Helps you learn audio over IP. This book also helps you gain knowledge of IP network engineering as it applies to audio applications, and then progress to an understanding of how equipment built on Ethernet and Internet Protocol are used in audio production and broadcast facilities for the transporting, mixing and processing of pro-quality audio.

This complete introduction to two-dimensional (2-D) information theory and coding provides the key techniques for modeling data and estimating their information content. Throughout, special emphasis is placed on applications to transmission, storage, compression, and error protection of graphic information. The book begins with a self-contained introduction to information theory, including ...

Illustrates how science touches and shapes our daily lives. This title features colour images that highlight fascinating facts that can engage and excite young minds.

Helps to make the right IPTV business decisions with a thorough understanding of the technology and the business implications of the broadband video revolution. This title also helps to master key trends transforming the world of broadcast television and the Web.

Offers practical advice on breaking down the implementation and deployment of voice mobility networks within the office, across the campus, and on the road. This title includes methods of integrating VoIP networks with 3G+, CDMA 2000, WCDMA, HSPA, and WiMAX cellular networks using fixed/mobile convergence (FMC).

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Broadband optical access network is an ideal solution to alleviate the first/last mile bottleneck of Internet infrastructures. This book covers the architectures, protocols enabling technologies of broadband optical access networks, and various competing technologies for access networks. It presents the evolution of optical access networks.

Offers the R&D optical fiber communications engineer an understanding of the advances in optical communications technology, together with some of the underlying theory, covering a broad range of topics: optical waveguides, optical fibers, optical transmitters and receivers, fiber optic data communication, optical networks, and optical theory.

Focuses on advancement in wireless communication technologies for underground mines and other hazardous areas. This book provides a foundation of wireless communication systems for transmission of data, voice and video. It incorporates design and development aspects of circuits, which are essential for underground mines and hazardous areas.

Emphasizes principles of digital transmission that permit readers to understand more advanced topics and the associated technology. This book addresses each topic in two different and complimentary ways: theoretically and by simulation.

The advent of inexpensive computing allows engineers to analyze, compute, and develop results that were unthinkable in the past. This book draws from diverse areas of engineering and the physical sciences to cover the fundamentals of linear systems.

Examines the emerging applications of optical OFDM, including single-mode fiber transmission, multimode fiber transmission, free space optical systems, and optical access networks. This book covers the optical OFDM aspects one could possibly think of. It is useful to graduate students, researchers, and telecommunication engineers and managers.

With design optimization as a key focus, this book covers both antenna fundamentals and micro strip antenna. It includes a section on antenna theory that introduces two kinds of elementary linear sources, Huygen's planar element, and also the analysis and synthesis of the discrete and continuous arrays formed by these elementary sources.

SONET is the American National Standards Institute standard for synchronous data transmission on optical media. The international equivalent of SONET is synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH). This book offers an overview for engineers who are new to the field of SDH.

Offers an understanding of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for call signaling and IP Telephony. This book explains how SIP is a highly-scalable and cost-effective way to offer fresh and exciting telecommunication feature sets. It is suitable for telecommunications/wireless engineers and professionals.

Brings together classical and modern Direction-of-Arrival Estimation (DOA) techniques, showing the connections between them. This book gives an easy-to-read introduction to the classical techniques. It evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of key super-resolution techniques. It includes applications to sensor networks.

Combining theoretical knowledge and practical applications, this textbook covers some of the most important aspects of contemporary digital communication systems. It focuses on the rules of functioning digital communication system blocks, starting with the performance limits set by the information theory.

Addressing some of the most dynamic areas of telecommunications landscape, this handbook includes discussions of radio frequency identification (RFID), wireless sensor networks, and cognitive radio networks. It also addresses network management, administration, and network organization and governance.

This work presents a comprehensive description of the basic principles and practical application of the conjugate gradient method in combination with fast Fourier transform (CG-FFT). It provides extensive fundamental analyses of basic spectral methods and conjugate gradient methods.

Digital techniques are central to almost all modern telecommunications systems. The third edition of Digital Communications has retained both its comprehensive coverage and its balance between theory, applications and systems implementation. Its main aim is to develop the mathematical theory of signal processing and use this theory to describe modern digital communications. This text is geared ...