Download or read book Ultra wideband Positioning Systems written by Zafer Sahinoglu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Position estimation of wireless devices has many applications in short-range networks. Ultra-wideband (UWB) signals provide accurate positioning capabilities that can be harnessed in wireless systems to realise these applications. This text provides detailed coverage of UWB positioning systems, offering comprehensive treatment of signal and receiver design for ranging, range estimation techniques, theoretical performance bounds, ranging algorithms and protocols. Beginning with a discussion of the potential applications of wireless positioning, and investigating UWB signals for such applications, later chapters establish a signal processing framework for analysing UWB positioning and ranging systems. The recent IEEE 802.15.4a standard related to UWB is also studied in detail. Each chapter contains examples, problems and Matlab scripts to help readers grasp key concepts. This is an ideal text for graduate students and researchers in electrical and computer engineering, and practitioners in the communications industry, particularly those in wireless communications. Further resources are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521873093.

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Download or read book Reliable Communications for Short Range Wireless Systems written by Ismail Guvenc and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ensuring reliable communication is an important concern in short-range wireless communication systems with stringent quality of service requirements. Key characteristics of these systems, including data rate, communication range, channel profiles, network topologies and power efficiency, are very different from those in long-range systems. This comprehensive book classifies short-range wireless technologies as high and low data rate systems. It addresses major factors affecting reliability at different layers of the protocol stack, detailing the best ways to enhance the capacity and performance of short-range wireless systems. Particular emphasis is placed on reliable channel estimation, state-of-the-art interference mitigation techniques and cooperative communications for improved reliability. The book also provides detailed coverage of related international standards including UWB, ZigBee, and 60 GHz communications. With a balanced treatment of theoretical and practical aspects of short-range wireless communications and with a focus on reliability, this is an ideal resource for practitioners and researchers in wireless communications.

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Download or read book Privacy Enhancing Aggregation Techniques for Smart Grid Communications written by Rongxing Lu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of security and privacy issues in smart grid communications, as well as the challenges in addressing these issues. It also introduces several privacy enhancing aggregation techniques including multidimensional data aggregation, subset data aggregation, multifunctional data aggregation, data aggregation with fault tolerance, data aggregation with differential privacy, and data aggregation with integrity protection. Offering a comprehensive exploration of various privacy preserving data aggregation techniques, this book is an exceptional resource for the academics, researchers, and graduate students seeking to exploit secure data aggregation techniques in smart grid communications and Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios.

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Download or read book IoT as a Service written by Bo Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on IoT as a Service, IoTaaS 2019, which took place in Xi’an, China, in November 2019. The 54 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers contribute to the discussion on the challenges posed by Internet of Things (Io). The two technical tracks and three workshops deal in detail: Networking and Communications Technologies for IoT, IoT as a service, International Workshop on Edge Intelligence and Computing for IoT Communications and Applications, International Workshop on Wireless Automated Networking for Internet of Things, and International Workshop on Ubiquitous Services Transmission for Internet of Things.

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