Tabla de Contenidos: “…Real‐World Applications -- Challenges and Future Research -- Analysis Challenges -- Scale Challenges -- Sensitivity Challenge -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Locations, Events, Actions, Participants, and Things in the Three Little Pigs -- Edges in the Three Little Pigs Graph -- References -- Chapter 7 A Neural Network Model of Motivated Decision‐Making in Everyday Social Behavior -- Introduction -- Overview -- Constraint Satisfaction Processing -- Theoretical Background -- Motivational Systems -- Situations -- Interoceptive or Bodily State -- Wanting -- Competition Among Motives -- Motivation Changes Dynamically -- Neural Network Implementation -- General Processing in the Network -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Dealing with Culture as Inherited Information -- Galton's Problem as a Core Feature of Cultural Theory -- How to Correct for Treelike Inheritance of Traits Across Groups -- Early Attempts to Correct Galton's Problem -- More Recent Attempts to Correct Galton's Problem -- Example Applications -- Dealing with Nonindependence in Less Treelike Network Structures -- Determining Which Network Is Most Important for a Cultural Trait -- Correcting for Network Nonindependence When Testing Trait-Trait Correlations -- Example Applications -- Future Directions for Formal Modeling of Culture -- Improved Network Autoregression Implementations -- A Global Data Set of Expected Nonindependence to Solve Galton's Problem -- Better Collection of Behavioral Trait Variation Across Populations -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9 Social Media, Global Connections, and Information Environments: Building Complex Understandings of Multi‐Actor Interactions -- A New Setting of Hyperconnectivity -- The Information Environment -- Social Media in the Information Environment -- Integrative Approaches to Understanding Human Behavior -- Muddy the Waters…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Industrial performance and integration into global trade -- Figure 14. Hours required to prepare taxes -- Figure 15. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Using Generics -- Nullable Types -- The System.Collections.Generic Namespace -- Defining Generic Types -- Defining Generic Classes -- Defining Generic Interfaces -- Defining Generic Methods -- Defining Generic Delegates -- Variance -- Covariance -- Contravariance -- Chapter 13: Additional C# Techniques -- The : : Operator and the Global Namespace Qualifier -- Custom Exceptions -- Adding Custom Exceptions to CardLib -- Events -- What Is an Event? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.4 Utilizations of Data Science to CR-IoV -- 3.5 Machine Learning in Conjunction with Data Science for CR-IoV -- 3.6 Patterns Identification from CR-IoV Data using Data Science and Machine Learning -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References -- Section 4 Data Science Applications -- 4 Minimized Channel Switching and Routing Protocol for Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Cognitive Radio Architecture -- 4.1.2 Cognitive Radio in the IoV -- 4.1.3 Channel Assignment in Cognitive Radio -- 4.2 Literature Review -- 4.3 Problem Statement -- 4.4 Research Questions -- 4.5 Proposed MCSR -- 4.5.1 Channel Assignment Algorithm -- 4.5.2 Case Study -- 4.6 Performance Evaluation -- 4.6.1 Simulation Environment -- 4.6.2 Results and Discussion -- 4.6.3 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- 5 Time Synchronization in Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles -- 5.1 Time Synchronization and Its Importance -- 5.2 Fundamentals -- 5.2.1 Clocks -- 5.2.2 Physical/Hardware Clocks -- 5.2.3 Logical/Software Clocks -- 5.2.4 Imperfections of Clocks -- 5.2.5 Synchronized Clocks -- 5.2.6 Clock Adjustments -- 5.3 Synchronization Concerns -- 5.3.1 Global Time Access -- 5.3.2 Limitations -- 5.3.3 Critical Metrics -- 5.3.4 Basic Principles -- 5.3.5 Challenges -- 5.3.6 Various Types -- 5.4 Approaches to Time Synchronization in Wired Media -- 5.5 Approaches to Time Synchronization in Wireless Media and the CR-IoV -- 5.5.1 Protocols -- 5.5.2 Significance in the CR-IoV -- 5.5.3 Requirement Analysis for Time Synchronization in the CR-IoV -- 5.6 Advances towards CR-IoV Time Synchronization -- 5.6.1 Timing Synchronization Function-Based Synchronization in the CR-IoV -- 5.6.2 Global Navigation Satellite System-Based Synchronization in the CR-IoV -- 5.6.3 Single Timestamp-Based Cross-Layer Synchronization in the CR-IoV…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Characterising Culture -- Culture Is Learned -- Culture Is Shared -- Culture Is Enduring -- Culture Is Dynamic -- Culture Is Arbitrary -- Culture Is Purpose-Driven and Satisfies Needs -- Culture Regulates Behaviour -- Global Consumer Culture -- Culture, Models, and Dimensions -- Hofstede's (1980) Cultural Dimensions -- Triandis' (1994) Subjective Culture and Social Behaviour -- Movement of Cultural Meaning -- High-context and Low-Context Cultures -- Myths and Rituals -- Popular and Pop Culture -- Religion, Spirituality, and Culture -- Subcultures -- Age -- Geographical Subculture -- Sex-based Subculture -- Race and Ethnic Subcultures -- Religion-based Subculture -- Summary -- End of Chapter Discussion Questions -- Questions -- References -- Chapter 5 Reference Groups, Social Class, and Consumer Behaviour -- Learning Objectives -- Introduction -- Reference Groups and Consumer Behaviour -- Social Identity Theory -- Family and Contemporary Consumer Behaviour -- Family Buying Roles -- Consumer Socialisation -- Family Life Cycle…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Global Knowledge Economy -- Part I Doctoral Research in the Changing University -- 1 The Changing Face of Doctoral Education -- Conceptual and Theoretical Issues -- A Short History of the Proliferation of the Doctorate -- Type and Format of the Doctorate -- Assessment of the Doctorate -- Quality and Standards of the Doctorate -- Destinations of Doctoral Graduates -- Conclusion: Decision Time for the Doctorate? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Qualitative Methods -- Delphi Technique -- Nominal Group Method -- Market Research -- Time-series Analysis -- Moving Average Method -- Exponential Smoothing -- Tracking Signal -- Decision Making -- Decision Trees -- Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems -- Scenario Planning -- Forces of Scenario Planning -- Steps for Scenario Planning -- Case Kumar.com: Problems Suffered due to Poor Planning -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Critical Thinking Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- Annexure 2.1 -- Annexure 2.2 -- Chapter 3: Organizing -- Introduction -- Concept of Organization -- Theories of Organization -- Principles of Organization -- Human Factors Behind Organizing -- Important Steps in Organizing -- Benefits of Organizing -- Types of Organizations -- Systems View of Organizations -- Organizational Structure and Systems -- Organization Structure -- Drucker's approach -- Mintzberg's approach -- Types of Organization Structures -- Organizational Effectiveness -- Developing an Organization Structure or Design -- Dynamic Organizational Structure and Departmentation -- Principles of Departmentation -- Process of Departmentation -- Patterns Used in Departmentation -- Departmentation by functions -- Departmentation by products or services -- Departmentation by locations or territories -- Departmentation by time -- Departmentation by process and equipment -- Departmentation by customers -- Hybrid structure -- Matrix structure -- Organization Structure in a Globalized World -- Virtual or Networked Organizations -- Organizing as Part of the Total Management Task -- Delegation of Authority -- Features of authority delegation -- Principles of delegation -- Barriers to delegation -- Decentralization -- Decentralization versus centralization -- Criteria for decentralization -- Need for decentralization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 19.3 Nanotechnology-Speci c Challenges -- 19.4 Globalization -- 19.5 An Integrated Approach -- References -- Further Reading -- 20 Ethics and Nanotechnology -- 20.1 Risk, Hazard and Uncertainty -- 20.2 Should we Proceed? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Get Prepared -- How to Save Time on This Chapter -- Site Location Guidelines -- Basic Principles of Wind Resource Evaluation -- Know Your (Wind) Class -- Maps Are Not Gospel -- Wind Shear -- Ways of the Wind: Assessing Average Annual Wind Speed -- Not for Your Eyes Only -- Beaufort Wind Force Scale -- Griggs-Putnam Index of Deformity -- Data-Driven Pyramid of Wind Assessment -- Global Wind Maps -- Regional Wind Maps -- Climatic and Meteorological Data -- Wind Energy Roses -- Professional Wind Analysis Services -- Anemometers -- Bringing It All Together -- Tower Types and Site Evaluation -- Tilt-Up Towers -- Fixed Guyed Towers -- Freestanding Towers -- Consider Maintenance -- Siting for Roof-Mount Micro-Turbines -- Social Friction Factor -- Summary -- 6 How to Finance Small Wind Power -- Cost Breakdowns for a Small Wind System -- Electricity Costs Last a Lifetime -- What Is It Worth to You?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- COMMITTEE FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT -- RECENT NATIONAL EVENTS -- 2 PERSPECTIVE -- OUR ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ARE SERIOUS -- WE HAVE LEARNED MANY LESSONS ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS -- WE MUST UNDERSTAND COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS -- WE HAVE NEW TOOLS -- WE NEED NEW ORGANIZATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH -- SCIENCE BY ITSELF IS NOT ENOUGH -- SUMMARY -- 3 STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF CURRENT FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS -- CREATING THE KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY TO CHARACTERIZE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMSAND CHALLENGES -- GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC, OCEANIC, AND EARTH SYSTEM -- How Well Are We Doing? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nursing, Health, &amp -- the Environment -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH -- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HAZARDS -- NURSING PRACTICE -- NURSING EDUCATION -- NURSING RESEARCH -- SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS -- 1 Introduction -- DEFINING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH -- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AS A CORE FUNCTION OF NURSING PRACTICE -- MOVING TO A POPULATION-BASED PERSPECTIVE -- THE NURSING WORKFORCE -- ORIGIN, PURPOSE, AND ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT -- 2 Overview of Environmental Health Hazards -- CLASSIFYING HAZARDS -- AIR, SOIL, AND WATER -- THE WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT -- THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT -- VULNERABLE POPULATIONS -- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PRIORITIES -- CONCLUSION -- 3 Nursing Practice -- NURSING PRACTICE AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH -- Definition of Nursing Practice -- The Nursing Process -- Scope of Responsibilities -- Role as Investigator -- Role as Educator -- Role as Advocate -- Interdisciplinary Aspects of Environmental Health -- FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE NURSING PRACTICE -- Professional Associations -- Ethical Dilemmas -- Credentialing -- Licensing -- Certification -- Changes in Health Care Delivery -- Funding for Public Health -- CASE STUDY -- Responsibilities of Nurses -- Types of Prevention -- Need for Broad Knowledge of Environmental Hazards -- NURSING COMPETENCIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH -- CONCLUSION -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- Scope of Responsibility -- Availability and Accessibility of Resources -- Participation in Interdisciplinary Teams -- Educator Role: Risk Communication -- Advocacy Roles -- Ethics -- 4 Nursing Education and Professional Development -- FACTORS AFFECTING NURSING CURRICULA -- Tradition -- Trends -- Accreditation and Regulation -- NURSING EDUCATION PATHWAYS -- Basic Nursing Education -- Graduate Nursing Education…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Evaluating and Improving Categorical Funding -- Strengthening Global STD Prevention Efforts -- Improving Surveillance and Other Information Systems -- Enhancing the Current System -- Utilizing Health Services Performance Measures -- STRATEGY 3 FOCUS ON ADOLESCENTS AND UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS -- Focusing On Prevention -- Expanding Prevention-Related Research -- Developing Female-Controlled Methods for Protecting Against STDs -- Focusing On Adolescents -- Ensuring Effective, Early Interventions and Confidentiality…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- ... et plusieurs autres ont adopté des programmes de subventions salariales temporaires -- Les programmes de subventions salariales sont globalement plus souples que les DCP classiques, mais aussi moins bien ciblés -- Limiter les licenciements économiques et protéger les travailleurs contre les licenciements abusifs -- Soutenir la production et les services essentiels -- 1.3.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stratégies de gestion du risque dans le contexte global de l'exploitation : l'expérience... -- Introduction -- Le contexte global de l'exploitation agricole -- Graphique 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…15.3.3 Piecewise derivative with global derivatives with singular and non-singular kernel…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.5.4 Visual comparisons -- 6.5.5 Ablation study -- 6.6 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Explainable deep learning approach to predict chemotherapy effect on breast tumor's MRI -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Materials and developed methods -- 7.2.1 Study population -- 7.2.2 Magnetic resonance imaging protocol -- 7.2.3 Image preprocessing -- 7.2.4 Convolution neural network architecture development -- 7.3 Results -- 7.3.1 Quantitative results -- 7.3.2 Qualitative results -- 7.4 Discussion -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Aknowledgments -- References -- 8 Deep learning interpretability: measuring the relevance of clinical concepts in convolutional neural networks features -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Related work on interpretable artificial intelligence -- 8.2.1 Motivations -- 8.2.2 Related terminology -- 8.2.3 Related work on explainable artificial intelligence -- 8.2.3.1 Explainable artificial intelligence for medical applications -- 8.2.3.2 Visualization methods and feature attribution -- 8.2.3.3 Concept attribution -- 8.2.4 Evaluation of explainable artificial intelligence methods -- 8.3 Methods -- 8.3.1 Retinopathy of prematurity -- 8.3.1.1 Relevant background -- 8.3.1.2 Dataset for the experiments -- 8.3.1.3 Task and classification model -- 8.3.2 Concept attribution with regression concept vectors -- 8.3.2.1 Identification of the concepts -- 8.3.2.2 Computing the regression concept vector -- 8.3.2.3 Generating local explanations by conceptual sensitivity -- 8.3.2.4 Agglomerating scores for global explanations -- 8.4 Experiments and results -- 8.4.1 Network performance on the retinopathy of prematurity task -- 8.4.2 Results of concept attribution -- 8.4.2.1 Identification of the concepts -- 8.4.2.2 Computation of the regression concept vectors -- 8.4.2.3 Evaluation of the conceptual sensitivities -- 8.4.2.4 Global explanations with Br -- 8.5 Discussion of the results…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.4.4 The Second-Chance Page Replacement Algorithm -- 3.4.5 The Clock Page Replacement Algorithm -- 3.4.6 The Least Recently Used (LRU) Page Replacement Algorithm -- 3.4.7 Simulating LRU in Software -- 3.4.8 The Working Set Page Replacement Algorithm -- 3.4.9 The WSClock Page Replacement Algorithm -- 3.4.10 Summary of Page Replacement Algorithms -- 3.5 DESIGN ISSUES FOR PAGING SYSTEMS -- 3.5.1 Local versus Global Allocation Policies -- 3.5.2 Load Control -- 3.5.3 Page Size -- 3.5.4 Separate Instruction and Data Spaces -- 3.5.5 Shared Pages -- 3.5.6 Shared Libraries -- 3.5.7 Mapped Files -- 3.5.8 Cleaning Policy -- 3.5.9 Virtual Memory Interface -- 3.6 IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES -- 3.6.1 Operating System Involvement with Paging -- 3.6.2 Page Fault Handling -- 3.6.3 Instruction Backup -- 3.6.4 Locking Pages in Memory -- 3.6.5 Backing Store -- 3.6.6 Separation of Policy and Mechanism -- 3.7 SEGMENTATION -- 3.7.1 Implementation of Pure Segmentation -- 3.7.2 Segmentation with Paging: MULTICS -- 3.7.3 Segmentation with Paging: The Intel x86 -- 3.8 RESEARCH ON MEMORY MANAGEMENT -- 3.9 SUMMARY -- 4 FILE SYSTEMS -- 4.1 FILES -- 4.1.1 File Naming -- 4.1.2 File Structure -- 4.1.3 File Types -- 4.1.4 File Access -- 4.1.5 File Attributes -- 4.1.6 File Operations -- 4.1.7 An Example Program Using File-System Calls -- 4.2 DIRECTORIES -- 4.2.1 Single-Level Directory Systems -- 4.2.2 Hierarchical Directory Systems -- 4.2.3 Path Names -- 4.2.4 Directory Operations -- 4.3 FILE-SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION -- 4.3.1 File-System Layout -- 4.3.2 Implementing Files -- 4.3.3 Implementing Directories -- 4.3.4 Shared Files -- 4.3.5 Log-Structured File Systems -- 4.3.6 Journaling File Systems -- 4.3.7 Virtual File Systems -- 4.4 FILE-SYSTEM MANAGEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION -- 4.4.1 Disk-Space Management -- 4.4.2 File-System Backups -- 4.4.3 File-System Consistency…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- About the Author xii -- Preface xiii -- Acknowledgements xv -- Abbreviations xvi -- 1 Introduction 1 -- 1.1 Introduction 1 -- 1.2 Wireless Security 2 -- 1.2.1 Background and Advances 2 -- 1.2.2 Statistics 2 -- 1.2.3 Wireless Threats 4 -- 1.2.4 M2M Environment 9 -- 1.3 Standardization 10 -- 1.3.1 The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) 10 -- 1.3.2 The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 12 -- 1.3.3 The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) 14 -- 1.3.4 The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) 14 -- 1.3.5 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 15 -- 1.3.6 The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 16 -- 1.3.7 The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 16 -- 1.3.8 The 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) 25 -- 1.3.9 The GlobalPlatform 25 -- 1.3.10 The SIMalliance 26 -- 1.3.11 The Smartcard Alliance 27 -- 1.3.12 The GSM Association (GSMA) 27 -- 1.3.13 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 28 -- 1.3.14 The National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration (NHTSA) 28 -- 1.3.15 Other Standardization and Industry Forums 28 -- 1.3.16 The EMV Company (EMVCo) 29 -- 1.3.17 The Personal Computer/Smartcard (PC/SC) 29 -- 1.3.18 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 29 -- 1.3.19 The Common Criteria (CC) 29 -- 1.3.20 The Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 30 -- 1.3.21 The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 31 -- 1.3.22 Biometric Standards 31 -- 1.3.23 Other Related Entities 32 -- 1.4 Wireless Security Principles 32 -- 1.4.1 General 32 -- 1.4.2 Regulation 33 -- 1.4.3 Security Architectures 33 -- 1.4.4 Algorithms and Security Principles 33 -- 1.5 Focus and Contents of the Book 36 -- References 38 -- 2 Security of Wireless Systems 42 -- 2.1 Overview 42 -- 2.1.1 Overall Security Considerations in the Mobile Environment 42 -- 2.1.2 Developing Security Threats 43 -- 2.1.3 RF Interferences and Safety 45 -- 2.2 Effects of Broadband Mobile Data 46 -- 2.2.1 Background 46.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.1 Programming "How-To -- 5.1.1 Program Structure -- 5.1.2 Using Set() -- 5.1.3 Labels and Goto() -- 5.1.4 While() Loops -- 5.1.5 GotoIf() Conditional -- 5.1.6 Gosub() Subroutines -- 5.2 Variables -- 5.2.1 Expanding Variables in an Extension -- 5.2.2 General Considerations -- 5.2.3 Defining Global Variables in extensions.conf -- 5.2.4 Defining Variables with Set() -- 5.2.5 Inheritance of Channel Variables -- 5.2.6 System Channel Variables -- 5.2.7 Manipulating Variables -- 5.3 Special Extensions -- 5.3.1 The h Extension -- 5.3.2 The i Extension -- 5.3.3 The o and a Extensions -- 5.3.4 The t and T Extensions -- 5.3.5 The s Extension -- 5.4 Macros -- 5.5 Deprecated Features -- Chapter 6 Asterisk Extension Language -- 6.1 CLI Commands for AEL -- 6.2 aelparse -- 6.3 Comparing extensions.conf with extensions.ael -- 6.3.1 Line Termination -- 6.3.2 Contexts, Extensions, and Priorities -- 6.3.3 Comments -- 6.3.4 Includes -- 6.3.5 Global Variables -- 6.3.6 Expressions and Variable Assignment -- 6.3.7 Labels, goto, and jump -- 6.3.8 Conditionals -- 6.3.9 Loops -- 6.3.10 Macros -- 6.3.11 Hints -- 6.3.12 Filtering by Caller ID -- 6.4 Choosing between extensions.ael and extensions.conf -- Chapter 7 Protocols -- 7.1 Network Protocols -- 7.1.1 Transmission Control Protocol -- 7.1.2 User Datagram Protocol -- 7.2 Channels -- 7.3 Peers, Users, and Friends -- 7.4 IAX Versus SIP -- Chapter 8 Making Connections -- 8.1 Codecs -- 8.1.1 What Does a Codec Do? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1 Background of the Smart Grid 1 -- 1.1 Motivations and Objectives of the Smart Grid 1 -- 1.1.1 Better Renewable Energy Resource Adaption 2 -- 1.1.2 Grid Operation Efficiency Advancement 3 -- 1.1.3 Grid Reliability and Security Improvement 4 -- 1.2 Smart Grid Communications Architecture 5 -- 1.2.1 Conceptual Domain Model 6 -- 1.2.2 Two-Way Communications Network 7 -- 1.3 Applications and Requirements 9 -- 1.3.1 Demand Response 9 -- 1.3.2 Advanced Metering Infrastructure 10 -- 1.3.3 Wide-Area Situational Awareness and Wide-Area Monitoring Systems 11 -- 1.3.4 Communication Networks and Cybersecurity 12 -- 1.4 The Rest of the Book 13 -- 2 Smart Grid Communication Infrastructures 15 -- 2.1 An ICT Framework for the Smart Grid 15 -- 2.1.1 Roles and Benefits of an ICT Framework 15 -- 2.1.2 An Overview of the Proposed ICT Framework 16 -- 2.2 Entities in the ICT Framework 18 -- 2.2.1 Internal Data Collectors 18 -- 2.2.2 Control Centers 20 -- 2.2.3 Power Generators 22 -- 2.2.4 External Data Sources 23 -- 2.3 Communication Networks and Technologies 23 -- 2.3.1 Private and Public Networks 23 -- 2.3.2 Communication Technologies 25 -- 2.4 Data Communication Requirements 30 -- 2.4.1 Latency and Bandwidth 31 -- 2.4.2 Interoperability 32 -- 2.4.3 Scalability 32 -- 2.4.4 Security 32 -- 2.5 Summary 33 -- 3 Self-Sustaining Wireless Neighborhood-Area Network Design 35 -- 3.1 Overview of the Proposed NAN 35 -- 3.1.1 Background and Motivation of a Self-Sustaining Wireless NAN 35 -- 3.1.2 Structure of the Proposed NAN 37 -- 3.2 Preliminaries 38 -- 3.2.1 Charging Rate Estimate 39 -- 3.2.2 Battery-Related Issues 40 -- 3.2.3 Path Loss Model 41 -- 3.3 Problem Formulations and Solutions in the NAN Design 44 -- 3.3.1 The Cost Minimization Problem 44 -- 3.3.2 Optimal Number of Gateways 48 -- 3.3.3 Geographical Deployment Problem for Gateway DAPs 51 -- 3.3.4 Global Uplink Transmission Power Efficiency 54 -- 3.4 Numerical Results 56 -- 3.4.1 Evaluation of the Optimal Number of Gateways 56 -- 3.4.2 Evaluation of the Global Power Efficiency 56.…”