This book gives a comprehensive overview of the technologies for the advances of
mobile radio access networks. The topics covered include linear transmitters,
superconducting filters and cryogenic radio frequency (RF) front head, radio over
fiber, software radio base stations, mobile terminal positi ...
One traditional view of how wireless networks evolve is of a continuous, inevitable progres-
sion to higher link speeds, combined with greater mobility over wider areas. This standpoint
certainly captures the development from first and second generation cellular systems focused
on voice support, and ...
Relaying techniques, in which a source node communicates to a destination node
with the help of a relay, have been proposed as a cost-effective solution to address
the increasing demand for high data rates and reliable services over the air. As
such, it is crucial to design relay systems that are ab ...
Wireless penetration has witnessed explosive growth over the last two decades.
Accordingly, wireless devices have become much denser per unit area, resulting
in an overcrowded usage of wireless resources. To avoid radio interferences and
packet collisions, wireless stations have to exchange control ...
The growing interest for high data rate wireless communications over the last few decades
gave rise to the emergence of a number of wideband wireless systems. The resulting scarcity
of frequency spectrum has been forcing wireless system designers to develop methods that
will push the spectral effici ...
Emerging technologies such as WiFi and WiMAX are profoundly changing the
landscape of wireless broadband. As we evolve into future generation wireless
networks, a primary challenge is the support of high data rate, integrated multi-
media type traffic over a unified platform. Due to its ...
Wireless technology has been evolving at a breakneck speed. The total number of
cell-phones in use (as of 2011) was over 6 billion for a 7 billion world population [1]
constituting 87% of the world population. Additionally, with user convenience be-
coming paramount, more and more functions are bein ...
The genesis for this book was my involvement with the development of the
SystemView (now SystemVue) simulation program at Elanix, Inc. Over several
years of development, technical support, and seminars, several issues kept recur-
ring. One common question was, “How do you simulate (such and such)? ...
This book examines the technologies underlying the compression and trans-
mission of digital video sequences over networking platforms. The incorporated
study covers a large spectrum of topics related to compressed video communica-
tions. It presents to readers a comprehensive and structured analysi ...
Over the past few decades, wireless communications and networking have witnessed an
unprecedented growth, and have become pervasive much sooner than anyone could have
predicted. For example, cellular wireless networks are expected to become the dominant
and ubiquitous telecommunication means in the ...
