TECHNOLOGY and ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications

Sensor networks for sustainable development

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Sensor networks are becoming an integral part of our society to meet some common needs such as healthcare, and smart energy use. The success of any enterprise depends upon how fast it can deal with its operations and optimize performance. This handbook is designed for anyone who…

OFDM and MC-CDMA: a Primer

by Keller, Thomas, Hanzo, Lajos L.

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Wireless communications has witnessed a tremendous growth during the past decade and further spectacular enabling technology advances are expected in an effort to render ubiquitous wireless connectivity a reality. Currently, a technical in-depth book on this subject is unavailab…

Digital processing: optical transmission and coherent receiving techn…

by Binh, Le Nguyen

fromOptics and photonics

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This book describes modern coherent receiving techniques for optical transmission and aspects of modern digital optical communications in the most basic lines. The chapters provide a fundamental understanding of advanced receiving techniques for transport in the optical and elec…

Physical layer security in wireless communications

by Zhang, Yan, Song, Lingyang, Zhou, Xiangyun Sean

fromWireless networks and mobile communications

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Physical layer security has recently become an emerging technique to complement and significantly improve the communication security of wireless networks. Comparing to the cryptographic approaches, physical layer security is a fundamentally different paradigm, where secrecy is a…

The filter bubble: what the Internet is hiding from you

by Pariser, Eli

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In late 2009, Google began customizing search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. Facebook - fast becoming one of the world's primary news sources - prioritizes the links …