Books in the River Publishers Series in Communications series

Covers CONASENSE Architecture; Performance Analyses of Integrated Communication Systems; Cognitive Radio Networks; Brain Computer Interfacing; Quality Improvement of Generic Services; Machine to Machine Communications; and Chip to Chip Communications.

The book addresses the current demand for a scientific approach to advanced wireless technology and its future developments, including the current move from 4G to 5G wireless systems (2020), and the future to 6G wireless systems (2030). It gives a presentation of both antennas and the adaptive signal processing.

Provides an overview of the Internet of Things - covering new ideas, concepts, research and innovation to enable the development of IoT technologies in a global context. Coverage includes research, technological innovation, validation, and deployment.

Focuses on the new technologies and services enabled by 5G networks or broadband internet networks, including artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, augmented reality, Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous driving, blockchain solutions, and cloud solutions.

Focusses on recent technologies and applications of wireless power transfer (WPT) via radio waves in far field. The book also covers the history and future of WPT via radio waves, as well as safety, EMC and coexistence of radio waves for WPT.

Addresses the issue of cybersecurity and privacy. Technical topics discussed include cybersecurity; encryption; privacy policy; trust; security and the Internet of Things; Botnets; data risks; cloudbased services; and visualization.

Major advances have been reported in Brain-Computer Interface / Brain-Machine Interface (BCI/BMI) applied to rehabilitation. This subject received much attention within the Society on Communication, Navigation, Sensing and Services (CONASENSE). Describing the state of the art on various BCI/BMI activities related to neuro-rehabilitation is the central theme of this book.

Provides insights in to the process of identifying user requirements by describing varying case studies in which technologies or software has been developed. A variety of user requirements are provided illustrating the effect of changing the targeted user group with respect to age, to the context and the different technologies or software.

Provides a clear insight into the basics of compressed sensing; a thorough exploration of applying CS to audio, image and computer vision; different dimensions of applying CS in Cognitive radio networks; CS in wireless sensor network for spatial compression and projection; and efficient methods to sample and reconstruct the images in resource constrained WMSN environment.

Provides a broad overview of the Internet of Things (IoT), ranging from research, innovation and development priorities to enabling technologies, nanoelectronics, cyber-physical systems, architecture, interoperability and industrial applications. The book presents global views and state of the art results on the challenges facing the research, innovation, development and deployment of IoT.

Provides a broad overview of various topics related to the Internet of Things, from research, innovation and development priorities to enabling technologies, nanoelectronics, cyber physical systems, architecture, interoperability and industrial applications. The book presents global views and state of the art results on the challenges facing the research, development and deployment of IoT.

Provides an overview of the next generation Internet of Things (IoT), ranging from research, innovation, development priorities, to enabling technologies in a global context. It is intended as a standalone in a series covering the activities of the Internet of Things European Research Cluster.

Examines what privacy is and some of the technologies that may help us to regain some privacy. The book discusses what privacy is about, what the different aspects of privacy may be and why privacy needs to be there by default. Technologies that are specifically designed to help us regain some digital privacy are discussed.

The Indian Institute of Information Technology has organised international and national seminars since 2008 to deliberate on the application of information communication technologies [ICT] in the rehabilitation of people with disabilities. This book is a collection of 20 articles based on the presentations made in the seminars.

Offers a compendium of emerging smart techniques using artificial intelligence for diagnosis, bio-informatics data analysis and biomedical systems. This book details innovative applications of neural networks, computer vision, panoramic image processing, electroencephalography, electromyography and specialized information delivery based on smart sensors.

Relay systems have become a subject of intensive research interest over the recent years, as it is recognized that they can improve performances and extend the coverage area of wireless communication systems. Special attention has been dedicated to them since the proposal appeared for their implementation in mobile cellular systems. Numerous researches conducted after that proposal have enabled incorporation of OFDM based relay systems in both accepted standards for IMT-Advanced systems. Nowadays, researches are ongoing with the aim to define new solutions for performance improvement of the standardized OFDM relay systems for cellular networks and one of the interesting solutions is implementation of subcarrier permutation (SCP) at the relay (R) station. The book "e;OFDM based relay systems for future wireless communications"e; presents a comprehensive research results in analyzing behavior and performance of the OFDM based relay systems with SCP. Dual-hop relay scenario with three communication terminals, and no direct link between the source (S) and the destination (D) has been analyzed, as it is compliant with the accepted solutions for IMT-Advanced systems. The book includes performance analysis and performance comparison of OFDM based: amplify-and-forward (AF) relay systems with fixed gain (FG), amplify-and-forward (AF) relay systems with variable gain (VG), decode-and-forward (DF) relay systems,each including two SCP schemes, known to maximize the system capacity and/or improve the bit error rate (BER) performances. Performance comparisons have enabled definition of optimal solutions for the future wireless communication systems in a given conditions, and for the given optimality criteria. OFDM based relay systems for future wireless communications contains recent research results in this area and is ideal for the academic staff and master/research students in area of mobile communication systems, as well as for the personnel in communication industry.

Future broadband wireless communication systems are expected to be able to offer new and powerful services enabling fast transmission rates of several tens of Mbit/s. This is an ambitious challenge especially for mobile communication systems since these systems should be able to cope with severely time dispersive channels, associated to the signal multipath propagation. Moreover, these systems should have high spectral and power efficiencies, as well as high capacity and flexibility. Spread spectrum techniques, particularly coded division multiple access (CDMA) techniques allow high capacity and flexibility, continuous transmission requiring low-peak power requirements for the amplifiers, as well as some robustness against fading and time-dispersion effects associated with the multipath propagation. When employed in prefix assisted (PA) block transmission schemes combined with frequency-domain receiver implementations they become especially interesting for broadband wireless systems. In Frequency-Domain Multiuser Detection for CDMA Systems the use of PA block transmission is considered in the context of both DS (Direct Sequence) and MC (Multicarrier) CDMA schemes. The main goal is the study of frequency-domain multiuser detection techniques with iterative signal detection/decoding techniques, also in combination with estimation and cancelation of nonlinear distortion effects. The receiver structures are suitable to scenarios with high interference levels and strongly time-dispersive channels.

The potential appkications of the integration of navigation, sensing and services are vast. This book examines the fundamentals of this new approach to integrated communication, navigation, sensing and services (Conasense).

For the vision of Europe 2020 as a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy to become reality, the EU have set forth the 20:20:20 targets by which greenhouse gas emissions and energy reduction of primary use should be reduced by 20% while 20% of energy consumption should come from renewable resources.

The Internet of Things is the emerging technology which interconnects smart objects using wireless communications. After having been extensively studied in academic labs, the Internet of Things is now widely applied in the industrial world (domestic automation, smart metering, smart cities).

Explores the idiosyncrasies of how to plan various types of wireless networks. Packed with details of the technologies that support each network type, this cutting-edge reference leads the reader step by step on how to plan and optimize various types of wireless networks.

Reviews some specific topics in the field of future internet and technologies that are closely related to the issue of finding effective solutions for the management of resources and performance. Technical topics discussed include future internet technologies; internet of things; multimedia networks; wireless access networks; positioning and localization in communications; and resource management.