Trends in Telecommunications Technologies

Christos J Bouras

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9789533070728
• eBook ISBN:
  9789535158776
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Mobile & Wireless Communications
• Index: Technology & Engineering

The main focus of the book is the advances in telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology. In particular, several chapters of the book deal with low-level network layers and present issues in optical communication technology and optical networks, including the deployment of optical hardware devices and the design of optical network architecture. Wireless networking is also covered, with a focus on WiFi and WiMAX technologies. The book also contains chapters that deal with transport issues, and namely protocols and policies for efficient and guaranteed transmission characteristics while transferring demanding data applications such as video. Finally, the book includes chapters that focus on the delivery of applications through common telecommunication channels such as the earth atmosphere. This book is useful for researchers working in the telecommunications field, in order to read a compact gathering of some of the latest efforts in related areas. It is also useful for educators that wish to get an up-to-date glimpse of telecommunications research and present it in an easily understandable and concise way. It is finally suitable for the engineers and other interested people that would benefit from an overview of ideas, experiments, algorithms and techniques that are presented throughout the book.

Table of contents

• Trends in Telecommunications Technologies
• Preface
• Contents
• 1. A Novel PFC Circuit for Three-phase utilizing Single Switching Device
• 2. Advanced Modulation Formats and Multiplexing Techniques for Optical Telecommunication Systems
• 3. A Survey on the Design of Binary Pulse Compression Codes with Low Autocorrelation
• 4. Virtual Multicast
• 5. The Asymmetrical Architecture of New Optical Switch Device
• 6. Adaptive Active Queue Management for TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) Traffic in Heterogeneous Networks
• 7. Queues with session arrivals as models foroptimizing the traffic control in telecommunication networks
• 8. Telecommunication Power System: energysaving, renewable sources andenvironmental monitoring
• 9. Propagation Models and their Applications inDigital Television Broadcast Network Design and Implementation
• 10. Interference Modeling for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
• 11. Energy Saving Drives New Approachesto Telecommunications Power System
• 12. Directional Routing Protocol in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Network
• 13. Free Space Optical Technologies
• 14. Novel multiple access models and theirprobabilistic description
• 15. Performance analysis of multi-server queueing system operating undercontrol of a random environment
• 16. Interdomain QoS paths finding based onoverlay topology and QoS negotiation approach
• 17. Dual Linearly Polarized Microstrip Array Antenna
• 18. A Time-Delay Suppression Techniquefor Digital PWM Control Circuit
• 19. Layer 2 Quality of Service Architectures
• 20. Secrecy on the Physical Layer in Wireless Networks
• 21. Performance Analysis of Time-of-Arrival Mobile Positioning in Wireless Cellular CDMA Networks
• 22. Mobility and Handoff Managementin Wireless Networks
• 23. GPS Total Electron Content (TEC) Prediction atIonosphere Layer over the Equatorial Region
• 24. Performance Evaluation Methods to StudyIEEE 802.11 Broadband Wireless Networksunder the PCF Mode
• 25. Next Generation Optical Access Networks:from TDM to WDM
• 26. Building energy efficiency design fortelecommunication base stations in Guangzhou
• 27. Dynamic Space-Code Multiple Access (DSCMA)System: A Double Interference CancellationMultiple Access Scheme in WirelessCommunications System
• 28. Video Streaming in Evolving Networksunder Fuzzy Logic Control
• 29. The Development of Crosstalk-Free Scheduling Algorithms for Routing in Optical MultistageInterconnection Networks
• 30. Traditional float charges: are they suited tostationary antimony-free lead acid batteries?
• 31Neighbor Discovery: Security Challengesin Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
• 32. New Trends in Network Anomaly Detection
• 33. An Efficient Energy Aware Routing Protocol forReal Time Traffics in Wireless Sensor Networks
• 34. Quality of Service Differentiationin WiMAX Networks