The Fortran 90 Handbook is a definitive and comprehensive guide to Fortran 90
and its use. Fortran 90, the latest standard version of Fortran, has many
excellent new features that will assist the programmer in writing efficient,
portable, and maintainable programs. The Fortran 90 Handbook is an informal
description of Fortran 90, developed to provide not only a readable
explanation of features, but also some rationale for the inclusion of features
and their use. In addition, “models” give the reader better insight as to why
things are done as they are in the language.
The primary goal of MySQL and Java Developer’s Guide is to provide a comprehensive
approach to writing code from a Java application to a MySQL database
using the industry standard: JDBC. As you will see later in this
Introduction, the chapter titles indicate what area of database connectivity and
manipulation they cover. The chapters are ordered to reflect the JDBC specification,
but we aren’t here to simply describe the specification.
This book describes numerous situations that graduate students will
commonly encounter as they work towards the goal of earning their
PhD. Starting from your very first day in the lab, to the beginning
stages of your post-PhD job search, to writing your dissertation,we’ve
tried to offer you sage advice on how to handle particular situations
as they arise.
C programming is a craft that takes years to perfect. A reasonably sharp person can learn the basics of
C quite quickly. But it takes much longer to master the nuances of the language and to write enough
programs, and enough different programs, to become an expert. In natural language terms, this is the
difference between being able to order a cup of coffee in Paris, and (on the Metro) being able to tell anative Parisienne where to get off. This book is an advanced text on the ANSI C programming
language. It is intended for people who are already writing C programs, and who want to quickly pick
up some of the insights and techniques of experts.
The idea of writing this book entitled “Cognitive Networked Sensing and Big Data”
started with the plan to write a briefing book on wireless distributed computing
and cognitive sensing. During our research on large-scale cognitive radio network
(and its experimental testbed), we realized that big data played a central role. As a
result, the book project reflects this paradigm shift. In the context, sensing roughly
is equivalent to “measurement.”
At the time of writing, and to an extent never seen before, there is an expectation that
almost any information or service that is available through communication systems in
the office or home will be available wherever the user happens to be. This is placing
incredible demands on wireless communications and has been the driver for the gen-
esis and deployment of three generations of cellular systems in the space of 20 years.
The writing of this book was prompted by two main developments in wireless
communications in the past decade. First is the huge surge of research activities in
physical-layer wireless communication theory. While this has been a subject of study
since the 60’s, recent developments in the field, such as opportunistic and multi-input
multi-output (MIMO) communication techniques, have brought completely new per-
spectives on how to communicate over wireless channels.
Our original effort in writing this book was to create a starting point for those in
the business community who did not have a high level of technical expertise but
needed to have some understanding of the technical functions of their information
and communication technologies (ICT) in a corporate environment. As was true
with the first edition of this book, if you are already an engineer, find some other
form of pleasure reading—this text is not designed for you!
This book presents millimeter wave communication system design and analysis at the
level to produce an understanding of the interaction between a wireless system and its
front end so that the overall performance can be predicted. Gigabit wireless commu-
nications require a considerable amount of bandwidth, which can be supported by
millimeter waves. Millimeter wave technology has come of age, and at the time of
writing the standards of IEEE 802.15.3c, WiGig, Wireless HD TM , and the European
Computer Manufacturers Association have recently been finalized.
