Technology

With around 3 billion subscribers, GSM is the world's most commonly used technology for wireless communication. Providing an overview of the innovations that have fuelled this phenomena, GSM: Architecture, Protocols and Services, Third Edition offers a clear introduction to the field of cellular systems. Special emphasis is placed on system architecture and protocol aspects, and topics range from addressing concepts through mobility management to network management. This third edition contains around 25% new and reworked material and has been thoroughly updated to encompass recent advances and future trends. It serves as both an introductory textbook for graduate students as well as a reference resource for telecommunications engineers and researchers. This edition:.:.; Presents capacity enhancement methods like sectorization, the application of adaptive antennas for Spatial Filtering for Interference Reduction (SFIR) and Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA).; Provides a detailed introduction to GPRS, HSCSD, and EDGE for packet-switched services and higher data rates.; Features updated coverage on the vastly expanded range of GSM services, including an examination of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS).; Adopts a highly graphical approach with numerous illustrations. more...

Price: $130.00

Offers insights into the technology and developments in the domain of Hardware-dependent Software (HdS). This book includes such topics as principles of Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), the emerging BIOS successor UEFI, and the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL). more...

Price: $129.00

This book provides a highly illustrated guide to the design, installation and maintenance of hot and cold water supply systems for domestic buildings. Based on British Standard BS 6700, the new edition takes into account revisions to the standard since the book was first published in 1991. It has also been updated to give guidance on the 1999 Water Supply Regulations and includes revisions to the Building Regulations. Written for designers and installers, this immensely practical book will also be of interest to technical staff of water undertakers, property services managers and students of NVQ and BTech courses. It was specially commissioned by the British Standards Institution and written for BSI by Bob Garrett, formerly of Langley College of Further Education and past President of the National Association of Plumbing Teachers. more...

Price: $80.00

Human Factors Methods offers a 'how-to' text on a substantial range of ergonomics methods that can be used in the design and evaluation of products and systems, it is a comprehensive point of reference for all these methods. Presenting more than ninety design and evaluation methods, it is designed to act as an ergonomics methods manual, aiding both students and practitioners. more...

Price: $79.95

Update to a classic reference providing a treasury of applications, on-the-job insights, data and direction needed to design effective and efficient HVAC systems for residential, commercial and industrial systems. more...

Price: $99.95