Space-Time Coding: Theory and Practice
The book covers the fundamental principles of space-time coding for wireless communications over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, and sets out practical coding methods for achieving the performance improvements predicted by the theory. Starting with background material on wireless communications and the capacity of MIMO channels, the book then reviews design criteria for space-time codes. A detailed treatment of the theory behind space-time block codes then leads on to an in-depth discussion of space-time trellis codes. The book continues with discussion of differential space-time modulation, BLAST, linear dispersion codes and algebraic codes. The final chapter briefly addresses additional topics in space-time coding, like MIMO-OFDM, space-time turbo codes, and combining beamforming and space-time coding. The theory and practice sections can be used independently of each other. The book is ideal for a graduate student familiar with the basics of digital communications, and for engineers implementing the theory in real systems.

Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols presents state-of-the-art techniques and solutions, and supports them with easy-to-understand examples. The book starts off with the fundamentals of wireless networking (wireless PANs, LANs, MANs, WANs, and wireless Internet) and goes on to address such current topics as Wi-Fi networks, optical wireless networks, and hybrid wireless architectures.

Foster and Kesselman have once again assembled a team of experts to present an up-to-date view of Grids that reports on real experiences and explains the available technologies and new technologies emerging from labs, companies and standards bodies. Grid 2, like its predecessor, serves as a manifesto, design blueprint, user guide and research agenda for future Grid systems.

Modeling the Internet and the Web covers the most important aspects of modeling the Web using a modern mathematical and probabilistic treatment. It focuses on the information and application layers, as well as some of the emerging properties of the Internet.

In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database.

Scientific and technological advances now allow us to manipulate genomes directly at the level of single genes and their constituents, with a speed and precision that far exceed what natural evolution has been able to achieve over the past 3.5 billion years. These advances open new possibilities for medicine, biotechnology, and society as a whole. We already have in vitro fertilization and animal cloning; in the future human cloning and the exploitation of embryonic stem cells, among other capabilities, may be routine. At the same time, we are developing machines that will far surpass the human brain in raw computing power, while building an interconnected world of information-processing devices. The author explores our current state of knowledge and the possibilities ahead.

With more than a billion wireless Internet users expected by 2005-and billions more after that-fourth-generation (4G) connectivity, devices, and services will be the big winners in the wireless world. The author identifies thirteen trends to watch for the direction and timing of the events to come, and previews an amazing array of 4G technologies that will put information at your fingertips anywhere, at any time. Whether you're an IT professional, executive, or manager looking to stake a claim to the future, or an investor with an eye toward the next wave of fabulous opportunities in tech stocks, this book offers both the big-picture perspective and the detailed information you'll need to get into shape for the battle ahead.

This book presents a self-contained overview of the state of the art in the complexity of lattice problems, with particular emphasis on problems that are related to the construction of cryptographic functions. Specific topics covered are the strongest known inapproximability result for the shortest vector problem; the relations between this and other computational lattice problems; an exposition of how cryptographic functions can be built and proven secure based on worst-case hardness assumptions about lattice problems; and a study of the limits of non-approximability of lattice problems. Some background in complexity theory, but no prior knowledge about lattices, is assumed. The aim of the authors is to make lattice-based cryptography accessible to a wide audience, ultimately yielding further research and applications.

This book presents a self-contained overview of the state of the art in the complexity of lattice problems, with particular emphasis on problems that are related to the construction of cryptographic functions. Specific topics covered are the strongest known inapproximability result for the shortest vector problem; the relations between this and other computational lattice problems; an exposition of how cryptographic functions can be built and proven secure based on worst-case hardness assumptions about lattice problems; and a study of the limits of non-approximability of lattice problems. Some background in complexity theory, but no prior knowledge about lattices, is assumed. The aim of the authors is to make lattice-based cryptography accessible to a wide audience, ultimately yielding further research and applications.

This book presents a self-contained overview of the state of the art in the complexity of lattice problems, with particular emphasis on problems that are related to the construction of cryptographic functions. Specific topics covered are the strongest known inapproximability result for the shortest vector problem; the relations between this and other computational lattice problems; an exposition of how cryptographic functions can be built and proven secure based on worst-case hardness assumptions about lattice problems; and a study of the limits of non-approximability of lattice problems. Some background in complexity theory, but no prior knowledge about lattices, is assumed. The aim of the authors is to make lattice-based cryptography accessible to a wide audience, ultimately yielding further research and applications.

This text explains how to build the tools that are useful for successful searches of text and other media, closely examining the properties of textual documents that are unclear until they are in a very large aggregate. The CD-ROM contains the text Information Retrieval, as well as active links to useful tools and sites, test corpora and indexing tools.

This textbook covers a wide range of algorithmic and combinatorical topics, while showing how they are connected to molecular biology and biotechnology. This material is accessible to computer scientists without biological training, and to biologists with a limited background in computer science.

Topics encompass a diverse set of problems spanning fields of vision, control, robotics, and artificial intelligence They share the common focus of the application or processing of visual information in a way which entails the design and analysis of algorithms incorporating concepts studied in the field control. This book is part of the publisher's series "Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences."

According to a review by Book News, Inc., this textbook "details the complete operation of a mobile phone. The authors describe code division multiple access (CDMA) issues but present concepts and principles they feel are applicable to any standard. After introducing some fundamentals of wireless communication, they detail the digital signal processor, the microcontroller unit, speech coding, digital modulation and demodulation, data converters, the RF transceiver, and recent architecture advances."

The authors offer a tribute to Paul Erdös, the wandering mathematician once described as the prince of problem solvers and the absolute monarch of problem posers. Within the context of his personality and lifestyle, this book delves into the legacy of open problems he left to the world of mathematics after his death in 1996.

This book was developed with the hope of bridging the gap between the traditional art of radio and RF engineering and the requirements of today's modern wireless communications systems. According to a review by Book News, Inc., it "explains the different principles, techniques, and equipment relating to wireless communication standards, digital and low-power systems, and microwave electronics; and their implementation in real systems. [It also] emphasizes monolithic solutions to circuit design problems. [and] assumes a knowledge of active circuit design and communications theory."

This work brings together advances (as of 1995) toward developing a theoretical framework for studying neural networks. A variety of novel techniques from diverse disciplines such as computer science, electrical engineering, statistics, and mathematics are integrated and applied to develop groundbreaking analytical tools for such studies. The first part of the book provides a complexity theoretic study of different models of neural computation. The second part discusses concepts and results of learning using models of neural computation. Several chapters also address fundamental issues concerning learning algorithmssuch as accuracy and rate of convergence, selection of training data, and efficient algorithms for learning useful classes of mappings.

This textbook presents techniques that are useful in building complex embedded systems-techniques that offer a competitive advantage over purely hardware or software implementations of time-constrained embedded systems. Recent advances in chip-level synthesis have made it possible to synthesize application-specific circuits under strict timing constraints. This work advances the state of the art by formulating the problem of system synthesis using both application-specific as well as reprogrammable components, such as off-the-shelf processors. The book is of special interest to CAD researchers and developers who want to branch off into the expanding field of hardware/software co-design, as well as to digital system designers who are interested in the present power and limitations of CAD techniques and their likely evolution.

Subtitled "LANs, MANs, ATM, B-ISDN, and Optical Networks for Integrated Multimedia Telecommunications," this textbook focuses on the fundamentals of operation, architectures, performance management, protocols, and future directions of integrated broadband networks capable of supporting voice, data, image, and video telecommunication transport and services. Covering both current and up-and-coming technologies, it provides a rigorous introduction to the field for systems designers, hardware and software engineers, R&D managers, market planners, and all others whose business would benefit from the application of broadband networks.

This book introduces the mathematics that supports advanced computer programming and the analysis of algorithms. The primary is to provide a solid and relevant base of mathematical skills - the skills needed to solve complex problems, to evaluate horrendous sums, and to discover subtle patterns in data. It is an indispensable text and reference not only for computer scientists, but for serious users of mathematics in virtually every discipline. The book includes more than 500 exercises, divided into six categories. Complete answers are provided for all exercises, except research problems, making the book particularly valuable for self-study.

This book provides an overview of the supercomputing field. It covers various technologies, from relays to highly integrated circuits, as well as a variety of architectures on which "supercomputing" can be based (for example, scalar to vector, multiprocessor and massively parallel). The book also describes applications of supercomputing in physics and astrophysics, in molecular biology, engineering, planetary sciences, weather forecasting, cosmology as well as in constructing evolutionary trees from sequencing data.