An understanding of the basic concepts of quality and its management is essential for the professional management of Quality of Service (QoS) in telecommunications. This book is essential reading for all those interested in QoS issues.

Many organisations are transforming their businesses through the development of information and communications technologies. The security of this e-commerce is now a key enabler for businesses.

This book explains the principles of intelligent telecommunications networks and illustrates them with many practical examples of applications. Although international standards are beginning to emerge, they are far from simple and this text offers insight into the underlying principles.

This fascinating book explores the technological challenges and applications of providing fast, 'always-on' internet connections to the home. Current delivery mechanisms of broadband into and around the home are explored in depth.

This book provides a state-of-the art review of modern families of digital instruments. For each family the book covers internal design, use and applications, highlighting their advantages and limitations from a practical application viewpoint.

This book brings together the leading researchers, in high frequency analogue filters to highlight recent advances and identify promising directions for future development.

Radio Man tells the story of C.O. Stanley, the unconventional Irishman who acquired Pye Radio at the beginning of the broadcasting age.

This book describes the stage-by-stage creation and development, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, of the remarkable global communications technologies that have profoundly transformed the way that people live and work.

This book will enable engineering organisations to manage their valuable knowledge resources and the people who possess them. The authors show that the loss of experience and knowledge base due to staff turnover erodes corporate culture.

The primary objective of this book is to describe the application of efficient computational techniques to the solution of electromagnetic transient problems in systems of any size and topology, involving linear and nonlinear components.

This book provides the electrical design engineer with an insight into the properties and applications of electrical steels which are used in transformers and rotating machines.