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Communications Engineering
1. |  Hyperspectral Data Processing: Algorithm Design and Analysis By: Chein-I Chang Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 15-APR-2013 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Hyperspectral Data Processing: Algorithm Design and Analysis
Hyperspectral Data Processing: Algorithm Design and Analysis is a culmination of the research conducted in the Remote Sensing Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (RSSIPL) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Specifically, it treats hyperspectral image processing and hyperspectral signal processing as separate subjects in two different categories. Most materials covered in this book can be used in conjunction with the author's first book, Hyperspectral Imaging: Techniques for Spectral Detection and Classification, without much overlap.
Many results in this book are either...
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2. |  Discrete Stochastic Processes and Optimal Filtering By: Jean-Claude Bertein; Roger Ceschi Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 25-MAY-2007 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Discrete Stochastic Processes and Optimal Filtering
Optimal filtering applied to stationary and non-stationary signals provides the most efficient means of dealing with problems arising from the extraction of noise signals. Moreover, it is a fundamental feature in a range of applications, such as in navigation in aerospace and aeronautics, filter processing in the telecommunications industry, etc. This book provides a comprehensive overview of this area, discussing random and Gaussian vectors, outlining the results necessary for the creation of Wiener and adaptive filters used for stationary signals, as well as examining Kalman filters...
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3. |  Cooperating Embedded Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks By: Michel Banatre; Pedro Jose Marron; Anibal Ollero; Adam Wolisz Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 04-APR-2008 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cooperating Embedded Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks
A number of different system concepts have become apparent in the broader context of embedded systems over the past few years. Whilst there are some differences between these, this book argues that in fact there is much they share in common, particularly the important notions of control, heterogenity, wireless communication, dynamics/ad hoc nature and cost.
The first part of the book covers cooperating object applications and the currently available application scenarios, such as control and automation, healthcare, and security and surveillance. The second part discusses paradigms for...
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4. |  By: Juha Salmelin; Esa Metsala Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mobile Backhaul
Comprehensive coverage of IP/MPLS/Ethernet backhaul technologies and solutions for 3GPP mobile network systems such as LTE, HSPA and GPRS
Focusing on backhaul from a radio network viewpoint, Mobile Backhaul combines perspectives on mobile networks and transport network technologies, focusing on mobile backhaul specific functionalities, which are essential in building modern cost efficient packet networks for mobile systems, IP, MPLS and Carrier Ethernet. The key functions required for this process, Synchronization, Resiliency, Quality of Service and Security, are also explained. The...
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5. |  Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks By: Azzedine Boukerche Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 10-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Learn the fundamental algorithms and protocols for wireless and mobile ad hoc networks
Advances in wireless networking and mobile communication technologies, coupled with the proliferation of portable computers, have led to development efforts for wireless and mobile ad hoc networks. This book focuses on several aspects of wireless ad hoc networks, particularly algorithmic methods and distributed computing with mobility and computation capabilities. It covers everything readers need to build a foundation for the design of future mobile ad hoc networks:
Establishing an efficient...
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6. |  By: Smarajit Ghosh Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 14-DEC-2005 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Signals and Systems
Signals and Systems provides comprehensive coverage of all topics within the signals and systems' paper offered to undergraduates of electrical and electronics engineering.
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7. |  Audio Signal Processing and Coding By: Andreas Spanias; Ted Painter; Venkatraman Atti Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 09-FEB-2007 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Audio Signal Processing and Coding
An in-depth treatment of algorithms and standards for perceptual coding of high-fidelity audio, this self-contained reference surveys and addresses all aspects of the field. Coverage includes signal processing and perceptual (psychoacoustic) fundamentals, details on relevant research and signal models, details on standardization and applications, and details on performance measures and perceptual measurement systems. It includes a comprehensive bibliography with over 600 references, computer exercises, and MATLAB-based projects for use in EE multimedia, computer science, and DSP courses. ...
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8. |  Voice and Audio Compression for Wireless Communications, 2nd Edition By: Lajos L. Hanzo; Clare Somerville; Jason Woodard Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 24-SEP-2007 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Voice and Audio Compression for Wireless Communications, 2nd Edition
Voice communications remains the most important facet of mobile radio services, which may be delivered over conventional fixed links, the Internet or wireless channels. This all-encompassing volume reports on the entire 50-year history of voice compression, on recent audio compression techniques and the protection as well as transmission of these signals in hostile wireless propagation environments.
Audio and Voice Compression for Wireless and Wireline Communications, Second Edition is divided into four parts with Part I covering the basics, while Part II outlines the design of...
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9. |  VoIP Voice and Fax Signal Processing Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 29-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: VoIP Voice and Fax Signal Processing
A complete and systematic treatment of signal processing for VoIP voice and fax
This book presents a consolidated view and basic approach to signal processing for VoIP voice and fax solutions. It provides readers with complete coverage of the topic, from how things work in voice and fax modules, to signal processing aspects, implementation, and testing. Beginning with an overview of VoIP infrastructure, interfaces, and signals, the book systematically covers:
Voice compression
Packet loss concealment techniques
DTMF detection, generation, and rejection
Wideband voice...
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10. |  Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 20-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: MIMO Radar Signal Processing
The first book to present a systematic and coherent picture of MIMO radars
Due to its potential to improve target detection and discrimination capability, Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar has generated significant attention and widespread interest in academia, industry, government labs, and funding agencies. This important new work fills the need for a comprehensive treatment of this emerging field.
Edited and authored by leading researchers in the field of MIMO radar research, this book introduces recent developments in the area of MIMO radar to stimulate new concepts,...
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11. |  By: Richard Collier Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 31-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 25-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Transmission Lines
This rigorous treatment of transmission lines presents all the essential concepts in a clear and straightforward manner. Key principles are demonstrated by numerous practical worked examples and illustrations, and complex mathematics is avoided throughout. Early chapters cover pulse propagation, sinusoidal waves and coupled lines, all set within the context of a simple lossless equivalent circuit. Later chapters then develop this basic model by demonstrating the derivation of circuit parameters, and the use of Maxwell's equations to extend this theory to major transmission lines. Finally,...
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12. |  OFDMA Mobile Broadband Communications By: Junyi Li; Xinzhou Wu; Rajiv Laroia Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 31-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 24-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: OFDMA Mobile Broadband Communications
Written by the pioneers of Flash-OFDM, arguably the first commercially developed OFDMA-based mobile broadband system in the world, this book teaches OFDMA from first principles, enabling readers to understand mobile broadband as a whole. The book examines the key requirements for data-centric mobile; how OFDMA fits well with data networks; why mobile broadband needs to be IP-based; and how to bridge communications theory to real-world air interface design and make a good system choice between performance and complexity. It also explores the future of wireless technologies beyond...
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13. |  By: Lydi Smaini Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 04-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 13-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
With the growing complexity of personal mobile communication systems demanding higher data-rates and high levels of integration using low-cost CMOS technology, overall system performance has become more sensitive to RF analog front-end impairments. Designing integrated transceivers requires a thorough understanding of the whole transceiver chain including RF analog front-end and digital baseband. Communication system engineers have to include RF analog imperfections in their simulation benches in order to study and quantify their impact on the system performance.
Here the author explores...
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14. |  Generalizations of Cyclostationary Signal Processing: Spectral Analysis and Applications By: Antonio Napolitano Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 05-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 13-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Generalizations of Cyclostationary Signal Processing: Spectral Analysis and Applications
The relative motion between the transmitter and the receiver modifies the nonstationarity properties of the transmitted signal. In particular, the almost-cyclostationarity property exhibited by almost all modulated signals adopted in communications, radar, sonar, and telemetry can be transformed into more general kinds of nonstationarity. A proper statistical characterization of the received signal allows for the design of signal processing algorithms for detection, estimation, and classification that significantly outperform algorithms based on classical descriptions of signals....
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15. |  Tactical Wireless Communications and Networks: Design Concepts and Challenges By: George F. Elmasry Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 28-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Tactical Wireless Communications and Networks: Design Concepts and Challenges
Providing a complete description of modern tactical military communications and networks technology, this book systematically compares tactical military communications techniques with their commercial equivalents, pointing out similarities and differences. In particular it examines each layer of the protocol stack and shows how specific tactical and security requirements result in changes from the commercial approach. The author systematically leads readers through this complex topic, firstly providing background on the architectural approach upon which the analysis will be based, and then...
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16. |  VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation By: Keshab K. Parhi Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 04-JAN-1999 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation
Digital audio, speech recognition, cable modems, radar, high-definition television-these are but a few of the modern computer and communications applications relying on digital signal processing (DSP) and the attendant application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). As information-age industries constantly reinvent ASIC chips for lower power consumption and higher efficiency, there is a growing need for designers who are current and fluent in VLSI design methodologies for DSP.
Enter VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems-a unique, comprehensive guide to performance optimization...
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17. |  By: Guan-Ming Su; Yu-chi Lai; Andres Kwasinski; Haohong Wang Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 14-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 09-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 3D Visual Communications
Provides coverage of the major theories and technologies involved in the lifecycle of 3D video content delivery
Presenting the technologies used in end-to-end 3D video communication systems, this reference covers 3D graphics and video coding, content creation and display, and communications and networking. It covers the full range of key areas from the fundamentals of 3D visual representation to the latest 3D video coding techniques, relevant communication infrastructure and networks to the 3D quality of experience.
The book is structured to logically lead readers through the topic,...
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18. |  Digital Mobile Communications and the TETRA System By: John Dunlop; Demessie Girma; James Irvine Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 15-NOV-1999 Insert Date: 09-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Mobile Communications and the TETRA System
TETRA is a system for mobile wireless communications and this is a highly topical and comprehensive introduction to the design and applications of TETRA systems including practical examples. TETRA is comparable in structure to the world-wide successful GSM system, however, individual features of TETRA are different, often more efficient and better designed than in GSM. TETRA is therefore providing an important source for the further development of standards for mobile telecommunications.
This volume is timely and one of the first to cover TETRA and related subject areas.
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19. |  Multi-Carrier and Spread Spectrum Systems: From OFDM and MC-CDMA to LTE and WiMAX, 2nd Edition By: K. Fazel; S. Kaiser Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 03-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 09-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Multi-Carrier and Spread Spectrum Systems: From OFDM and MC-CDMA to LTE and WiMAX, 2nd Edition
The technological progress in multi-carrier (MC) modulation led orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to become an important part of beyond 3G cellular mobile communication standards, including LTE and WiMAX. In addition, the flexibility offered by the spread spectrum (SS) and time division multiplexing (TDM) techniques motivated many researchers to investigate several MC combined multiple access schemes, such as MC-CDMA, OFDMA and MC-TDMA. These schemes benefit from the advantages of each sub-system and offer high flexibility, high spectral efficiency, simple detection...
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20. |  Visual Media Coding and Transmission By: Ahmet Kondoz Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 05-APR-2010 Insert Date: 09-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Visual Media Coding and Transmission
This book presents the state-of-the-art in visual media coding and transmission
Visual Media Coding and Transmission is an output of VISNET II NoE, which is an EC IST-FP6 collaborative research project by twelve esteemed institutions from across Europe in the fields of networked audiovisual systems and home platforms. The authors provide information that will be essential for the future study and development of visual media communications technologies. The book contains details of video coding principles, which lead to advanced video coding developments in the form of Scalable Coding,...
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