It’s your first day in the lab.Undoubtedly you are experiencing a range
of emotions: excitement, curiosity, anxiety. You will be working in
this lab and with a group of people, as well as with your supervisor,
for several years to come. This is the first day of a long commitment
and, for some, a ha ...
The concept of “smart city” is often used implying that the reader has a clear and
common notion of what it means. However, in the current literature it is very hard
to find a precise definition. What is even more interesting, it is not so easy to find a
precise definition of what a city is.
The Internet of Things is considered to be the next big opportunity, and challenge, for the
Internet engineering community, users of technology, companies and society as a whole. It
involves connecting embedded devices such as sensors, home appliances, weather stations
and even toys to Internet Prot ...
The field of digital communication has evolved rapidly in the past few
decades, with commercial applications proliferating in wireline communi-
cation networks (e.g., digital subscriber loop, cable, fiber optics), wireless
communication (e.g., cell phones and wireless local area networks), and stor- ...
The ever-increasing demand for private and sensitive data transmission over wireless net-
works has made security a crucial concern in the current and future large-scale, dynamic,
and heterogeneous wireless communication systems. To address this challenge, computer
scientists and engineers have trie ...
This book was born from the perception that there is much more to spectrum use
and sharing than one sees reflected in publications, whether academic, commercial
or political. the former – in good research style – tend towards reductionism and
concentrate on specific, detailed aspects. commercial p ...
The serious study of the practice of how to determine the appropriate content of a
specification is a seldom-appreciated pastime. Those who have the responsibility to
design a product would prefer a greater degree of freedom than permitted by the con-
tent of a specification. Many of those who would ...
Machine learning is a broad and fascinating field. Even
today, machine learning technology runs a substantial part of your
life, often without you knowing it. Any plausible approach to artifi-
cial intelligence must involve learning, at some level, if for no other
reason than it’s hard to call a sy ...
