Preface xiii List of abbreviations xv A guide to the book xxiii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 The vision of Ambient Intelligence 1 1.2 Application examples 3 1.3 Types of applications 6 1.4 Challenges for WSNs 7 1.4.1 Characteristic requirements 7 1.4.2 Requ
1.Introduction;2.Review of Wireless Communications and MIMO Techniques; 3.Two-User Cooperative Transmission Schemes; 4.Cooperative Transmission Schemes with Multiple Relays; 5.Fundamental limits of Cooperative and Relay Networks; 6.Cooperative Commu
For complex computer networks with many tunable parameters and network performance objectives, the task of selecting the ideal network operating state is difficult. To improve the performance of these kinds of networks, this research proposes the idea
a novel cross-layer framework for optimizing the dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) of a digital video broadcast (DVB)-return channel satellite (RCS) system using adaptive coding is proposed. The design of the medium access control (MAC) methods tak
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted a wide range of disciplines where close interactions with the physical world are essential. The distributed sensing capabilities and the ease of deployment provided by a wireless communication paradigm
authors: Ian F. Akyildiz, Won-Yeol Lee, Mehmet C. Vuran *, Shantidev Mohanty Abstract Today’s wireless networks are characterized by a fixed spectrum assignment policy. However, a large portion of the assigned spectrum is used sporadically and geogr
Embedded systems become more and more complex and require having some knowledge in various disciplines such as electronics, data processing, telecommunications and networks. Without detailing all the aspects related to the design of embedded systems
Part I Introduction 1 1 History of Wireless Networks 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Different Wireless Networks 4 1.3 Conclusion 14 2 Wireless Transmission Fundamentals 17 2.1 Wireless Channels 17 2.2 The Wireless Communication Graph 21 2.3 Power Assignme
The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL for short) is a cross-platfrom library designed to make it easy to write multi-media software, such as games and emulators. The Simple DirectMedia Layer library source code is available from: http://www.libsdl.org/
Research in the area of data communications and networking is well and alive as this collection of contributions show. The book has received enhanced contributions from the authors that published in the inaugural volume of the International Journal
