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Please follow the links to view the publication.Digital Television Fundamentals
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte075e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of audio and video data by digitally processed and multiplexed signals compared to analog and channel separated signals used by analog television. DTV represents the most significant evolution in television technology since color television in the 1950s. The transition from analog to digital broadcasting began around 2006 with many countries at various stages of adaptation. DTV provides new features that analog television cannot support including the need for less bandwidth and higher image resolution, transmission via several channels including terrestrial transmitters using antennas, digital cables and satellites, microwaves and the internet.</p>
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The book editors have gathered global experts to provide an overview of the developments in the field of DTV including fundamentals of human vision; colour vision; television systems and standards; video signal fundamentals; error correction for digital signals; audio compression; MPEG; digital video broadcasting primer and advanced television systems committee standards (ATSC).</p>
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The book will be useful to engineers, researchers and practitioners working in DTV and video systems and in electronics. It is also a useful reference for advanced students and researchers in digital television and broadcasting systems, electrical and electronics engineering and computer science.</p>2023-12-31T00:00:00ZThe Role of 6G and Beyond on the Road to Net-Zero Carbon
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte108e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">In the race against climate change, the focus has turned towards achieving the 2050 net-zero carbon target. Achieving net-zero means balancing between the amount of greenhouse gas removed from the atmosphere and those produced and released. Efforts are needed on both sides to find suitable solutions to reduce released emissions and to remove current emissions from the atmosphere. A collective effort revolving around the utilisation of new technologies, particularly in wireless and mobile communications, is needed to achieve the net-zero carbon target.</p>
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The previous generations of mobile connectivity have already played a crucial role in reducing emissions through such means as smart metering and remote working. Numerous studies have highlighted how vital 5G technology is in mitigating climate change and accelerating the way to net-zero. This is due to the potential 5G technology has in bringing increasing data rates, massive machine type communication, and ultra-low latency. As 5G is rolling out, researchers are researching how the 6th generation of mobile networks (6G) will take the advantages of 5G even further.</p>
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book focuses on the potential of 6G to further expedite the achievement of net-zero. The authors cover the latest research efforts made in utilising 6G technology to solve real societal problems and to thought provoke researchers and scientists in proposing innovative ideas on how 6G can help with the fight against climate change.</p>
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The book is geared towards researchers, engineers, scientists, technology professionals and advanced students in the fields of wireless communication, energy management, green tech and sustainability with a focus on net-zero carbon. It will also serve as an advanced textbook for postgraduate students in mobile communications and energy-related disciplines, and it will be useful to policy makers, 5G and 6G stakeholders, regulators, institutional actors and research agencies to support them in incorporating green sustainable mobile communication networks in their plans for net-zero targets.</p>2023-11-20T00:00:00ZNon-Geostationary Satellite Communications Systems
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte105e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Recent technological advances have made possible the creation of a chain of non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) communications systems. Such systems offer the advantages of ubiquity, relatively low costs, and upgradable infrastructure that enables the use of innovative on-board technologies. This evolution opens up a plethora of opportunities for massive self-organized, reconfigurable and resilient NGSO constellations, which can operate as a global network.</p>
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Ambitious low-orbit constellation types are currently being developed, motivated by advanced communication technologies and cheaper launch costs. These emerging architectures require accurate system orchestration involving different research domains including wireless communications, spectrum management, dynamic antenna and tracking systems, inter-satellite links and routing strategies.</p>
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This edited book presents a broad overview of the research in NGSO constellations for future satellite communication network design including key technologies and architectures and specific use-case-oriented communications design and analysis. The book will be of interest to academic researchers and scientists, communication engineers and industrial actors in satcom, satellite networking and mobile and wireless communication. It will also serve as a useful reference for advanced students and postdocs and lecturers in satellite communication and networking and mobile and wireless communication.</p>2022-12-20T00:00:00ZWireless Mesh Networks for IoT and Smart Cities: Technologies and applications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte101e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are wireless communication networks organized in a mesh topology with radio capabilities. These networks can self-form and self-heal and are not restricted to a specific technology or communication protocol. They provide flexible yet reliable connectivity that cellular networks cannot deliver. Thanks to technological advances in machine learning, software defined radio, UAV/UGV, big data, IoT and smart cities, wireless mesh networks have found much renewed interest for communication network applications.</p>
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This edited book covers state of the art research innovations and future directions in this field. WMNs offer attractive communication solutions in difficult environments such as emergency situations, battlefield surveillance, field operations, disaster recovery, tunnels, oil rigs, high-speed mobile-video applications on board transport, VoIP, and self-organizing internet access for communities. The main topics covered include BLL-based mesh networks, body sensor networks, seamless IoT mobile sensing through Wi-Fi mesh networking, software defined radio for wireless mesh networks, UAV-to-ground multi-hop communication using backpressure and FlashLinQ-based algorithms, unmanned aerial vehicle relay networks, multimedia content delivery in wireless mesh networking, adaptive fuzzy agents in big data and multi-sensor environments and AI-aided resource sharing for WMNs.</p>
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This is a useful reference for ICT networking engineers, researchers, scientists, engineers, advanced students and lecturers in both academia and industry working on wireless communications and WMNs. It is also relevant to developers, designers and manufacturers of WMNs and wireless sensor networks (WSNs); and scientists and engineers working on applications of WNNs and WSNs.</p>2022-06-22T00:00:00ZEnabling Technologies for Social Distancing: Fundamentals, concepts and solutions
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte104e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The latest advances in several emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, privacy-preserving algorithms used in localization and positioning systems, cloud computing and computer vision all have great potential in facilitating social distancing. Benefits range from supporting people to work from home to monitoring micro- and macro- movements such as contact tracing apps using Bluetooth, tracking the movement and transportation level of a city and wireless positioning systems to help people keep a safe distance by alerting them when they are too close to each other or to avoid congestion. However, implementing such technologies in practical scenarios still faces various challenges.</p>
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book aims to lay the foundations of how these technologies could be adopted to realize and facilitate social distancing to better manage pandemics and future outbreaks. Starting with basic concepts, models and practical technology-based social distancing scenarios, the authors present enabling wireless technologies and solutions which could be widely adopted to encourage social distancing. They include symptom prediction, detection and monitoring of quarantined people and contact tracing. In the future, smart infrastructures for next-generation wireless systems should incorporate a pandemic mode in their standard architecture and design.</p>2022-06-08T00:00:00ZEdge Caching for Mobile Networks
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte096e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Caching enables the storage of Internet-based content, including web objects, videos and software updates. When web objects are downloaded from the Internet or across wide-area network (WAN) links, edge caching stores them at the edge of the network. Content can also be proactively cached at the edge based on its predicted popularity. When subsequent requests come for cached material, the content is quickly delivered from edge caching, without the need to download the data again over the WAN. The result is the ability to help save bandwidth, particularly at times of peak network load, increase content delivery, and provide users with a faster and better network experience. In this comprehensive edited book, the editors and authors introduce edge caching in mobile networks from a fundamental perspective and discuss its role in saving bandwidth and reducing latency over wireless channels. Many physical layer models and techniques, including interference alignment and beamforming are considered, as well as recent advances on intelligent and proactive communication systems capable of recommending content to users to improve quality of experience and spectral efficiency. The book provides systematic and thorough coverage of edge caching for mobile networks for an audience of researchers, engineers and scientists from academia and industry working in the fields of information and communication technology, data science and AI.</p>2021-12-22T00:00:00ZMetrology for 5G and Emerging Wireless Technologies
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte099e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Metrology has a pivotal role to ensure the vision of fifth generation (5G) and emerging wireless technologies to be realised. It is essential to develop the underpinning metrology in response to the high demand for universal, dynamic, and data-rich wireless applications. As new technologies for 5G and beyond increasingly emerge in the arena of modern wireless devices/systems, the standards bodies, industries, and research communities are facing the challenge of diverse technological requirements, and on verifying products that meet desired performance parameters. This edited book is the first to focus on metrology for current and future wireless communication technologies. It presents a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art measurement capabilities, testbeds and relevant R&D activities for 5G and emerging wireless technologies at a wide range of frequencies up to THz frequency bands. Several real-world field trials and use cases are also presented. The book focuses on R&D of measurement techniques and metrology for 5G and beyond that underpin all aspects, from signals, devices, antennas, systems and propagation environments to RF exposure. The presented materials describe advances in the triad of measurement system design, measurement techniques, and underpinning metrology required to cover many wireless communications aspects. This book, Metrology for 5G and Emerging Wireless Technologies provides timely support to industry, academia, standard bodies and NMIs during the development of 5G and emerging wireless technologies and will support readers to enable further metrological R&D activities.</p>2021-12-17T00:00:00ZTerahertz Dielectric Resonator Antennas for High Speed Communication and Sensing: From theory to design and implementation
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte103e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Terahertz dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs) provide ultrafast data transfer rates using large bandwidth and multimode operations, which make them ideal for high speed communication due to their low loss and high efficiency. They can work at microwave, terahertz or optical frequencies, and are compact in size, which makes them well suited for advanced applications in sensing, scanning and imaging. New geometries are being developed for conical optical DRAs, cylindrical optical DRAs and spherical optical DRAs. Spherical optical DRAs have features of super directivity which can be used in quantum radars. Cylindrical optical DRAs with photo diodes can be used for wireless energy harvesting. This book covers the theory, modelling, design and implementation of DRA technologies at the microwave, terahertz or optical regime for future applications in wireless high-speed communication, wireless personal communication and sensor networks. Case studies on new geometries with prototype models are included at the end of this book.</p>2021-12-08T00:00:00ZReal Time Convex Optimisation for 5G Networks and Beyond
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte087e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">There is no doubt that we are facing a wireless data explosion. Modern wireless networks need to satisfy increasing demand, but are faced with challenges such as limited spectrum, expensive resources, green communication requirements and security issues. In the age of internet of things (IoT) with massive data transfers and huge numbers of connected devices, including high-demand QoS (4G, 5G networks and beyond), signal processing is producing data sets at the gigabyte and terabyte scales. Modest-sized optimisation problems can be handled by online algorithms with fast speed processing and a huge amount of computer memory. With the rapid increase in powerful computers, more efficient algorithms and advanced parallel computing promise an enormous reduction in calculation time, solving modern optimisation problems on strict deadlines at microsecond or millisecond time scales. Finally, the interplay between machine learning and optimisation is an efficient and practical approach to optimisation in real-time applications. Real-time optimisation is becoming a reality in signal processing and wireless networks. This book considers advanced real-time optimisation methods for 5G and beyond networks. The authors discuss the fundamentals, technologies, practical questions and challenges around real-time optimisation of 5G and beyond communications, providing insights into relevant theories, models and techniques. The book should benefit a wide audience of researchers, practitioners, scientists, professors and advanced students in engineering, computer science, ubiquitous computing, information technology, and networking and communications engineering, as well as professionals in government agencies.</p>2021-11-15T00:00:00ZArtificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite-based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte098e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Earth observation (EO) involves the collection, analysis, and presentation of data in order to monitor and assess the status and changes in natural and built environments. This technology has many applications including weather forecasting, tracking biodiversity, measuring land-use change, monitoring and responding to natural disasters, managing natural resources, monitoring emerging diseases and health risks, and predicting, adapting to and mitigating climate change. This book shows how cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, including neural networks and deep learning, can be applied for processing satellite data for Earth observation. One of the objectives of this book is to explain how to develop a set of libraries for the implementation of artificial intelligence that could overcome some limits and encompass different aspects of research, ranging from data fusion to speckle filtering. In the first part, the authors introduce remote sensing concepts and deep neural networks and convolutional neural networks. In the second part of the book, they present the main tools used for image processing, several simulations and the data processing of specific case studies as well as the testing of related datasets. The book ends with conclusions, open questions and future works and perspectives for artificial intelligence techniques applied to future satellite missions. The book will be of interest to researchers focusing on using machine learning tools to process remote sensing data - particularly satellite data - for Earth observation. The book can also be used as a guide for researchers in many other fields of research who are interested in using ML techniques to process data and get reliable outcomes so they can make informed decisions for their specific objectives.</p>2021-09-14T00:00:00ZCommunication Technologies for Networked Smart Cities
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte090e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">One of the crucial challenges for future smart cities is to devise a citywide network infrastructure capable of effectively guaranteeing resource-efficient and reliable communications while managing the complexity of heterogeneous devices and access technologies. This edited book highlights and showcases state of the art research and innovations in 5G and beyond wireless communications technologies for connected smart cities. The main objectives of this work include the exploration of recent advances and application potentials of various communication technologies as promising enablers for future networked smart cities, the investigation of design-specific issues for the integration of different architectural components of smart cities, and addressing various challenges and identifying opportunities in terms of interoperability of potential solutions. The book is aimed at a core and interdisciplinary audience of engineers, researchers and professionals working on smart cities concepts and supporting the integration of nextgeneration information, communication, networking and sensing technologies. It will also be a very useful ancillary for advanced students and other professionals working on nextgeneration communication networks.</p>2021-06-01T00:00:00ZIntelligent Wireless Communications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte094e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The incredible growth in the development and use of wireless communication technologies has led to research in both academia and industry on artificial intelligence (AI) methods that enable intelligent technologies, smarter services and applications, business processes and social interactions to satisfy future requirements. AI mechanisms are being exploited in smart intelligent network applications to provide insights from collected data by identifying patterns and allowing operational predictions with higher accuracy in smaller time periods. The future of AI-powered wireless networking infrastructures depends on finding effective solutions to a number of technical challenges that such paradigms introduce, including better intelligent sensor capabilities, smarter big data analytics, automated remote data management, as well as open and secure processes. This book presents innovative research in emerging artificial intelligence methods for the processing, storing and analysing of large date sets generated by wireless communication infrastructures. It addresses major new technological developments, reflects on industry needs, current research trends and future directions. The authors focus on the development of AI-powered mechanisms for future wireless networking applications and architectures which will lead to more performant, resilient and valuable ecosystems and automated services. The book is aimed at researchers, engineers and scientists involved in the design and development of protocols and AI applications for wireless communication devices, and wireless networking technologies.</p>2021-04-14T00:00:00ZAdvances in Communications Satellite Systems: Proceedings of the 37th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2019)
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte095e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) is the oldest and one of the most influential technical conferences in the field. The 37th edition was held from 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019 in Okinawa, Japan. These proceedings present a broad spectrum of space communications contributions from the conference, with highlights including high speed optical communications and feeder links, advanced digital payloads, broadband satellite communication architectures and applications. Subjects covered include integrated applications and architectures for vessels and IoT; DTN and HTS technologies; new satellite system architectures and components; high speed optical communications and feeder links; advanced digital payloads and components; satellite antenna technologies; propagation and modelling for satellite communications; future technologies for 5G and beyond; flexible HTS systems and advanced digital payloads; satellite networks design challenges and applications; new satellite components and transmitter and modem technologies; NGSO constellations and 5G integration; and NGSO and GSO system issues and interference mitigation techniques. Offering a wide range of expert perspectives on communications satellite systems, these proceedings will be of interest to engineers and researchers in academia and industry working on satellite, digital, and wireless communications and networks, as well as advanced students, policy makers and stakeholders in the field.</p>2021-01-05T00:00:00ZThe Nine Pillars of Technologies for Industry 4.0
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte088e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Industry 4.0 refers to automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. From innovative research, challenges, solutions and strategies to real-world case studies, the aim of this edited book is to focus on the nine pillars of technology that are supporting the transition to Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing. The nine pillars include the internet of things, cloud computing, autonomous and robotics systems, big data analytics, augmented reality, cyber security, simulation, system integration, and additive manufacturing. A key role is played by the industrial IoTs and state-of-the-art technologies such as fog and edge computing, advanced data analytics, innovative data exchange models, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile and network technologies, robotics and sensors. This book is a useful resource for an audience of academic and industry researchers and engineers, as well as advanced students in the fields of information and communication technologies, robotics and automation, big data analytics and data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, AR/VR/ER, cybersecurity, cyber physical systems, sensing and robotics with a focus on Industry 4.0, and smart manufacturing.</p>2020-11-27T00:00:00ZGreen Communications for Energy-Efficient Wireless Systems and Networks
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte091e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The ICT industry is a major consumer of global energy. The energy crisis, global warming problems, dramatic growth in data traffic and the increased complexity of emerging networks are pushing academic and industry research towards the development of energy-saving and energy-efficient architectures, technologies and networks in order to reduce the carbon footprint while ensuring efficient and reliable communication networks, and environmental sustainability. Attractive solutions for the design and implementation of energy efficient wireless networks and 5G technologies include massive MIMO, non-orthogonal multiple access, and energy harvesting communications. Tools from areas such as machine and deep learning are being investigated to establish optimal approaches and understand fundamental limits. Moreover, new promising heterogeneous and decentralized network architectures and the Internet-of-Things (IoT) will have an impact on the successful implementation of future and next generation green wireless communications. The aim of this edited book is to present state-of-the art research from theory to practice, and all aspects of green communication methods and technologies for the design of next generation green wireless communication systems and networks. This advanced research title will be of interest to an audience of researchers, engineers, scientists and developers from academia and the industry working in the fields of ICTs, signal processing, networking, power and energy systems, environmental and sustainable engineering, sensing and electronics. It will also be a very useful text for lecturers, postdocs, PhD and masters students researching the design of the next generation wireless communication systems and networks.</p>2020-10-27T00:00:00ZFlexible and Cognitive Radio Access Technologies for 5G and Beyond
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte092e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Standards for 5G and beyond will require communication systems with a much more flexible and cognitive design to support a wide variety of services including smart vehicles, smart cities, smart homes, IoTs, and remote health. Although future 6G technologies may look like an extension of their 5G counterparts, new user requirements, completely new applications and use-cases, and networking trends will bring more challenging communication engineering problems. New communication paradigms in different layers will be required, in particular in the physical layer of future wireless communication systems. This comprehensive book is intended to be both a tutorial on flexible and cognitive radio access technologies for 5G and beyond and an advanced overview for technical professionals and managers in the communications industry, as well as researchers in academia and industry. The authors cover enabling radio access technologies for 5G and beyond, not only from a standard specific angle (like 5G) but also by considering future trends beyond 5G. Rather than specific standard implementations, the book covers a wide variety of technologies and their uses. The presentations are both descriptive and mathematical in nature to cater to readers who need mathematical description as well as readers who do not. The book is written at a level suited to readers who already have a background in electrical engineering and basic wireless communications.</p>2020-08-24T00:00:00ZInformation and Communication Technologies for Humanitarian Services
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte089e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Humanitarian services seek to promote welfare to save lives, maintain human dignity, alleviate suffering, strengthen preparedness, and provide material and logistical assistance in response to humanitarian crises. They are thus different from development aids that address underlying socioeconomic factors and provides support for the social, economic and political developments of developing nations. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are becoming the backbone technologies for providing quality and efficient services and are playing an increasingly important and sophisticated role in humanitarian-service activities. Many ICT-based solutions exist such as tools to support the work of humanitarian organizations, mobile applications and solutions to provide health services, open source web portals for disaster management systems, and mobile and autonomous devices to provide assistance. This edited book covers new developments, innovations, and research outcomes for the creation and deployment of effective ICT technologies and solutions to support humanitarian services. Coverage includes theories as well as information, mobile and networking applications that foster information exchange and cooperation in the humanitarian and emergency management fields. Aimed at ICT and computer engineers, professionals, and researchers working on practical and lasting ICT solutions to support humanitarian services, this will also be a useful reference for advanced students and lecturers in the field, entrepreneurs and researchers from government, non-government and industry organizations, as well as professionals in NGO organizations, ethics committees, and policymakers.</p>2020-08-15T00:00:00ZAntennas and Propagation for 5G and Beyond
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte093e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Transforming the way we live, work, and engage with our environment, 5G and beyond technologies will provide much higher bandwidth and connectivity to billions of devices. This brings enormous opportunities but of course the widespread deployment of these technologies faces challenges, including the need for reliable connectivity, a diverse range of bandwidths, dynamic spectrum sharing, channel modelling and wave propagation for ultra-dense wireless networks, as well as price pressures. The choice of an antenna system will also be a critical component of all node end devices and will present several design challenges such as size, purpose, shape and placement. In this edited book, the authors bring new approaches for exploiting challenging propagation channels and the development of efficient, cost-effective, scalable, and reliable antenna systems and solutions, as well as future perspectives. The book is aimed at a wide audience of industry and academic researchers, scientists and engineers as well as advanced students in the field of antennas, ICTs, signal processing and electromagnetics. It will also be useful to network and system designers, developers and manufacturers. Stakeholders, government regulators, policy makers and standards bodies can use the information provided here to better understand the effects of the technology on the market and future developments for 5G and beyond systems and networks.</p>2020-07-15T00:00:00ZAdvances in Communications Satellite Systems Proceedings of The 36th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2018)
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte086e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) is one of the most influential technical conferences in the field. The 36th edition was held in October 2018 in Niagara Falls, Canada. These proceedings present a broad spectrum of space communications topics from the conference, from the evolution of GEO from traditional area coverage to Ultra High Throughput Satellites (UHTS), the growing number of mega constellations expected to enter service in the next decade, navigation applications such as vehicle autonomy, wideband data backhaul from scientific and remote sensing payloads in LEO, and the extension of the 5G network to near earth, lunar and deep space environments in support of human exploration.</p>2019-11-22T00:00:00ZLow Electromagnetic Emission Wireless Network Technologies: 5G and beyond
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte084e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Mobile communication systems rely on radiofrequency waves to operate. Given the popularity and ubiquity of mobile communication devices as well as network densification, the level of Electromagnetic Field (EMF) exposure to the public is expected to rise significantly over the next few years. Although there is no clear evidence linking short-term exposure to EMF emission from wireless communication systems with adverse health effects, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has concluded that EMF radiation is possibly carcinogenic. To cope with the concerns of the general public, the European Environmental Agency has recommended non-technical precautionary approaches to minimize exposure to EMF emissions. Rather than relying on these non-technical approaches, EMF, latency, network resilience and connection density, alongside traditional criteria such as spectral efficiency and energy efficiency are expected to take centre stage in the development of 5G systems. This book focuses on innovative EMF exposure research for future generations of mobile and wireless communications. This timely publication highlights the novel work done on reducing EMF emissions in future mobile communication systems and how to develop smart integrated technical solutions.</p>2019-11-06T00:00:00ZMicrostrip and Printed Antenna Design
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte083e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This thoroughly updated third edition of this popular book covers all types of printed microstrip antenna design, from rectangular to circular, broadband and dual band, and millimeter wave microstrip antenna to microstrip arrays. The book features new analysis of rectangular and circular microstrip antenna efficiency, and surface wave phenomena. Rectangular microstrip antenna cross polarization analysis and mitigation is expanded upon. Microstrip antenna array geometry options have been added to the text. The design of Vivaldi antennas has been revised and updated based on recent analysis. A chapter has been added which addresses design considerations for millimeter wave microstrip antennas and arrays. Sections addressing the design of shorted annular, patch-ring, corporate fed OMA, stripline series slot, inverted F, RFID Loop Coupler, CPW monopole, and characteristic mode antennas have been added. The appendices have been enlarged, and address PIM, efficiency computation, twin strip and parallel plate transmission line, the history of the decibel, return loss and reflection loss, new impedance matching methods, as well as a new appendix on baluns for printed antennas. Written with commercial applications in mind and aimed at practicing engineers, this book covers printed antennas and their design from the perspective of a seasoned consulting engineer who has worked many years in the field and has implemented all design concepts and technologies featured in the book and is essential reading for antenna designers and engineers.</p>2019-10-14T00:00:00ZApplications of Machine Learning in Wireless Communications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte081e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Machine learning explores the study and development of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions and decisions based on data. Applications of machine learning in wireless communications have been receiving a lot of attention, especially in the era of big data and IoT, where data mining and data analysis technologies are effective approaches to solving wireless system evaluation and design issues. This edited book presents current and future developments and trends in wireless communication technologies based on contributions from machine learning and other fields of artificial intelligence, including channel modelling, signal estimation and detection, energy efficiency, cognitive radios, wireless sensor networks, vehicular communications, and wireless multimedia communications. The book is aimed at a readership of researchers, engineers and students working on wireless communications and machine learning, especially those working in big data and artificial intelligence multi-disciplinary fields related to wireless communication technologies.</p>2019-06-19T00:00:00ZPrinciples and Applications of Free Space Optical Communications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte078e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Free Space Optical (FSO) Communication uses light propagation in free space (air, outer space, and vacuum) to wirelessly transmit data for telecommunications and communication networking. FSO Communication is a key wireless and high-bandwidth technology for high speed large-capacity terrestrial and aerospace communications, which is often chosen as a complement or alternative to radio frequency communication. The propagating optical wave can be influenced negatively by random atmospheric changes such as wind speed, temperature, relative humidity, and pressure, thermal expansion, earthquakes, and high-rise buildings. This edited book covers the principles, challenges, methodologies, techniques, and applications of Free Space Optical Communication for an audience of engineers, researchers, scientists, designers, and advanced students.</p>2019-06-01T00:00:00ZNetwork Design, Modelling and Performance Evaluation
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte077e
<p>Designed for ICT professionals involved in the planning, design, development, testing and operation of network services, this book is ideal for self-teaching. It will help readers evaluate a network situation and identify the most important aspects to be monitored and analysed. The author provides a detailed step by step methodological approach to network design from the analysis of the initial network requirements to architecture design, modeling, simulation and evaluation, with a special focus on statistical and queuing models. The chapters are structured as a series of independent modules that can be combined for designing university courses. Practice exercises are given for selected chapters, and case studies will take the reader through the whole network design process.</p>2018-11-16T00:00:00ZSatellite Communications in the 5G Era
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte079e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Satellite communications (SatCom) plays a vital role in ensuring seamless access to telecommunications services anytime, and is a viable option for delivering telecommunication services in a wide range of sectors such as aeronautical, military, maritime, rescue and disaster relief. It should be an important component of 5G-and-beyond wireless architectures as it can complement terrestrial telecommunication solutions in various scenarios to provide highly reliable and secure connectivity over a wide geographical area. This book explores promising scenarios for 5G SatCom, novel paradigms for hybrid/integrated satellite-terrestrial integration, and emerging technologies for the next generation of SatCom systems. Topics covered include: Role of SatCom in the 5G Era; 5G satellite use cases and scenarios; SDN-enabled networks, NFV-based scenarios and on-board processing for satellite-terrestrial integration; EHF broadband aeronautical SatCom systems; Next-generation NGSO SatCom systems; Diversity combining and handover techniques for MEO satellites; Non-linear countermeasures for multicarrier satellites; SDN demonstrator for multi-beam satellite precoding; Beam-hopping SatCom systems; Optical on-off keying data links for LEO downlink applications; Ultra-high speed data relay systems; On-board interference detection and localization; Advanced random access schemes for SatCom systems; Interference avoidance, mitigation and dynamic spectrum sharing for hybrid satellite-terrestrial systems; and Two-way satellite relaying.</p>2018-07-13T00:00:00ZTransceiver and System Design for Digital Communications, 5th Edition
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte080e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This applied engineering reference covers a wide range of wireless communication design techniques; including link budgets, error detection and correction, adaptive and cognitive techniques, and system analysis of receivers and transmitters. Digital modulation and demodulation techniques using phase-shift keyed and frequency hopped spread spectrum systems are addressed. The book includes sections on broadband communications and home networking, satellite communications, global positioning systems (GPS), search, acquisition and track, and radar communications. Various techniques and designs are evaluated for modulating and sending digital signals, and the book offers an intuitive approach to probability plus jammer reduction methods using various adaptive processes. This title assists readers in gaining a firm understanding of the processes needed to effectively design wireless digital communication and cognitive systems with a basic understanding of radar. Transceiver and System Design for Digital Communications has been fully revised and updated in this new fifth edition, with the addition of two new chapters addressing radar communications and volume search and track. Derived from numerous training workshops taught to engineers through private courses by the authors, this book will appeal to digital wireless communications system designers in both the commercial and military sectors, in particular new engineers requiring practical design techniques and fundamental understanding of modern systems that employ digital transceivers.</p>2017-10-24T00:00:00ZTrusted Communications with Physical Layer Security for 5G and Beyond
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte076e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Physical layer security is emerging as a promising means of ensuring secrecy in wireless communications. The key idea is to exploit the characteristics of wireless channels such as fading or noise to transmit a message from the source to the intended receiver while keeping this message confidential from eavesdroppers. Topics covered in Trusted Communications with Physical Layer Security for 5G and Beyond include secrecy metrics for physical layer security over fading channels; trusted wireless communications with spatial multiplexing; directional modulation enabled physical layer wireless security; secure waveform for 5G systems; confidential and energy efficient communications using physical layer security; secure data networks with channel uncertainty; antenna selection strategies for wiretap channels; physical layer security for massive MIMO systems, millimeter wave cellular networks, non-orthogonal multiple access, multiuser relay networks, cognitive radio networks, MIMOME-OFDM systems; wirelessly powered communication systems and D2D-enabled cellular networks; and security solutions and applications at the physical layer, including case studies of secret key generation and secrecy coding in communication nodes and terminals.</p>2017-10-15T00:00:00ZIntroduction to Digital Wireless Communications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte072e
<p>This book provides an efficient introduction to fundamental and advanced digital transmission technologies in current and future wireless communication systems. The objective is to help students and engineers quickly grasp the operating principles and design trade-offs of various wireless transmission technologies, which will enable them to carry out product development or perform academic research in the field. With sufficient theoretical depth, the book covers large-scale channel effects; multipath fading; digital transmission over flat fading; fading mitigation through diversity combining; transmission over frequency selective fading; spread spectrum transmission; channel capacity and coding; channel adaptive transmission; MIMO transmission; and advanced topics including multiuser diversity transmission, cooperative relay transmission and multiuser MIMO transmission. The material is presented without assuming an extensive digital communications background from the readers. The design principles of these technologies are manifested with over 100 carefully designed illustration and over 60 problem-solving examples. The readers can also check their own understanding with extra practice problems at the end of each chapter. Special emphasis is placed on the important trade-off analysis of performance versus complexity.</p>2017-10-01T00:00:00ZAccess, Fronthaul and Backhaul Networks for 5G & Beyond
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte074e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The widespread use of mobile internet and smart applications has led to an explosive growth in mobile data traffic, which will continue due to the emerging need of connecting people, machines, and applications in an ubiquitous manner through the mobile frastructure. The efficient and satisfactory operation of all these densely-deployed networks hinges on a suitable backhaul and fronthaul provisioning. The research community is working to provide innovative technologies with extensive performance evaluation metrics along with the required standardisation milestones, hardware and components for a fully deployed network by 2020 and beyond. Access, Fronthaul and Backhaul Networks for 5G & Beyond provides an overview from both academic and industrial stakeholders of innovative backhaul/fronthaul solutions. Covering a wide spectrum of underlying themes ranging from the recent thrust in edge caching for backhaul relaxation to mmWave-based fronthauling for radio access networks, this book is essential reading for engineers, researchers, designers, architects, technicians, students and service providers in the field of networking, mobile and wireless and computing technologies working towards the deployment of 5G networks.</p>2017-08-30T00:00:00ZUnderstanding Telecommunications Networks, (2nd Edition)
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte071e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">A telecommunications network is an electronic system of links, nodes and the controls that govern their operations to allow voice and data transfer among users and devices. Examples of telecommunications networks are the telephone networks, computer networks and the Internet. Understanding Telecommunications Networks provides a comprehensive explanation of how various systems and technologies link together to construct fixed and mobile telecommunications networks and provide services. It uses straightforward language supported by block-schematic diagrams so that non-engineers and engineers alike can learn about the principles. This fully revised, updated and expanded second edition covers all aspects of today's networks, including how they are planned, formed and operated. After an introductory chapter on telephony, the book describes all of today's networks and considers how they link. Individual chapters then consider the principles, technologies and network structures relating to network components; transmission systems and networks; circuit switching systems and networks; signalling and control; data (packet) switching and routeing; and mobile systems and networks. The book concludes with a chapter designed to pull everything together, considering architecture, quality of service and performance, operations, network evolution and next generation networks. This is a companion volume to "Understanding Telecommunications Business" authored by Andy Valdar & Ian Morfett (ISBN: 9781849197458).</p>2017-07-28T00:00:00ZNetwork as a Service for Next Generation Internet
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte073e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">With the rapid progress in networking and computing technologies, a wide variety of network-based computing applications have been developed and deployed on the internet. Flexible and effective service provisioning for supporting the diverse applications is a key requirement for the next generation internet. However, the current internet lacks sufficient capability for meeting this requirement, mainly due to the ossification caused by tight coupling between network architecture and infrastructure. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), which has been widely adopted in cloud computing via the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) paradigms, may be applied in networking to decouple network architecture and infrastructure; thus offering a promising approach to addressing some fundamental challenges to the next generation Internet. In general, such a service-oriented networking paradigm is referred to as Network as-a-Service (NaaS). This book presents the state of the art of the NaaS paradigm, including its concepts, architecture, key technologies, applications, and development directions for future network service provisioning. It provides readers with a comprehensive reference that reflects the most current technical developments related to NaaS.</p>2017-06-15T00:00:00Z5G Wireless Technologies
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte069e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Mobile data traffic is expected to exceed traffic from wired devices in the next couple of years. This emerging future will be empowered by revolutionary 5G radio network technologies with a focus on application-driven connectivity, transparently deployed over various technologies, infrastructures, users and devices to realise the vision of 'the Internet of Everything'. This book presents a roadmap of 5G, from advanced radio technologies to innovative resource management approaches and novel network architectures and system concepts. Topics covered include challenges for efficient multi-service coexistence for 5G below 6GHz; new quasi-deterministic approaches to channel modelling in millimetre-wave bands; large scale antenna systems; effects of densification and randomness of infrastructure deployment in cellular networks; wireless device-to-device (D2D) Links for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication; caching in large wireless networks; full duplexing; decoupled uplink and downlink access in heterogeneous networks; wireless networks virtualisation; and regulation, business and technology perspectives on licensed shared access (LSA) and three-tier spectrum sharing models. 5G Wireless Technologies is an essential guide to this emerging system for researchers, engineers and advanced students working in telecommunications and networking.</p>2017-06-09T00:00:00ZCloud and Fog Computing in 5G Mobile Networks: Emerging advances and applications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte070e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Cloud computing is a key trend in computing and networking. Now diffused among endusers devices in mobile and wireline networks, the cloud is becoming the "fog". This book presents frameworks and schemes that use devices from end-users or near-users to carry out storage, communication, computation and control in the network. These novel approaches support the Internet of Things, the efficient provision of heterogeneous 5G mobile services, as well as emerging applications over future wireless network architectures. Elaborating on the emerging mobile networking paradigms for the 2020 5G timeframe, this book presents new connectivity services that are highly scalable and programmable in terms of speed, capacity, security, reliability, availability, latency and impact on battery life. Finally, the book discusses recent and new developments, prompting future directions on the theories, practices, standards and strategies related to 5G mobile systems. Topics covered include: network storage, Internet of Things (IoT); heterogeneous 5G mobile services; 5G green mobile networks; cloudlet-based architectures in mobile cloud computing environments; software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV); FOG-enabled navigation system; FIWARE and IoT technologies; real time video distribution; hybrid resource sharing; energy efficiency in cognitive radio networks; edge computing in future 5G mobile networks; and virtual network functions over cloud infrastructures.</p>2017-03-30T00:00:00ZManaging the Internet of Things: Architectures, Theories and Applications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte067e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the evolution of the internet as the interconnection not just of computers, but also uniquely identifiable, pervasive embedded devices. Research has estimated there will be nearly 30 billion devices on the Internet of Things within the next decade. The implementation and deployment of the IoT brings with it management challenges around seamless integration, heterogeneity, scalability, mobility, security, and many other issues. This book explores these challenges and possible solutions. Topics covered include topology control for building scalable energy efficient IoT; a survey of wireless sensor network operating systems; concepts, designs and implementation of wireless sensor network operating systems; OSIRIS - a framework for sensor-based monitoring systems; modeling and tracing events in RFID-enabled supply chains; a new clone detection approach in RFID-enabled supply chains; participatory sensing networks - a paradigm to achieve IoT applications; market structure analysis of the economics of IoT; and IoT and big data applications for urban planning and building smart cities This book is essential reading for researchers in academia and industry developing IoT technologies - an interdisciplinary area that brings together researchers in telecommunications, sensor networks, computing and security.</p>2016-10-18T00:00:00ZAdvances in Body-Centric Wireless Communication: Applications and state-of-the-art
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte065e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Body centric wireless networking and communications is an emerging 4G technology for short (1-5 m) and very short (below 1 m) range communications systems, used to connect devices worn on (or in) the body, or between two people in close proximity. It has great potential for applications in healthcare delivery, entertainment, surveillance, and emergency services. This book brings together contributions from a multidisciplinary team of researchers in the field of wireless and mobile communications, signal processing and medical measurements to present the underlying theory, implementation challenges and applications of this exciting new technology. Topics covered include: diversity and cooperative communications in body area networks; ultra wideband radio channel characterisation for body-centric wireless communication; sparse characterisation of bodycentric radio channels; antenna / human body interactions in the 60 GHz band; antennas for ingestible capsule telemetry; in vivo wireless channel modelling; diversity and MIMO for efficient front-end design of body-centric wireless communications devices; on-body antennas and radio channels for GPS applications; textile substrate integrated waveguide technology for the next-generation wearable microwave systems; ultra wideband body-centric networks for localisation and motion capture application; down scaling to the nano-scale in body-centric nano-networks; and the road ahead for body-centric wireless communication and networks.</p>2016-06-15T00:00:00ZAdvanced Relay Technologies in Next Generation Wireless Communications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte068e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Cooperative networks/relaying is a fundamental design approach that has been used to reduce path-loss and fading effects in conventional wireless communication systems. This book describes the use of this approach in new and emerging telecommunications technologies and new application areas. Topics covered include spatial modulation for cooperative networks; relaying for massive MIMO; relaying for outdoor to indoor in mmWave communications; precoding techniques for relaying with interference; relaying in full-duplex radio communication systems; relay selection in modern communication systems; relaying in green communications systems; energy-efficient relaying; cognitive radio with relaying; relaying in non-ideal conditions; relaying and physical layer secrecy; relaying technologies for smart grid; simultaneous wireless and power transfer for interference relay channel; relaying in visible light communication systems; and on-ground and on-board signal processing for multibeam. With contributions from an international panel of experts, this book is essential reading for researchers and advanced students in academia and industry working in telecommunications system design.</p>2016-06-06T00:00:00ZUnderstanding Telecommunications Business
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte060e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">We all enjoy the benefits of the information age but we may not be aware of the range of technologies and infrastructure that underpins the Internet and the services that it supports. There are many companies involved in the business of providing and operating such resources. This book attempts to explain the complex interplay between the companies, how their businesses operate, and how they seek to make a profit. The authors consider how telecommunications companies tackle the challenging Information and Communication Technology market place - how they make a case for investment, develop and market products, and how they operate telecommunications networks and computer-server resources. Topics covered include: an introduction to the telecommunications business; regulation; business strategy; corporate finance and governance; network economics; network strategy and planning; customers and marketing; product management; network and service operations; and people and organisation development. In particular, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the tools for analysing markets, constructing business cases and providing customer service all with specific reference to telecommunications and reallife case studies. The authors have based this book on the material used to teach Masters Degree students over the last 10 years, as well as drawing on their knowledge gained through a combined experience of over 80 years working within the industry. Understanding Telecommunications Business is essential for undergraduate and graduate students studying telecommunications, and will also find a place on the bookshelves of the many people already working in the industry, or considering joining it. Although selfcontained, this book forms a companion to Understanding Telecommunications Networks, which is also in the IET Telecommunications series.</p>2015-09-01T00:00:00ZDigital communications: Principles and systems
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte058e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">A worldwide digital and wireless communication revolution has taken place in the last 20 years which has created a high demand in industry for graduates with in-depth expertise in digital transmission techniques and a sound and complete understanding of their core principles. <i>Digital communications: Principles and systems</i> recognises that although digital communications is developing at a fast pace, the core principles remain the same. It therefore concentrates on giving the reader a thorough understanding of core principles and extensive coaching in the solution of practical problems drawn from various application areas. The intention is that after studying the material presented, the student will have a solid foundation free of knowledge gaps, and will be fully equipped to undertake digital communication systems analysis, design and computer simulations, and to deal with specialised applications and follow advances in the technology. Topics covered include: overview of digital communication; linear and nonlinear channels and systems; sampling of baseband and bandpass signals; quantisation and PCM; source coding and lossless data compression; line codes and modulation; transmission through bandlimited AWGN channels; transmitted digital signals; error control coding; link analysis and design. Many works on emerging digital transmission techniques are largely confined to academic research papers. This book will give postgraduate students and practicing engineers a sound mastery of the subject.</p>2014-02-11T00:00:00ZDynamic Ad-Hoc Networks
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte059e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Motivated by the exciting new application paradigm of using amalgamated technologies of the Internet and wireless, the next generation communication networks (also called 'ubiquitous', 'complex' and 'unstructured' networking) are changing the way we develop and apply our future systems and services at home and on local, national and global scales. Whatever the interconnection - a WiMAX enabled networked mobile vehicle, MEMS or nanotechnology enabled distributed sensor systems, Vehicular Ad hoc Networking (VANET) or Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET) - all can be classified under new networking structures which can be given the generic title of 'ad hoc' communication networking. <i>Dynamic Ad Hoc Networks</i> presents selective recent and important research ideas in this field and provides a timely snapshot of potential developments covering network control, network topology, routing and scheduling for various aspects of implementation, applications and associated attributes. The book features contributions from an international panel of well-known experts and researchers, exploring ad hoc networking fundamentals and its principles; recent and key developing techniques of dynamic ad hoc networking; in-depth analysis of critical serviceoriented features of dynamic ad hoc networking; and typical case studies, application scenarios and uses of dynamic ad hoc networking.</p>2013-06-13T00:00:00ZWireless Receiver Design for Digital Communications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/sbte009e
<p>Practical lessons and approaches in radio receiver design for wireless communication systems are the hallmarks of <em>Wireless Receiver Design for Digital Communications, 2nd Edition</em>. Decades of experience at the bench are collected within, and the book acts as a virtual replacement for a mentor who teaches basic concepts from a practical perspective and has the war stories that help their apprentices avoid the mistakes of the past. Readers are led through the fundamental theory in the Basics of RF Engineering chapter and then walked along the path toward applying this knowledge in the design of real world systems. <em>Wireless Receiver Design for Digital Communications, 2nd Edition</em> is a wireless design reference for students and professionals in electrical engineering. It contains extensive chapters on mixers, oscillators, filters, and amplifiers. It details all major components related to receiver design, including cascade interaction, and provides excellent introductions and technical background on basic as well as advanced component characteristics. It is replete with exercises, design examples, illustrations, and proven concepts that help clarify the role of each component within the system design.</p>2012-01-01T00:00:00ZKey Enablers for User-Centric Advertising Across Next Generation Networks
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte056e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Telecommunication and internet services are constantly subject to change, seeking the customer's full satisfaction. Enriching these services with innovative approaches such as context-aware, social, mobile, adaptable and interactive mechanisms, enables users to experience a variety of personalized services seamlessly across different platforms and technologies. In this sense, advertising is no exception, especially if we consider that it will become the business enabler for next generation services. Nevertheless, currently there is no cross-domain solution capable of delivering real-time advertising across heterogeneous environments or domains, and at the same time, address user needs, desires and intentions. This is because most of the products available today are only used within isolated environments/silos. Therefore, managing advertising campaigns across different verticals is still very complex. However, leveraging on the advances provided by Next Generation Networks, together with the design principles inherent to Service Oriented Architectures and capabilities offered by Service Delivery Platforms, this scenario is about to change. Based on key conceptual entities called enablers, this work aims to change the current scenario. More concretely, this book introduces three distinct but complementary enablers. The Human Enabler provides a real-time context brokerage system capable of securely managing different types of user-related data in a standardized way. The Reasoning Enabler is the result of a well-defined methodology that enables new knowledge to be reasoned, based on previously stored data, by aggregating, correlating and inferring new information about people and their contexts. Lastly, the Session Management Enabler is responsible for abstracting the communication layers. It provides a context-aware multimedia delivery system capable of personalizing and adapting multimedia content according to a set of user and system pre-defined context data or rules, respectively. Altogether, they form the Converged User-Centric Advertising System and introduce new features that address the needs of both users and advertisers.</p>2012-01-01T00:00:00ZStandard Codecs: Image compression to advanced video coding
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte054e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">A substantially updated edition of <i>Video Coding: An introduction to standard codecs</i> (IEE 1999, winner of IEE Rayleigh Award as the best book of 2000), this book discusses the growth of digital television technology, from image compression to advanced video coding. This third edition also includes the latest developments on H.264/MPEG-4 video coding and the scalability defined for this codec, which were not available at the time of the previous edition (IEE 2003). The book highlights the need for standardisation in processing static and moving images and extensively exploits the ITU and ISO/IEC standards defined in this field. The book gives an authoritative explanation of pictures and video coding algorithms, working from basic principles through to the advanced video compression systems now being developed. It discusses the reasons behind the introduction of a standard codec for a specific application and its chosen parameters. Each chapter is devoted to a standard video codec, and chapters are introduced in an evolutionary manner complementing the earlier chapters. This book will enable readers to appreciate the fundamentals needed to design a video codec for any given application and should prove a valuable resource for managers, engineers and researchers working in this field.</p>2011-01-01T00:00:00ZVideo Compression Systems: From first principles to concatenated codecs
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte053e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book gives an overview on many practical aspects of video compression systems used in broadcast TV, IPTV, telecommunication and many other video applications. Although the book concentrates on MPEG real-time video compression systems, many aspects are equally applicable to off-line and/or non-MPEG video compression applications.</p>2009-01-01T00:00:00ZTransceiver and System Design for Digital Communications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/sbte008e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Now in its 3rd edition, this successful book provides an intuitive approach to transceiver design, allowing a broad spectrum of readers to understand the topics clearly. It covers a wide range of data link communication design techniques, including link budgets, dynamic range and system analysis of receivers and transmitters used in data link communications, digital modulation and demodulation techniques of phase-shift keyed and frequency hopped spread spectrum systems using phase diagrams, multipath, gain control, an intuitive approach to probability, jamming reduction method using various adaptive processes, global positioning systems (GPS) data link, and direction-finding and interferometers, plus a section on broadband communications and home networking. Various techniques and designs are evaluated for modulating and sending digital data. Thus readers gain a firm understanding of the processes needed to effectively design wireless data link communication systems.</p>2009-01-01T00:00:00ZIntroduction to Broadband Communication Systems
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/sbte501e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Broadband networks, such as asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), frame relay, and leased lines, allow us to easily access multimedia services (data, voice, and video) in one package. Exploring why broadband networks are important in modern-day telecommunications, Introduction to Broadband Communication Systems covers the concepts and components of both standard and emerging broadband communication network systems. After introducing the fundamental concepts of broadband communication systems, the book discusses Internet-based networks, such as intranets and extranets. It then addresses the networking technologies of X.25 and frame relay, fiber channels, a synchronous optical network (SONET), a virtual private network (VPN), an integrated service digital network (ISDN), broadband ISDN (B-ISDN), and ATM. The authors also cover access networks, including digital subscriber lines (DSL), cable modems, and passive optical networks, as well as explore wireless networks, such as wireless data services, personal communications services (PCS), and satellite communications. The book concludes with chapters on network management, network security, and network testing, fault tolerance, and analysis. With up-to-date, detailed information on the state-of-the-art technology in broadband communication systems, this resource illustrates how some networks have the potential of eventually replacing traditional dial-up Internet. Requiring only a general knowledge of communication systems theory, the text is suitable for a one- or two-semester course for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in engineering, as well as for short seminars on broadband communication systems.</p>2008-01-01T00:00:00ZUnderstanding Telecommunications Networks
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte052e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book provides a broad introduction to all aspects of modern telecommunications networks, covering the principles of operation of the technology and the way that networks using this technology are structured. The main focus is on those technologies in use today in the majority of the public telecommunications networks. Discussion of new technology, in particular the move to the so-called next generation networks (NGN) is also included.</p>2006-01-01T00:00:00ZTelecommunications Performance Engineering
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbbt007e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This brand new title provides an insight into the rich diversity of techniques, tools and knowledge used in performance engineering, covering the whole life cycle from design through to operation - of both networks and systems. Performance modelling is discussed as an essential technique, providing the ability to predict performance through a quantitive understanding of how varying demand affects the behaviour of a system or network.</p>2004-01-01T00:00:00ZSecurity for Mobility
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte051e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">As the mobile phone becomes ubiquitous and the divisions between PCs, personal digital assistants, mobiles phones and other mobile devices becomes blurred, the security both of the information handled by these devices and the devices themselves becomes increasingly important. The book covers many aspects of security for mobility including current developments, underlying technologies, network security, mobile code issues, application security and the future.</p>2004-01-01T00:00:00ZMobile and Wireless Communications: Key Technologies and Future Applications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbbt009e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book reviews the contribution of different wireless access technologies to that future and looks at the opportunities of opening up access to telecommunications systems, via application programming interfaces APIs). The economic and regulatory issues associated with wireless communications are also discussed, with a look at the history and potential future of mobility from a user perspective.</p>2004-01-01T00:00:00ZLocation and Personalisation: Delivering Online and Mobility Services
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbbt008e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">A pragmatic look at two particular application technologies - location and personalisation - and presents an understanding of the technical and business impact of these technologies.</p>2004-01-01T00:00:00ZLocal Access Network Technologies
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte047e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book presents an overview of local access networks and discusses new emerging technologies. Underpinning much of the evolving communications technology is the local access itself, both in traditional form of copper pairs but increasingly too through the use of new fibre, radio and copper systems. The dominant cost of most telecommunications networks is the access network itself and the book considers each technology in turn, not only from a technology viewpoint but with a view on how it may be deployed.</p>2004-01-01T00:00:00ZTelecommunications Regulation
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte050e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Discusses typical regulatory rules and the legal and administrative framework for regulation, and looks at regulatory strategies, market structures and approaches to price control. The book includes a number of case studies which show how regulators engage with such topical issues as interconnection and loop unbundling, and also features technical coverage of both numbering and number portability. Finally, it looks at new products and services such as virtual network operators, intelligent networks, radio spectrum and next generation networks, and considers the impact these might have on the future of regulation.</p>2003-01-01T00:00:00ZTelecommunications Quality of Service Management
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte048e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">In today's increasingly competitive communications environment, Quality of Service (QoS) is of paramount importance in the battle to win market share. However, the enhanced expectations of customers and the introduction of many new services and technologies makes comprehending and meeting customer requirements a real challenge. Building on the issues covered in Quality of Service in Telecommunications (1997), this book examines the technical, service and human issues that need to be addressed in order to provide a level of QoS that will meet those requirements. One key objective is to increase the reader's understanding of the importance of QoS and to show how the concepts presented can be applied to the reader's own circumstances. This book provides a comprehensive overview of definitions and standards, frameworks and models, network performance, internet, mobile and satellite services, the impact on customers, external drivers, economics, fraud and security and future trends. The authors, established experts in their fields, have wide-ranging experience in both UK and US telecommunications companies, reflecting the global nature of this industry and the universal concept of QoS.</p>2003-01-01T00:00:00ZTelecommunications Network Modelling, Planning and Design
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbbt006e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book addresses sophisticated modelling techniques from the perspective of the communications industry and covers some of the major issues facing telecommunications network engineers and managers today.</p>2003-01-01T00:00:00ZStandard Codecs: Image compression to advanced video coding
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte049e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book discusses the growth of digital television technology and the revolution in image and video compression (such as JPEG2000, broadcast TV, video phone), highlighting the need for standardisation in processing static and moving images and their exchange between computer systems. The book gives an authoritative explanation of picture and video coding algorithms, working from basic principles through to the advanced video compression systems now being developed. One of its main objectives is to describe the reasons behind the introduction of a standard codec for a specific application and its chosen parameter.</p>2003-01-01T00:00:00ZBroadband Applications and the Digital Home
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbbt005e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This fascinating book explores the technological challenges and applications of providing fast, "always-on" internet connections to the home. Current delivery mechanisms of broadband into and around the home are explored in depth.</p>2003-01-01T00:00:00ZInternet and Wireless Security
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbbt004e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Many organisations are transforming their businesses through the development of information and communications technologies. The security of this e-commerce is now a key enabler for businesses.</p>2002-01-01T00:00:00ZIntelligent Networks: Principles and Applications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte046e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book explains the principles of intelligent telecommunications networks and illustrates them with many practical examples of applications. Although international standards are beginning to emerge, they are far from simple and this text offers insight into the underlying principles.The principles are then extended into the technologies of mobility, broadband and the Internet, together with discussion of managing intelligence in communications and how to charge for it.</p>2002-01-01T00:00:00ZVoice Over IP (internet protocol): systems and solutions
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbbt003e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book examines VoIP as a technology and its consideration within the industry, the motivations for VoIP networks, a review of the status of the major components of a VoIP network and their development, and both current and emerging applications.</p>2001-01-01T00:00:00ZSpectrum and Network Measurements
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/sbte005e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book covers the theory and practice of spectrum and network measurements in electronic systems. Intended for readers who have a background in electrical engineering and use spectrum or network analyzers to characterize electronic signals or systems, this classic volume successfully consolidates the pertinent theory into one comprehensive treatment of frequency domain measurements. Witte's thorough coverage of critical concepts, such as Fourier analysis, transmission lines, intermodulation distortion, signal-to-noise ratio and S-parameters enables the reader to understand the basic theory of signals and systems, relate it to measured results, and apply it when creating new designs.</p>2001-01-01T00:00:00ZFuture Mobile Networks: 3G and beyond
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbbt002e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book explores the future of mobile communications networks given the increasing demands for services and higher quality, as well as continued growth in the cellular mobile marketplace.</p>2001-01-01T00:00:00ZCarrier Scale IP Networks: designing and operating Internet networks
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbbt001e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Comprehensively reviewing the design, provision and operations of carrier-scale Internet networks, this book presents a good balance between leading edge technology and many of the practical issues surrounding carrierscale IP networks.</p>2001-01-01T00:00:00ZBroadband Communications and Home Networking
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/sbte002e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book provides the engineer and manager with a very good understanding of the processes needed to effectively perform the system design for broadband communication systems and home networking approaches. It is ideal for all engineers that design and analyze wireless, spread spectrum and basic broadband communication systems and are involved with the design of basic networking systems. It provides a good intuitive approach starting from basic telephony to satellite communications.</p>2001-01-01T00:00:00ZDigital Signal Filtering, Analysis and Restoration
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte044e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Aiming to give an introduction to the basic theory of digital signal processing and analysis, this book starts by providing the theoretical background and principal methods for one-dimensional signals before building to more complex signals.</p>2000-01-01T00:00:00ZWorld Telecommunications Economics
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte041e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book bridges the worlds of the economist, the engineer, the regulator and the manager. It outlines the technology of the subject in sufficient detail to provide an understanding of the industry's economics, and presents a comprehensive picture of the markets into which its products and services are sold.</p>1999-01-01T00:00:00ZTelecommunications Signalling
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte043e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Telecommunications Signalling offers an introduction to the principles of signalling systems along with an in-depth examination of their architecture and appeals to a wide range of readership, from those who want to expand their range of knowledge to communications experts.</p>1999-01-01T00:00:00ZSatellite Communication Systems
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte038e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The book is very clear and comprehensive. The scope of the book is very large: almost all aspects of current satellite communication systems are studied. Hence, the book keeps its promise in that it provides a quick start for someone who is new to the satellite communications business.</p>1999-01-01T00:00:00ZRadio Spectrum Management
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte045e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Provides both food for the curious mind and insights on the complex issues around international and national radio spectrum allocation....many professionals will find this book a worthwhile starting point.</p>1999-01-01T00:00:00ZSpread Spectrum in Mobile Communication
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte040e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book presents the concepts of modern mobile communication and discusses the user requirements and operational environment which influence mobile systems design.</p>1998-01-01T00:00:00ZTelecommunication Networks
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte036e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book discusses the structure and performance of networks in the context of the services they provide. Chapters are devoted to public and private networks, ISDN, intelligent networks, mobile radio networks and broadband networks.</p>1997-01-01T00:00:00ZPrinciples of Performance Engineering for Telecommunication and Information Systems
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte035e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Describes the basic theory of performance engineering and its application to both circuit- and packet-switched systems.</p>1997-01-01T00:00:00ZModern Personal Radio Systems
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte033e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">An exciting treatment of the practical developments in personal and mobile radio, this book gives a clear and detailed insight into many of the fundamental problems and solutions of practical systems development.</p>1996-01-01T00:00:00ZAnalogue Optical Fibre Communications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte032e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Covers issues involved in improving the present range of systems and technology of optical fibre based telecommunications services operating with analogue-sourced signals.</p>1995-01-01T00:00:00ZISDN Applications in Education and Training
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte905e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book provides an introduction to the technology for educators, with case studies of education and training uses of ISDN technologies in Europe, the US and Australia.</p>1994-01-01T00:00:00ZData Communications and Networks
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte031e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Coverage includesbroadband ISDN technology, local area networks (LANs), network management and the strategies and techniques available for the provision of data communications.</p>1994-01-01T00:00:00ZATM: the broadband telecommunications solution
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte029e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Since ATM was identified by the CCITT in 1988 as the target transfer mode for broadband communications, there has been considerable research activity on the topic world-wide. Within Europe, the RACE programme of the European Community has brought together experts from a wide variety of organisations to work on several projects. This book results from the work of one of those projects. Aimed at those interested in ATM generally, or those needing to understand the issues in designing or implementing broadband networks, the book draws on the results of the research project to present a description of ATM from a network point of view. Starting with the principles of ATM, it goes on to cover topics such as network performance, network structure, evolution and interworking. It also discusses more general issues including numbering, charging and the need for intelligence in the network. It concludes by explaining the current position on traffic engineering for broadband ATM networks.</p>1993-01-01T00:00:00ZVery Small Aperture Terminals (VSATs)
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte028e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">One of the most significant developments in telecommunications in the last decade, the very small aperture terminal (VSAT), as part of a satellite communications network, is the culmination of technology that allows earth terminals to be located on users' premises to provide data, voice and even video services. Networks based on VSATs can be established rapidly and reconfigured to respond to changing communications needs in a flexible and cost-effective manner. In 28 chapters written by individuals who have made major contributions to the VSAT scene, this book describes the key technology underlying these systems, representative systems from leading vendors, link budgets, system protocols, data distribution based on television broadcasting, service provision, economic and, perhaps most importantly, regulatory issues. It is essential reading for anyone involved in telecommunications systems management or the engineering aspects, from equipment manufacturers to those who will use the systems. The technology and systems chapters will be of interest to practising engineers and postgraduate engineering students who require an introduction to the subject. Those with responsibilities for licensing and regulation will find their functions put into context.</p>1992-01-01T00:00:00ZCommon-Channel Signalling
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte026e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">A highly readable and lucid introduction to the complex subject of signalling enabling the reader to understand detailed signalling specifications and international standards recommendations.</p>1991-01-01T00:00:00ZAn Introduction to Satellite Communications
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte020e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">The aim of this book is to give a clear and concise exposition of the principles and practice of satellite communications by describing the development of communications-satellite services. It will be useful both to engineers who have worked in other fields of telecommunication and to students.</p>1989-01-01T00:00:00ZTelecommunications Traffic, Tariffs and Costs. An Introduction for Managers
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte019e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Suitable for those who wish to gain a comprehensive overview of the area, this book offers guidance on planning, ordering, managing and using telecommunications facilities.</p>1988-01-01T00:00:00ZSpread Spectrum in Communication
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte012e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book is devoted to advanced radiocommunication, discussing the merits and operational aspects of spread spectrum signalling.</p>1985-01-01T00:00:00ZAdvanced Signal Processing
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte013e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Covers the many aspects of modern signal processing systems from the transduction unit through to the display.</p>1985-01-01T00:00:00ZPhase Noise in Signal Sources
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/te/pbte009e
<p xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">This book contains a thorough treatment of phase noise, its relationship to thermal noise and associated subjects such as frequency stability. The design of low phase noise signal sources, including oscillators and synthesisers, is explained and in many cases the measured phase noise characteristics are compared with the theoretical predictions. Full theoretical treatments are combined with physical explanations, helpful comments, examples of manufactured equipment and practical tips. Overall system performance degradations due to unwanted phase noise are fully analysed for radar systems and for both analogue and digital communications systems. Specifications for the acceptable phase noise performance of signal sources to be used in such systems are derived after allowing for both technical and economic optimisation. The mature engineer whose mathematics may be somewhat rusty will find that every effort has been made to use the lowest level of mathematical sophistication that is compatible with a full analysis and every line of each mathematical argument has been set out so that the book may be read and understood even in an armchair. Due to a novel approach to the analytical treatment of narrow band noise, the book is simple to understand while simultaneously carrying the analysis further in several areas than any existing publication.</p>1984-01-01T00:00:00Z