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LTE for UMTS – OFDMA and SC-FDMA Based Radio Access

Holma, Harri and Antti Toskala. LTE for UMTS – OFDMA and SC-FDMA Based Radio Access Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Publishers, 2009, 433 pp. $120.00 (Hardbound).

From the editors of the highly successful WCDMA for UMTS, this new book gives a complete and up-to-date overview of Long Term Evolution (LTE) in a systematic and clear manner. It starts with an in-depth explanation of the background and standardization process before moving on to examine the system architecture evolution (SAE). The basics of air interface modulation choices are introduced and key subjects such as 3GPP LTE physical layer and protocol solutions are described. Mobility aspects and radio resource management together with radio and end-to-end performance are assessed. The voice solution and voice capacity in LTE are also illustrated. Finally, the main differences between LTE TDD and FDD modes are examined and HSPA evolution in 3GPP Releases 7 and 8 is described.

LTE for UMTS is one of the first books to provide a comprehensive guide to the standards and technologies of LTE.

Key features of the book include:

  • Covers all the key aspects of LTE in a systematic manner
  • Presents full description of 3GPP Release 8 LTE
  • Examines the expected performance of LTE
  • Written by experts actively involved in the 3GPP standards and product development

Harri Holma, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland
Antti Toskala, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland

Essentials of Cognitive Radio

Doyle, Linda E. Essentials of Cognitive Radio New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 234 pp. $65.00 (Hardbound).

Do you need to get up-to-speed quickly on cognitive radio? This concise, practical guide presents the key concepts and challenges you need to know about, including issues associated with security, regulation, and designing and building cognitive radios. Written in a descriptive style and using minimum mathematics, complex ideas are made easily understandable, providing you with a perfect introduction to the technology, and preparing you to face its many future challenges.

  • A descriptive style and minimum mathematics make complex ideas easy to understand.
  • Includes both technical and regulatory challenges that are essential to the development of cognitive radio.
  • Identifies the core concepts that will remain central to the field irrespective of how the technology develops.

Linda E. Doyle is an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She leads a large research group in the Centre for Telecommunications Value-chain Research (CTVR). CTVR focuses on the design of future telecommunications networks and systems, and Professor Doyle’s research focuses on wireless networking, cognitive radio, reconfigurable networks, dynamic spectrum access networks and spectrum management techniques. The research involves both theoretical and experimental aspects. Professor Doyle is also Vice-Chair of the Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) Society.

Advanced Signal Integrity for High-Speed Digital Designs

Hall, Stephen H. and Howard L. Heck. Advanced Signal Integrity for High-Speed Digital Designs. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Publishers, 2009, 660 pp. $120.00 (Hardbound).

This book is designed to provide contemporary readers with an understanding of the emerging high-speed signal integrity issues that are creating roadblocks in digital design. Written by the foremost experts on the subject, it leverages concepts and techniques from non-related fields such as applied physics and microwave engineering and applies them to high-speed digital design – creating the optimal combination between theory and practical applications.

Following an introduction to the importance of signal integrity, chapter coverage includes:
  • Electromagnetic fundamentals for signal integrity
  • Transmission line fundamentals
  • Crosstalk
  • Non-ideal conductor models, including surface roughness and frequency-dependent inductance
  • Frequency-dependent properties of dielectrics
  • Differential signaling
  • Mathematical requirements of physical channels
  • S-parameters for digital engineers
  • Non-ideal return paths and via resonance
  • I/O circuits and models
  • Equalization
  • Modeling and budgeting of timing jitter and noise
  • System analysis using response surface modeling

Each chapter includes many figures and numerous examples to help readers relate the concepts to everyday design and concludes with problems for readers to test their understanding of the material. Advanced Signal Integrity for High-Speed Digital Designs is suitable as a textbook for graduate-level courses on signal integrity, for programs taught in industry for professional engineers, and as a reference for the high-speed digital designer.

Stephen H. Hall is a Senior Staff Engineer at Intel Corporation, where he leads a team focused on the research of new modeling and measurement solutions for channel speeds as high as 30Gb/sec. Previously at Intel, he was the lead designer for desktop and server buses on Pentium® II, III, and IV based systems, coordinated research in the area of high-speed signaling with multiple universities, led research and development teams in the area of high-speed modeling, and taught signal integrity courses to engineers in two countries. He is also the author of High-Speed Digital System Design (Wiley).

Howard L. Heck is a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, where he leads development of the signaling specifications and solutions for USB 3.0. He also teaches high-speed digital interconnect design at the Oregon Graduate Institute, is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and holds five patents in the area of high-performance packaging and interconnects, with five more pending.

LTE for 4G Mobile Broadband – Air Interface Technologies and Performance

Khan, Farooq. LTE for 4G Mobile Broadband – Air Interface Technologies and Performance. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 492 pp. $99.00 (Hardbound).

Do you need to get up-to-speed quickly on Long-Term Evolution (LTE)?

Understand the new technologies of the LTE standard and how they contribute to improvements in system performance with this practical and valuable guide, written by an expert on LTE who was intimately involved in the drafting of the standard. In addition to a strong grounding in the technical details, you’ll also get fascinating insights into why particular technologies were chosen in the development process.

Core topics covered include:
  • Network architecture and protocols;
  • OFDMA downlink access;
  • Low-PAPR SC-FDMA uplink access;
  • Transmit diversity and MIMO spatial multiplexing;
  • Channel structure and bandwidths;
  • Cell search, reference signals and random access;
  • Turbo coding with contention-free interleaver;
  • Scheduling, link adaptation, hybrid ARQ and power control;
  • Uplink and downlink physical control signaling;
  • Inter-cell interference mitigation techniques;
  • Single-frequency network (SFN) broadcast;
  • MIMO spatial channel model;
  • Evaluation methodology and system performance.

With extensive references, a useful discussion of technologies that were not included in the standard, and end-of-chapter summaries that draw out and emphasize all the key points, this book is an essential resource for practitioners in the mobile cellular communications industry and for graduate students studying advanced wireless communications.

Farooq Khan is Technology Director at the Samsung Telecom R&D Center, Dallas, Texas, where he manages the design, performance evaluation, and standardization of next-generation wireless communications systems. Previously, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, where he conducted research on the evolution of cdma2000 and UMTS systems towards high-speed packet access (HSPA). He also worked at Ericsson Research in Sweden, contributing to the design and performance evaluation of EDGE and WCDMA technologies. He has authored more than 30 research papers and holds over 50 US patents, all in the area of wireless communications.

Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy

Brady, David J. Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Publishers, 2009, 510 pp. $110.00 (Hardbound).

An Essential Reference for Optical Sensor System Design:

This is the first text to present an integrated view of the optical and mathematical analysis tools necessary to understand computational optical system design. It presents the foundations of computational optical sensor design with a focus entirely on digital imaging and spectroscopy. It systematically covers:

  • Coded aperture and tomographic imaging
  • Sampling and transformations in optical systems, including wavelets and generalized sampling techniques essential to digital system analysis
  • Geometric, wave, and statistical models of optical fields
  • The basic function of modern optical detectors and focal plane arrays
  • Practical strategies for coherence measurement in imaging system design
  • The sampling theory of digital imaging and spectroscopy for both conventional and emerging compressive and generalized measurement strategies
  • Measurement code design
  • Linear and nonlinear signal estimation

The book concludes with a review of numerous design strategies in spectroscopy and imaging and clearly outlines the benefits and limits of each approach, including coded aperture and imaging spectroscopy, resonant and filter-based systems, and integrated design strategies to improve image resolution, depth of field, and field of view.

Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy is an indispensable textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in optical sensor design. In addition to its direct applicability to optical system design, unique perspectives on computational sensor design presented in the text will be of interest for sensor designers in radio and millimeter wave, X-ray, and acoustic systems.

David J. Brady, PhD, received a BA in physics and mathematics from Macalester College and MS and PhD degrees in applied physics from California Institute of Technology. Dr. Brady is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, where he directs the Duke Imaging and Spectroscopy Program. Dr. Brady is the architect of numerous computational imaging and spectroscopy systems, including multimodal multiplex spectroscopy and coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging. His current work focuses on multiple aperture lens system design and optical coherence measurement. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, SPIE, and IEEE.

Optimization Techniques for Solving Complex Problems

Edited by Alba, Enrique, Christian Blum, Pedro Isasi, Coromoto León and Juan Antonio Gómez. Optimization Techniques for Solving Complex Problems. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Publishers, 2009, 476 pp. $120.00 (Hardbound).

Real-world problems and modern optimization techniques to solve them.

Here, a team of international experts brings together core ideas for solving complex problems in optimization across a wide variety of real-world settings, including computer science, engineering, transportation, telecommunications, and bioinformatics.

Part One – covers methodologies for complex problem solving including genetic programming, neural networks, genetic algorithms, hybrid evolutionary algorithms, and more.

Part Two – delves into applications including DNA sequencing and reconstruction, location of antennae in telecommunication networks, metaheuristics, FPGAs, problems arising in telecommunication networks, image processing, time series prediction, and more.

All chapters contain examples that illustrate the applications themselves as well as the actual performance of the algorithms. Optimization Techniques for Solving Complex Problems is a valuable resource for practitioners and researchers who work with optimization in real-world settings.

Enrique Alba is a Professor of Data Communications and Evolutionary Algorithms at the University of Málaga, Spain.

Christian Blum is a Research Fellow at the ALBCOM research group of the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain.

Pedro Isasi is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.

Coromoto León is a Professor of Language Processors and Distributed Programming at the University of La Laguna, Spain.

Juan Antonio Gómez is a Professor of Computer Architecture and Reconfigurable Computing at the University of Extremadura, Spain.

Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code

Yuen, Chau, Yong Liang Guan, and Tjeng Thiang Tjhung. Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code. London, United Kingdom: Imperial College Press, 2007, 194 pp. $89.00 (Hardbound).

Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code presents an up-to-date, comprehensive and in-depth discussion of an important emerging class of space-time codes, called the Quasi-Orthogonal STBC (QO-STBC). Used in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems, they provide transmit diversity with higher code rates than the well-known orthogonal STBC (O-STBC), yet at lower decoding complexity than non-orthogonal STBC. This book will help readers gain a broad understanding of the fundamental principles as well as the state-of-the-art work in QO-STBC, thus enabling them to appreciate the roles of QO-STBC in future broadband wireless systems and to inspire further research.

Chau Yuen - Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Yong Liang Guan - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Tjeng Thiang Tjhung - Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

TinyOS Programming

Levis, Philip and David Gay. TinyOS Programming. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 258 pp. $55.00 (Softbound).

Do you know how to write systems, services, and applications using TinyOS operating system? Learn how to write nesC code and efficient applications with this indispensable guide to TinyOS programming.

Detailed examples show you how to write TinyOS code in full, from basic applications right up to new low-level systems and high-performance applications. Two leading figures in the development of TinyOS also explain the reasons behind many of the design decisions made and explain for the first time how nesC relates to and differs from other C dialects. Handy features such as a library of software design patterns, programming hints and tips, end-of-chapter exercises, and an appendix summarizing the basic application-level TinyOS APIs make this ultimate guide to TinyOS for embedded systems programmers, developers, designers, and graduate students.

Philip Levis is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. A Fellow of the Microsoft Research Faculty, he is also Chair of the TinyOS Core Working Group and a Member of the TinyOS Network Protocol (net2), Simulation (sim), and Documentation (doc) Working Groups.

David Gay joined Intel Research in Berkeley in 2001, where he has been a designer and the principal implementer of the nesC language, the C dialect used to implement the TinyOS sensor network operating system, and its applications. He has a diploma in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

A Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge (WEBOK)

Giannattasio, G., J. Erfanian, P. Wills, H. Nguyen, T. Croda, K. Rauscher, X. Fernando, N. Pavlidou, and K. D. Wong. A Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge (WEBOK). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Publishers, 2009, 253 pp. $70.00 (Softbound).

The information presented in this book reflects the evolution of wireless technologies, their impact on the profession, and the industry’s commonly accepted best practices. Organized into seven main areas of expertise, A Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge (WEBOK) enhances readers’ understanding of:

  • Wireless access knowledge
  • Network and service architecture
  • Network management and security
  • Radio frequency engineering, propagation, and antennas
  • Facilities infrastructure
  • Agreements, standards, policies, and regulations
  • Wireless engineering fundamentals

Complemented with a large number of references and suggestions for further reading, the WEBOK is an indispensable resource for anyone working in the wireless industry.

With more than 40,000 members worldwide, the IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC) provides an international forum for the exchange of ideas on communications and information networking. The society is committed to meeting the educational needs of wireless engineers via publications, conferences, workshops, chapter meetings, and educational programs.

G. Giannattasio – Conatel SA
J. Erfanian – Bell Canada
P. Wills - Telstra
H. Nguyen – The Aerospace Corporation
T. Croda – CSI Telecommunications
K. Rauscher – Lucent Technologies
X. Fernando – Ryerson University
N. Pavlidou - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
K. D. Wong – Malaysia University of Science and Technology