Bücher der Reihe Signals and Communication Technology

This book focuses on advanced topics and applications of wireless sensor networks. It deals with three-dimensional, underground, underwater, body-mounted, and societal networks.

This book presents fundamental concepts, methods and algorithms able to cope with undersampled data. It introduces the concept of compressive sampling, which is also called compressed sensing.

Access to content is more efficient, as search engines exploit VDI metadata for indexing, and the network uses the content name to ensure users always access the copy closest to them.

This is the first book devoted to mobility management, covering the important principles, technologies and applications of mobility management based on years of academic research and industry experiences.

This book collects new results, concepts and further developments of NMF. This book can be a good reference work for researchers and engineers interested in NMF, and can also be used as a handbook for students and professionals seeking to gain a better understanding of the latest applications of NMF.

"Wireless Networks and Security" provides a broad coverage of wireless security issues including cryptographic coprocessors, encryption, authentication, key management, attacks and countermeasures, secure routing, secure medium access control, intrusion detection, epidemics, security performance analysis, security issues in applications.

This groundbreaking resource offers a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge video-based eye monitoring algorithms, as well as human factor algorithms and experiments.

This textbook covers thetheoretical background of one- and multidimensional signal processing,statistical analysis and modelling, coding and information theory with regardto the principles and design of image, video and audio compression systems.

This book examines multi-point cooperative communication technologies which are used to overcome the long-standing problem of limited transmission rate caused by the inter-point interference. It gives readers a clear picture of the technology map.

However, as the service and multimedia content types diversify and the services and their content increase, television is facing many of the same challenges of complexity and information overflow faced by other digital media.

This book presents a simple, yet complete, approach to the design and performance analysis of distributed processing algorithms and techniques suitable for IEEE 802.15.4 networks. In particular, the book focuses on the bottom two layers of the ISO/OSI stack.

The subject of this study is the role of hierarchical structures, based on neural networks, in identifying phonemes in automated speech recognition systems. It shows how the artificial neural network paradigm can simplify the analysis of spoken language.

This monograph contains a number of problems with signal detection theory, presenting a generalized observation model for signal detection problems. The model includes several interesting and common special cases, such as those describing additive noise, multiplicative noise and signal-dependent noise.

Globalization of Mobile and Wireless Communications is a collection of cutting-edge research in mobile and wireless communications with impact on developments as far forward as 2020 and beyond.

Satellite Communications and Navigation Systems publishes the proceedings of the 2006 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications. The book focuses on the integration of communication and navigation systems in satellites.

This book presents an Entropy Encoder for the H.264 or MPEG-4 standard, starting with the fundamentals and a review on existing code design. It opens a way to impressive compression performance and new multimedia applications.

This book covers computational methods, computer arithmetic algorithms, and design improvement techniques for implementing efficient cryptographic algorithms in FPGA reconfigurable hardware platforms. The author explores reconfigurable hardware design, explains the mathematics involved, and thoroughly reviews state-of-the-art implementation techniques.

Space Division Multiple Access is one of the most promising methods in solving the capacity problem of wireless communication systems. This book defines formulae that can be used to evaluate the limit capacity of multipath wireless channels in a particular receiving region with size limitation.

This practical, detailed book is the most complete and comprehensive guide to structured cable systems. It presents the fundamentals of electric and fibre optic cables as well as all the practical aspects, combined with additional reference information on technical data and terms in an appendix.

Users of signal processing systems are never satis?ed with the system they currently use. Today - in 2008 - even morenew?ndingsandsystemscouldbecollectedinthisbook.Comparingthe contributions in both edited volumes progress in knowledge and technology becomesclearlyvisible:Blindmethodsandmultiinputsystemsreplace"h- ble" low complexity systems.

"Wireless Networks and Security" provides a broad coverage of wireless security issues including cryptographic coprocessors, encryption, authentication, key management, attacks and countermeasures, secure routing, secure medium access control, intrusion detection, epidemics, security performance analysis, security issues in applications.

One of the first books in this area, this text focuses on important aspects of the system operation, analysis and performance evaluation of selected chaos-based digital communications systems - a hot topic in communications and signal processing.

Adopting a generalized approach to nonlinear systems with hysteresis driven by noisy inputs, this book proposes a unitary framework for analyzing stochastic aspects of hysteresis, deploying a variety of models to portray the input noise-from white to pink.

This book presents essential algorithms for the image processing pipeline of photo-printers and accompanying software tools, offering an exposition of multiple image enhancement algorithms, smart aspect-ratio changing techniques for borderless printing and approaches for non-standard printing modes.

This book develops the analytical theory of perfectly conducting and lossy metal, circular, round-wire loop antennas and nano-scaled rings from the radio frequency (RF) regime through infrared and the optical region.

This book details practical solutions to the design issues presented in wireless-sensor-network-based systems. It features workable solutions, demonstration systems and case studies.

This book develops the technology of radar imaging, and an understanding of scattering concepts, in a manner suitable to the mathematical background of most earth scientists. The approach allows for quick movement to the practical aspects of imaging.

This book focuses on the analysis and design of low-density parity-check (LDPC)-coded modulations. These are becoming part of several current and future communication systems, such as high-throughput terrestrial and satellite wireless networks.

In this book, real life examples are presented to design antenna matching networks over HF and cellular commercial multi-band frequencies. For each example, open MatLab source codes are provided so that the reader can easily generate and verify the results.