monitoring' presents an accessible and straightforward introduction to wind turbines, but also includes an in-depth analysis incorporating illustrations, tables and examples on how to use wind turbine modeling and simulation software.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the state-of-the-art in understanding media popularity and trends in online social networks through social multimedia signals.

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

This book describes the computational challenges posed by the progression toward nanoscale electronic devices and increasingly short design cycles in the microelectronics industry, and proposes methods of model reduction which facilitate circuit and device simulation for specific tasks in the design cycle.

Ge and III-V compounds, semiconductors with high carrier mobilities, are candidates to replace Si as the channel in MOS devices.

This book is a comprehensive guide to assertion-based verification of hardware designs using System Verilog Assertions (SVA).

This book describes the latest progress in the application of nanotechnology for water treatment and purification.

This book presents the cross-layer design and optimization of wake-up receivers for wireless body area networks (WBAN), with an emphasis on low-power circuit design.

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Presenting current trends in the development and applications of intelligent systems in engineering, this monograph focuses on recent research results in system identification and control.

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

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

This book presents a new system of solar cells.

This book addresses key aspects of analog integrated circuits and systems design related to system level electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection.

This book focuses on speech processing in the presence of low-bit rate coding and varying background environments.

This book introduces the fundamentals of DCS, and shows how to include wireless technology in their design while guaranteeing the desired operation characteristics.