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Building Wireless Sensor Networks
Application to Routing and Data Diffusion
Existing wireless networks aim to provide communication services between vehicles by enabling the vehicular networks to support wide range applications. This book discusses the new challenges involved in securing routing in wireless sensor networks with different new hybrid topologies.
An analysis of the security of real time data diffusion, a protocol used for routing in wireless sensor network...
RCS Synthesis for Chipless RFID
Theory and Design
The considerable growth of RFID is currently accompanied by the development of numerous identification technologies that complement those already available while seeking to answer new problems.
Chipless RFID is one example. The goal is to both significantly reduce the price of the tag and increase the amount of information it contains, in order to compete with the barcode while retaining the ben...
Implementing IP and Ethernet on the 4G Mobile Network
The 4G mobile network allows an IP packet transmitted by a mobile to be transported to its gateway, and reciprocally, using the following networks: MPLS-VPN, VPLS and OTN.
The mechanisms for the implementation of quality of service (QoS) on the EPS, IP, Ethernet and MPLS networks are presented.
The security for the LTE radio interface, the NAS messages and the links of the transport (IPSec) are ...
Networking Simulation for Intelligent Transportation Systems
High Mobile Wireless Nodes
This book studies the simulation of wireless networking in the domain of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) involving aircraft, railway and vehicular communication. On this subject, particular focus is placed on effective communication channels, mobility modeling, multi-technology simulation and global ITS simulation frameworks.
Networking Simulation for Intelligent Transportation System...
Energy Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Energy management is an unavoidable issue in the application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). To guarantee efficiency and durability in a network, we must go beyond hardware solutions and seek alternative software solutions that allow for better data control from the source to delivery.
Data transfer must obey different routing protocols, depending on the application type and network architect...
Wireless Public Safety Networks 3
Applications and Uses
This third volume of the Wireless Public Safety Networks series explores new tendencies in the Public Safety Networks (PSNs) field, highlighting real-use cases and applications that can be used by practitioners to help victims in the case of danger.
The book explores, from the communication point of view, how teams can interact with and use new technologies and tools. These technologies can have...
The Art and Science of NFC Programming
Intellectual Technologies Set Volume 3
The use of near field communication (NFC), by simply placing mobile devices equipped with NFC connectivity in close proximity, is now becoming a universal standard adopted by all smartphone manufacturers.
This book explores the three standard modes of NFC, which offer the opportunity of new and innovative mobile services based on the Tap n Play paradigm; touch to pay or touch to control (in ca...
Quantum Communications in New Telecommunications Systems
Computers are quickly making the transition from silicon towards miniaturization, which now risks reaching its limits as dictated by the laws of physics. Quantum communications are the answer to post-silicon computers.
The main applications for quantum communications in the domain of telecommunications are beginning to appear, with some commercial applications already on the market.
This boo...
Communication Networks Economy
In an increasingly interconnected world, Communication Networks Economy provides the rational understanding necessary to provide universal access to communication means in an efficient way. This book presents the principal elements of the economics of a network as it stands today, taking into account experiences of technicians in the field.
The author gives a simplified picture of the current...
Chipless RFID based on RF Encoding Particle
Realization, Coding, Reading System
This book explores the field of chipless identification and RF encoding particles (REP): the possibility of collecting information remotely without the need for wires, batteries or chips.
Despite the many benefits of RFID, deployment is still hindered by both economic and technological factors. The high cost of tags, lack of reliability and security in the information contained in the RFID chip a...
Mobile and Wireless Networks
Advanced Network Set Volume 2
This book presents the state of the art in the field of mobile and wireless networks, and anticipates the arrival of new standards and architectures. It focuses on wireless networks, starting with small personal area networks and progressing onto the very large cells of wireless regional area networks, via local area networks dominated by WiFi technology, and finally metropolitan networks.
After ...
Wireless Public Safety Networks 2
A Systematic Approach
The aim of this second book of the Wireless Public Safety Networks series is to provide a system-level view of some fundamental problems linked to the PSN field. This book mainly focuses on specific enabling technologies, i.e. those which can help the most with the deployment and usage of PSNs in real world scenarios.
The first chapter is twofold. First, it makes a brief overview of the require...
Transitions from Digital Communications to Quantum Communications
Concepts and Prospects
This book addresses the move towards quantum communications, in light of the recent technological developments on photonic crystals and their potential applications in systems.
The authors present the state of the art on extensive quantum communications, the first part of the book being dedicated to the relevant theory; quantum gates such as Deutsch gates, Toffoli gates and Dedekind gates are re...
Enablers for Smart Cities
Smart cities are a new vision for urban development. They integrate information and communication technology infrastructures in the domains of artificial intelligence, distributed and cloud computing, and sensor networks into a city, to facilitate quality of life for its citizens and sustainable growth. This book explores various concepts for the development of these new technologies (includ...
e-Health Systems
Theory, Advances and Technical Applications
This book presents e-Health, from its implementation at the physical level to the networks of communication between the different systems and sensors involved, as well as the most relevant solutions at the application layer.
The authors focus on ICT technologies and solutions for health management and healthcare applications.
Part 1 presents electronic health records as we know them. By presenti...
VoLTE and ViLTE
Voice and Conversational Video Services over the 4G Mobile Network
This book presents the architecture of two networks that make up the backbone of the telephone service VoLTE and video service ViLTE.
The 4G mobile network makes it possible to construct bearers through which IP packets, containing either telephone signals (SIP, SDP) or voice or video media (RTP stream), are transported.
The IMS network performs the processing of the telephone signal to provid...
Analytical Modeling of Wireless Communication Systems
Stochastic Models in Computer Science and Telecommunication Networks Set Volume 1
Wireless networks represent an inexpensive and convenient way to connect to the Internet. However, despite their applications across several technologies, one challenge still remains: to understand the behavior of wireless sensor networks and assess their performance in large-scale scenarios.
When a large number of network nodes need to interact, developing suitable analytical models is essenti...
RFID and Wireless Sensors using Ultra-Wideband Technology
Remote Identification Beyond RFID Set
This book explores ultra-wideband (UWB) technology for radio frequency identification (RFID).
RFID is one of the fastest growing sectors in radio technology. RFID systems were initially developed to overcome the limitations of barcodes in terms of spatial constraints, by using antennas and electromagnetic waves. Recently, RFID has also been used to develop smart autonomous sensors, enhancing the...
Deploying Wireless Sensor Networks
Theory and Practice
As the Internet of Things makes things more interesting by connecting real-world objects, places and people through the digital world, one of the most promising technologies in this area is sensor networks. It will be fascinating to look back in the years ahead and note the growing interest of the use of sensor networks in huge real-world applications. Due to the emergence of different kinds of se...
Wireless Public Safety Networks 1
Overview and Challenges
Maintaining communication capabilities during a disaster scenario is crucial and can often be the primary determining factor between life and death for many people. Public Safety Networks (PSNs) are networks established by the authorities to either prepare the population for an eminent catastrophe, or as support during the crisis and normalization phases. The requirements for these mission critica...
Digital Communications
Course and Exercices with Solutions
Digital communications play an important role in numerical transmission systems due to the proliferation of radio beams, satellites, optic fibers, radar, and mobile wireless systems. This book provides the fundamentals and basic design techniques of digital communications. It has grown out of the authors own teaching and as such has a unity of methodology and style, essential for making it easy ...
LTE and LTE Advanced
4G Network Radio Interface
The 4G mobile network is in constant deployment with its main objective being an increase in the rate over the radio interface with mobiles and in cell capacity.
This book presents a summary of the specifications relating to LTE (Long Term Evolution) and LTE Advanced radio interfaces, the protocols, the physical signals and channels, and the procedures.
The LTE radio interface was introduced...
Satellite and Terrestrial Hybrid Networks
This book offers the reader the keys for a successful understanding, integration and usage of satellite systems in addition to next generation terrestrial networks. The DVB-S2/RCS system is used to illustrate the integration challenges. The presentation uses a system approach, i.e. it tackles the terrestrial and satellite telecommunication systems complexity with a high level approach, focusing o...
Traffic Anomaly Detection
The authors present an overview of traffic anomaly detection analysis, which allows us to monitor security aspects of multimedia services, as well as the algorithms proposed for this analysis. In addition, an empirical comparative analysis of those methods is made and a new information-theory based technique called typical day analysis" is determined.
The first chapter presents the change poi...
Digital Communications 1
Source and Channel Coding
Humans have always used communication systems: first with smoke signals, and then with the telegraph and telephone. These systems and their technological advances have changed our lifestyle profoundly.
Nowadays, smartphones enable us to make calls, watch videos and use social networks, and with this comes the emergence of the connected man and the wider applications of smart objects. All curre...
Digital Communications 2
Digital Modulations
Humans have always used communication systems: first with smoke signals, and then with the telegraph and telephone. These systems and their technological advances have changed our lifestyle profoundly.
Nowadays, smartphones enable us to make calls, watch videos and use social networks, and with this comes the emergence of the connected man and the wider applications of smart objects. All curre...
Bio-inspired Networking
Bio-inspired techniques are based on principles, or models, of biological systems. In general, natural systems present remarkable capabilities of resilience and adaptability. The author of this book explores how bio-inspired methods can solve different problems linked to computer networks.
Future networks are expected to be autonomous, scalable and adaptive. During millions of years of evolution,...
Software Networks
Virtualization, SDN, 5G and security
The goal of this book is to describe new concepts for the Internets next generation. This architecture is based on virtual networking using Cloud and datacenter facilities. The main problems to be dealt with are the placement of virtual resources for opening a new network on the fly, and the urbanization of virtual resources implemented on physical network equipment. This architecture deals with ...
Connections Management Strategies in Satellite Cellular Networks
To determine the major parameters about mobile users (MU) with ongoing calls in LEO mobile satellite systems (MSS), a positioning system must be integrated into the MSS so that MUs can be localized and tracked while they are connected to the network. This integration is considered complex.
This book presents a new method based on the advantages of the LEO MSS mobility model, known as the Evalua...
Ad Hoc Networks Telecommunications and Game Theory
FOCUS Series in Networks and Telecommunications
Since its first application to wireless and ad hoc networks dates in 1995, game theory has proved its abilities to direct networks towards a better state of equilibrium. This has led the authors of this book to propose a model based on game theory to analyze both the SALOHA and CSMA protocols, involving the random use of the redundancy of an erasure coder to reduce collision and improve network pe...
Bandwidth Allocation for Video under Quality of Service Constraints
FOCUS Series in Networks and Telecommunications
The famous trichotomous Quality of Service (QoS) triangle consists of three main players: the sender, the receiver and the Internet Service Provider (ISP), also known as the carrier. The sender wants to send any type of traffic any time, whereas the receiver expects to receive all this sent traffic intact, with low delay. In addition, the third player, the carrier, wants to use the minimum possibl...
Aeronautical AirGround Data Link Communications
FOCUS Series in Networks and Telecommunications
Due to both the constant increase in air traffic and the migration of airground communications from analog voice to digital data, the current, emerging and future communication systems are facing a tremendous challenge: to provide efficient links with suitable capacity, availability and integrity.
The aviation industry and airlines are expecting researchers, engineers and technicians to define, ...
Radio Frequency Identification and Sensors
From RFID to Chipless RFID
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is based on the exchange of information carried by electromagnetic waves between a label, or tag, and a readerfor the purpose of automatically identifying and tracking tags attached to objects. This technology is currently in full economic expansion, manifested inits widely backed research activities, some of which are examined in this book. The rate at which ...
New Telecom Networks
Enterprises and Security
Nowadays, the Internet has become an irreplaceable tool, feeding us information about new innovations and the evolution of the markets relating to all human activities. What the Internet lacks, though, is a guiding narrative thread, which is crucial to understand the evolution from old technologies into the technologies available today, and to benefit from the commentary which could elucidate that...
Rapid Prototyping of Software for Avionics Systems
Model-oriented Approaches for Complex Systems Certification
The design, implementation and validation of avionics and aeronautical systems have become extremely complex tasks due to the increase of functionalities that are deployed in current avionics systems and the need to be able certify them before putting them into production.
This book proposes a methodology to enable the rapid prototyping of such a system by considering from the start the certific...
LTE Standards
LTE (Long Term Evolution) is commonly marketed as 4G. LTE and LTE Advanced have been recognized by ITU-R and ITU-T (International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications) as the principal solution for the future mobile communication networks standards. They are thus the framework of what the marketing calls 4G and possibly also 5G.
This book describes various aspects of LTE as well as the ...
LTE Services
LTE (Long Term Evolution) is commonly marketed as 4G. LTE and LTE Advanced have been recognized by ITU-R and ITU-T (International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications) as the principal solution for the future mobile communication networks standards. They are thus the framework of what the marketing calls 4G and possibly also 5G.
This book describes various aspects of LTE as well as the ...
Network Security
This book introduces the security mechanisms deployed in Ethernet, Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Internet Protocol (IP) and MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks. These mechanisms are grouped throughout the book according to the following four functions: data protection, access control, network isolation, and data monitoring.
Data protection is supplied by data confidentiality and integrity ...
Real-time Systems Scheduling 1
Real-time systems are used in a wide range of applications, including control, sensing, multimedia, etc. Scheduling is a central problem for these computing/communication systems since it is responsible for software execution in a timely manner. This book, the first of two volumes on the subject, is of interest as a general course on scheduling in real-time systems.
It addresses foundations as we...
Bio-inspired Routing Protocols for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
FOCUS Series in Networks and Telecommunications
Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) play a key role in developing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) aiming to achieve road safety and to guarantee the needs of drivers and passengers, in addition to improving transportation productivity.
One of the most important challenges of this kind of network is the data routing between VANET nodes which should be routed with a high level of Quality o...
Real-time Systems Scheduling 2
Real-time systems are used in a wide range of applications, including control, sensing, multimedia, etc. Scheduling is a central problem for these computing/communication systems since it is responsible for software execution in a timely manner. This book, the second of two volumes on the subject, brings together knowledge on specific topics and discusses the recent advances for some of them.
Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks
FOCUS Series in Networks and Telecommunications
The last decade has witnessed a growing body of knowledge on the design and operation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in a broad spectrum of applications. The premise of advancements in hardware design (MEMS, transceivers, sensors, etc.) potentiated a cost-effective base for many sensing domains. The protocols and paradigms devised for WSNs grew, both in scope and depth, to span many scenarios;...
Smart SOA Platforms in Cloud Computing Architectures
Introducing the principles of the Event-Driven and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA 2.0), and its role in the new interconnected world based on the cloud computing architecture paradigm, this book focuses on how the current and future SOA technologies provide the basis for the smart management of the service model provided by the Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer. In this new context, the conce...
Quality of Experience Engineering for Customer Added Value Services
From Evaluation to Monitoring
The main objective of the book is to present state-of-the-art research results and experience reports in the area of quality monitoring for customer experience management, addressing topics which are currently important, such as service-aware future Internet architecture for Quality of Experience (QoE) management on multimedia applications.
In recent years, multimedia applications and services ha...
Advanced Routing Protocols for Wireless Networks
FOCUS Series in Networks and Telecommunications
The main concepts of routing applied to wireless networking environments are introduced in this book, focusing on networks that can be deployed within an urban scenario which is vertiginously gaining importance given the recent efforts towards smart cities.
The authors review physical medium characteristics and the main underlying access methods, before moving on to introduce the main metrics a...
Quantum Networking
Quantum repeater networks enable and depend upon quantum teleportation to create quantum states over long distances using entanglement (the ability of distant quantum particles to share a state in a way no classical particles can). These networks will enhance classical computer security, improve the sensitivity of telescopes and other scientific instruments, and ultimately connect quantum com...
VBR Video Traffic Models
FOCUS Series in Networks and Telecommunications
Phenomenal growth in video applications over the last few years, along with the growing number of multimedia users, has increased bandwidth requirements exponentially. Consumers are increasingly discerning about the quality and performance of video-based products and therefore there is a strong incentive for continuous improvement in multimedia technologies and communication infrastructure. Howeve...
Resource Optimization and Security for Cloud Services
Resource Optimization and Security for Cloud Services covers the current state of the art in this field. It includes a study of trustworthiness, percentile response time, service availability, and network authentication for cloud services.
The first part of the book gives an analysis of percentile response time, which is one of the most important service level agreement (SLA) metrics. With the n...
Quality of Experience for Multimedia
Application to Content Delivery Network Architecture
Based on a convergence of network technologies, the Next Generation Network (NGN) is being deployed to carry high quality video and voice data. In fact, the convergence of network technologies has been driven by the converging needs of end-users.
The perceived end-to-end quality is one of the main goals required by users that must be guaranteed by the network operators and the Internet Service P...
Voice over LTE
EPS and IMS Networks
Voice over LTE (Long Term Evolution) presents the mechanisms put in place in 4G mobile networks for the transportation of IP packets containing voice data and telephone signaling, as well as the technologies used to provide a telephone service in the IMS (IP Multimedia Sub-system) network.
Despite the difficulty connected to the handover of the 4G network to the 2G/3G network, a telephone communi...
LTE-Advanced DRX Mechanism for Power Saving
FOCUS Series in Networks and Telecommunications
Resource allocation and power optimization is a new challenge in multimedia services in cellular communication systems. To provide a better end-user experience, the fourth generation (4G) standard Long Term Evolution/Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE/LTE-Advanced) has been developed for high-bandwidth mobile access to accommodate todays data-heavy applications. LTE/LTE-Advanced has adopted disco...
Virtual Networks
Pluralistic Approach for the Next Generation of Internet
The first chapter of this title concerns virtualization techniques that allow sharing computational resources basically, slicing a real computational environment into virtual computational environments that are isolated from one another.
The Xen and OpenFlow virtualization platforms are then presented in Chapter 2 and a performance analysis of both is provided. This chapter also defines the prim...
Wireless Telecommunication Systems
Wireless telecommunication systems generate a huge amount of interest. In the last two decades, these systems have experienced at least three major technological leaps, and it has become impossible to imagine how society was organized without them. In this book, we propose a macroscopic approach on wireless systems, and aim at answering key questions about power, data rates, multiple access, cellu...
Geopositioning and Mobility
This book presents a general overview of the applications and use of geopositioning and GNSS for assisting the supervision and management of mobile terrestrial professions, information, traffic regulation, multimodal information, pedestrian mobility and indoor geopositioning, etc. It especially focuses on the field of mobility and terrestrial transport, the automotive industry and tourism (on foo...
Synchronous Ethernet and IEEE 1588 in Telecoms
Next Generation Synchronization Networks
This book addresses the multiple technical aspects of the distribution of synchronization in new generation telecommunication networks, focusing in particular on synchronous Ethernet and IEEE1588 technologies. Many packet network engineers struggle with understanding the challenges that precise synchronization distribution can impose on networks. The usual why, when and particularly how can...
Vehicular Networks
Models and Algorithms
Over the last few years vehicular networks have been receiving a lot of attention from academia, industry, standardization bodies, and the various transportation agencies and departments of many governments around the world. It is envisaged in the next decade that the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) will become an essential part of our daily life. This book describes models and/or algorith...
User-Centered Agile Method
FOCUS Series in Networks and Telecommunications
Agile development methods began to emerge around 20 years ago. However, it was not until the early 2000s that they began to be widely used in industry. This growth was often due to the advent of Internet services requiring faster cycles of development in order to heighten the rate at which an ever-greater number of functionalities were made available. In parallel, user-centered design (UCD) method...
Information-Centric Networks
A New Paradigm for the Internet
Since its inception, the Internet has evolved from a textual information system towards a multimedia information system, in which data, services and applications are consumed as content. Today, however, the main problem faced is that applications are now content-oriented but the protocol stack remains the same, based on the content location. Thus, it is clear that the Internets current architectu...
Risk Propagation Assessment for Network Security
Application to Airport Communication Network Design
The focus of this book is risk assessment methodologies for network architecture design. The main goal is to present and illustrate an innovative risk propagation-based quantitative assessment tool. This original approach aims to help network designers and security administrators to design and build more robust and secure network topologies. As an implementation case study, the authors consider an...
Architecture and Governance for Communication Services
Communication services are evolving at an unprecedented rate. No longer limited to interpersonal vocal communication, they now integrate functions such as address books, content sharing and messaging. The emergence of social networks which may also include these features is an important element of this transformation. Content services are becoming flagship services themselves, and are sometime...
Mobile Access Safety
Beyond BYOD
Over recent years, the amount of mobile equipment that needs to be connected to corporate networks remotely (smartphones, laptops, etc.) has increased rapidly. Innovative development perspectives and new tendencies such as BYOD (bring your own device) are exposing business information systems more than ever to various compromising threats. The safety control of remote access has become a strategic...
Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks
FOCUS Series in Networks and Telecommunications
The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented development and growth in global wireless communications systems, technologies and network traffic generated over network infrastructures. This book presents state-of-the-art energy-efficient techniques, designs and implementations that pertain to wireless communication networks such as cellular networks, wireless local area networks (WLANs) and wir...
Intelligent Non-hierarchical Manufacturing Networks
This book provides the latest models, methods and guidelines for networked enterprises to enhance their competitiveness and move towards innovative high performance and agile industrial systems.
In the new global market, competitiveness and economic growth rely greatly on the move toward innovative high performance industrial systems and agile networked enterprises through the creation and consol...
Advanced Transport Protocols
Designing the Next Generation
The current diversity of transport services, as well as the complexity resulting from the deployment of specific transport protocols or mechanisms over the different services provided by heterogeneous networks, demand a novel design of the transport layer. Moreover, current and future applications will only be able to take advantage of the most adapted and available transport services if they are...
Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems
Belonging to the wider academic field of computer vision, video analytics has aroused a phenomenal surge of interest since the current millennium. Video analytics is intended to solve the problem of the incapability of exploiting video streams in real time for the purpose of detection or anticipation. It involves analyzing the videos using algorithms that detect and track objects of interest over ...
Green Networking
This book focuses on green networking, which is an important topic for the scientific community composed of engineers, academics, researchers and industrialists working in the networking field. Reducing the environmental impact of the communications infrastructure has become essential with the ever increasing cost of energy and the need for reducing global CO2 emissions to protect our environment....
Wireless Optical Communications
Wireless optical communication refers to communication based on the unguided propagation of optical waves. The past 30 years have seen significant improvements in this technique a wireless communication solution for the current millennium that offers an alternative to radio systems; a technique that could gain attractiveness due to recent concerns regarding the potential effects of radiofreque...
Network Coding
Network coding, a relatively new area of research, has evolved from the theoretical level to become a tool used to optimize the performance of communication networks wired, cellular, ad hoc, etc. The idea consists of mixing packets of data together when routing them from source to destination. Since network coding increases the network performance, it becomes a tool to enhance the existing pro...
Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Telecom Networks
This book addresses the stochastic modeling of telecommunication networks, introducing the main mathematical tools for that purpose, such as Markov processes, real and spatial point processes and stochastic recursions, and presenting a wide list of results on stability, performances and comparison of systems. The authors propose a comprehensive mathematical construction of the foundations of stoch...
This book concerns the analysis and design of induction heating of poor electrical conduction materials. Some innovating applications such as inductive plasma installation or transformers, thermo inductive non-destructive testing and carbon-reinforced composite materials heating are studied. Analytical, semi-analytical and numerical models are combined to obtain the best modeling technique for eac...
Mobile Networks Architecture
This book explains the evolutions of architecture for mobiles and summarizes the different technologies:
2G: the GSM (Global System for Mobile) network, the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) network and the EDGE (Enhanced Data for Global Evolution) evolution;
3G: the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) network and the HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) evolutions:
Digital Home Networking
In an era of ubiquity, nomadism and ecological challenge, the maturity of wireless technologies, the readiness of broadband Internet access and the popularity of smart terminals should contribute to emancipating IT services in connection with the home and home-based resources. This book, in light of several years of applied research and technological surveys, aims at describing the digital home ne...
Radio Engineering
From Software Radio to Cognitive Radio
Software radio ideally provides the opportunity to communicate with any radio communication standard by modifying only the software, without any modification to hardware components. However, taking into account the static behavior of current communications protocols, the spectrum efficiency optimization, and flexibility, the radio domain has become an important factor.
From this thinking appeare...
Network Performance Analysis
The book presents some key mathematical tools for the performance analysis of communication networks and computer systems.
Communication networks and computer systems have become extremely complex. The statistical resource sharing induced by the random behavior of users and the underlying protocols and algorithms may affect Quality of Service.
This book introduces the main results of queuing th...
Communicating Systems with UML 2
Modeling and Analysis of Network Protocols
This book gives a practical approach to modeling and analyzing communication protocols using UML 2. Network protocols are always presented with a point of view focusing on partial mechanisms and starting models. This book aims at giving the basis needed for anybody to model and validate their own protocols. It follows a practical approach and gives many examples for the description and analysis of...
Compact Antennas for Wireless Communications and Terminals
Theory and Design
Compact Antennas for Wireless Communications and Terminals deals with compact microwave antennas and, more specifically, with the planar version of these antennas. Planar antennas are the most appropriate type of antenna in modern communication systems and more generally in all applications requiring miniaturization, integration and conformation such as in mobile phone handsets.
The book is suita...
RFID and the Internet of Things
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology allows for automatic identification of information contained in a tag by scanning and interrogation using radio frequency (RF) waves.
An RFID tag contains an antenna and a microchip that allows it to transmit and receive. This technology is a possible alternative to the use of barcodes, which are frequently inadequate in the face of rapid growth in...
IP, Ethernet and MPLS Networks
Resource and Fault Management
This book provides details of the key Quality of Service (QoS) technologies deployed in telecommunications networks: Ethernet, Internet Protocol (IP), and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). The QoS of the network is made up of two parts: fault management and resource management.
Network operation quality is among the functions to be fulfilled in order to offer sufficient QoS to the end user. I...
Home Area Networks and IPTV
The field of Home Area Networks (HAN), a dedicated residential subset of LAN technologies for home-based use, is fast becoming the next frontier for the communications industry.
This book describes the various technologies involved in the implementation of a HAN: high-speed Internet connections, indoor implementations, services, software, and management packages. It also reviews multimedia appl...
Local Networks and the Internet
From Protocols to Interconnection
Local Networks and the Internet examines the technologies most commonly used in the Internet and in local intranets, in their design and development. It explains the relationships between the various important standards, as well as their objectives and their technical content. The relationships between different address levels (MAC, IP addresses, autoconfiguration protocols) are presented in exten...
Ad Hoc Networks
Routing, QoS and Optimization
This book describes the essential technology, features, and characteristics of ad hoc networks and their fields of use. After an in-depth study of the different categories of routing techniques, an evaluation of the performance of OLSR and AODV protocols is proposed using a variety of scenarios and simulations.
A new routing protocol with QoS is presented, as well as its implementation in a netwo...
Ultra Wide Band Antennas
Ultra Wide Band Technology (UWB) has reached a level of maturity that allows us to offer wireless links with either high or low data rates. These wireless links are frequently associated with a location capability for which ultimate accuracy varies with the inverse of the frequency bandwidth. Using time or frequency domain waveforms, they are currently the subject of international standards facili...
The Internet of Things
Connecting Objects
The path towards communication ubiquity started years ago with the aim of offering to users different services anytime and anywhere. This is becoming true only because wireless and mobile communication have had a remarkable evolution, as has the miniaturization of mobile terminals, while keeping high performance and security. The Internet of Things appears to be the ultimate or next step of ubiq...
Communicating Embedded Systems
Network Applications
Embedded systems become more and more complex and require having some knowledge in various disciplines such as electronics, data processing, telecommunications and networks.
Without detailing all the aspects related to the design of embedded systems, this book, which was written by specialists in electronics, data processing and telecommunications and networks, gives an interesting point of view...
Wireless and Mobile Network Security
Security basics, Security in On-the-shelf and emerging technologies
This book provides a cutting-edge examination of research and/or security solutions in wireless and mobile networks. It begins by covering the security basic concepts and fundamentals constituting a base of knowledge necessary for the comprehension of security issues, challenges and solutions. This discussion will be of invaluable use to those unfamiliar with the security field. Next it presents t...
Radio Resources Management in WiMAX
From theoretical capacity to system simulations
This book examines some of the most recent work relating to the IEEE 802.16/WiMAX system, with particular emphasis being placed on radio resource management and performance analysis. Relaying is also given considerable coverage to reflect its growing importance in this field. Written by a range of contributors from both academic and manufacturer environments, and featuring many simulation results,...
Ultra-Wideband Radio Propagation Channels
A Practical Approach
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology consists of transmitting radio signals over frequency bandwidths from 500 MHz to several GHz. Its unique characteristics may be exploited for the design of high data rate wireless communication systems, as well as localization and imaging applications. The development and optimization of such systems require a precise knowledge of the radio transmission medium.
End-to-End Quality of Service Engineering in Next Generation Heterogenous Networks
Due the proliferation and convergence of different types of wired, wireless and mobile networks (such as WiMAX, Wireless Mesh Networks, WPANs, WLANs, Sensor, etc) and cellular-based networks, this book deals with the objective to develop efficient global control mechanisms that can maintain end-to-end QoS requirements to maximize network resources utilization, and minimize operational costs on all...
Fiber-Optic Communications
This book describes in a comprehensive manner the components and systems of fiber-optic communications and networks. Coverage is divided into three parts: Part 1 explains the propagation theory over single-mode and multimode fibers, as well as technological features (manufacturing, cabling, connecting). Part 2 describes the various components (passive and active optical components, integrated opt...
Autonomic Networks
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Dec. 8, 2007
BOISE, Idaho -
Complete Results in PDF Format
Junior Eric Coxbill led the way for the Cowboys with his first career dual win at Wyoming as UW fell to Boise State 38-3 Saturday night in Boise.
"Boise is traditionally a good team and this year is no exception," UW head coach Steven Suder said. "They have one of their most solid teams in several years and plenty of guys in their practice room pushing their starters."
BSU began the dual by winning the first four matches before Coxbill put the Pokes on the board.
Coxbill, a junior from Wright, Wyoming, defeated BSU's Tyler Roshau 6-2 to give Wyoming their only team points of the night. He scored two takedowns in the first period and added an escape in the second and earned riding time in the third for the victory.
"Coxbill wrestled a solid match tonight and he is continuing to make adjustments," Suder said. "He is one of our guys that is getting better with each match and making progress."
Wyoming struggled the rest of the night losing the next five matches falling to 0-2 on the dual season.
"We have a bunch of youngsters that need to do a lot of growing up and we are not wrestling with a great deal of confidence," Suder continued." "We are not selling the farm on these guys and we are going to continue to work hard and strive to get better."
The Cowboys will be back in action Tuesday, December 18, as they head to Reno, Nevada to compete in the Brute Reno Tournament of Champions. Last season, the Pokes finished 15 out of 29 teams with a team score of 33.5. Current UW sophomore Cory VomBaur finished the tournament last year with a 2-2 record. The tournament will begin at 9 a.m. and last all day.
125 - Alan Bartelli (BSU) def. Cody Grant (UW) by fall at the 4:02 mark.
133 - Cory FIsh (BSU) def. Cory VomBaur (UW); 10-4
141 - Levi Jones (BSU) def. Cole Dallaserra (UW) by major decision; 19-7
149 - #18 Adam Hall (BSU) def. Cody Chipperfield (UW) by major decision; 14-5
157 - #11 Tyler Sherfey (BSU) def. Clay Sondgeroth (UW) by technical fall; 16-1
165 - Kurt Swartz (BSU) def. Dane Fuhrman (UW) by major decision; 18-4
174 - Eric Coxbill (UW) def. Tyler Roshau (BSU); 6-2
184 - Matt Casperson (BSU) def. Dan Barrone (UW) by fall at the 4:02 mark.
197 - Ryan Allen (BSU) def. Colt Reece (UW); 10-5
Hwt. - Nick Smith (BSU) def. Jason Still (UW); 4-1
Final Team Score: BSU-38, UW-3


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Americans have known for some time that the stories of Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman, the two most famous faces of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, were embellished by the Pentagon. Even so, details revealed at congressional hearings this week were shocking.
It emerged, for example, that the military delayed by a day the dramatic rescue of Lynch in early 2003 — after she had been captured and taken to an Iraqi hospital when her supply unit was ambushed. Why? Because it wanted to videotape the rescue. That tape was then used to help spin a false story portraying her as a female Rambo firing at the enemy. In reality, she had been too injured to fight. And her captors had left the hospital long before U.S. commandos arrived.
In Tillman's case, astonishing failures were detailed. Tillman, who became an icon for patriotism when he gave up a lucrative NFL football career to sign up with the Army, was killed by friendly fire in April 2004. The last soldier to see Tillman alive, Spc. Bryan O'Neal, said he was ordered not to divulge the truth, particularly to Tillman's brother, Kevin, who was in a convoy traveling behind Pat when the accident happened. O'Neal's written account of the incident was altered.
For five weeks after Tillman's death, the Pentagon put out a story of heroism, detailing how he had fought bravely against enemy fire in Afghanistan. It awarded him a Silver Star for that bravery. The story helped divert attention from the Abu Ghraib scandal just as it was breaking. Five investigations failed to find criminal wrongdoing. Yet the hearings uncovered just how sloppy the investigations were. Has the military used computer forensics to find out who had manufactured the false Tillman heroics? No. There appears to have been no thorough effort to determine how far up the chain of command the coverup was approved.
All armies lie. Wars and propaganda go hand in hand. During World War II, newsreels constantly painted heroism that may or may not have happened. But we live in a different age, an age of 24-hour news, reality TV and YouTube. Particularly today, the most powerful propaganda is the truth. Telling lies is more risky and damaging, especially when the United States wants to project an image that's a model for the rest of the world.
This is the lesson the Pentagon should have learned long ago. In 1989, the Navy tried to cover up an explosion aboard the USS Iowa that killed 47. It was caused by negligence. The Navy substituted a made-up tale of a murder-suicide. That, too, backfired.
The Tillman family wants a more complete story, and it should get one. Not just for the family, but to bring home to the military how lies tear lives and trust to shreds. As Lynch herself put it, the truth "is always more heroic than the hype." She and Tillman deserve their "hero" labels. No one deserves the lies.
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A contested divorce is often the epitome of "he said, she said" litigation. Each party has an opinion about the actions of the other spouse prior to and during the divorce. Each is concerned about the outcome, wanting a settlement that favors his or her best interests. Each likely feels strong emotions from disappointment to anger throughout the process.
The emotions and concerns felt in the courtroom rarely stay in the courtroom, which is why judges issue anti-harassment orders and attorneys caution their clients about the rules they should follow when communicating with their spouses during a divorce, especially when it comes to social media.
If you send messages to your spouse, tag him or her in a statement on Facebook or share photos on a public Instagram feed, you could be asking for trouble. At this point, you may be thinking, "Well, I'll just avoid direct contact and set my privacy settings to high."
Privacy settings and controlled social media communications are a start, but you might want to consider closing the profiles and abstaining from any social media use. Profiles can be hacked and privacy settings can be beat with fake friend requests and other tools. Even participation alone on certain sites, like Tinder, could cause problems.
Remember: anything you write is forever. This includes words on anything, from a piece of paper to a social media profile, and yes, text messages. Cellphone companies may not keep or share records, but everyone else you send a text message to, can.
Although your attorney can help work to repair any damage, it is often best to be safe rather than sorry and take the "less is more" approach.
Source: Fox Business, "Can Social Media Hurt You In A Divorce," Andrea Murad, Aug 27, 2015