Books published by Artech House Publishers

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) offer practitioners an effective way to achieve network connectivity in difficult wiring areas and provide enhanced flexibility for moving and extending networks. Today the most critical WLAN/Wireless IP (Internet Protocol) issues involve security, mobility, and quality of service, and this practical new resource addresses these hot topics head-on. The book gives professionals a solid understanding of important standards and presents numerous networking options for their challenging projects in the field. Moreover, practitioners find guidance on deployment, insights on interworking with third generation mobile communications systems, and discussions on the market and business aspects of WLANS.

A study of the architectures of the systems that provide telephone service, including a look at architectures for future systems. It describes the hardware and software of five different systems in detail and also examines how factors such as customer services have affected switching systems.

Covers the fundamentals of error-correcting codes for the non-specialist user, from general concepts through to common error-correcting codes applied to bit transmission in packet switched networks and personal cellular systems. It includes sections on linear blockades, BCH codes and cyclic codes.

This volume and CD-ROM package has been designed with the aim of helping professionals to achieve a high level of communications expertise.

This work offers professionals and students an understanding of the regulatory, economic, business, and public policy considerations associated with entry into global telecommunications markets from a commercial governmental and legal perspective.

An introduction to developments in database systems design, from an applications point of view. Featuring contributions from experts, it pays special attention to issues raised by new trends in database design, and how these developments affect the programmer and database administrator.

A comprehensive analysis of the current status and future prospects of the emerging mobile telecommunications markets in Central and Eastern Europe. Clear, in-depth explanations of standards, regulations and technology are provided.

This detailed volume and accompanying CD-ROM focus on the set electronic transaction (SET) system and review the fundamentals through to practical instruction on how to develop and implement the entire SET system. The book should be of interest to business executives as well as engineers.

Drawing upon his experience in building the first major CDMA network in North America, Samuel Yang explains the essentials of CDMA wireless technology, helping the reader acquire the knowledge needed to engineer and implement an IS-95 based CDMA system.

Beginning with first principles of telecommunications electronics, this work introduces basic electrical and electronic definitions. More complex telecommunications concepts and computer-based systems are then covered. This edition covers CD-ROM, quadrature amplitude modulation, and more.

The first part of this book discusses a wide range of issues related to the development of robust, context-sensitive, and efficient data fusion algorithms. The second part addresses database requirements, structures, and issues related to achieving overall computational efficiency.

A comprehensive discussion of the bias dependence of equivalent circuit parameters for the three devices and an extensive discussion of temperature dependence. It covers recess-etched MESFETs and self-aligned MESFETs with and without lightly-doped-drains and JFETs, among other topics.

Examines high-frequency predictions of radar cross section, the impact of radar echo reduction measures on overall system performance and exact and general formulation of the radar echo prediction problem. Aims to show the nonspecialist how radar echo requirements may influence design objectives.

A study of OFDM, including a comparison with other forms of single carrier modulation methods. It provides the design guidelines for maximising the benefits from this technology. There is practical advice on how to plan, design and use OFDM to make wireless multimedia communications happen.

A systems engineering-level introduction to the field of Information Warfare (IW), this text provides an overview of threats to commercial, civil and military information systems, and shows how these threats can be identified and systems protected.

This follow-up to the first volume presents an integrated survey of the most recent research, engineering development and commercial application of amorphous and microcrystalline semiconductor devices, with emphasis on materials properties and their relationship to performance.

This text offers a comprehensive treatment of the entire GSM network and the signalling methods of its terrestrial interfaces. It introduces all the interfaces between the GSM subsystems, starting with the Abis- and Air-Interface and continuing on to VLRs, HLRs and MSCs within the NSS.

This book presents the basic principles, analyses, design formulas, and characteristics of various fin-line configurations. You'll find summaries of hundreds of rigorous formulas as well as approximate closed-form expressions, which can be readily programmed to generate design data for any structure.

A discussion of basic security problems and relevant solutions for those maintaining the security of e-commerce sites. It covers designing secure Web, e-commerce and mobile commerce applications; securing your internal network; and providing secure employee/user authentication.

An introduction to intelligent network concepts, technology and applications for use in mobile communications networks. It demonstrates how to bring new services to market by explaining the technology, standards, marketability concerns, product development issues and evolutionary trends.

A comprehensive survey of steganography and watermarking and their application to modern communications and multimedia. It explores the differences between the methods, including discussion of their history, the hurdles of international law on cryptographic techniques, and "steganalysis".

Using the Bayesian inference framework, this book enables the reader to design and develop mathematically sound algorithms for dealing with tracking problems involving multiple targets, multiple sensors, and multiple platforms.

Since the first edition, the authors prediction that mobile communications would change worldwide communications has come true. This second edition is concerned with antenna design techniques that will improve mobile capacity and flexibility.

Offers you an in-depth understanding of wireless sensor networks from a systems perspective. This book describes and categorizes the technological trends, leading applications, platform developments, future trends, and challenges of sensor networks. It also provides coverage of network protocols and mechanisms for node localization.

Luck (University of Southampton, UK) explains the methods, tools, standards, and techniques used to develop software using the agent- oriented approach. Addressing issues of direct relevance to specific software development and task objectives, as well as to industry-wide initiatives, the book descri

For professionals who need to design, implement or manage a quality software program, this volume identifies ten major components that make up a solid program in line with ISO 9001 quality management precepts. This second edition contains updated references, text revisions and new chapters.

This system-level resource applies knowledge management principles, practices and technologies to the intelligence domain. It describes the essential principles of intelligence, from collection, processing and analysis to dissemination, for both national intelligence and business applications.

A study of how ISO 9001 and CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) can be used together to improve process quality. It shows how organizations can streamline their quality process improvement programmes by capitalizing on the similarities the models share and minimizing their differences.