Transitions from digital communications to quantum communications : concepts and prospects / / Malek Benslama, Hadj Batatia, Abderraouf Messai

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812858003321
• Autore: Benslama Malek
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, [England] ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE : , : Wiley, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-119-33019-X; 1-119-33027-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Collana: Networks and Telecommunications Series
• Disciplina: 621.382
• Soggetti: Digital communications; Quantum communication
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; List of Acronyms; PART 1: Theory; 1 Non-linear Signal Processing; 1.1. Distributions; 1.2. Variance; 1.3. Covariance; 1.4. Stationarity; 1.5. Bayes inference; 1.6. Tensors in signal processing; 1.7. Processing the quantum signal; 2 Non-Gaussian Processes; 2.1. Defining Gaussian processes; 2.2. Non-Gaussian processes; 2.3. Principal component analysis or Karhunen-Loève transformation; 2.4. Sparse Gaussian processes; 2.5. Levy process; 2.6. Links with quantum communications; 3 Sparse Signals and Compressed Sensing; 3.1. Sparse Signals3.2. Compressed sensing; 3.3. Compressed sensing and quantum signal; 4 The Fourier Transform; 4.1. The Classic Fourier Transform; 4.2. The Discreet Fourier Transform and the Fast Fourier Transform; 4.3. The Fourier Transform and hyper-functions; 4.4. Hilbert Transform; 4.5. Clifford algebra and the Fourier Transform; 4.6. Spinors and quantum signals; 5 The Contribution of Arithmetic to Signal Processing; 5.1. Gauss sums; 5.2. Applications for Gauss sums; 6 Riemannian Geometry and Signal Processing; 6.1. Context; 6.2. Riemannian varieties; 6.3. Voronoi cells; 6.4. Applications to Voronoi cellsPART 2: Applications; 7 MIMO Systems; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. A brief history of OFDM; 7.3. Multi-; carrier technology; 7.4. OFDM technique; 7.5. Generating OFDM symbols; 7.6. Inter-symbol and inter-carrier interference; 7.7. Cyclic prefix; 7.8. Mathematical model of the OFDM system; 7.9. MIMO channels; 7.10. The MIMO channel model; 7.11. MIMO OFDM channel model; 8 Minimizing Interferences in DS-CDMA Systems; 8.1. Convolutional encoding; 8.2. Structure of convolutive codes; 8.3. Polynomial representation; 8.4. Graphic representations of convolutive codes; 8.5. Decoding algorithms8.6. Discreet Wavelet Transform (DWT); 8.7. Construction and discreet filtering; 8.8. Defining the wavelet function: the place of detail; 8.9. Wavelets and filter banks; 8.10. Thresholding coefficients; 8.11. Simulating results; 9 STAP Radar; 9.1. Introduction; 9.2. Space-time adaptive processing (STAP); 9.3. Structure of the covariance matrix; 9.4. Clutter; 9.5. Optimal STAP; 9.6. Performance measures; 9.7. Influence of the radar's parameters on detection; 9.8. Sample matrix inversion algorithm (SMI); 9.9. Conclusion; 10 Tracking Radar (Using the Dempster-Shafer Theory)10.1. Introduction; 10.2. Dempster-Shafer theory; 10.3. Rules of combination; 10.4. Decision rules; 10.5. Digital simulation; 10.6. Conclusion; 11 InSAR Radar; 11.1. Introduction; 11.2. Coherence; 11.3. System model; 11.4. Inferometric phase statistics; 11.5. Quantitative examples; 11.6. Conclusion; 12 Telecommunications Networks; 12.1. Introduction; 12.2. Describing the ad hoc simulated network's topology; 12.3. The different scenarios enacted; 12.4. The statistics collected; 12.5. Discussion of results; 12.6. Part two: network using OLSR for routing

Principles of Distributed Systems : 13th International Conference, OPODIS 2009, Nîmes, France, December 15-18, 2009. Proceedings / / edited by Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Michel Raynal, Nicola Santoro

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910484650803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2009
• ISBN: 3-642-10877-6
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2009.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 373 p.)
• Collana: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 5923
• Altri autori (Persone): AbdelzaherTarek; RaynalM (Michel); SantoroN <1951-> (Nicola)
• Disciplina: 004.6
• Soggetti: Computer networks; Computer programming; User interfaces (Computer systems); Human-computer interaction; Computer engineering; Electronic data processing - Management; Computer Communication Networks; Programming Techniques; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Computer Engineering and Networks; IT Operations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: International conference proceedings.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Invited Talks -- Transactional Memory Today: A Status Report -- Navigating the Web 2.0 with Gossple -- Distributed Scheduling -- Transactional Scheduling for Read-Dominated Workloads -- Performance Evaluation of Work Stealing for Streaming Applications -- Not All Fair Probabilistic Schedulers Are Equivalent -- Brief Announcement: Relay: A Cache-Coherence Protocol for Distributed Transactional Memory -- Distributed Robotics -- Byzantine Convergence in Robot Networks: The Price of Asynchrony -- Deaf, ; Dumb, and Chatting Asynchronous Robots -- Synchronization Helps Robots to Detect Black Holes in Directed Graphs -- Fault and Failure Detection -- The Fault Detection Problem -- The Minimum Information about Failures for Solving Non-local Tasks in Message-Passing Systems -- Enhanced Fault-Tolerance through Byzantine Failure Detection -- Wireless and Social Networks -- Decentralized Polling with Respectable Participants -- Efficient Power Utilization in Multi-radio Wireless Ad Hoc Networks -- Adversarial Multiple Access Channel with Individual Injection Rates -- Synchronization -- NB-FEB: A Universal Scalable Easy-to-Use Synchronization Primitive for Manycore Architectures -- Gradient Clock Synchronization Using Reference Broadcasts -- Brief Announcement: Communication-Efficient Self-stabilizing Protocols for Spanning-Tree Construction -- Storage Systems -- On the Impact of Serializing Contention Management on STM Performance -- On the Efficiency of Atomic Multi-reader, Multi-writer Distributed Memory -- Abortable Fork-Linearizable Storage -- Distributed Agreement -- On the Computational Power of Shared Objects -- Weak Synchrony Models and Failure Detectors for Message Passing (k-)Set Agreement -- Unifying Byzantine Consensus Algorithms with Weak Interactive Consistency -- Distributed Algorithms -- Safe and Eventually Safe: Comparing Self-stabilizing and Non-stabilizing Algorithms on a Common Ground -- Proactive Fortification of Fault-Tolerant Services -- Robustness of the Rotor-router Mechanism -- Brief Annoucement: Analysis of an Optimal Bit Complexity Randomised Distributed Vertex Colouring Algorithm -- Brief Annoucement: Distributed Swap Edges Computation for Minimum Routing Cost Spanning Trees.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2009, held in Nimes, France, in December 2009. The 23 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed scheduling, distributed robotics, fault and failure detection, wireless and social networks, synchronization, storage systems, distributed agreement, and distributed algorithms.