The aim of this book is to give an integrated presentation of the
specifications for Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE Advanced radio
interfaces, so that the reader can gain an overview of their Main
characteristics.
This book focuses on the study and development of one of the most
advanced topics in broadband wireless communications systems:
power efficiency and power consumption in wireless communications
systems, especially of mobile devices. Hence, the Main focus of this
book is on the most recent techniques for the conservation of power
and increase in power efficiency.
Part I provides a compact survey on classical stochastic geometry models. The basic models defined
in this part will be used and extended throughout the whole monograph, and in particular to SINR based
models. Note however that these classical stochastic models can be used in a variety of contexts which
go far beyond the modeling of wireless networks. Chapter 1 reviews the definition and basic properties of
Poisson point processes in Euclidean space. We review key operations on Poisson point processes (thinning,
superposition, displacement) as well as key formulas like Campbell’s formula. Chapter 2 is focused on
properties of the spatial shot-noise process: its continuity properties, its Laplace transform, its moments
etc. Both additive and max shot-noise processes are studied. Chapter 3 bears on coverage processes,
and in particular on the Boolean model. Its basic coverage characteristics are reviewed. We also give a
brief account of its percolation properties. Chapter 4 studies random tessellations; the Main focus is on
Poisson–Voronoi tessellations and cells. We also discuss various random objects associated with bivariate
point processes such as the set of points of the first point process that fall in a Voronoi cell w.r.t. the second
point process.
The focus of this book is on developing computational algorithms for transmit wave-
form design in active sensing applications, such as radar, sonar, communications and
medical imaging. Waveforms are designed to achieve certain desired properties, which
are divided into three categories corresponding to the three Main parts in the book,
namely good aperiodic correlations, good periodic correlations and beampattern match-
ing.
District energy (DE) systems use central heating and/or cooling facilities to provide
heating and/or cooling services for communities. The advantages of district energy
over conventional heating and cooling include improved efficiency, reliability and
safety, reduced environmental impact, and for many situations better economics.
DE systems can be particularly beneficial when integrated with cogeneration plants
for electricity and heat, i.e., with combined heat and power (CHP) plants. One of
the Main impediments to increased use of cogeneration-based district energy is a
lack of understanding of the behavior of integrated forms of such systems. This
book is aimed at providing information on district energy and cogeneration tech-
nologies, as well as systems that combine them.
This book is written for engineers involved in the operation, control, and
planning of electric power systems. In addition, the book provides information and
tools for researchers working in the fields of power system security and stability. The
book consists of two volumes. The first volume provides traditional techniques for the
stability analysis of large scale power systems. In addition, an overview of the Main
drivers and requirements for modernization of the traditional methods for online
applications are discussed. The second volume provides techniques for online security
assessment and corrective action studies. In addition, the impact of variable generation
on the security of power systems is considered in the second volume. The first volume
may be considered as a background builder while the second volume is intended for
the coverage of edge techniques and methods for online dynamic security studies.
Why did an electricity market emerge? How does it really work? What are the perfor-
mance measures that we can use to tell that the electricity market under consideration
is well functioning? These are the questions that will be explored in this book. The
Main purpose of this book is to introduce the fundamental theories and concepts that
underpintheelectricitymarketswhicharebasedonthreemajordisciplines:electrical
power engineering, economics, and optimization methods.
It has been over a decade since the Chinese publication of Line Loss in Electric Power Systems. To keep pace
with technological developments, I started a revision as early as 2002, following the Main principles that the
theoretical framework and characteristics of the first edition should be retained, with new contents added
according to new problems after the reform of electric power systems and the new requirements for line loss
management practices and in combination with practical experience.
We are in the era of ubiquitous computing in which the use and development of Radio Frequency Iden-
tification (RFID) is becoming more widespread. RFID systems have three Main components: readers,
tags, and database. An RFID tag is composed of a small microchip, limited logical functionality, and an
antenna. Most common tags are passive and harvest energy from a nearby RFID reader. This energy is
used both to energize the chip and send the answer back to the reader request. The tag provides a unique
identifier (or an anonymized version of that), which allows the unequivocal identification of the tag
holder (i.e. person, animal, or items).
This book is about global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), their two Main instru-
ments, which are a receiver and a simulator, and their applications. The book is based on
an operational off-the-shelf real-time software GNSS receiver and off-the-shelf GNSS
signalsimulator.Theacademicversionsofthesetoolsarebundledwiththisbookandfree
for readers to use for study and research.
