Books in the Signals and Communication Technology series

In this book, real life examples are presented to design antenna matching networks over HF and cellular commercial multi-band frequencies. For each example, open MatLab source codes are provided so that the reader can easily generate and verify the results.

The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks

The three books provide a concise exposition of signal processing topics, and a guide to support individual practical exploration based on MATLAB programs. This second book focuses on recent developments in response to the demands of new digital technologies.

This book is of interest to researchers and scholars of music and the brain, nonlinear science, music cognition, music signal processing and music information retrieval.

Quantum Communications

This book collects new results, concepts and further developments of NMF. This book can be a good reference work for researchers and engineers interested in NMF, and can also be used as a handbook for students and professionals seeking to gain a better understanding of the latest applications of NMF.

This book provides ample coverage of theoretical and experimental state-of-the-art work as well as new trends and directions in the biometrics field. While this book covers a range of biometric traits, its main emphasis is placed on multi-sensory and multi-modal face biometrics algorithms and systems.

Blind Source Separation intends to report the new results of the efforts on the study of Blind Source Separation (BSS). The book is likely to be of interest to university researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in computer science and electronics who wish to learn the core principles, methods, algorithms and applications of BSS.

This book provides scientific understanding of the most central techniques used in speech coding both for advanced students as well as professionals with a background in speech audio and or digital signal processing.

The three books provide a concise exposition of signal processing topics, and a guide to support individual practical exploration based on MATLAB programs.This book includes MATLAB codes to illustrate each of the main steps of the theory, offering a self-contained guide suitable for independent study.

The three books provide a concise exposition of signal processing topics, and a guide to support individual practical exploration based on MATLAB programs.This book includes MATLAB codes to illustrate each of the main steps of the theory, offering a self-contained guide suitable for independent study.

This book introduces key modulation and predistortion techniques for approaching power and spectrum-efficient transmission for wireless communication systems.

This book introducesthe Vienna Simulator Suite for 3rd-Generation Partnership Project(3GPP)-compatible Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) simulators and presentsapplications to demonstrate their uses for describing, designing, and optimizingwireless cellular LTE-A networks. Part One addresses LTEand LTE-A link level techniques.

This book covers the basics of processing and spectral analysis of monovariate discrete-time signals. Prior advanced mathematical skills are not needed in order to understand the contents: a good command of basic mathematical analysis is sufficient.

This book focuses on practical computational electrodynamics, guiding the reader step-by-step through the modeling process from the initial "what question must the model answer?", through the setting up of a computer model, to post processing, validation and optimization.

This monograph presents a collection of major developments leading toward the implementation of white space technology - an emerging wireless standard for using wireless spectrum in locations where it is unused by licensed users.

This book reviews past and present work on discriminative and hierarchical models for both acoustic and language modeling. It also analyzes the research direction and trends towards establishing future-generation speech recognition.

This book examines the reasons why various groups around the world choose not to adopt broadband services and evaluates strategies to stimulate the demand that will lead to increased broadband use.

This is the first book devoted to mobility management, covering the important principles, technologies and applications of mobility management based on years of academic research and industry experiences.

Full of robust algorithms and evaluation tools suitable for a wide range of application scenarios, this self-contained text explains the fundamental concepts underlying adaptive signal processing and combines rigor with accessible mathematical language.

This book offers a timely reflection on how the proliferation of advanced wireless communications technologies, particularly cognitive radio (CR) can be enabled by thoroughly-considered policy and appropriate regulation.

This book examines speech and speaker pattern recognition, speech synthesis, compression and enhancement. Feature extraction techniques, probabilistic models, dimensionality reduction techniques and classifier techniques are demonstrated using Matlab (R).

Speech Dereverberation gathers together an overview, a mathematical formulation of the problem and the state-of-the-art solutions for dereverberation. Speech Dereverberation presents current approaches to the problem of reverberation.

From the usage of mobile phones - either as simple telephone or for data transmissions - over the new form of telephone service Voice over IP (VoIP), up to the widely used Internet at the users own PC, in all instances the transmission of the information, encoded in a digital form, relies on the Internet Protocol (IP).

Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) has become the tool to design any type of public security systems, in particular due to the strongly increased security demands for mobile systems.

Video Coding Standards

This book provides an analysis of the role of fog computing, cloud computing, and Internet of Things in providing uninterrupted context-aware services as they relate to Healthcare 4.0. It also considers aspects required to manage the complexity of fog computing for Healthcare 4.0 and also develops a comprehensive taxonomy.

This book provides a detailed review of millimeter-wave power amplifiers, discussing design issues and performance limitations commonly encountered in light of the latest research.