Books published by Artech House Publishers

Conflict in cyberspace is becoming more prevalent in all public and private sectors and is of concern on many levels. As a result, knowledge of the topic is becoming essential across most disciplines. This book reviews and explains the technologies that underlie offensive and defensive cyber operations, which are practiced by a range of cyber actors including state actors, criminal enterprises, activists, and individuals. It explains the processes and technologies that enable the full spectrum of cyber operations. Readers will learn how to use basic tools for cyber security and pen-testing, and also be able to quantitatively assess cyber risk to systems and environments and discern and categorize malicious activity. The book provides key concepts of information age conflict technical basics/fundamentals needed to understand more specific remedies and activities associated with all aspects of cyber operations. It explains techniques associated with offensive cyber operations, with careful distinctions made between cyber ISR, cyber exploitation, and cyber attack. It explores defensive cyber operations and includes case studies that provide practical information, making this book useful for both novice and advanced information warfare practitioners. The ultimate objective of the book is to provide a concise text book for university students on science and engineering courses as well as for professional practitioners. principles and physical systems used for harvesting and harnessing of renewable resources and makes comprehensive use of worked examples and problems. Readers will also learn how to effectively calculate the cost and payback time for a given renewable energy plant by understanding the factors affecting the cost of generating electricity from a renewable energy system. The book uses a simplified mathematical approach and provides appropriate background material.

This exciting new book presents an excellent coverage of renewable energy technologies and resources. The book focuses on photovoltaics, hydro, tidal, wind, and biomass systems.

Written by prominent experts in the field, this authoritative new resource provides guidelines for performing a wide variety of Vector Network Analyzers (VNA) measurements. The capabilities and limitations of modern VNA in the context of challenging real-world applications are explained, as well as insights for optimizing test setups and instrument settings, making accurate measurements and, equally important, avoiding costly mistakes.

This cutting-edge resource introduces the basic concepts of passive bistatic radar, such as bistatic geometry, bistatic radar equation and analysis of different illuminating signals.

As technologies for wireless communications, including 5G and Internet of Things (IoT), require more complex antennas, practitioners need more information on the best methods to perform measurements on these different types of antennas.

This comprehensive resource provides systems engineers and practitioners with the analytic, design and modeling tools of the Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodology of Integrated Systems Engineering (ISE) and Pipelines of Processes in Object Oriented Architectures (PPOOA) methodology.

This exciting new resource investigates the function of RF communication in electronic warfare systems. The book provides in-depth coverage of how RF signals must be constructed to perform jamming missions, which prevent a receiver from properly extracting a target signal.

This comprehensive overview of 61850 standard/protocol focuses on implementation, taking the reader through the development and concepts of IEC 61850. This includes the initial work by General Motors (Manufacturing Automation Protocol), EPRI (UCA 1.0 and UCA 2.0), IEEE (TR 1550), and IEC 61850. The standard is a significant piece of many IIoT (industrial internet of things) strategies for substation communication.The book discusses and documents the basic research and theory of guaranteed multicast done for IEC 61850 GOOSE as well as the shift from variable technology to object oriented technology. The layering principles, as well as the structure, of IEC 61850 are discussed in detail as well as the actual communication profiles that have been created to support substation/distribution automation, distributed energy resources, and synchrophasors. Real applications will be discussed as well as the future direction of the standard. The author is a technical co-editor of IEC 61850 standard and a leader in US implementations, having been involved with the technology from its inception.

Written by a prominent expert in the field, this updated and expanded second edition of an Artech House classic includes the most recent breakthroughs in vital sign and gender recognition via micro-radar.

Over the past decade, new technologies have drastically changed the way radar and electronic warfare systems are implemented. Packed with illustrations of key assets like aircraft, ships and radars, this book delivers the most up-to-date overview of electronic defence systems and describes new methods of implementing them.

This book examines the new features of LTE technologies and how they integrate into existing LTE networks. The authors provide coverage of how the air interface is structured at the physical level and how the related link protocols are designed and work.

Introduces the concept, technology, and development of cell-based biosensors. This book provides readers with details on the cell-based biosensor models and novel micro-structure biosensor techniques. It explores various trends of cell-based biosensors, including integrated chips, nanotechnology and microfluidics.

Offers a non-technical overview of all the major areas in the computer processing of human speech: speech recognition; speech synthesis; speaker recognition; language identification, lip synchronisation; and co-channel separation.

This comprehensive text provides information on developments in digital broadcasting, encoding practices, standards and systems, emphasizing the transmission aspects of Digital Television (DTV).

Provides an understanding of information warfare operations planning, including offensive, defensive, and influence operations. This book identifies the features of information operations that differ from traditional military operations and reveals why this discipline is important.

This text goes beyond the theory of team dynamics and project management to present real world applications. The culmination of years of experience and research, it describes practical techniques for building successful high performance project teams using actual examples from high-tech companies.

The growing interest in commercial RF applications and high-frequency engineering has triggered a scramble for fundamental design and analysis information. This expertly compiled resource gives microwave engineers instant, one-stop access to a vast range of essential source material in a single convenient volume.

This resource provides an introduction to electronic warfare (EW) for communication systems. Extensively referenced with over 600 equations, it details the components, systems, and operations of electronic warfare systems dedicated to protecting and attacking military communications networks.

With the advent of intelligent vehicle (IV) systems, the age of the electronic co-pilot in road vehicles is here. These cutting-edge systems can monitor nearby traffic, sense a vehicle's movement, and even alert the driver to hit the brakes to avoid a collision. This groundbreaking resource offers professionals a comprehensive overview of IV systems aimed at providing enhanced safety, greater productivity, and less stress for drivers.

Written by an exponent of systems engineering, this examination of systems thinking and methods demonstrates how to use the ideas to create and manage more effective engineering systems. It discusses how to apply systems thinking to the design, implementation and management of engineering systems.

The advent of lithium ion batteries has brought a significant shift in the area of large format battery systems. This book discusses battery management system (BMS) technology for large format lithium-ion battery packs from a systems perspective. It provides a update on BMS technology, covering software, hardware, integration, testing, and safety.

Presents an overview of electromagnetics principles and applications to antenna and microwave circuit design for communications. Offering examples in both exterior differential form calculus and conventional vector notation, this volume is useful for engineers in the communications engineering field, and also suitable for graduate-level courses.

A practical resource for mobile communications engineers considering software radio solutions. It covers systems design and partitioning all the way from the antenna to the management and control software. Various options for hardware are provided, including a look at silicon technologies.

This book deals with electric circuit theory at an introductory level, and keeps derivations to a minimum. It is written in three parts, covering static circuits in the time domain, dynamic circuits, and sinusoidal sources and the so-called AC paradigm, in that order.

This book covers the latest advances in optimal and adaptive MIMO radar for enhanced detection and target ID in challenging environments and demonstrates its utility in real-world applications. It also contains exclusive flight testing data from DARPA, and digs into applications for GMTI radar, OTH radar, maritime radar, and automotive radar.