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Nova Science Publishers Inc Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks
Book SynopsisThe convergence of the Internet, communications and information technologies, coupled with recent engineering advances, is paving the way for a new generation of inexpensive mobile devices, sensors and actuators. Hence, there is current and future need for dynamic ad hoc networking technology. It is the distributed and ad hoc deployment of networks of these network devices and sensors that bears promises for a significant impact, not only on science and engineering, but equally importantly on a broad range of applications relating to critical infrastructure protection and security, health care, the environment, energy, food safety, production processing, quality of life, and the economy. A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) consists of mobile nodes, which are free to move about arbitrarily. The nodes may be located in or on airplanes, ships, trucks, cars, perhaps even on people or very small devices, and there may be multiple hosts per router. A MANET is an autonomous system of mobile nodes. The system may operate in isolation, or may have gateways to and interface with a fixed network. MANET nodes are equipped with wireless transmitters and receivers using antennas which may be omnidirectional (broadcast), highly-directional (point-to-point), possibly steerable, or some combination thereof. At a given point in time, a wireless connectivity in the form of a random, multihop graph or "ad hoc" network exists between the nodes. This ad hoc topology may change with time as the nodes move or adjust their transmission and reception parameters. Wireless sensor networks are a new class of ad hoc networks that consists of a collection of tiny disposable and low-power devices. Since they enable reliable monitoring and analysis of unknown and untested environments, they are expected to find increasing deployment in the near future. MANETs including wireless sensor networks have several important characteristics, such as dynamic topologies, limited bandwidth, low power availability, and fragile security and reliability, which differ them from traditional networks or even from other wireless networks. These unique characteristics create a set of underlying assumptions and performance concerns for MANET design which extend beyond those guiding the design of routing within the traditional networks, and pose huge challenges to researchers and designers in the area of MANETs. Although a lot of results have been published in the area, research in MANETs, in contrast to traditional network technology, is still in its infancy. This book tries to give the reader a current update on developments in MANETs and wireless sensor networks. This book contains 14 invited chapters from prominent researchers working in this area around the world. It presents leading-edge research in the field of ad hoc and sensor network technologies and applications.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Communications & Media Research:
Book SynopsisIn a society predicated on information, the media has a pervasive presence. From government policy to leisure television, the information age touches us all. The papers collected in this book constitute some of today''s leading analyses of the information industry. Together, these essays represent a needed foundation for understanding the present state and future development of the mass media. Current trends in communications as well as media impact on public opinion are studied and reported on.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances on Processing for Multiple Carrier
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Telework in the Federal Government
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Emergency Communications: Policy, Technology &
Book SynopsisThe United States has yet to find a solution that assures seamless communications among first responders and emergency personnel at the scene of a major disaster. Since September 11, 2001, when communications failures contributed to the tragedies of the day, Congress has passed several laws intended to create a nationwide emergency communications capability. The 111th Congress considered pivotal issues, such as radio frequency spectrum license allocation and funding programs for a Public Safety Broadband Network (PSBN), without finding a solution that satisfied the expectations of both public safety and commercial network operators. This book explores the areas where changes in existing policies and practices may facilitate achievement of the important goals for emergency communications that Congress and others have identified. Why these goals have become important, and recent planning efforts to achieve these goals is discussed.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Social Networking: Recent Trends, Emerging Issues
Book SynopsisSocial networking focuses on social relationships (eg: friendships) diagrammed as nodes (points) and links (ties or edges between points). Social network analysis (SNA) examines features of such relationships within a social networking system, including how such social interactions change over time. SNA can measure and map "connectedness" or "flow" (eg: information, resources, etc.) within and across individuals, groups, and organisations. SNA can examine these ties in virtual- or geo-temporal spaces -- yielding rich mixed methods possibilities and wide application to a host of scientific phenomena. The advent of social media established a cultural meme that carries social network concepts to broader public audiences, and that reinforces SNA''s path to be a powerful interdisciplinary approach. Google Ngram viewer shows the use of "social network analysis" in the corpus of books burgeoned in the late 1960s, and has continued to grow exponentially since the 1990s. The conceptual and methodological reach now extends both widely -- across scientific disciplines -- and deeply -- as field advances arise with the rapid pace of new inquiries. Facing this tremendous promulgation and diversification of SNA, this book distills essential frontiers across fields. Introducing emerging issues in the application of social network theory and SNA, and how these can or will be addressed, each chapter illuminates new trends or applications of a social network approach that can have wide potential impact in other disciplines. Conceptual advances (eg: applying the concepts of social networks such as peer influence on disease management and treatment adherence), as well as novel analytic approaches for studying properties of social networks are highlighted.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Telecommunications: Applications, Modern
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Optical Communication Systems: Fundamentals,
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement:
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Television & Romance: Studies, Observations &
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PHI Learning Telecommunication Switching Systems and Networks
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Saurabh Publishing House Information Technology
Book SynopsisThe present text has been designed for students of computer science as an introduction to information technology. The present text has been designed for students of computer science as an introduction to information technology.
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Saurabh Publishing House Information Technology
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Tapir Academic Press Tore Olaus Engset, 1865-1943: The Man Behind the
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Oxford University Press Inc Photonics
Book SynopsisThis textbook is designed for senior undergraduate and first year graduate students in eletrical engineering departments taking photonics, optoelectronics or optical communications courses. The text covers key subjects in optical electronics and their applications in modern optical communications where optical waves are used as carriers of information for local and long distance transmission. This new edition of Amnon Yariv''s classic titles offers more explanations of mathematical derivations to help undergraduate students, and focuses more on course topics than on research applications. This book is part of the Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering (OSECE).Trade Review"It moves the debate forward in diverse and original ways." - Anne Schwenkenbecher, Australasian Journal of PhilosophyTable of Contents1. Electromagnetic Fields and Waves; 2. Rays and Optical Beams; 3. Dielectric Waveguides and Optical Fibers; 4. Optical Resonators; 5. Interaction of Radiation and Atomic Systems; 6. Theory of Laser Oscillation and Some Specific Laser Systems; 7. Chromatic Dispersion and Polarization Mode Dispersion in Fibers; 8. Nonlinear Optics; 9. Electro-Optics and AO modulators; 10. Noise in Optical Detection and Generation; 11. Detection of Optical Radiation; 12. Periodic Structures; 13. Waveguide Coupling; 14. Nonlinear Optical Effects in Fibers; 15. Semiconductor Lasers; 16. Advanced Semiconductor Lasers; 17. Optical Amplifiers; 18. Classical Treatment of Quantum Optics, Quantum Noise, and Squeezing; A. WAVE EQUATION IN CYLINDRICAL COORDINATES AND BESSEL FUNCTIONS; B. EXACT SOLUTIONS OF THE STEP-INDEX CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDE; C. KRAMERS-KRONIG RELATIONS; D. TRANSFORMATION OF A COHERENT ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD BY A THIN LENS; E. FERMI LEVEL AND ITS TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; F. ELECTRO-OPTIC EFFECT IN CUBIC 43M CRYSTALS; G. CONVERSION FOR POWER UNITS AND ATTENUATION UNITS
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Oxford University Press, USA Introduction to Error Control Codes 9 Textbooks in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Book SynopsisProvides a foundation in the field of error control codes, leading the student step by step through this complex topic, beginning with single parity code checks and repetition codes. Throughout, there are many examples and complex mathematical proofs are omitted to keep the text concise.Table of ContentsBlock codes ; Linear codes ; Cyclic codes ; Linear feedback shift registers for encoding and decoding cyclic codes ; Linear algebra ; Galois fields ; Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem Codes ; Convolutional Codes
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Oxford University Press The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Book SynopsisAround the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people are developing their political identities--including a transnational Muslim identity--online. In countries where political parties are illegal, the internet is the only infrastructure for democratic discourse. In others, digital technologies such as mobile phones and the internet have given key actors an information infrastructure that is independent of the state. And in countries with large Muslim communities, mobile phones and the internet are helping civil society build systems of political communication independent of the state and beyond easy manipulation by cultural or religious elites. This book looks at the role that communications technologies play in advancing democratic transitions iTrade ReviewA long-awaited inquiry into the politics of the Internet...Howard's book is an innovative contribution among the overwhelming amount of writings about the role of the Internet in the Middle East...Howard puts much effort in explaining the multifaceted results, adding tables to summarize important findings. This nuanced approach is a pleasant break from the often-found urge for absolute (utopian or dystopian) claims...The book is highly recommended as required reading for technology experts, graduate students, and longer serving academics alike. * Political Communication *At a time when everyone is asking whether new media affects politics in the Mid-East, Philip Howard has produced the definitive answer in his book. This is an impressive work of scholarship, both in its quantitative approach to international affairs and in its conclusions, which will be of interest to social scientists and policy makers alike. * Clay Shirky, New York University and author of Cognitive Surplus *This book presents a most challenging and original analysis of the cultural and political dynamics of the Muslim world through the lens of the interaction between communication technology and politics. It breaks new ground in our understanding of the implications of digital technology for socio-political change. It will become a reference in political communication for the years to come. * Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern California-Los Angeles *For too long the literature on the politics of the new information technologies has been empirically thin and theoretically overheated. By substituting systematic empirical analysis for anecdote and nuanced interpretation for hyperbole, Howard has written an original and important book that scholars of comparative politics, democratization, contentious politics and the new information technologies will be obliged to read. As he provocatively reminds us (quoting Kranzberg), 'technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral. * Doug McAdam, Professor of Sociology and Director of Urban Studies, Stanford University *In contests between dictatorship and democracy, new media exert increasingly determinative influence. Philip Howard provides a detailed, thoughtful analysis of how the flow of information and tools of communication are reshaping global politics. * Philip Seib, Director of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PROLOGUE: REVOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST WILL BE DIGITIZED; INTRODUCTION: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM MEDIA SYSTEMS; CONCLUSION: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DEMOCRATIC ISLAM; REFERENCES; INDEX
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Taylor & Francis Radio Programming Tactics and Strategies
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MIT Press Media Technologies Essays on Communication
Book SynopsisScholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena.In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communication and media scholars have increasingly taken theoretical perspectives originating in science and technology studies (STS), while some STS scholars interested in information technologies have linked their research to media studies inquiries into the symbolic dimensions of these tools. In this volume, scholars from both fields come together to advance this view of media technologies as complex sociomaterial phenomena. The contributors first address the relationship between materiality and mediation, considering such topics as the
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Springer Network Management and Control Series 48
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Springer GuidedWave Optoelectronics Device Characterization Analysis and Design Contributions to Statistics
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Springer UltraWideband ShortPulse Electromagnetics 5
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Palgrave Macmillan The Information Superhighway Strategic Alliances in Telecommunications and Multimedia Macmillan Business
Book SynopsisThis text explores the shape of the partnerships between cable, TV, entertainment and multi-media companies, and how they lower entry fees, consolidate technologies and influence regulatory structure.Table of ContentsTelephone and Cable Television - The Main Drivers; US West's Full Service Network; AT&T's Alliances; Multimedia Alliances; Wireless Communications; The German Market; R&D Consortia; Joint Development Alliances; Telecom Equipment Integration at Unisource; Northern Telecom - Ameritech; Internal Ventures; Re-engineering an Alliance - A Customer Service Program. Appendices: Questionnaire; 1984 Cable Act - Section 533; Bellcore Customers and Areas of Collaboration.
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Springer Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting Networks
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Springer Autonomic Communication
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Springer Emerging Optical Network Technologies Architectures Protocols and Performance
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Springer Queueing Theory with Applications to Packet Telecommunication
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Springer Emerging Location Aware Broadband Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
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Springer Design and Performance of 3G Wireless Networks and Wireless LANs
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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. RF System Design of Transceivers for Wireless
Book SynopsisFundamentals of System Design.- Radio Architectures and Design Considerations.- Receiver System Analysis and Design.- Transmitter System Analysis and Design.- Applications of System Design.Table of Contents1. Introduction. 1.1. Wireless Systems. 1.2. System Design Convergence. 1.3. Organization of This Book. -2. Fundamentals of System Design. 2.1. Linear Systems and Transformations. 2.2. Nonlinear System Representation and Analysis Approaches. 2.3. Noise and Random Process. 2.4. Elements of Digital Base-Band System. -3. Radio Architectures and Design Considerations. 3.1. Superheterodyne Architecture. 3.2. Direct Conversion (Zero IF) Architecture. 3.3. Low IF Architecture. 3.4. Band-Pass Sampling Radio Architecture. Appendix 3A. Intermodulation Distortion Formulas. Appendix 3B. Effective Interference Evaluation of Second Order Distortion Products. Appendix 3C. I and Q Imbalance and Image Rejection Formula. Appendix 3D. Estimation of ADC Equivalent Noise Figure.-4. Receiver System Analysis and Design. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Sensitivity and Noise Figure of Receiver. 4.3. Intermodulation Characteristics. 4.4. Single Tone Desensitization. 4.5. Adjacent/Alternate Channel Selectivity and Blocking Characteristics. 4.6. Receiver Dynamic Range and AGC System. 4.7. System Design and Performance Evaluation. Appendix 4A. Conversion Between Power dBm and Electric Field Strength dBuV/m. Appendix 4B. Proof of Relationship (4.4.6) Appendix 4C. A Comparison of Wireless Mobile Station Minimum Performance Requirements. Appendix 4D. An Example of Receiver Performance Evaluation by Means of Matlab.-5. Transmitter System Analysis and Design. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Transmission Power and Spectrum. 5.3. Modulation Accuracy. 5.4. Adjacent and Alternate Channel Power. 5.5. Noise Emission Calculation. 5.6. Some Important Considerations in System Design. Appendix 5A. Approximate Relationship between p and EVM. Appendix 5B. Image Suppression of Transmission Signal. Appendix 5C. Amplifier Nonlinear Simulation: ACPR Calculation. -6. Applications of System Design. 6.1. Multimode and Multiband Superheterodyne Transceiver. 6.2. Direct Conversion Transceiver.
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Springer Complex Orthogonal SpaceTime Processing in Wireless Communications
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Springer Handbook of Optimization in Telecommunications
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Springer The Essence of Dielectric Waveguides
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Springer Networks and Grids
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Springer Resource Management in Satellite Networks Optimization and CrossLayer Design
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Springer Analog Integrated Circuits for Communication
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Springer Wireless Mesh Networks Architectures and Protocols
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Springer Mobile and Wireless Network Security and Privacy
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Springer Wireless Technology
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Springer Analysis of Computer and Communication Networks
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Springer Applied Signal Processing A Matlabbased Proof of Concept Signals and Communication Technology
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Springer Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering
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Springer Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering
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Springer Resource Allocation in Multiuser Multicarrier Wireless Systems
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Springer Advanced Intelligent Environments
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Springer Sensor and AdHoc Networks
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Springer Proceedings of the European Computing Conference
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Springer Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Computer Network Defense
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