Computing and Communication Systems in Urban Development

Computing and Communication Systems in Urban Development
Author: Anandakumar Haldorai
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-09-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030260135

This book presents the most recent challenges and developments in sustainable computing systems with the objective of promoting awareness and best practices for the real world. It aims to present new directions for further research and technology improvements in this important area.

Urban Communication

Urban Communication
Author: Timothy A. Gibson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780742540620

City leaders now confront a global competition for economic investment, and urban elites are casting about for strategies that promise to secure a share of this future of global economic growth. However, many of these strategies are largely symbolic in nature. City leaders, for example, compete for the Olympics so they can broadcast spectacular urban vistas to global television audiences. Officials pour public funds into tourist amenities to cultivate an image of vitality and renewal. But how are the local politics of urban redevelopment intertwined with the global politics of circulating vital urban images? Urban Communication brings together scholars from communication, cultural studies, and urban sociology to explore the symbolic dimensions of contemporary city-building, drawing on case studies from around the world.

Analysis and Design of Multiple Element Antennas for Urban Communication

Analysis and Design of Multiple Element Antennas for Urban Communication
Author: Juan Pontes
Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2010
Genre: Technology (General)
ISBN: 386644513X

This work focuses on the analysis and design of multiple element antennas (MEA) and their interaction with the propagation channel. In particular, attention is given to urban channels and how its information throughput, i.e. capacity, can be improved. With this in mind, this work extends an existing network model of the communication system in order to reduce computation time, investigates the communicational limits of MEA systems and proposes a synthesis method for capacity maximization.

The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication

The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication
Author: Deborah Stevenson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-10-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781032919379

The volume brings together key interdisciplinary perspectives and global case studies to uncover the joint trajectories of urban space, technology, and everyday life. Tracing emerging debates and neglected connections between cities and media, this book challenges what we know about contemporary urban living.

Radical Communications

Radical Communications
Author: Michael Tsangaris
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2021-11-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1793608571

Radical Communications explores unauthorized messages we see in the cities we live in and their impact on the construction of social reality. Michael Tsangaris treats the city as a text and examines the political slogans, graffiti, and street art of Athens as complex visual signs in an alternative communication system. He argues that the legitimacy, aesthetic value, and social acceptability of these expressions depend on the time, place, and social group or individual that interprets them. Finally, his analysis reveals the contradictory character of the contemporary city. It shows a city of social inequalities, cultural diversity, multinational encounters; of conflicts between age groups and political, economic, and epidemic crises; a city of one-dimensional thinking, apathy, and consumer fetishism but also a city that aspires to the dream of a better society and holds utopian promise.

Introduction to Communication Systems

Introduction to Communication Systems
Author: Upamanyu Madhow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2014-11-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1107022770

An accessible undergraduate textbook introducing key fundamental principles behind modern communication systems, supported by exercises, software problems and lab exercises.

Radio Propagation and Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Communication Networks

Radio Propagation and Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Communication Networks
Author: Nathan Blaunstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118816722

Radio Propagation and Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Communication Networks, 2nd Edition, presents a comprehensive overview of wireless communication system design, including the latest updates to considerations of over-the-terrain, atmospheric, and ionospheric communication channels. New features include the latest experimentally-verified stochastic approach, based on several multi-parametric models; all-new chapters on wireless network fundamentals, advanced technologies, and current and modern multiple access networks; and helpful problem sets at the conclusion of each chapter to enhance clarity. The volume’s emphasis remains on a thorough examination of the role of obstructions on the corresponding propagation phenomena that influence the transmission of radio signals through line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation conditions along the radio path between the transmitter and the receiver antennas—and how adaptive antennas, used at the link terminals, can be used to minimize the deleterious effects of such obstructions. With its focus on 3G, 4G, MIMO, and the latest wireless technologies, Radio Propagation and Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Communication Networks represents an invaluable resource to topics critical to the design of contemporary wireless communication systems. Explores novel wireless networks beyond 3G, and advanced 4G technologies, such as MIMO, via propagation phenomena and the fundamentals of adapted antenna usage. Explains how adaptive antennas can improve GoS and QoS for any wireless channel, with specific examples and applications in land, aircraft and satellite communications. Introduces new stochastic approach based on several multi-parametric models describing various terrestrial scenarios, which have been experimentally verified in different environmental conditions New chapters on fundamentals of wireless networks, cellular and non-cellular, multiple access networks, new applications of adaptive antennas for positioning, and localization of subscribers Includes the addition of problem sets at the end of chapters describing fundamental aspects of wireless communication and antennas.

Urban Communication Reader IV

Urban Communication Reader IV
Author: erin daina mcclellan
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2021-03-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781433181573

This volume provides a collection of urban communication research that historically examines, presently analyzes, and creatively imagines the future of cities as change agents.

The Urban Communication Reader

The Urban Communication Reader
Author: Gene Burd
Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Explores the notion that the push toward marketization is the central force restructuring the communications landscape. This book examines the consequences of this development for the constitution of public culture. It analyzes the core institutional processes of marketization.

Modern Communications Jamming Principles and Techniques

Modern Communications Jamming Principles and Techniques
Author: Richard Poisel
Publisher: Artech House
Total Pages: 895
Release: 2011
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1608071669

This edition features a wealth of new material on urban warfare, including a computer simulation of EW architecture alternatives for land-based forces based on urban constraints. It also includes an expanded section on time-hopped spread spectrum communications, more details on modern communication system technologies such as CDMA and OFDM, and an in-depth discussion on sources of urban noise. This practical resource is focused on showing the reader how to design and build jammers specifically targeted at spread spectrum, anti-jam communications. Moreover, it gives assistance in evaluating the expected performance of jamming systems against modern communications systems, and discover the best waveform to use to counter communication systems designed to be effective in jamming environments. While mathematical derivations in general are avoided, the book presents error rate performance equations for most modern digital anti-jam communication systems