Wireless networking is undergoing a transformation from what has
been primarily a medium for supporting voice traffic between telephones,
into what is increasingly becoming a medium for supporting traffic among
a variety of digital devices transmitting media of many types (voice,
data, images, video ...
This book paves the path toward fourth generation (4G) mobile communica-
tion by introducing mobility in heterogeneous IP networks with both third
generation (3G) and wireless local area networks (WLANs), which is seen as
one of the central issues in the becoming 4G of telecommunications networks
an ...
Contamination and electrostatic discharge (ESD) are now becoming recognized as factors
affecting yield and reliability in an ever-increasing number of industries. Whereas contam-
ination traditionally was recognized as affecting the semiconductor, disk drive, aerospace,
pharmaceutical, and medical d ...
A revolution in power industries, including generation, transmission and distribution, driven by
environmental and economic considerations, is taking place all over the world. The smart grid allows for
integration of diverse generation and storage options, reduced losses, improved efficiencies, incr ...
Today, electric power transmission systems should face many demanding chal-
lenges, which include balancing between reliability, economics, environmental,
and other social objectives to optimize the grid assets and satisfy the growing
electrical demand.
Moreover, the operational environment of trans ...
Radio frequency identifi cation (RFID) technology is a wireless communication
technology that enables users to uniquely identify tagged objects or people.
RFID is rapidly becoming a cost-effective technology. This is in large part
due to the efforts of Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense (DoD) to ...
We are in the era of ubiquitous computing in which the use and development of Radio Frequency Iden-
tification (RFID) is becoming more widespread. RFID systems have three main components: readers,
tags, and database. An RFID tag is composed of a small microchip, limited logical functionality, and an ...
In this new edition of the book, only minor changes were made to the original
nine chapters but three new chapters treat topics of increasing interest to GPS
users and equipment developers. One topic, improving the GPS receiver sensi-
tivity may extend their operations into buildings, which is becom ...
Control systems are becoming more important every day. At the beginning, the in-
dustry used sequential controls for solving a lot of industrial applications in control
systems, and then the linear systems gave us a huge increase in applying automatic
linear control on industrial application. One of ...
n recent years, there have been many books published on power system optimization.
Most of these books do not cover applications of artifi cial intelligence based methods.
Moreover, with the recent increase of artifi cial intelligence applications in various fi elds,
it is becoming a new trend in so ...
