This book describes numerous situations that graduate students will
commonly encounter as they work towards the goal of earning their
PhD. Starting from your very first day in the lab, to the beginning
stages of your post-PhD job search, to writing your dissertation,we’ve
tried to offer you sage ad ...
Microprocessors are getting smaller, cheaper and faster. Every day, it is easier to embed more functionality into a smaller space. Embedded processors have become pervasive, and as time goes on, more and more functions that were once ...
Communication between various devices makes it possible to pro-
vide unique and innovative services. Although this interdevice com-
munication is a very powerful mechanism, it is also a complex and
clumsy mechanism, leading to a lot of complexity in present day
systems. This not only makes networkin ...
Over the past ten years there has been a revolution in the devel-
opment and acceptance of mobile products. In that period, cel-
lular telephony and consumer electronics have moved from the
realm of science fiction to everyday reality. Much of that revolu-
tion is unremarkable – we use wireless, in ...
Coverage of routing techniques in various wired and wireless networks is the unique
proposition of this book. Routing protocols and algorithms are the brains of any network.
The selection of topics in this book is clear: we attempt to explain routing in its entirety,
starting from fundamental concep ...
Recent decades have shown a tremendous expansion of the Internet. The number of
connected terminals has increased by orders of magnitude, traffic has grown exponen-
tially, coverage has become ubiquitous and worldwide, and today’s sophisticated Web
2.0 applications are increasingly providing servic ...
Without doubt, the age of information communications is upon 11s. The rapid
pace of technological advancement in digital data communications can be wit-
nessed in a multitude of applications in our day-to-day existence. In recent
years, the widespread proliferation of wireles ...
The fi rst edition of this book came about because Regina Lundgren had always been
fascinated with communication. She started writing novels in the third grade. When she
was asked on her fi rst day at the University of Washington what she hoped to do with her
degree in scientifi c and technical comm ...
