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241. |  Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming: Applications and Technology By: S. Sitharama Iyengar; Nandan Parameshwaran; Vir V. Phoha; N. Balakrishnan; Chuka D. Okoye Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 14-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming: Applications and Technology
This book provides the basics needed to develop sensor network software and supplements it with many case studies covering network applications. It also examines how to develop onboard applications on individual sensors, how to interconnect these sensors, and how to form networks of sensors, although the major aim of this book is to provide foundational principles of developing sensor networking software and critically examine sensor network applications.
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242. |  Radio Frequency Circuit Design, 2nd Edition By: W. Alan Davis Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 28-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Radio Frequency Circuit Design, 2nd Edition
This book focuses on components such as filters, transformers, amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators. Even the phase lock loop chapter (the last in the book) is oriented toward practical circuit design, in contrast to the more systems orientation of most communication texts.
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243. |  Convergence of Mobile and Stationary Next-Generation Networks Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Convergence of Mobile and Stationary Next-Generation Networks
The Only Resource to Cover Wireless, Wireline, and Optical Networks in One Volume
Mobile and stationary next-generation networks that access the photonic core are destined to become as ubiquitous as traditional telephone networks. These networks must efficiently provide adequate network quality to multimedia applications with high bandwidth and strict quality-of-service requirements, as well as seamlessly integrate mobile and fixed architectures. Today's engineering students must be properly prepared to meet the challenges of next-generation network development and...
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244. |  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 14-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Learn how to implement BCU methods for fast direct stability assessments of electric power systems
Electric power providers around the world rely on stability analysis programs to help ensure uninterrupted service to their customers. These programs are typically based on step-by-step numerical integrations of power system stability models to simulate system dynamic behaviors. Unfortunately, this offline practice is inadequate to deal with current operating environments. For years, direct methods have held the promise of providing real-time stability assessments; however, these methods...
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245. |  Liquid Crystal Displays: Fundamental Physics and Technology By: Robert H. Chen Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 20-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Liquid Crystal Displays: Fundamental Physics and Technology
An unprecedented look into the basic physics, chemistry, and technology behind the LCD
Most notably used for computer screens, televisions, and mobile phones, LCDs (liquid crystal displays) are a pervasive and increasingly indispensable part of our lives. Providing both an historical and a business-minded context, this extensive resource describes the unique scientific and engineering techniques used to create these beautiful, clever, and eminently useful devices.
In this book, the history of the science and technology behind the LCD is described in a prelude to the development of the...
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246. |  Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 02-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems
The Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems is a single comprehensive reference on the smart antenna technologies applied to RFID. This book will provide a timely reference book for researchers and students in the areas of both smart antennas and RFID technologies. It is the first book to combine two of the most important wireless technologies together in one book. The handbook will feature chapters by leading experts in both academia and industry offering an in-depth description of terminologies and concepts related to smart antennas in various RFID systems applications. Some topics...
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247. |  Connections for the Digital Age: Multimedia Communications for Mobile, Nomadic and Fixed Devices By: E. Bryan Carne Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 06-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Connections for the Digital Age: Multimedia Communications for Mobile, Nomadic and Fixed Devices
Explores and analyzes past and current technologies and trends in multimedia communication
Digital natives—those persons born in the digital age—have an ever-widening range of wireless-enabled devices at their disposal. They are the drivers of multimedia communications, continually seeking out the technologies and distribution channels that best match their needs. This book outlines the changes in telecommunications that are occurring to meet these needs. It addresses the continually increasing requirement to provide connections that make the electronic encounter as natural and...
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248. |  Principles of Microelectromechanical Systems By: Ki Bang Lee Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 02-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Principles of Microelectromechanical Systems
The building blocks of MEMS design through closed-form solutions
Microelectromechanical Systems, or MEMS, is the technology of very small systems; it is found in everything from inkjet printers and cars to cell phones, digital cameras, and medical equipment. This book describes the principles of MEMS via a unified approach and closed-form solutions to micromechanical problems, which have been recently developed by the author and go beyond what is available in other texts. The closed-form solutions allow the reader to easily understand the linear and nonlinear behaviors of MEMS and their...
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249. |  Fuzzy Control and Identification By: John H. Lilly Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 21-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fuzzy Control and Identification
This book gives an introduction to basic fuzzy logic and Mamdani and Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems. The text shows how these can be used to control complex nonlinear engineering systems, while also also suggesting several approaches to modeling of complex engineering systems with unknown models.
Finally, fuzzy modeling and control methods are combined in the book, to create adaptive fuzzy controllers, ending with an example of an obstacle-avoidance controller for an autonomous vehicle using modus ponendo tollens logic.
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250. |  Lean for Systems Engineering with Lean Enablers for Systems Engineering By: B. W. Oppenheim Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 27-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lean for Systems Engineering with Lean Enablers for Systems Engineering
"Bohdan W. Oppenheim has pulled together experience-based insights of experts across industry, government, and academia into a comprehensive sourcebook for lean systems engineering principles and practices. This book can educate those new to lean engineering, as well as provide new insights and enablers that best-in-class organizations will want to adopt." —Dr. Donna H. Rhodes, Principal Research Scientist, SEAri and LAI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Lean for Systems Engineering is targeted at the practitioner who is trying to make systems engineering more effective in her or...
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251. |  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computational Lithography
A Unified Summary of the Models and Optimization Methods Used in Computational Lithography
Optical lithography is one of the most challenging areas of current integrated circuit manufacturing technology. The semiconductor industry is relying more on resolution enhancement techniques (RETs), since their implementation does not require significant changes in fabrication infrastructure. Computational Lithography is the first book to address the computational optimization of RETs in optical lithography, providing an in-depth discussion of optimal optical proximity correction (OPC), phase...
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252. |  By: Doyeol Ahn; Seoung-Hwan Park Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 23-AUG-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Engineering Quantum Mechanics
There has been growing interest in the model of semiconductor lasers with non-Markovian relaxation. Introducing senior and graduate students and research scientists to quantum mechanics concepts, which are becoming an essential tool in modern engineering, Engineering Quantum Mechanics develops a non-Markovian model for the optical gain of semiconductor, taking into account the rigorous electronic band-structure and the non-Markovian relaxation using the quantum statistical reduced-density operator formalism. Example programs based on Fortran 77 are provided for band-structures of...
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253. |  Economic Systems Analysis and Assessment: Intensive Systems, Organizations, and Enterprises By: Andrew P. Sage; William B. Rouse Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 24-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Economic Systems Analysis and Assessment: Intensive Systems, Organizations, and Enterprises
An Authoritative Introduction to a Major Subject in Systems Engineering and Management
This important volume fills the need for a textbook on the fundamentals of economic systems analysis and assessment, illustrating their vital role in systems engineering and systems management. Providing extensive coverage on key topics, it assumes no prior background in mathematics or economics in order to comprehend the material.
The book is comprised of five major parts:
Microeconomics: a concise overview that covers production and the theory of the firm; theory of the consumer; market...
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254. |  Advanced Kalman Filtering, Least-Squares and Modeling: A Practical Handbook By: Bruce P. Gibbs Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 01-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advanced Kalman Filtering, Least-Squares and Modeling: A Practical Handbook
This book provides a complete explanation of estimation theory and application, modeling approaches, and model evaluation. Each topic starts with a clear explanation of the theory (often including historical context), followed by application issues that should be considered in the design. Different implementations designed to address specific problems are presented, and numerous examples of varying complexity are used to demonstrate the concepts.
This book is intended primarily as a handbook for engineers who must design practical systems. Its primary goal is to explain all important...
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255. |  Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave Applications, 2nd Edition By: Jia-Sheng Hong Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 01-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave Applications, 2nd Edition
The first edition of "Microstrip Filters for RF/Microwave Applications" was published in 2001. Over the years the book has been well received and is used extensively in both academia and industry by microwave researchers and engineers. From its inception as a manuscript the book is almost 8 years old. While the fundamentals of filter circuits have not changed, further innovations in filter realizations and other applications have occurred with changes in the technology and use of new fabrication processes, such as the recent advances in RF MEMS and ferroelectric films for tunable filters;...
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256. |  An Introduction to TTCN-3, 2nd Edition By: Colin Willcock; Thomas Deiß; Stephan Tobies; Stefan Keil; Federico Engler; Stephan Schulz Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to TTCN-3, 2nd Edition
This unique book provides a fully revised and up-to-date treatment of the TTCN-3 language
TTCN-3 is an internationally standardised test language with a powerful textual syntax which has established itself as a global, universal testing language. Application of TTCN-3 has been widened beyond telecommunication systems to areas such as the automotive industry, internet protocols, railway signalling, medical systems, and avionics.
An Introduction to TTCN-3 gives a solid introduction to the TTCN-3 language and its uses, guiding readers though the TTCN-3 standards, methodologies and tools...
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257. |  LTE Signaling: Troubleshooting and Optimization, 2nd Edition By: Ralf Kreher; Karsten Gaenger Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 25-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: LTE Signaling: Troubleshooting and Optimization, 2nd Edition
A comprehensive reference on the call procedures of 4G RAN and Core networks, LTE Signaling, Troubleshooting and Optimization describes the protocols and procedures of LTE. It explains essential topics from basic performance measurement counters, radio quality and user plane quality to the standards, architecture, objectives and functions of the different interfaces. The first section gives an overview of LTE/EPC network architecture, reference points, protocol stacks, information elements and elementary procedures. The proceeding parts target more advanced topics to cover LTE/EPC...
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258. |  Modulation and Coding Techniques in Wireless Communications By: Sergei Semenov; Evgenii Krouk Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 21-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Modulation and Coding Techniques in Wireless Communications
The high level of technical detail included in standards specifications can make it difficult to find the correlation between the standard specifications and the theoretical results. This book aims to cover both of these elements to give accessible information and support to readers. It explains the current and future trends on communication theory and shows how these developments are implemented in contemporary wireless communication standards.
Examining modulation, coding and multiple access techniques, the book is divided into two major sections to cover these functions. The two-stage...
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259. |  Modelling and Dimensioning of Mobile Wireless Networks: From GSM to LTE By: Maciej Stasiak; Mariusz Glabowski; Arkadiusz Wisniewski; Piotr Zwierzykowski Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 20-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Modelling and Dimensioning of Mobile Wireless Networks: From GSM to LTE
This book is a must-read for all network planners and other professionals wishing to improve the quality and cost efficiency of 3G and LTE networks
In this book, the authors address the architecture of the 2/3G network and the Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. The book proposes analytical models that make the analysis and dimensioning of the most important interfaces, i.e. WCDMA or Iub, possible. Furthermore, the authors include descriptions of fundamental technological issues in 2/3 G networks, basic traffic engineering models and frequent examples of the application of analytical...
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260. |  Cellular Technologies for Emerging Markets: 2G, 3G and Beyond By: Ajay R. Mishra Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 30-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cellular Technologies for Emerging Markets: 2G, 3G and Beyond
In this book, the author addresses technologies that are being used in emerging cellular markets. These include GSM/EGPRS and CDMA which are being deployed at a rapid pace, while technologies such as UMTS (3G)/ HSPA (3.5G) which have started to find a place in these high growth markets, are also considered. The book examines other technologies including LTE (3.9G) which have already moved out of research labs into the commercial world. 2G-CDMA is widely used, while further developments, e.g. CDMA2000 are also finding acceptance in the commercial arena. IMS/Convergence is increasingly...
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