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Complex Systems
Relationships between Control, Communications and Computing
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
This book gives a wide-ranging description of the many facets of complex dynamic networks and systems within an infrastructure provided by integrated control and supervision: envisioning, design, experimental exploration, and implementation. The theoretical contributions and the case studies presented...
Mathematical Adventures in Performance Analysis
From Storage Systems, Through Airplane Boarding, to Express Line Queues
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
This book describes problems in the field of performance analysis, primarily the study of storage systems and the diverse mathematical techniques that are required for solving them. Topics covered include best practices for scheduling I/O requests to a disk drive, how this problem is related...
by Radhika Ranjan Roy
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
The Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) has emerged as the next frontier for wireless communications networking in both the military and commercial arena. Handbook of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks for Mobility Models introduces 40 different major mobility models along with numerous associate mobility models to...
by María Guinaldo Losada
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
This book reports on a set of new techniques for resolving current issues in networked control systems. The main focus is on strategies for event-based control, for both centralized and decentralized architectures. The first part of the book addresses the problem of single-loop networked control systems...
by Keyou You, Nan Xiao, Lihua Xie
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
This monograph focuses on characterizing the stability and performance consequences of inserting limited-capacity communication networks within a control loop. The text shows how integration of the ideas of control and estimation with those of communication and information theory can be used to provide...
by Huiping Li, Yang Shi
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive, easy-to-understand overview of receding-horizon control for nonlinear networks. It presents novel general strategies that can simultaneously handle general nonlinear dynamics, system constraints, and disturbances arising in networked and large-scale systems and which...
Space Information Networks
First International Conference, SINC 2016, Kunming, China, August 24-25, 2016. Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Space Information Network, SINC 2016, held in Kunming, China, in August 2016. The 18 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions.
The theme of the conference...
Terrestrial-Satellite Communication Networks
Transceivers Design and Resource Allocation
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This book targets major issues in terrestrial-satellite communication networks and presents the solutions. While the terrestrial networks can achieve high-speed data service at low cost, satellite based access is one way to complement terrestrial based networks to ensure ubiquitous, 100% geographic...
by Danwei Wang, Ming Yu, Chang Boon Low
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
This book systematically presents a comprehensive framework and effective techniques for in-depth analysis, clear design procedure, and efficient implementation of diagnosis and prognosis algorithms for hybrid systems. It offers an overview of the fundamentals of diagnosis\prognosis and hybrid bond...
Autonomous Flying Robots
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Micro Aerial Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
The advance in robotics has boosted the application of autonomous vehicles to perform tedious and risky tasks or to be cost-effective substitutes for their - man counterparts. Based on their working environment, a rough classi cation of the autonomous vehicles would include unmanned aerial vehicles...
Cyber Physical Systems. Design, Modeling, and Evaluation
5th International Workshop, CyPhy 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 8, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Design, Modeling, and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems, CyPhy 2015, held as part of ESWeek 2015, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2015.
The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and...
by Weihua Zhuang, Khadige Abboud
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This brief presents a stochastic microscopic mobility model that describes the temporal changes of intervehicle distances. The model is consistent with simulated and empirical vehicle traffic patterns. Using stochastic lumpability methods, the proposed mobility model is mapped into an aggregated mobility...
Control Subject to Computational and Communication Constraints
Current Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book provides a broad overview of the current problems, challenges and solutions in the field of control theory, communication theory and computational resources management. Recent results on dynamical systems, which open new opportunities for research and challenges to be addressed in the future,...
101 Windows 8
Tips & Tricks Made Simple
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
101 Windows 8 Tips and Tricks Made Simple is the right resource to help you if you’re feeling a little bit lost in the Windows 8 environment. At first, the changed design or interface of Windows 8 can surprise you, but this eBook is there to help you find your way around this “latest popular operating...