Books published by River Publishers

Advanced Control Systems: Theory and Applications provides an overview of advanced research lines in control systems as well as in design, development and implementation methodologies for perspective control systems and their components in different areas of industrial and special applications.

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Spreading a culture of tolerance and peace is necessary to address contemporary issues of world peace. This book aims to increase feelings of openness and respect toward others, solidarity and sharing based on a sense of security in one's own identity and capacity to recognize dimensions of being human in different cultural and social contexts.

This book on electronic skin takes into account not only sensing materials, but it also provides a thorough assessment of the current state of the art at system level. The book addresses embedded electronics and tactile data processing and decoding, techniques for low power embedded computing, and the communication interface.

Whilst our outside world is modifying into a more complex and hybrid networked world, our most intimate dwelling, our home, is at risk of falling behind as for many it seems to have remained the same as it has been for many decades. This book explores what it means to have a home in such a networked world.

This book focuses on the implications of digitalization for the domain of work. The book studies the changing nature of work as well as new forms of digitally enabled organizations, work practices and cooperation. The book sheds light on the technological, economic, and political forces shaping the new world of work.

The Book is intended for a course on signals and systems at the senior undergraduate level. The authors consider all the requirements and tools used in analysis and design of discrete time systems for filter design and 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.

Control systems are pervasive in our lives. Our homes have environmental controls. The appliances we use at home, such as the washing machine, microwave, etc. have embedded controllers. We fly in airplanes and drive automobiles, which make extensive use of control systems. The increasing automation in the past few decades has increased our reliance on control systems.A First Course in Control System Design discusses control systems design from a model-based perspective as applicable to single-input single-output systems. The emphasis in this book is on understanding and applying the techniques that enable the design of effective control systems. The book covers the time-domain and the frequency-domain design methods, as well as the design of continuous-time and discrete-time systems.Technical topics discussed in the book include: Modeling of physical systemsAnalysis of transfer function and state variable modelsControl system design via root locus Control system design in the state-spaceControl design of sampled-data systemsCompensator design via frequency response modification

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.

This book describes the possible development and organization of self-healing computing based on cyber immunity techniques and aimed at working in the new realm of Industry 4.0. The book describes the author's R&D in cyber-immunity systems that will prevent the destruction of critical information infrastructure by future unknown cyber-attacks.

The book gives an understanding of the underlying principles of advanced VLSI technology. It focuses technological aspects of prototyping and fabrication. All the clocking processes, interconnects, and circuits of CMOS are explained. The contents on VLSI Physical Design Automation, Design of VLSI Devices and also its Impact on Physical Design.

This book illustrates different aspects of local strategic development introducing a novel interpretation of the intimate relationship between demographic and economic aspects in complex socio-environmental systems. A specific approach investigating the mechanisms of local development, cultural and environmental values is proposed.

Provides future and current VSLI design engineers with a robust understanding of the underlying principles of the subject. The book not only focuses on circuit design processes obeying VLSI rules but also on technological aspects of fabrication. The Hardware Description Language (HDL) Verilog is also explained along with its modelling style.

In smart home automation, several common smart home automation protocols that allow different devices to speak and communicate together have appeared during the last few decades. This book introduces to the reader some of the most popular Microcontroller and Smart home networks.

Due to the wide spread of serial communication from home automation to sensor and controller networks, there is a need for a very large number of serial communication standards and protocols. The main aim of the book is to provide communication engineers enough knowledge to match the right protocol and standard with the right application.

This book is intended to serve as a complementary textbook for courses dealing with Linear Amplification, but also as a professional book, for engineers who need to update their knowledge in the electronics, control, and communications areas.

Provides a comprehensive update of the latest scientific research, mainly in virtual reality and partly in augmented reality, from the last five years. The content is themed around the application areas of training, education, robotics, health and well-being, and user experience.

Over the past two decades we have witnessed the increasing popularity of the internet of things. The vision of billions of connected objects, able to interact with their environment, is the key driver directing the development of future communication devices. Today, power consumption as well as the cost and size of radios remain some of the key obstacles towards fulfilling this vision. Ultra-Low Power FM-UWB Transceivers for IoT presents the latest developments in the field of low power wireless communication. It promotes the FM-UWB modulation scheme as a candidate for short range communication in different IoT scenarios. The FM-UWB has the potential to provide exactly what is missing today. This spread spectrum technique enables significant reduction in transceiver complexity, making it smaller, cheaper and more energy efficient than most alternative options.The book provides an overview of both circuit-level and architectural techniques used in low power radio design, with a comprehensive study of state-of-the-art examples. It summarizes key theoretical aspects of FM-UWB with a glimpse at potential future research directions. Finally, it gives an insight into a full FM-UWB transceiver design, from system level specifications down to transistor level design, demonstrating the modern power reduction circuit techniques.Ultra-Low Power FM-UWB Transceivers for IoT is a perfect text and reference for engineers working in RF IC design and wireless communication, as well as academic staff and graduate students engaged in low power communication systems research.

Based on presentations given at the 2nd IEEE United Kingdom Circuits and Systems (UKCAS 2019) Workshop. The book covers several advanced topics in the areas of semiconductor devices, circuits and systems, and energy harvesting; discussing their application in emerging implantable and wearable technologies and IoT.

Over the past decade, tremendous development of wireless communications has changed human life and engineering. Considerable advancement has been made in design and architecture of related RF and microwave circuits. Introduction to Wireless Communication Circuits focuses on special circuits dedicated to the RF level of wireless communications. From oscillators to modulation and demodulation, and from mixers to RF and power amplifier circuits, all are presented in a sequential manner. A wealth of analytical relations is provided in the text alongside various worked out examples. Related problem sets are given at the end of each chapter. Basic concepts of RF Analog Circuit Design are developed in the book. Technical topics discussed include:- Wireless Communication System- RF Oscillators and Phase Locked Loops- Modulator and Demodulator Circuits- RF Mixers- Automatic Gain Control and Limiters- Microwave Circuits, Transmission Lines and S-Parameters- Matching Networks- Linear Amplifier Design and Power Amplifiers- Linearization TechniquesThis textbook is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as RF Engineers and professionals.

Using case studies, this book encourages readers to view economic development through the lens of growing inequalities and disparities. The books main aim is therefore to direct the efforts of scholars, practitioners and policymakers to swiftly find the balance between the three pillars of sustainable development.

The operational theme permeating most definitions of the IoT concept, is the wireless communication of networked objects, in particular, smart sensing devices and machines, exchanging data a la Internet. In this book, a detailed look is taken at the fundamental principles of devices and techniques whose exploitation will facilitate the development of compact, power-efficient, autonomous, smart, networked sensing nodes underlying and encompassing the emerging IoT era.The book provides an understanding of nanoelectromechanical quantum circuits and systems (NEMX), as exemplified by firstly the uncovering of their origins, impetus and motivation, and secondly by developing an understanding of their device physics, including, the topics of actuation, mechanical vibration and sensing. Next the fundamentals of key devices, namely, MEMS/NEMS switches, varactors and resonators are covered, including a wide range of implementations. The book then looks at their energy supply via energy harvesting, as derived from wireless energy and mechanical vibrations. Finally, after an introduction to the fundamentals of IoT networks and nodes, the book concludes with an exploration of how the NEMX components are encroaching in a variety of emerging IoT applications.

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.

ScopeThe journal covers security issues in cyber space and solutions thereof. As cyber space has moved towards the wireless/mobile world, issues in wireless/mobile communications will also be published. The publication will take a holistic view. Some example topics are: security in mobile networks, security and mobility optimization, cyber security, cloud security, Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine technologies.