New applications such as video conferencing, video on demand, multi-
media transcoders, Voice-over-IP (VoIP), intrusion detection, distributed
collaboration, and intranet security require advanced functionality from
networks beyond simple forwarding congestion control techniques.
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 ...
Evolutionary Computation (EC) deals with problem solving, optimization, and
machine learning techniques inspired by principles of natural evolution and ge-
netics. Just from this basic definition, it is clear that one of the main features of
the research community involved in the study of its theory ...
The very title of this book is borrowed from the information theory vocabulary,
and, quite naturally, it is an outline of this theory that will serve as an introduction.
The subject of information theory is the scientific study of communications. To this
end it defines a quantitative measurement of ...
This introduction takes a visionary look at ideal cognitive radios (CRs) that inte-
grate advanced software-defined radios (SDR) with CR techniques to arrive at
radios that learn to help their user using computer vision, high-performance
speech understanding, global positioning system (GPS) navigati ...
Optical communication technology has been extensively developed over the
last 50 years, since the proposed idea by Kao and Hockham [1]. However, only
during the last 15 years have the concepts of communication foundation, that
is, the modulation and demodulation techniques, been applied. This is pos ...
During the past decade, many wireless communication techniques have been
developedto achievevariousgoals suchas higherdata rate,morerobustlink quality,
and higher number of users in a given bandwidth. For wireless communication
systems, depending on the availability of a feedback link, two approache ...
The recent developments in full duplex (FD) commu-
nication promise doubling the capacity of cellular networks using
self interference cancellation (SIC) techniques. FD small cells
with device-to-device (D2D) communication links could achieve
the expected capacity of the future cellular networks (5G ...
The writing of this book was prompted by two main developments in wireless
communications in the past decade. First is the huge surge of research activities in
physical-layer wireless communication theory. While this has been a subject of study
since the 60’s, recent developments in the field, such ...
