Includes recent scientific findings in the field of semiconductor devices

Explores the rapid technological innovation in advanced communications techniques

Provides in-depth information on modern computing technologies Describes advanced adaptive classification and pattern recognition algorithms

Autorentext

Professor Akhtar Kalam has been working at Victoria University, Melbourne since 1985 and was a Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science for 7 years. He is currently the Head of the Engineering Department. He is also the current Chair of the Academic Board and lectures in the Masters by coursework program in the Engineering Institute of Technology, Perth, Australia. Further, he has Distinguished Professorship position at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and five Malaysian universities. He received his B.Sc. and B.Sc. Engineering degrees from University of Calcutta and the Aligarh Muslim University, India. He completed his MS and Ph.D degrees at the University of Oklahoma, USA and the University of Bath, UK. Dr. Swagatam Das is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. His research interests include evolutionary computing, pattern recognition, multi-agent systems, and wireless communication. Dr. Das has published one research monograph, one edited volume, and more than 200 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He is the founding co-editor-in-chief of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, an international journal from Elsevier. He also serves as the associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Access, Neurocomputing (Elsevier), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), and Information Sciences (Elsevier). Dr. Das has 7500+ Google Scholar citations and an H-index of 44 till date.
Prof. (Dr.) Kalpana Sharma completed her Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Silchar, in 1998 and M.Tech in the Department of Computer Science and Technology (CSE) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT, Kharagpur) and PhD from Sikkim Manipal University (SMU), Sikkim. She is presently working as a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). She has been actively participating in institute level and university level research and development (R&D) activities and has successfully executed the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Funded Research Project: Design of an Integrated Security Scheme of Wireless Sensor Network. Her research areas are Sensor Networks, Software Engineering, Real-Time Systems and Security. She has published a number of technical papers in national and international journals and conferences. She has also organized workshops, seminars and conferences.

Zusammenfassung

This book is a compilation of research work in the interdisciplinary areas of electronics, communication, and computing. This book is specifically targeted at students, research scholars and academicians. The book covers the different approaches and techniques for specific applications, such as particle-swarm optimization, Otsu's function and harmony search optimization algorithm, triple gate silicon on insulator (SOI)MOSFET, micro-Raman and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis, high-k dielectric gate oxide, spectrum sensing in cognitive radio, microstrip antenna, Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) with conducting surfaces, and digital image forgery detection. The contents of the book will be useful to academic and professional researchers alike.

Inhalt

Analysis of Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) Protocols in Long Term Evolution (LTE) Access Network.- Impact of M2M Traffic in Random Access Channel over LTE Networks.- Predictive Modeling of Students Performance through the Enhanced Decision Tree.- A new pulse width modulation technique with hybrid carrier arrangement for multilevel inverter topology.- Watershed-Matching Algorithm: A New Pathway for Brain Tumor Segmentation.- A Compact Slotted Textile Patch Antenna for Ultra Wide Band Application.- Triple Gate SOI MOSFET.- Wearable Antennas for Medical Application: a Review.- Characterization of Silicon carbo-nitride Thin Films.- Packet Sniffing and Network traffic analysis using TCP A New Approach.- Investigation of structural and electronic environments of nitrogen doped CVD grown DLC films.- Improving Convergence in iBGP Route Reflectors.- Design of Circularly Polarized Antenna with different Iteration for UWB applications.- Weighted Wavelet Tree Sparsity Regularization for Compressed Sensing Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction.- An approach for Visual Cryptography Scheme on Color Images.- X-Band Patch Array Antenna.- A Compact Pentagonal Textile Microstrip Antenna for Wide Band Application.- Similarity Measurement of Gene Using Arc Tan Function in Gene Ontology.