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Gigahertz and Terahertz Technologies for Broadband Communications, Second Edition is a cutting-edge resource for understanding current, emerging, and future broadband communications systems, as well as the industry's major players and their products. Nowadays, our powerful mobile phones are the center of our digital lives, and this depends on gigahertz and terahertz technologies for broadband communications. This second edition covers more material on the massive and radical technological developments that have occurred in the past two decades.With the world becoming more digitalized, particularly with the rise of remote work, video conferencing, and devices such as gaming systems, there is an increase in the utilization of broadband communication technologies. This includes broadband fiber-optics (cable), free-space optics (FSO), mmWave terrestrial radio links, high-altitude platform services (HAPS), and satellite communications (SATCOM). The second edition of this resource covers the key aspects and provides numerous examples of these communication technologies.This second edition provides engineers with the necessary tools to navigate the complexities of designing communication systems for 5G, 6G, terrestrial, space, and satellite applications. In summary, it serves as an indispensable guide for professionals seeking to stay informed of the latest advancements in broadband communication technologies. This is a great resource for a skilled engineer or a newcomer to the field, it provides valuable insights and practical advice to navigate the challenges of modern communication systems.

This thoroughly updated third edition of an Artech House bestseller brings together a team of leading experts providing a current and comprehensive treatment of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that readers won’t find in other resources. Packed with brand new material, this third edition includes new chapters on the system engineering details of GPS, European Galileo system, Chinese Beidou systems, GLONASS, and regional systems, such as Quasi–Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) and Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC). Readers also find new coverage of GNSS receivers, disruptions, errors, stand-alone GNSS performance, differential and precise point positioning. This single-source reference provides both a quick overview of GNSS essentials and an in-depth treatment of advanced topics and explores all the latest advances in technology, applications, and systems. Readers are guided in the development of new applications and on how to evaluate their performance. It explains all the differential GNSS services available to help decide which is best for a particular application. The book discusses the integration of GNSS with other sensors and network assistance. Readers learn how to build GNSS receivers and integrate them into navigational and communications equipment. Moreover, this unique volume helps determine how technology is affecting the marketplace and where best to invest in a company’s resources.

Signal Failure: How the Telecoms Industry Lost its Way explores the history of the telecoms industry concentrating on the key period from 1950-2000, enabling practicing telecoms engineers to learn from the experiences and mistakes of the industry's history. The book arises from wider research into the history of the United Kingdom electronics industry. The lessons highlighted are very relevant now for any country that aims to grow by supporting technological industries. The book has relevance well beyond telecoms and in particular show the long timescales affecting technological trends and how these can sometimes conflict with the relatively short horizon of political decisions.The book is intended for anyone who is interested in how innovation affects the realities of technology entering the marketplace as well as the technology's economic performance. Telecom professionals will find it gives background to the changes that happened in the UK industry. However, the book is also aimed at people who are interested in trends in the world-wide telecoms and other technology industries. Anyone involved with technological development will find the book relevant as it gives an insight into the issues that occur as significant disruptive technology enters a market.

This newly revised edition offers you a current and comprehensive understanding of satellite navigation, inertial navigation, terrestrial radio navigation, dead reckoning, and environmental feature matching. It provides both an introduction to navigation systems and an in-depth treatment of INS/GNSS and multisensor integration. The second edition offers a wealth of added and updated material, including a brand new chapter on the principles of radio positioning and a chapter devoted to important applications in the field. Other updates include expanded treatments of map matching, image-based navigation, attitude determination, acoustic positioning, pedestrian navigation, advanced GNSS techniques, and several terrestrial and short-range radio positioning technologies. It shows how satellite, inertial, and other navigation technologies work, and focuses on processing chains and error sources. --

<p><b>A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MICROGRID SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN TOPOLOGIES, CONTROL STRATEGIES AND INTEGRATION APPROACHES</b> <p><i>Microgrid Planning and Design</i> offers a detailed and authoritative guide to microgrid systems. The editors &#150; noted experts on the topic &#150; explore what is involved in the design of a microgrid, examine the process of mapping designs to accommodate available technologies and reveal how to determine the efficacy of the final outcome. This practical book is a compilation of collaborative research results drawn from a community of experts in 8 different universities over a 6-year period. <p><i>Microgrid Planning and Design</i> contains a review of microgrid benchmarks for the electric power system and covers the mathematical modeling that can be used during the microgrid design processes. The authors include real-world case studies, validated benchmark systems and the components needed to plan and design an effective microgrid system. This important guide: <ul> <li>Offers a practical and up-to-date book that examines leading edge technologies related to the smart grid</li> <li>Covers in detail all aspects of a microgrid from conception to completion</li> <li>Explores a modeling approach that combines power and communication systems</li> <li>Recommends modeling details that are appropriate for the type of study to be performed</li> <li>Defines typical system studies and requirements associated with the operation of the microgrid</li> </ul> <p>Written for graduate students and professionals in the electrical engineering industry, <i>Microgrid Planning and Design</i> is a guide to smart microgrids that can help with their strategic energy objectives such as increasing reliability, efficiency, autonomy and reducing greenhouse gases.

The fifth generation (5G) mobile network brings significant new capacity and opportunity to network operators while also creating new challenges and additional pressure to build and operate networks differently. The transformation to 5G mobile networks creates the opportunity to virtualize significant portions of the radio access (RAN) and network core, allowing operators to better compete with over-the-top and hyperscaler offerings. This book covers the business and technical areas of virtualization that enable the transformation and innovation that today’s operators are seeking. It identifies forward-looking gaps where the technology continues to develop, specifically packet acceleration and timing requirements, which today are still not fully virtualized. The book shows you the operational and support considerations, development and lifecycle management, business implications, and vendor-team dynamics involved in deploying a virtualized network. Packed with key concepts of virtualization that solve a broad array of problems, this is an essential reference for those entering this technical domain, those that are going to build and operate these networks, and those that are seeking to learn more about the telecom network. It illustrates why you just can’t do it all in the cloud today.

This book explores Radio Access Networks (RANs) within LMR systems, comprising base stations, mobile radios, and hand portable radios. These components facilitate communication among end users via a network of fixed base stations, antennas, and combining systems strategically placed across radio repeater sites throughout the coverage area. This resource also delves into the consequences of interference, highlighting the painstaking efforts required to diagnose and rectify interference issues through field testing and redesign. The central focus being on the design intricacies of base station antennas and combining systems at densely populated shared radio repeater sites. The book underscores how to identify potential sources of interference from co-located transmitters and receivers, effectively surveying sites to anticipate high-level interfering signals. This critical information forms the foundation for crafting base station antenna and combining systems that curtail interference, subsequently optimizing coverage and minimizing costs. Throughout its pages, the book lays out a detailed roadmap for designing LMR systems resilient to interference. By outlining essential principles and methodologies, the book guides practitioners in creating LMR networks that flawlessly align with end users' communication requirements. The resulting systems not only meet expectations but surpass them, offering the coverage area and communication quality demanded by public safety and utility organizations during critical operations. Ultimately, the book serves as an indispensable resource for engineers, designers, and professionals engaged in crafting LMR systems capable of delivering impeccable performance and reliability.

<p>Microgrids are the most innovative area in the electric power industry today. Future microgrids could exist as energy-balanced cells within existing power distribution grids or stand-alone power networks within small communities.<br /> A definitive presentation on all aspects of microgrids, this text examines the operation of microgrids &#8211; their control concepts and advanced architectures including multimicrogrids. It takes a logical approach to overview the purpose and the technical aspects of microgrids, discussing the social, economic and environmental benefits to<br /> power system operation. The book also presents microgrid design and control issues, including protection, and explains how to implement centralized and decentralized control strategies.</p> <p>Key features:<br /> &#8226;&#160;original, state-of-the-art research material written by international respected contributors<br /> &#8226;&#160;unique case studies demonstrating success stories from real-world pilot sites from Europe, the Americas, Japan and China<br /> &#8226;&#160;examines market and regulatory settings for microgrids, and provides evaluation results under standard test conditions<br /> &#8226;&#160;a look to the future by well-known experts &#8211; technical solutions to maximize the value of distributed energy, along with the principles and criteria for developing commercial and regulatory frameworks for microgrids<br /> &#8226;&#160;a companion website hosting full colour versions of the figures in the book</p> <p>Offering broad yet balanced coverage, this collaborative volume is an entry point to this very topical area of power delivery for electrical power engineers familiar with medium and low voltage distribution systems, utility operators in microgrids and power systems researchers and academics. It is also a useful reference for system planners<br /> and operators, manufacturers and network operators, government regulators and postgraduate power systems students.</p>

<p><i>Power Electronics for Renewable Energy, Transportation, and Industrial Applications</i> combines state-of-the-art global expertise to present the latest research on power electronics and its application in transportation, renewable energy, and different industrial applications. This timely book aims to facilitate the implementation of cutting-edge techniques to design problems offering innovative solutions to the growing power demands in small- and large-size industries.&#160; Application areas in the book range from smart homes and&#160; electric and plug-in hybrid electrical vehicles (PHEVs), to smart distribution and intelligence operation centers where significant energy efficiency improvements can be achieved through the appropriate use and design of power electronics and energy storage devices.&#160;</p> <p>Key features:&#160;</p> <ul> <li>Discusses wide range of power electronics converters and control techniques to reduce energy waste and improve grid power quality.</li> <li>Brings together power electronics technologies such as renewable energy conversion, electric transportation, and electric drives, which are prevalent in industry and at education and research stages.</li> <li>Defines existing challenges, concerns, and selected problems complying with international trends, standards, and programs for electric power conversion, distribution, and sustainable energy development.&#160;</li> <li>An imperative and far reaching learning resource for power electronics engineers, researchers, and students.</li> </ul>

Since the launch of Second-Generation Networks (2G), planning for each future mobile service was initiated many years before its commercial launch. In 2019, 5G Networks begun to be deployed commercially after almost ten years of planning. Similarly, the race for the 6G wireless networks that will be operational in 2030 has already started. To fulfill its potential in the upcoming decade, 6G will undoubtedly require an architectural orchestration based on the amalgamation of existing solutions and innovative technologies. The book will begin by evaluating the state of the art of all current mobile generations' while looking into their core building blocks. 6G implementation will require fundamental support from Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning on the network's edge and core, including a new Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum. The 6G use cases will require advanced techniques for enabling the future wireless network to be human-centric, ensuring enhanced quality of experience (QoE) for most of its applications. The concept of Human Bond Communication Beyond 2050 (Knowledge Home) and Communication, Navigation, Sensing, and Services (CONASENSE) will also profit from future wireless communication. Terahertz domains will exploit the ultra-Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output Antennas (UM-MIMO) technologies to support Terabits' data throughputs. Moreover, optical wireless communications (OWC) will also come into play to support indoor and outdoor high-data rates. Further expansion of 6G core entities will support the novel concept of Society 5.0. Quantum computing processing and communications is also likely to be added into the 6G ecosystem with security managed by blockchain orchestration for a robust network.