Recent years have witnessed the evolution of a large plethora of wireless technologies with different characteristics, as a response of the operators' and users' needs in terms of an efficient and ubiquitous delivery of ...

The traditional approach of dealing with spectrum management in wireless communications has been the definition of a licensed user granted with exclusive exploitation rights for a specific frequency. While it is relatively ...

Wireless systems are commonly affected by interference from various sources. For example, a number of users that operate in the same wireless network can result in multiple-access interference (MAI). In addition, for ...

In this chapter, two technologies for high data-rate communications systems for wireless personal area networks (WPANs) are discussed. Namely, the ultrawideband (UWB) technology that operates in the 3.1-10.6 GHz band and ...

Even though there is no universally accepted definition, short-range wireless communications typically refers to a wide variety of technologies with communication ranges from a few centimeters to several hundreds of meters. ...

In this article, we study cooperative positioning in wireless networks in which target nodes at unknown locations locally collaborate with each other to find their locations. We review different models available for ...