This book presents a framework for a new hybrid scheduling strategy for heterogeneous, asymmetric telecommunication environments.

In recent years technological advancements in the design and fabrication of integrated circuits have led to the development of cost effective, low power, thumb-size devices that can be used for sensing/actuating, communication and computing.

In today’s telecommunications services industry, rapidly changing technologies and a decline in growth are creating intense competition where the customers’ quest for value is of paramount importance. Offering telecom service providers a survival strategy based on customer-centered marketing, this forward-looking resource helps strategic planners and managers assess their company’s market potential and target desirable segments successfully.

MicroCMOS Design covers key analog design methodologies with an emphasis on analog systems that can be integrated into systems-on-chip (SoCs). Starting at the transistor level, this book introduces basic concepts in the design of system-level complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS). It uses practical examples to illustrate circuit construction so that readers can develop an intuitive understanding rather than just assimilate the usual conventional analytical knowledge.

Edited by experts, one of whom developed the technology, Electrolytic In-Process Dressing (ELID) Technologies: Fundamentals and Applications provides an overview of ELID processes with correlations between the main parameters, describes ELID operations, and illustrates the concepts with case studies. The book’s authoritative coverage of major concepts and applications of this emerging technology makes it a definitive reference.

Optoelectronics is a science and a technology based on the conjunction of optics with electronics. The special advantages of such a conjunction should become clear as the reader progresses through the book but, broadly, they result from the large speed and information-carrying capacity of light coming into alliance with the ready controllability of electrons.

The manufacture of flash memory, which is the dominant nonvolatile memory technology, is facing severe technical barriers. So much so, that some emerging technologies have been proposed as alternatives to flash memory in the nano-regime.

Although classical electromagnetic (EM) field theory is typically embedded in vector calculus and differential equations, many of the basic concepts and characteristics can be understood with precursory mathematical knowledge. Completely revised and updated, Basic Introduction to Bio electromagnetics, Second Edition facilitates the process of interdisciplinary research by introducing life scientists to the basic concepts of EM fields.