『三味书屋』著名的Kluwer SECS丛书系列——通信类书籍

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这批书半年前就整理好了，一直没时间发，里面包括了视频通信的书，我就不分发到数字视频版去了，大家慢慢挑吧，enjoy~~~~~~~~~

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Bayesian Approach to Image Interpretation (The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Volume 616)
by Sunil K. Kopparapu

                               
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[size=120%]Bayesian Approach to Image Interpretation (The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Volume 616)
By Sunil K. Kopparapu, Uday B. Desai

• Publisher:   Springer
• Number Of Pages:   144
• Publication Date:   2001-07-01
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0792373723
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780792373728
• Binding:   Hardcover

Product Description:
Bayesian Approach to Image Interpretation will interest anyone working in image interpretation. It is complete in itself and includes background material. This makes it useful for a novice as well as for an expert. It reviews some of the existing probabilistic methods for image interpretation and presents some new results. Additionally, there is extensive bibliography covering references in varied areas.
For a researcher in this field, the material on synergistic integration of segmentation and interpretation modules and the Bayesian approach to image interpretation will be beneficial.
For a practicing engineer, the procedure for generating knowledge base, selecting initial temperature for the simulated annealing algorithm, and some implementation issues will be valuable.
New ideas introduced in the book include:

• New approach to image interpretation using synergism between the segmentation and the interpretation modules.
• A new segmentation algorithm based on multiresolution analysis.
• Novel use of the Bayesian networks (causal networks) for image interpretation.
• Emphasis on making the interpretation approach less dependent on the knowledge base and hence more reliable by modeling the knowledge base in a probabilistic framework.

Useful in both the academic and industrial research worlds, Bayesian Approach to Image Interpretation may also be used as a textbook for a semester course in computer vision or pattern recognition.

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Broadband Wireless Access (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
by Benny Bing

                               
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[size=120%]Broadband Wireless Access (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
By Benny Bing

• Publisher:   Springer
• Number Of Pages:   288
• Publication Date:   2000-09-30
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0792379551
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780792379553
• Binding:   Hardcover

Product Description:
This book discusses the design, performance and implementation of access protocols with emphasis on how such protocols can efficiently support disparate classes of multimedia traffic. These protocols are deployed or experimented in various broadband wireless environments such as wireless ATM, satellite networks, mobile cellular and personal communication systems, wireless local loops, wireless local area networks, and others. Besides a comprehensive introduction and survey to the evolution of access protocols, some of the hottest topics of current interest are covered. These include:

• Connection control and QoS provisioning.
• Traffic load balancing techniques.
• Developments in advanced CDMA/TDMA/OFDM systems.
• International standardization efforts (e.g., 3G, IMT 2000).
• Emerging broadband wireless access (e.g., wireless ATM, satellite ATM, high-speed wireless LANs).
• The complete design, performance analysis, simulation and protocol verification of a generalized broadband multiple access protocol.

While engineering aspects are discussed, the emphasis is on the physical understanding of access protocols, from basic proposals to the latest innovations. Mathematical treatment is kept to a minimum, and most of the fundamental concepts are explained based on intuition and insights, supplemented by numerous illustrative figures. In addition, these concepts are expressed succinctly and concisely. Wherever possible, important references that make major contributions to the field are included for interested readers to investigate further. Latest updates and useful Web resources are posted at the book's Web site.



Summary: Review by Dr. Norman Abramson
Rating: 5
Posted by the author - Benny Bing. Review by Dr. Norman Abramson, inventor of the first random access protocol - the ALOHA protocol. There are three key technologies that are important in the design of efficient digital communication networks - communication channel theory, traffic analysis and transformation, and multiple access protocols. The first of these technologies, communication channel theory, dealing with questions of modulation, signal detection and error control coding is the oldest and best developed. Traffic analysis and transformation, dealing with questions of data compression, protocol spoofing and caching is perhaps the least developed although the first major results in this area are almost as old as those of communication channel theory. The third of these key technologies, multiple access protocols, dealing with the sharing of a common communication channel by a group of users has assumed a greater importance during the past two decades with the advent of shared cellular networks, packet radio networks and satellite networks. The analysis and design of these multiple access protocols in a variety of application areas is the topic of this well organized, comprehensive yet compact book. Bing defines the scope of the multiple access problem, describes many of the different approaches taken to solve the multiple access problem and analyzes the various approaches to their solution. Both fixed allocation strategies such as FDMA and TDMA as well as random access strategies based on a variety of ALOHA channels are treated. Since important differences in multiple access protocols define competing approaches in the network marketplace at the beginning of the third millennium this volume is well timed to help us evaluate different multiple access choices in network design. Dr. Norman Abramson ALOHA Networks, San Francisco, July, 2000

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[size=120%]Buffering Techniques for Delivery of Compressed Video in Video-on-Demand Systems (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
By Wu-Chi Feng

• Publisher:   Springer
• Number Of Pages:   152
• Publication Date:   1997-09-30
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0792399986
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780792399988
• Binding:   Hardcover

Product Description:

Many emerging technologies such as video conferencing, video-on-demand, and digital libraries require the efficient delivery of compressed video streams. For applications that require the delivery of compressed stored multimedia streams, the a priori knowledge available about these compressed streams can aid in the allocation of server and network resources. By using a client-side buffer, the resource requirements from the server and network can be minimized.
Buffering Techniques for Delivery of Compressed Video in Video-on-Demand Systems presents a comprehensive description of buffering techniques for the delivery of compressed, prerecorded multimedia data. While these techniques can be applied to any compressed data streams, this book focusses primarily on the delivery of video streams because of the large resource requirements that they can consume. The book first describes buffering techniques for the continuous playback of stored video sources. In particular, several bandwidth smoothing (or buffering) algorithms that are provably optimal under certain conditions are presented. To provide a well-rounded discussion, the book then describes extensions that aid in the ability to provide interactive delivery of video across networks. Specifically, reservation techniques that take into account interactive functions such as fast-forward and rewind are described. In addition, extensions to the bandwidth smoothing algorithms presented in the first few chapters are described. These algorithms are designed with interactive, continuous playback of stored video in mind and are also provably optimal under certain constraints.
Buffering Techniques for Delivery of Compressed Video in Video-on-Demand Systems serves as an excellent resource for multimedia systems, networking and video-on-demand designers, and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the topic.

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Color Theory and Modeling for Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Multimedia Applications (The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
by Haim Levkowitz

                               
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[size=120%]Color Theory and Modeling for Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Multimedia Applications (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
By Haim Levkowitz

• Publisher:   Springer
• Number Of Pages:   240
• Publication Date:   1997-06-30
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0792399285
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780792399285
• Binding:   Hardcover

Product Description:
Color Theory and Modeling for Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Multimedia Applications deals with color vision and visual computing. This book provides an overview of the human visual system with an emphasis on color vision and perception. The book then goes on to discuss how human color vision and perception are applied in several applications using computer-generated displays, such as computer graphics and information and data visualization.
Color Theory and Modeling for Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Multimedia Applications is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on computer graphics, computer imaging, or multimedia computing and as a reference for researchers and practitioners developing computer graphics and multimedia applications.



Summary: WELL WRITTEN, BAD DISPLAYS THAT HURT THE BOOKS USEFULNESS
Rating: 3
THE BOOK IS VERY WELL WRITTEN, BUT OVER HALF THE BOOK DESCRIBES THE EFFECTS OF COLORS AND ALL THE DISPLAYS ARE B & W, AND USELESS. THE WEBSITE THAT YOU ARE REFERED TO DOES NOT YET HAVE MOST OF THE DISPLAYS. BUT I DONT GENERALLY READ A BOOK SITTING IN FRONT OF MY COMPUTER ANYWAY. A BOOK ON COLOR THEORY SHOULD BE IN COLOR EVEN IF THE COST IS MORE. HOWEVER I DO BELIEVE THE WRITTEN TEXT IS USEFULL AND EASY TO READ. WITH COLOR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT REFERENCE.

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[size=120%]Doppler Applications in LEO Satellite Communication Systems: CD-ROM included (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
By Irfan Ali, Pierino G. Bonanni, Naofal Al-Dhahir, John E. Hershey

• Publisher:   Springer
• Number Of Pages:   128
• Publication Date:   2001-11-01
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0792376161
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780792376163
• Binding:   Hardcover

Product Description:

Doppler Applications in LEO Satellite Communication Systems develops and presents an important class of techniques useful in the construction of little Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems. It centers on the very significant Doppler shift that attends communications through a LEO satellite and shows how this phenomenon can be exploited for an unexpected benefit. The techniques taught in the book are expected to be particularly attractive to system engineers because ground-based transceivers must generally compensate for the large Doppler component and therefore the necessary receiver processing loops are often already in place and expensed.
This volume starts with a recounting of the characteristics of a LEO satellite and its orbit. The 2nd chapter addresses the LEO orbital geometry and reviews the Doppler effect attending LEO communications. Chapter three is focused on the important task of estimating the Doppler at a ground terminal. Appropriate signal processing algorithms are reviewed. Chapter four is concerned with predicting LEO satellite visibility. Chapters five and six are, respectively, devoted to the use of the significant LEO Doppler as an aid in a new traffic flow control protocol and as an aid for effecting communications power control. The last chapter describes MATLAB® based analysis and demonstration CD-Rom software that accompanies the book. The software is, first, a collection of functions useful for calculating satellite orbits, terrestrial contours and regions, and coordinate transformations based on Earth rotation. They are functions that have proven fundamental to the analysis of the traffic flow control protocol described in the book. Second, the software includes a set of user-friendly graphical animation routines that aid in visualization of a LEO orbit, its coverage regions, and the protocol.
Doppler Applications in LEO Satellite Communication Systems provides a thorough review of the LEO Doppler phenomenon and, together with included CD-Rom software, provides the know-how and show-how to harvest the benefits of this unexpectedly useful feature.

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Fundamentals of Codes, Graphs, and Iterative Decoding (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
by Stephen, B. Wicker Saejoon Kim

                               
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[size=120%]Fundamentals of Codes, Graphs, and Iterative Decoding (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
By Stephen B. Wicker, Saejoon Kim

• Publisher:   Springer
• Number Of Pages:   248
• Publication Date:   2002-10-31
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   1402072643
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9781402072642
• Binding:   Hardcover

Product Description:
Fundamentals of Codes, Graphs, and Iterative Decoding contains need-to-know information for both professionals and academicians working in the field of communications.
Fifty years of learning how to design good codes can now be reduced to a single sentence: Good codes have a high degree of local connectivity, but must have simple structural descriptions to facilitate iterative decoding.
Fundamentals of Codes, Graphs, and Iterative Decoding is an explanation of how to introduce local connectivity, and how to exploit simple structural descriptions. Chapter 1 provides an overview of Shannon theory and the basic tools of complexity theory, communication theory, and bounds on code construction. Chapters 2 - 4 provide an overview of "classical" error control coding, with an introduction to abstract algebra, and block and convolutional codes. Chapters 5 - 9 then proceed to systematically develop the key research results of the 1990s and early 2000s with an introduction to graph theory, followed by chapters on algorithms on graphs, turbo error control, low density parity check codes, and low density generator codes.
Fundamentals of Codes, Graphs, and Iterative Decoding is intended as a synthesis of recent research results with a recognition of where these results fit into the bigger picture of error control coding.
Containing hundreds of theorems, proofs, and definitions, Fundamentals of Codes, Graphs, and Iterative Decoding is suitable for a graduate-level course in communications, as well as for a professional reference.



Summary: Excellent book to learn the latest coding techniques!
Rating: 5
This book has the latest information on coding techniques that include turbo codes and low density parity check codes. The Cornell team of Wicker and Kim have done a nice job of putting together the latest developments in the field of coding theory into a manageably-sized book. The book covers the traditional block and convolutional coding techniques as well briefly. The book seems to have focused more on the theoretical side of coding theory with lots of theorems and (fast) proofs. Overall, I found this book very well-written.

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Mobile Channel Characteristics (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
by James Cavers

                               
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[size=120%]Mobile Channel Characteristics (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
By James Cavers

• Publisher:   Springer
• Number Of Pages:   240
• Publication Date:   2000-09-30
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0792379268
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780792379263
• Binding:   Hardcover

Product Description:
Mobile Channel Characteristics introduces the principal transmission phenomena of mobile and personal communication -- the ones that affect design of modems, channel simulators, smart antennas, and other system components at the physical level. It is designed to be accessible to senior undergraduates, as well as graduate students and working engineers. The treatment parallels mathematical derivations with intuitive explanations and simple approximations in order to develop the reader's understanding of the phenomena. Because of this strong tutorial flavor, the text is also suitable for those entering the area from a different academic discipline. Mobile Channel Characteristics was conceived and written as an interactive text to be viewed on a computer screen. It includes many features not found in conventional texts: + The entire text resides on your hard drive. It is always ready, just a mouse-click away; + It is a live document. Try different parameter values, and the equations, tables and graphs recalculate as you watch. Animated graphics illustrate dynamics of the channel. Explore propagation, modulation or system models interactively to gain additional insight; + The examples and appendices are `tear-off design sheets'. You can use their programs on the job or in your thesis to speed up your work; + It links you to the world. Hyperlinks connect you to websites of cited authors, to online research journals, and to employers and graduate schools, all through the Internet. Mobile Channel Characteristics includes working programs for three different methods of channel gain generation for fading channel simulation, as well as working programs to illustrate their use. Mobile Channel Characteristics is an essential reference tool for practising engineers, researchers, academics, and students. It is a self-study text equally suited for classroom use.

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Multi-Carrier Technologies for Wireless Communication
by Carl R. Nassar, Bala Natarajan, Zhiqiang Wu, David A. Wiegandt, S. Alireza Zekavat, Steve Shattil,

                               
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[size=120%]Multi-Carrier Technologies for Wireless Communication
By Carl R. Nassar, Bala Natarajan, Zhiqiang Wu, David A. Wiegandt, S. Alireza Zekavat, Steve Shattil

• Publisher:   Springer
• Number Of Pages:   216
• Publication Date:   2001-11-01
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0792376188
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780792376187
• Binding:   Hardcover

Product Description:
Multi-carrier technologies have emerged as important instruments in telecommunications. OFDM is in the forefront, with its adoption by the IEEE 802.11 standards committee and the European HYPERLAN standards group. Following OFDM, MC-CDMA is also demonstrating considerable promise when compared to competing technologies. According to the authors, these technologies are just the beginning in the coming multi-carrier revolution.
In Multi-Carrier Technologies for Wireless Communication, the authors explain how a common multi-carrier platform is being designed for DS-CDMA, TDMA, OFDM and MC-CDMA systems. Findings are presented which show how this multi-carrier platform enhances network capacity and probability of error performance.Specific results include (1) innovation in multi-carrier technologies that are enabling them to become an integral part of TDMA and DS-CDMA systems; and (2) the design of multi-carrier systems to overcome PAPR problems (in, e.g., OFDM).
Multi-Carrier Technologies for Wireless Communication is an important book for engineers who work with DS-CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, or MC-CDMA systems, and are seeking new ways of exploiting the wireless medium based on a "smarter" signal processing.



Summary: New Spin on OFDM
Rating: 5
This book is a nice tutorial for wireless and it also presents some very unusual and interesting ideas. CI is an advantageous use of time domain and frequency domain processing. Based on the Discreet Fourier Transform, CI is a powerful and effective way to analyze and synthesize signals. I wish I had thought of this.


Summary: A convincing prediction of next-generation wireless
Rating: 5
The authors write clearly about applications of a new multicarrier technology to conventional communication protocols. The book is well organized and the concepts are presented in an intuitive way. It seems that Carrier Interferometry (CI) is a major breakthrough that will impact many industries. My interest in multicarrier technologies developed while I attended many technical conferences in which CI was presented. CI is one of the few examples of real innovations taking place in wireless communications.

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[size=120%]Multimedia Information Systems (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
By Marios C. Angelides, Schahram Dustdar

• Publisher:   Springer
• Number Of Pages:   224
• Publication Date:   1997-06-30
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0792399153
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780792399155
• Binding:   Hardcover

Product Description:

Multimedia Information Systems explores the technical, human, organizational and socio-economic issues which underpin the implementation and use of multimedia information systems.
This unique book comprehensively defines multimedia information systems and its emerging architecture. Today's important issues of networked multimedia information systems and multimedia trafficking on the information superhighway are thoroughly investigated. Multimedia information systems applications and organizational implications are also discussed along with multimedia authoring systems. Multimedia Information Systems is essential reading for all students and professionals faced with the challenges of multimedia information systems management and development.
Multimedia Information Systems develops an awareness of the problems associated with multimedia information systems management, and the ability to understand and address these emerging challenges on an organizational and technical level. The book explores the limitations of multimedia on the information superhighway, and offers solutions for present and future development on the Internet. This book also scrutinizes the current applications of multimedia information systems, and examines how they can be developed.
Multimedia Information Systems serves as an excellent text for courses on the subject, and as an invaluable reference for multimedia information systems professionals.


Summary: Fantastic!
Rating: 5

A wonderful introduction into the world of Multimedia.


Summary: Fantastic!
Rating: 5

A wonderful introduction into the world of Multimedia.

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