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    • Foundations of High Performance Computing

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Oscar Diez
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Foundations of High Performance Computing offers a comprehensive and up-to-date reference to high-performance computing (HPC). Laying the ground work for the companion text, High-Performance Computing: Applications and Frontiers, Foundations of High Performance Computing serves as a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental concepts, systems, and introductory programming techniques required for high performance computing. It is designed for graduate students, early-career professionals, and researchers seeking to build a solid foundation in HPC. This volume focuses on infrastructure, programming basics, and practical access to HPC systems. Foundations of High Performance Computing utilises a five-part structure to guide the reader through the concepts and applications of high performance computing. The first part introduces HPC, covering the evolution of HPC and offering an architectural overview of HPC systems. Part Two looks at the basics of HPC programming, beginning with resource management and performance metrics in parallel systems, discussing practical access to HPC, and considering the concepts behind distributed and shared memory. Part Three, Foundations of Parallel Computing, focuses on OpenMP for multithreading, MPI programming, GPU computing, OpenACC, and CUDA. In Part Four, the author concentrates on parallel I/O, data management, filesystems, cloud based HPC and virtualization. The book concludes with a reference and glossary. Foundations of High Performance Computing equips the reader with a thorough grounding in the basics of HPC, providing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary guide to the principles, and concepts that underpin high performance computing.

    • High-Performance Computing

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Oscar Diez
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The exponential growth in computational needs across industries has created a demand for a modern guide that consolidates both theoretical and hands-on knowledge of high performance computing (HPC). High-Performance Computing: Applications and Frontiers offers a comprehensive and up-to-date reference to HPC. Sitting alongside the companion text, Foundations of High Performance Computing, High-Performance Computing: Applications and Frontiers builds on the fundamental knowledge to examine specialized tools, emerging trends including parallel and distributed computing, GPU programming, cloud-based HPC, and quantum computing, that define HPC's role in cutting-edge research and industry applications. The volume is tailored for advanced students, researchers, and professionals ready to explore advanced HPC programming, optimization, and applications, and features topics such as domain-specific implementations, machine learning, and the future of HPC. High-Performance Computing: Applications and Frontiers covers essential modern topics such as containerization, AI-driven HPC, hybrid/multi-cloud HPC strategies, or advancements in GPU and quantum computing. Readers will find High-Performance Computing: Applications and Frontiers is a current, versatile reference that blends theoretical principles with practical examples, preparing them to navigate both traditional and emerging HPC challenges effectively.

    • Digital Design using VerilogHDL

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Shilpi Birla + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digital Design using VerilogHDL: VLSI Modeling, Coding and Verification covers the concepts of digital logic design, including, logic simplification and optimization for digital circuit synthesis and implementation, design and integration of logics (combinational and sequential) in the building of digital circuits and systems, the practical aspects of number systems, the use of VerilogHDL in the logic design, testbench verification, and the synthesis of digital circuits and systems with HDL code examples. Users will find an approach to the design, integration, verification, and synthesizing of a digital logic circuit, complete with coding examples.

    • Signal Processing Roadmap

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Pushan Kumar Dutta + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Signal Processing Roadmap: Technologies, Applications, and Future Directions explores cutting-edge and emerging signal-processing techniques across various measurement and monitoring applications, serving as an authoritative reference for engineers, researchers, and technologists. It critically analyses key signal processing considerations like uncertainty modelling that enable more intelligent and reliable next-generation measurement systems, backed by real-world implementation examples in areas ranging from Internet of Things devices to complex biomedical equipment. The book will provide an overview of the latest research in the hybrid information system modelling field, with a particular emphasis on practical applications in various fields. This includes case studies and examples of how these models have been used to solve problems in finance, healthcare, engineering, and other related fields. Additionally, the book reviews the theories and concepts related to non-linear optimization, fuzzy sets, and rough sets. Overall, Signal Processing Roadmap: Technologies, Applications, and Future Directions deals with the dual goals of consolidating the state-of-the-art and charting the future directions across the exciting applications where signal processing will continue playing a pivotal role in building intelligent, reliable, and efficient systems of the future.

    • Metaconstructs

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Chiranji Lal Chowdhary + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Digital twins integrate IoT, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics with a graphic and/or spatial representation to make animate digital simulation models that can change and develop as their physical counterpart does. A digital twin learns and updates itself continuously using real-time data from sensors on the physical asset to represent operating, environmental, and working conditions in near real-time.The metaverse technology represents a comprehensive virtual world, where everything and everyone interacts similarly to what we would do in the real world. The concept of metaverse has gained a lot of prominence after several cryptocurrency networks adopted the technology. With the metaverse technology, a virtual reality becomes a persistent virtual environment that exists even when you are not engaging with it.The digital twin in IoT (Internet of things) and the metaverse are the next big step in our technological evolution as these two technologies continue to shorten the gap between the human and the digital world. MetaConstructs: The Evolution of Digital Twins in the Metaverse Era provides information on emerging fields of next-generation digital twins with a special emphasis on emerging developments and applications of the metaverse, IoT, artificial intelligence, deep learning techniques, virtual reality, augmented reality, internet of medical things (IoMT), optimization techniques, decision making, and cloud computing.The book provides a conceptual framework and roadmap for decision-makers for this transformation. It can be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students who have studied artificial intelligence, federated learning, ML/DL, computational intelligence, IoT, cloud computing, and genetic algorithms in their academic curriculum. This book will be useful for students to develop and deploy their skills to achieve a thorough knowledge of analytics and in-depth education experience to focus on their unique interests. Acknowledging the huge demands of professionals in the industry today, this book has been designed to create trained Computer Science graduates to fulfil the requirements of the industry.

    • Massive MIMO in Practice

      • 2nd Edition
      • June 20, 2025
      • Henrik Asplund + 12 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Massive MIMO in Practice: From 5G to 6G (2nd edition of the previously titled Advanced Antenna Systems for 5G Network Deployments: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice) provides a theoretical introduction to Massive MIMO as well as presenting how it can meet network performance requirements for commercial deployment.This new edition will provide a thorough understanding of:array antennas and how they can be used for beamforming, null-forming, and support for MIMO features;Massive MIMO features and how they work, with a particular focus on mobile networks and the specifics relevant for mobile network operation, for example, characteristics of the radio channel in different environment and how Massive MIMO solutions adapt to these;a detailed walk-through of the 3GPP physical layer support for Massive MIMO solutions, the background for this support, and how it can be used in mobile networks;explanation... of what performance can be achieved in commercially deployed mobile networks for: different antenna configurations, different Massive MIMO features, and different network deployment environments;regulat... aspects which are new and specific to Massive MIMO operation; and product architecture and implementation aspects that provide cost efficient and flexible operation.New to this edition More detail on the practical use of Massive MIMO in commercial mobile networks, specifically how to choose solutions, including antenna configuration and suitable Massive MIMO features, for cost efficient operation depending on traffic and environmental conditionsA new chapter on how to put the complete Massive MIMO solution together: hardware solutions, features and use of spectrum, particularly the different use of TDD, FDD, and mm-waveOutlines promising Massive MIMO solutions to be deployed in the futureInclusion of 3GPP’s Rel. 17 and Rel. 18 updatesRecent regulatory issues of high general interestPractical aspects of network planning, deployment, and operationExamples of other applications of Massive MIMO: satellites, drones, and FWAOutlines the path Massive MIMO can play to achieving 6G

    • Decentralized Optimization in Networks

      • 1st Edition
      • July 23, 2025
      • Qingguo Lü, + 5 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Decentralized Optimization in Networks: Algorithmic Efficiency and Privacy Preservation provides the reader with theoretical foundations, practical guidance, and solutions to decentralized optimization problems. The book demonstrates the application of decentralized optimization algorithms to enhance communication and computational efficiency, solve large-scale datasets, maintain privacy preservation, and address challenges in complex decentralized networks. The book covers key topics such as event-triggered communication, random link failures, zeroth-order gradients, variance-reduction, Polyak’s projection, stochastic gradient, random sleep, and differential privacy. It also includes simulations and practical examples to illustrate the algorithms' effectiveness and applicability in real-world scenarios.

    • Professional Penetration Testing

      • 3rd Edition
      • January 21, 2025
      • Thomas Wilhelm
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Professional Penetration Testing: Creating and Learning in a Hacking Lab, Third Edition walks the reader through the entire process of setting up and running a pen test lab. Penetration testing—the act of testing a computer network to find security vulnerabilities before they are maliciously exploited—is a crucial component of information security in any organization. Chapters cover planning, metrics, and methodologies, the details of running a pen test, including identifying and verifying vulnerabilities, and archiving, reporting and management practices. The material presented will be useful to beginners through advanced practitioners.Here, author Thomas Wilhelm has delivered penetration testing training to countless security professionals, and now through the pages of this book, the reader can benefit from his years of experience as a professional penetration tester and educator. After reading this book, the reader will be able to create a personal penetration test lab that can deal with real-world vulnerability scenarios. "...this is a detailed and thorough examination of both the technicalities and the business of pen-testing, and an excellent starting point for anyone getting into the field." –Network Security

    • Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks

      • 1st Edition
      • November 9, 2024
      • Aryan Kaushik
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks: Principles, Advances and Key Enabling Technologies presents the principles, methods, and algorithms of ISAC, an overview of the essential enabling technologies, as well as the latest research and future directions. Suitable for academic researchers and post graduate students as well as industry R&D engineers, this book is the definitive reference in this interdisciplinary field that is being seen as a technology to enable emerging applications such as vehicular networks, environmental monitoring, remote sensing, IoT, smart cities.Importantly, ISAC has been identified as an enabling technology for B5G/6G, and the next-generation Wi-Fi system. ISAC brings together a range of technologies: radar sensing, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, holographic surfaces through to high frequency terahertz, PHY security, channel signaling, multiple access, and machine learning.

    • Intelligent Algorithms

      • 1st Edition
      • May 25, 2024
      • Han Huang + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Intelligent Algorithms: Theory and Practice discusses the latest achievements of the computation time analysis theory and practical applications of intelligent algorithms. In five chapters, the book covers (1) New methods of intelligent algorithm computation time analysis; (2)Application of intelligent algorithms in computer vision; (3) Application of intelligent algorithms in logistics scheduling; (4) Application of intelligent algorithms in software testing; and (5) Application of intelligent algorithm in multi-objective optimization.The content of each chapter is supported by papers published in top journals. The book's authors introduce the work of each part, which mainly includes a brief introduction (mainly for readers to understand) and academic discussion (rigorous theoretical and experimental support), in a vivid and interesting way through excellent pictures and literary compositions. To help readers learn and make progress together, each part of this book provides relevant literature, code, experimental data, and so on.

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