Topics include networking architectures and protocols, cross-layer architectures, localization and location tracking, time synchronization, QoS and real-time, security and dependability, applications, modeling and performance evaluation, implementation and experience, and much more.
Topics include networking architectures and protocols, cross-layer architectures, localization and location tracking, time synchronization, QoS and re...
< P> The rapid growth in mobile communications has led to an increasing demand for wideband high data rate communications services. In recent years, the Distributed Antenna System (DAS) has emerged as a promising candidate beyond 3G and 4G mobile communications. Distributed Antenna Systems: Open Architecture for Future Wireless Communications is a comprehensive technical guide that covers the fundamental concepts, recent advances and open issues of the DAS. The topic is explored with various key challenges in diverse scenarios, including architecture, capacity, connectivity,...
< P> The rapid growth in mobile communications has led to an increasing demand for wideband high data rate communications services. In recent years, t...
Integrating Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for the first time, this comprehensive text explains the importance of their complementary nature, flexible combination, and ubiquitous computing. With a section devoted to each individual element, the text covers the tags, readers, and middleware associated with RFID. It then provides insight into the routing, medium access control, and cross-layer optimization of WSN. The book discusses the enhanced visibility and monitoring capability that is possible and observes practical uses such as a smart home, a...
Integrating Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for the first time, this comprehensive text explains the importan...
While still in the early stages of research and development, cognitive radio is a highly promising communications paradigm with the ability to effectively address the spectrum insufficiency problem. Written by those pioneering the field, Cognitive Radio Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Standards offers a complete view of cognitive radio including introductory concepts, fundamental techniques, regulations, standards, system implementations, and recent developments.
From the physical layer to protocol layer, world-class editors provide comprehensive...
While still in the early stages of research and development, cognitive radio is a highly promising communications paradigm with the ability to effe...
Used to explain complicated economic behavior for decades, game theory is quickly becoming a tool of choice for those serious about optimizing next generation wireless systems. Illustrating how game theory can effectively address a wide range of issues that until now remained unresolved, Game Theory for Wireless Communications and Networking provides a systematic introduction to the application of this powerful and dynamic tool.
This comprehensive technical guide explains game theory basics, architectures, protocols, security, models, open research issues,...
Used to explain complicated economic behavior for decades, game theory is quickly becoming a tool of choice for those serious about optimizing next...
A class of Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN), which may violate one or more of the assumptions regarding the overall performance characteristics of the underlying links in order to achieve smooth operation, is rapidly growing in importance but may not be well served by the current end-to-end TCP/IP model. Delay Tolerant Networks: Protocols and Applications takes you on a systematic exploration of DTN concepts, architectures, protocols, enabling technologies, and applications.
Containing a wealth of illustrative material for ease of understanding, this one-stop...
A class of Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN), which may violate one or more of the assumptions regarding the overall performance characteristics of the...
Physical layer security has recently become an emerging technique to complement and significantly improve the communication security of wireless networks. Compared to cryptographic approaches, physical layer security is a fundamentally different paradigm where secrecy is achieved by exploiting the physical layer properties of the communication system, such as thermal noise, interference, and the time-varying nature of fading channels.
Written by pioneering researchers, Physical Layer Security in Wireless Communications supplies a systematic overview of the basic concepts, recent...
Physical layer security has recently become an emerging technique to complement and significantly improve the communication security of wireless ne...
Cyber Physical Systems: Architectures, Protocols and Applications helps you understand the basic principles and key supporting standards of CPS. It analyzes different CPS applications from the bottom up, extracting the common characters that form a vertical structure. It presents mobile sensing platforms and their applications toward interrelated paradigms, highlighting and briefly discussing different types of mobile sensing platforms and the functionalities they offer. It then looks at the naming, addressing, and profile services of CPS and proposes a middleware...
Cyber Physical Systems: Architectures, Protocols and Applications helps you understand the basic principles and key supporting sta...
The exponential increase in mobile device users and high-bandwidth applications has pushed the current 3G and 4G wireless networks to their capacity. Moreover, it is predicted that mobile data traffic will continue to grow by over 300 percent by 2017. To handle this spectacular growth, the development of improved wireless networks for the future has been of paramount importance. The Future of Wireless Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Services discusses the future of wireless networks, including the emerging network architectures, underlying protocols, services, and...
The exponential increase in mobile device users and high-bandwidth applications has pushed the current 3G and 4G wireless networks to their capacit...
