Books in the Information and Communication Technology Series, series

Delivers practical know-how and trade-offs for designing software applications that reside on the mobile devices. Provides insights into social networking, user generated content applications, personalized location based services and highly targeted advertising which are context aware.

This revised edition immerses practicing and aspiring industry professionals in the complex world of RF design.

This self contained reference text gives engineers insights into applying the DSP principles to solve the problems of radar imaging. Covers the development of new hardware (higher speed DSP, larger capacity with reduced cost memory, FPGA, ASIC) and the system architecture to impact the radar imaging processing.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of current and debated future networking technologies. It gives insight into building end-to-end networks and services with Carrier Ethernet, PBT, MPLS-TP, and VPLS while also shedding light on the pros and cons of these technologies for service providers and enterprise network owners.

Wifi, WiMAX, and Cellular Multihop Networks presents an overview of WiFi-based and WiMAX-based multihop relay networks. As the first text to cover IEEE 802. 16j multihop hop relay technology, this revolutionary resource explores the latest advances in multi-hop and ad-hoc networking.

There is a growing need for books and preparatory materials that can help wireless engineers prepare for the IEEE WCET (Wireless Communications Engineering Technologies) certification exam.

A unique book that specifically addresses equitable resource allocation problems with applications in communication networks, manufacturing, emergency services, and more Resource allocation problems focus on assigning limited resources in an economically beneficial way among competing activities.

Owing to their safety applications, cooperative vehicle systems, which use sensors and wireless technologies to reduce traffic accidents, continue to be the focus of heavy research and development efforts around the world.

As demand for data increases, Smart Data Pricing fills a market void in information on telecommunication economics. The book carefully addresses technical issues and workplace policies, system development and integration, research proposals, and business assessments.

This book discusses the fundamentals of RFID and the state-of-the-art research results in signal processing for RFID, including MIMO, blind source separation, anti-collision, localization, covert RFID and chipless RFID. Aimed at graduate students as well as academic and professional researchers/engineers in RFID technology, it enables readers to become conversant with the latest theory and applications of signal processing for RFID. Key Features: Provides a systematic and comprehensive insight into the application of modern signal processing techniques for RFID systems Discusses the operating principles, channel models of RFID, RFID protocols and analog/digital filter design for RFID Explores RFID-oriented modulation schemes and their performance Highlights research fields such as MIMO for RFID, blind signal processing for RFID, anti-collision of multiple RFID tags, localization with RFID, covert RFID and chipless RFID Contains tables, illustrations and design examples

The book examines how Fog will change the information technology industry in the next decade. Fog distributes the services of computation, communication, control and storage closer to the edge, access and users. As a computing and networking architecture, Fog enables key applications in wireless 5G, the Internet of Things, and big data.