Yang Yang

Jianwei Huang

Tao Zhang

Joe Weinman

THE ONE-STOP RESOURCE FOR ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION CONSIDERING FOG COMPUTING Fog and Fogonomics is a comprehensive and technology-centric resource that highlights the system model, architectures, building blocks, and IEEE standards for fog computing platforms and solutions. The "fog" is defined as the multiple interconnected layers of computing along the continuum from cloud to endpoints such as user devices and things including racks or microcells in server closets, residential gateways, factory control systems, and more. The authors—noted experts on the topic—review business models and metrics that allow for the economic assessment of fog-based information communication technology (ICT) resources, especially mobile resources. The book contains a wide range of templates and formulas for calculating quality-of-service values. Comprehensive in scope, it covers topics including fog computing technologies and reference architecture, fog-related standards and markets, fog-enabled applications and services, fog economics (fogonomics), and strategy. This important resource: Offers a comprehensive text on fog computing Discusses pricing, service level agreements, service delivery, and consumption of fog computing Examines how fog has the potential to change the information and communication technology industry in the next decade Describes how fog enables new business models, strategies, and competitive differentiation, as with ecosystems of connected and smart digital products and services Includes case studies featuring integration of fog computing, communication, and networking systems Written for product and systems engineers and designers, as well as for faculty and students, Fog and Fogonomics is an essential book that explores the technological and economic issues associated with fog computing.

Challenges and Practices of Fog Computing, Communication, Networking, Strategy, and Economics

Fog and Fogonomics

Junhu Wang

Yann Garcia

Mössbauer Spectroscopy Unique and comprehensive overview of versatile applications of Mössbauer spectroscopy in chemistry and material sciences Mössbauer Spectroscopy provides a comprehensive overview of relevant applications of this physical analysis method in chemistry and material sciences. The book shows the versatility of Mössbauer spectroscopy in finding useful information on electronic structure, structural insights, and solid-state effects of chemical systems. A wide range of chemical applications and applied concepts are covered as well as numerous examples, selected from recent literature. To aid in reader comprehension and accessibility, contents are well-structured and divided in different sections covering energy, catalysis, coordination chemistry, spin crossover, sensing, photomagnetism. Edited by prominent scientists in the field and authored by a group of international experts, Mössbauer Spectroscopy covers sample topics such as: Li-ion batteries, catalysts, fuel cells, Fe based silicides and iron phosphates containing minerals Gold clusters and gold mixed valence complexes Molecule based magnets, photoswitchable spin crossover coordination polymers and molecular sensors for meat freshness control With comprehensive coverage of the developments in the technique, Mössbauer Spectroscopy is a beneficial resource for researchers, professionals, and academics in chemistry related fields, such as material science, sustainable environment, and molecular electronics. It can be used by newcomers as well as for educational purposes at the master and PhD levels.

Applications in Chemistry and Materials Science

Mössbauer Spectroscopy

Yi Jiang

Xiaohua Liu

Temperature and Humidity Independent Control (THIC) of Air-conditioning System focuses on temperature and humidity independent control (THIC) systems, which represents a new concept and new approach for indoor environmental control. This book presents the main components of the THIC systems, including dehumidification devices, high-temperature cooling devices and indoor terminal devices. Other relevant issues, such as operation and control strategy and case studies, are also included. This book is intended for air-conditioning system designers and engineers as well as researchers working with indoor environments. Xiaohua Liu is an associate professor at the Building Energy Research Center, Tsinghua University, China. Yi Jiang is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the director of the Building Energy Research Center, Tsinghua University, China and the director of the China-USA Joint Research Center on Clean Energy. Tao Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate at the Building Energy Research Center, Tsinghua University, China.

Temperature and Humidity Independent Control (THIC) of Air-conditioning System

Luca Delgrossi

Provides an up-to-date, in-depth look at the currentresearch, design, and implementation of cooperative vehicle safetycommunication protocols and technology Improving traffic safety has been a top concern fortransportation agencies around the world and the focus of heavyresearch and development efforts sponsored by both governments andprivate industries. Cooperative vehicle systems—which usesensors and wireless technologies to reduce trafficaccidents—can play a major role in making the world's roadssafer. Vehicle Safety Communications: Protocols, Security, andPrivacy describes fundamental issues in cooperative vehiclesafety and recent advances in technologies for enabling cooperativevehicle safety. It gives an overview of traditional vehicle safetyissues, the evolution of vehicle safety technologies, and the needfor cooperative systems where vehicles work together to reduce thenumber of crashes or mitigate damage when crashes becomeunavoidable. Authored by two top industry professionals, the book: Summarizes the history and current status of 5.9 GHz DedicatedShort Range Communications (DSRC) technology and standardization,discussing key issues in applying DSRC to support cooperativevehicle safety Features an in-depth overview of on-board equipment (OBE) androadside equipment (RSE) by describing sample designs to illustratethe key issues and potential solutions Takes on security and privacy protection requirements andchallenges, including how to design privacy-preserving digitalcertificate management systems and how to evict misbehavingvehicles Includes coverage of vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I)communications like intersection collision avoidance applicationsand vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications like extendedelectronic brake lights and intersection movement assist Vehicle Safety Communications is ideal for anyone workingin the areas of—or studying—cooperative vehicle safetyand vehicle communications.

Protocols, Security, and Privacy

Vehicle Safety Communications

Xiang Gao

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) technology, which is a fundamental and essential component for many applications in robotics, wearable devices, and autonomous driving vehicles. The book starts from very basic mathematic background knowledge such as 3D rigid body geometry, the pinhole camera projection model, and nonlinear optimization techniques, before introducing readers to traditional computer vision topics like feature matching, optical flow, and bundle adjustment. The book employs a light writing style, instead of the rigorous yet dry approach that is common in academic literature. In addition, it includes a wealth of executable source code with increasing difficulty to help readers understand and use the practical techniques. The book can be used as a textbook for senior undergraduate or graduate students, or as reference material for researchers and engineers in related areas.

From Theory to Practice

Introduction to Visual SLAM

Jyh-Cheng Chen

An ideal starting point for anyone wanting to learn about nextgeneration wireless networks Gives important insights into the design of wireless IPnetworks Illustrates the standards and network architectures defined byleading standards bodies (including MWIF, 3GPP and 3GPP2) Discusses protocols in four key areas: signaling, mobility,quality of service, and security The authors have a good deal of experience in this field, andhave many patents pending in the area of wireless networking

Systems, Architectures, and Protocols

IP-Based Next-Generation Wireless Networks

Shuyu Sun

Reservoir Simulation: Machine Learning and Modeling helps the engineer step into the current and most popular advances in reservoir simulation, learning from current experiments and speeding up potential collaboration opportunities in research and technology. This reference explains common terminology, concepts, and equations through multiple figures and rigorous derivations, better preparing the engineer for the next step forward in a modeling project and avoid repeating existing progress. Well-designed exercises, case studies and numerical examples give the engineer a faster start on advancing their own cases. Both computational methods and engineering cases are explained, bridging the opportunities between computational science and petroleum engineering. This book delivers a critical reference for today’s petroleum and reservoir engineer to optimize more complex developments. Understand commonly used and recent progress on definitions, models, and solution methods used in reservoir simulation World leading modeling and algorithms to study flow and transport behaviors in reservoirs, as well as the application of machine learning Gain practical knowledge with hand-on trainings on modeling and simulation through well designed case studies and numerical examples.

Machine Learning and Modeling

Reservoir Simulations

Phosphorus, as a common chemical substance, plays an important role in human life, but also causes serious harm to the environment. The recovery and utilization of phosphorus is extremely urgent. The series of studies carried out by the author are described in detail in this book.

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