Spread-spectrum communication is a core area within the field of digital
communication. Originally used in military networks as countermeasures against
the threats of jamming and interception, spread-spectrum systems are now widely
used in commercial applications and are part of several wireless and ...
The idea for this book was born during one of my project-related trips to the beautiful city
of Hangzhou in China, where in the role of Chief Architect I had to guide a team of very
young, very smart and extremely dedicated software developers and verification engineers.
Soon it became clear that as ...
This book addresses the issues on the development of next generation CDMA technologies and
contains a lot of information on the subject from both the open literature and my own research
activities in the last fifteen years.
Some tine ago it become apparent the the first edition of this book was rapidly approaching its sell-by date,since many aspects needed revise.There were two obvious courses of action : to forget the whole thing and concentrate my energies on other pursuits such as golf or fishing, or to embark on a ...
As a student I did my best to avoid text books – a strange statement for a Professor to make and one that
I should clarify before you put this book down; I did my best to avoid text books that did not help me.
In writing this text my intention was to collect together in a single place
practical predictive modeling techniques, ideas and strategies that have been
proven to work but which are rarely taught in business schools, data science
courses or contained in any other single text.
In 2001, Orange, a UK mobile network operator, announced the “Orange
at Home” project, a smart house incorporating the latest technology
wizardry built some 20 miles north of London. It was intended to be more
than a mere showcase, with plans for real families to move in and live
with the smart ho ...
The first edition of the book was one of the elements of my habilitation (a quali-
fication above a Ph.D., which is a necessary step for obtaining the title of a
professor in Poland and other European countries), and as a result it was subse-
quently very carefully reviewed by four reviewers. The ha ...
December 2007, San Jose, California: It seems a long time ago.
I walked into a big networking company to head their small
Power over Ethernet (PoE) applications team. Surprisingly,
I hardly knew anything about PoE prior to that day, having been a
switching-power conversion engineer almost all my lif ...
Thepredecessorvolumeofthisbookwaspublishedin1996.Intheyears
since then, some things have changed and some have not.
Two of the things that have not changed are the desire for better
models and faster simulations. I performed the original simulations on
my “hyperfast” 133-MHz computer! At the time, ...
