Indian urbanization is a complex puzzle which is extremely difficult to comprehend.
Yet, as academicians, it is our responsibility to study, comprehend, analyse, assimi-
late, and express on salient happenings in our urban SYSTEMS. The expressions aim
at the larger sections of the society to disseminate technical evaluation in a compre-
hensible note. This edition focuses on awaking the society on the contextual reality
of urban India and also enabling policymakers with the situational understanding of
Indian cities.
Broadband powerline communication SYSTEMS are continuing to gain significant
market adoption worldwide for applications ranging from IPTV delivery to the
Smart Grid. The suite of standards developed by the HomePlug Powerline
Alliance plays an important role in the widespread deployment of broadband
PLC. To date, more than 100 million HomePlug modems are deployed and these
numbers continue to rise.
We review the current applications of photonic technologies to Smart Cities. Inspired
by the future needs of Smart Cities, we then propose potential applications of advanced
photonic technologies. We find that photonics already has a major impact on Smart
Cities, in terms of smart lighting, sensing, and communication technologies. We further
find that advanced photonic technologies could lead to vastly improved infrastructure,
such as smart water‐supply SYSTEMS. We conclude by proposing directions for future
research that will have the greatest impact on realizing Smart City initiatives.
Smart City Networks: Through the Internet of Things is composed of research
results, analyses, and ideas, which focus on a diversity of interconnected factors
relating with urbanization, its “smartness,” and overarching “internet of things
(IoT).” The latter refers to interconnected objects and devices – through compu-
tational operations – which can receive signals and actuate SYSTEMS.
This book provides technical information about all aspects of 3GPP LTE. The areas
covered range from basic concepts to research-grade material, including future
directions. The book captures the current state of 3GPP LTE technology and serves
as a source of comprehensive reference material on this subject. It has a total of
12 chapters authored by 50 experts from around the world. The targeted audi-
ence includes professionals who are designers or planners for 3GPP LTE SYSTEMS,
researchers (faculty members and graduate students), and those who would like to
learn about this field.
Communication between various devices makes it possible to pro-
vide unique and innovative services. Although this interdevice com-
munication is a very powerful mechanism, it is also a complex and
clumsy mechanism, leading to a lot of complexity in present day
SYSTEMS. This not only makes networking difficult but also limits
its flexibility.
In this paper, we consider the channel estimation
problem in Millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless SYSTEMS with
large antenna arrays. By exploiting the inherent sparse nature of
the mmWave channel, we develop a novel rate-adaptive channel
estimation (RACE) algorithm, which can adaptively adjust the
number of required channel measurements based on an expected
probability of estimation error (PEE).
This book gives a comprehensive overview of the technologies for the advances of
mobile radio access networks. The topics covered include linear transmitters,
superconducting filters and cryogenic radio frequency (RF) front head, radio over
fiber, software radio base stations, mobile terminal positioning, high speed
downlink packet access (HSDPA), multiple antenna SYSTEMS such as smart
antennas and multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) SYSTEMS, orthogonal
frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) SYSTEMS, IP-based radio access networks
(RAN), autonomic networks, and ubiquitous networks.
YoumayaskwhyIwrotethisbook.Therearemany,manypersonalreasonsaswithanyauthor
I suppose. The first two reasons and probably the most important are my love of flying and
my love of radio engineering. This may sound rather dull but I love flying in any machine be
it balloon, glider, propeller aircraft, microlight through to airline jets and the experience of it.
The more I do it the more I feel I understand it.
One traditional view of how wireless networks evolve is of a continuous, inevitable progres-
sion to higher link speeds, combined with greater mobility over wider areas. This standpoint
certainly captures the development from first and second generation cellular SYSTEMS focused
on voice support, and the early short-range wireless data networks, through to today’s 3G
cellular and mobile broadband SYSTEMS; there is every confidence that the trend will continue
some way into the future.