Economic Modeling in Networking: A Primer is designed to provide engineering students who have a basic training in economic modeling and game theory an understanding of where and when game theoretic models are employed, the assumptions underpinning key models, and conceptual insights that are broadly applicable. In recent years, engineers have been increasingly called upon to have basic skills in economic modeling and game theory at their disposal for two related reasons. First, the economics of networks has a significant effect on the adoption and creation of network innovations, and second, engineered networks serve as the platform for many of our most basic economic interactions today. Despite these confluences, the typical engineering student does not garner economic training until later in their graduate career, if at all. This monograph takes the stance that basic economic understanding is a critical tool in the arsenal of the modern engineering student. Economic Modeling in Networking: A Primer is intended to help engineering students to work with economic models but also to cast a critical eye over such models. As such, it is also an ideal complementary text to a good introductory textbook or course on microeconomics or game theory

Multimedia services facilitate the real-time processing and communication of images, audio, and text. The convergence of computer communication and telecommunication has redefined current multimedia services, encouraging the creation of multimedia interfaces for videoconferencing, VoIP, instant messaging, and gaming. Multimedia Services and Streaming for Mobile Devices: Challenges and Innovations provides tutorials, surveys, case descriptions, and original contributions that address current research findings and business success cases in multimedia services and streaming for mobile devices. This publication is useful to researchers, developers, engineers, and innovators working in multimedia services or mobile devices, as well as academics, industry professionals, and researchers who aspire to learn about recent progress and future trends in the field.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Maximize the power of your iPhone 5Master the versatile features of your iPhone 5 and stay organized, connected, informed, and entertained. How to Do Everything: iPhone 5 covers iOS 6 and the new capabilities added to the core functions and apps, such as Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Safari, Mail, Camera, Maps, FaceTime, and iTunes. You'll also learn how to use iCloud, Notification Center, and Siri. Plus, discover tips on finding and downloading additional apps that can dramatically increase your iPhone's performance. This hands-on guide covers it all! Get assistance from Siri and use the Dictation feature Import and sync data from your computer, iCloud, and other iOS devices Discover preinstalled apps and download additional apps Make and receive calls, use voicemail, and set up custom ringtones Manage Contacts and stay organized with Calendar, Reminders, and Notes Surf the Web with Safari Shoot, edit, and share photos and videos Navigate with turn-by-turn directions using the newly redesigned Maps app Manage e-mail accounts, use text messaging, and connect to social media networks, including Facebook and TwitterVideo chat via FaceTime or Skype Experience multimedia entertainment and read e-books and digital editions of newspapers and magazines Play exciting single- and multi-player games Protect and troubleshoot your iPhone 5

The weighted sum-rate maximization (WSRMax) problem plays a central role in many network control and optimization methods, such as power control, link scheduling, cross-layer control, network utility maximization. The problem is NP-hard in general. In Weighted Sum-Rate Maximization in Wireless Networks: A Review, a cohesive discussion of the existing solution methods associated with the WSRMax problem, including global, fast local, as well as decentralized methods is presented. In addition, general optimization approaches, such as branch and bound methods, complementary geometric programming, and decomposition methods, are discussed in depth to address the problem. Through a number of numerical examples, the applicability of the resulting algorithms in various application domains is demonstrated. The presented algorithms and the associated numerical results can be very useful for network engineers or researchers with an interest in network design.

Think you have the next great Windows Phone app idea? The Windows Phone Application Sketch Book is an essential tool for any aspiring Windows Phone developer. This sketch book makes it easy to centralize and organize your ideas, featuring enlarged Windows Phone templates to write on. Professionally printed on high-quality paper, it has a total of 150 gridded templates for you to draft ideas and doodle designs while providing ample room to make notes and document the app name and screen name. This book is an invaluable tool for bringing your next great Windows Phone app idea to life What you'll learn* The Apress Windows Phone Application Sketch Book makes it easy to keep design ideas organized in one central place. * Includes 150 magnified templates for easy use, with plenty of room on the gridded page to jot notes and doodle designs. * This professional notepad gives your design a finished look from which to share ideas with colleagues and clients. Who this book is for Any aspiring Windows Phone developer.

We are living in a world of mobile multimedia. The field of mobile computing and multimedia is expanding in an unprecedented pace. Indicators are the rapidly increasing penetration of the smart phones and other mobile devices market around the world, which is growing nearly twice as fast as the desktop market. Mobile multimedia is the set of protocols and standards for multimedia information exchange over wireless networks. It enables information systems to process and transmit multimedia data to provide the end user with services from various areas, such as the mobile working place, mobile entertainment, mobile information retrieval, user-generated content and context based services. Innovations in Mobile Multimedia Communications and Applications: New Technologies provides an in-depth coverage of next-generation mobile computing paradigm, including mobile wireless technologies, mobile services and applications, and research and development challenges surrounding backend systems, network infrastructure, and mobile terminals including smart phones and other mobile devices.

This book provides a comprehensive description of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio access network, as specified by 3GPP. The content is aimed towards anyone wishing to learn the basics, or to develop a more thorough understanding. The content is presented in the form of bullet points to keep it concise and to allow rapid access to the key information. Highlights include: - Complete text is presented as bullet points - Can be read with ease and in less time - Illustrations and tables support text - Content includes both introductory and advanced topics - Based upon the release 8, 9 and 10 versions of the 3GPP specifications - Detailed description of air-interface, bit rates and physical channels - Most important messages and signalling procedures explained - Idle mode and physical layer procedures presented - Practical radio network planning subjects addressed - Includes both FDD and TDD variants - LTE Advanced technologies presented - Voice over LTE solutions described

The book is written in a cookbook style, presenting examples in the style of recipes, allowing you to go directly to your topic of interest, or follow topics throughout a chapter to gain in-depth knowledge. This book is for developers who want to build data-driven apps, or a line of business applications using the Windows Phone platform. It is also useful for developers on other mobile platforms looking to convert their apps to Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. Basic understanding of C#, XAML and Silverlight is required.

Transmission Capacity of Wireless Networks presents a framework for computing the outage probability (OP) and transmission capacity (TC) in a wireless network. Transmission capacity is a performance metric for wireless networks that measures the spatial intensity of successful transmissions per unit area, subject to a constraint on the permissible outage probability (where outage occurs when the SINR at a receiver is below a threshold). This volume gives a unified treatment of the TC framework that has been developed by the authors and their collaborators over the past decade. The mathematical framework underlying the analysis is stochastic geometry: Poisson point processes model the locations of interferers, and (stable) shot noise processes represent the aggregate interference seen at a receiver. Transmission Capacity of Wireless Networks presents TC results (exact, asymptotic, and bounds) on a simple model in order to illustrate a key strength of the framework: analytical tractability yields explicit performance dependence upon key model parameters. It goes on to present enhancements to this basic model - channel fading, variable link distances, and multihop.Chapter 5 presents four network design case studies well-suited to TC: (i) spectrum management, (ii) interference cancellation, (iii) signal threshold transmission scheduling, and iv) power control. Chapter 6 studies the TC when nodes have multiple antennas, which provides a contrast vs. classical results that ignore interference. Transmission Capacity of Wireless Networks is essential reading for anyone with an interest in wireless network design and in understanding the fundamentals of the performance and behavior of such networks.

In this book, the world's leading Apple platform development trainers offer a complete, practical, hands-on introduction to iPhone and iPad programming. The authors walk through all the Apple tools and technologies needed to build successful iPhone/iPad/iPod touch apps, including the iOS 4.3 SDK, the Objective-C language, Xcode 4, Foundation framework, and the classes that make up the iOS UI framework. The many topics covered in this book include:

Easily setting up elegant, efficient user interfaces with UIKitCreating effective visuals, animation, and effects with Core Graphics and Core AnimationMaking the most of the iOS multi-touch event handling and accelerometer dataBuilding location-aware iOS applications utilizing Core Location and MapKitLocalizing applications for international useCreating applications that capture audio and play mediaStoring data in files or with Core Data

New chapters added to this edition include:

iPad-friendly interfaces, including UIPopoverController and UISplitViewControllerBlocks and CategoriesInstruments and Xcode's static analyzerUIWebView and connecting with web serversPush Notifications

iOS Programming also includes a handy Xcode Quick Reference Card that lists Xcode 4's most commonly used keyboard shortcuts.

Just as consumer demands for mobile devices have risen rapidly, the use of cell phones by prison inmates has grown as the U.S. prison population continues to expand. This use is considered contraband by prison officials. The number of cell phones confiscated by prison officials has dramatically increased in only a few years. This increase in unauthorised cell phone use by inmates is a mounting concern among correctional administrators across the country. This book investigates and examines wireless technology solutions to prevent contraband cell phone use in prisons, such as jamming, managed access, and detection.

A timely addition to the understanding of IMT-Advanced, this book places particular emphasis on the new areas which IMT-Advanced technologies rely on compared with their predecessors. These latest areas include Radio Resource Management, Carrier Aggregation, improved MIMO support and Relaying. Each technique is thoroughly described and illustrated before being surveyed in context of the LTE-Advanced standards. The book also presents state-of-the-art information on the different aspects of the work of standardization bodies (such as 3GPP and IEEE), making global links between them. * Explores the latest research innovations to assess the future of the LTE standard * Covers the latest research techniques for beyond IMT-Advanced such as Coordinated multi-point systems (CoMP), Network Coding, Device-to-Device and Spectrum Sharing * Contains key information for researchers from academia and industry, engineers, regulators and decision makers working on LTE-Advanced and beyond

Pitroda registered his first patent on the mobile wallet in 1994, and since then he and his colleague, Mehul Desai, have been traversing the world, taking this technology forward. Initially resistant to the idea of mobile money, the three stakeholders in mobile telephony - telecom companies, banks and merchants - are now realizing that it is crucial to their growth. All of them are now reinventing themselves for our mobile phones, and competing with each other to manage our lifestyles. For telecom companies, it is no longer about connectivity but about delivering personalized and secure services. For banks, it is no longer about deposits and lending but about the convergence of financial products and services; and for merchants, it is no longer about goods but goods bundled with services. For India, which has more mobile phone subscribers (over 470 million, with over ten million being added every month) than bank account holders, mobile money can be an engine for growth. It can also be a life-transforming technology for social good, empowering those at the bottom of the pyramid. Once again, India can show the way to the world.

Written by experts actively involved in the 3GPP standards and product development, "LTE for UMTS, Second Edition" gives a complete and up-to-date overview of Long Term Evolution (LTE) in a systematic and clear manner. Building upon on the success of the first edition, "LTE for UMTS, Second Edition" has been revised to now contain improved coverage of the Release 8 LTE details, including field performance results, transport network, self optimized networks and also covering the enhancements done in 3GPP Release 9. This new edition also provides an outlook to Release 10, including the overview of Release 10 LTE-Advanced technology components which enable reaching data rates beyond 1 Gbps.

Key updates for the second edition of "LTE for UMTS" are focused on the new topics from Release 9 & 10, and include: LTE-Advanced;Self optimized networks (SON);Transport network dimensioning;Measurement results.

By adopting a necessary multidisciplinary approach ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures: Surveillance, Locative Media and Global Networks focuses on ICTs and new urban infrastructures to discuss how the world has been revolutionized. Discussions developed here, both theoretical and analytical, are all connected with global networks of signs, values and ideologies, locative media that gives us the freedom of spatial mobility and the possibility of creating and recreating places, and the surveillance artefacts which permeate our daily life and allow a hypothetical total control of space.

The book begins with an introduction to the subject and then moves on to describe the fundamentals of wireless communication including a brief description of different modulation techniques. The text includes coverage of second generation (2G) cellular network together with its two important implementation standards GSM & IS-95; it also discusses WLL and WLAN. In addition, it presents a variety of data services available in the domain of mobile computing with other relevant issues. Finally, it gives a brief on UMTS, a representative of the third generation (3G) of cellular networks. The fundamental tenets of mobile computing, such as mobility management, channel assignment, protocols at air interface, and system design are carefully covered for all categories of wireless networks described here. A perfect balance between theoretical aspects of mobile computing and its implementation standards has been maintained throughout the book. Many examples and exercises are included, which will help students prepare for examinations. The book is intended primarily for students of B.E./B.Tech. of Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, and related disciplines. It will also be useful to the students of BCA/MCA and B.Sc./M.Sc. (Computer Science/Electronics).

Stochastic Geometry and Wireless Networks, Part II: Applications focuses on wireless network modeling and performance analysis. The aim is to show how stochastic geometry can be used in a more or less systematic way to analyze the phenomena that arise in this context. It first focuses on medium access control mechanisms used in ad hoc networks and in cellular networks. It then discusses the use of stochastic geometry for the quantitative analysis of routing algorithms in mobile ad hoc networks. The appendix also contains a concise summary of wireless communication principles and of the network architectures considered in this and the previous volume entitled Stochastic Geometry and Wireless Networks, Part I: Theory.

This volume discusses wireless network modeling and performance analysis with the aim of showing how stochastic geometry can be used in a more or less systematic way to analyze the phenomena that arise in this context. The book first focuses on medium access control mechanisms used in ad hoc networks and in cellular networks. It then discusses the use of stochastic geometry for the quantitative analysis of routing algorithms in mobile ad hoc networks. The appendix also contains a concise summary of wireless communication principles and of the network architectures considered in the two volumes.

While it may be a new concept for many readers, telephone interpreting has been successfully used to enable speakers of different languages to communicate for more than three decades. With time, the field has evolved to ensure that high levels of quality can be obtained, both in terms of connectivity and quality of interpretation. However, in spite of its 30-year history and widespread use throughout the world, very little has been written about telephone interpreting. In this, the first book devoted entirely to the subject, the author provides readers with long-awaited transparency and insight into the field, in order to promote the highest possible standards of quality. The publication serves as a practical guide for interpreters, a resource for educators, a reference text for researchers and a comprehensive handbook for consumers of interpreting services everywhere.
This book provides readers with a fascinating in-depth view into the world of remote interpretation via telephone. The first publication devoted exclusively to the topic, this book offers a wealth of information for interpreters, educators, training professionals and consumers of interpreting services within the realms of health care, legal services, public safety, finance, social services, insurance and numerous other industries where telephone interpreting services are used. Through the model code of ethics and standards of practice included in the book, readers can gain a better understanding of the levels of quality that can be obtained through telephone interpretation. Numerous role-play scenarios are also included to facilitate telephone interpreting practice.

Interference is the main performance-limiting factor of large wireless communication systems. To analyze and design these networks, it is thus imperative that the interference is statistically characterized or bounded in the presence of various sources of uncertainty, including the users' positions, their patterns of activity, and the channel fading states. Interference in Large Wireless Networks addresses this problem using basic probability and tools from stochastic geometry. Starting with regular networks and the popular Poisson model, it discusses increasingly more general networks. In addition to the interference itself, it also derives explicit expressions for outage probabilities, which are indispensable for the optimization of higher-level metrics such as the transport capacity or end-to-end delay. The book includes an appendix that reviews the underlying mathematical tools, which makes it self-contained and suitable for graduate students, researchers, and wireless engineers alike.

Gossip network algorithms, as the name suggests, are built upon a gossip or rumor style unreliable, asynchronous information exchange protocol. They provide algorithmic architecture of choice for many of the emerging networks -- such as sensor networks, peer-to-peer networks, social networks and mobile networks of vehicles -- that are primarily not designed for, but required to perform communication and computation. Examples include, estimation algorithms in sensor networks, broadcasting news through a peer-to-peer network, or viral advertising in a social network. Gossip algorithms captures the recent excitement in this interdisciplinary topic that is witnessed across the fields of communication, computation, control, signal processing and algorithms

Explores global m-commerce strategies and technological standards, and provides cases of the subject from a global perspective.

Have you ever wanted to learn text messaging lingo so you could decipher what your kids were text messaging to each other or have you ever wanted to become an expert in text messaging so you could send someone a quick message? Either way, this book is for you. This book will demystify the art of text messaging.
AYTMTB, because I care. IMHO, this book will be for the young and old alike. Cell phones and messaging shorthand is a thing of the future that everyone will be able to use. Need to send a short message to someone, but don't want to interrupt him or her at work or school? Send them a text message from your cell phone.
AYTMTB= And you're telling me this because
IMHO= In my humble opinion
BTW= By the way
What would you do if you received a text message that read: LTNS, PCML8r H&K. How would you answer back or could you? Text messages are generally limited to 160 characters so people started devising quick and efficient ways to send messages. Voila, text messaging shorthand. BTW, the message above reads; Long time no see, please call me later Hugs and kisses. We hope you enjoy learning text messaging as much as we enjoyed writing this book.