“…Thanks to the power of TurboGears, I was able to develop the first version of WhatWhat in less than a week of my spare time.” — Jonathan LaCour , Development Team Lead, Optio “TurboGears has provided a way for me to greatly enhance my productivity by real­izing the potential of Web-based agile development with Python.” — Brandon Goldfedder , Vice President of Engineering, Information Extraction and Transport (IET Inc.), and Author of The Joy of Patterns “TurboGears really changed the way I schedule project releases: It allows me to deliver them faster and with better quality than when I used to use GUI toolkits.” — Jorge Godoy , Owner of G2C Tech Consultoria in Brazil, former Lead Developer for Conectiva documentation team “With TurboGears, I was able to transition my Python projects into Web applications as easily as possible.” — Benjamin T. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Global Land and Resource Grabbing: An IntroductionAndreas Neef, Sharlene Mollett, Chanrith Ngin and Tsegaye MoredaPart 1: Historical Trajectories of Land and Resource GrabbingChapter 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.3 Multi-Standard Transceiver Architectures -- 6.4 Evaluating Reconfigurability -- 6.5 ADCs for Software-Defined Radio -- 6.6 DACs for Software-Defined Radio -- 6.7 Conclusions -- II RECEIVER DESIGN -- 7 OFDM Transform-Domain Receivers for Multi-Standard Communications (Sebastian Hoyos) -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Transform-Domain Receiver Background -- 7.3 Transform-Domain Sampling Receiver -- 7.4 Digital Baseband Design for the TD Receiver -- 7.5 A Comparative Study -- 7.6 Simulations -- 7.7 Gain-Bandwidth Product Requirement for an Op-Amp in a Charge-Sampling Circuit -- 7.8 Sparsity of (GHG)-1 -- 7.9 Applications -- 7.10 Conclusions -- 8 Discrete-Time Processing of RF Signals (RenaldiWinoto and Borivoje Nikolic) -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Scaling of an MOS Switch -- 8.3 Sampling Mixer -- 8.4 Filter Synthesis -- 8.5 Noise in Switched-Capacitor Filters -- 8.6 Circuit-Design Considerations -- 8.7 Perspective and Outlook -- 9 Oversampled ADC Using VCO-Based Quantizers (MatthewZ. Straayer and MichaelH.Perrott) -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 VCO-Quantizer Background -- 9.3 SNDR Limitations for VCO-Based Quantization -- 9.4 VCO Quantizer -ADC Architecture -- 9.5 Prototype -ADC Example with a VCO Quantizer -- 9.6 Conclusions -- References -- 10 Reduced External Hardware and Reconfigurable RF Receiver Front Ends for Wireless Mobile Terminals (Naveen K. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 1 LTE Introduction 1 /Moray Rumney / /1.1 Introduction 1 / /1.2 LTE System Overview 1 / /1.3 The Evolution from UMTS to LTE 3 / /1.4 LTE/SAE Requirements 4 / /1.5 LTE/SAE Timeline 7 / /1.6 Introduction to the 3GPP LTE/SAE Specification Documents 8 / /1.7 References 10 / /Chapter 2 Air Interface Concepts 11 / /2.1 Radio Frequency Aspects 11 /Moray Rumney / /2.2 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing 53 /Moray Rumney / /2.3 Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access 62 /Moray Rumney / /2.4 Multi-Antenna Operation and MIMO 67 /Peter Cain / /2.5 References 89 / /Chapter 3 Physical Layer 91 / /3.1 Introduction to the Physical Layer 91 / /3.2 Physical Channels and Modulation 91 /Mitsuru Yokoyama, Bai Ying / /3.3 Multiplexing and Channel Coding 111 /Ryo Yonezawa / /3.4 Introduction to Physical Layer Signaling 128 /Mark Stambaugh, Jean-Philippe Gregoire, Peter Goldsack / /3.5 Physical Layer Procedures 142 /Peter Goldsack, Dr. Michael Leung, Dr. K. F. Tsang, CityU / /3.6 Physical Layer Measurements and Radio Resource Management 148 /Moray Rumney / /3.7 Summary 157 / /3.8 References 157 / /Chapter 4 Upper Layer Signaling 159 / /4.1 Access Stratum 159 /Peter Goldsack, Sarabjit Singh, Steve Charlton, Venkata Ratnakar and Darshpreet Sabharwal / /4.2 Non-Access Stratum 178 /Sarabjit Singh, Niranjan Das, andPeter Goldsack / /4.3 References 194 / /Chapter 5 System Architecture Evolution 195 /Per Kangru, JDSU; Eng Wei Koo, JDSU; Mary Jane Pahls; Sandy Fraser / /5.1 Requirements for an Evolved Architecture 195 / /5.2 Overview of the Evolved Packet System 199 / /5.3 Quality of Service in EPS 217 / /5.4 Security in the Network 221 / /5.5 Services 222 / /5.6 References 226 / /Chapter 6 Design and Verification Challenges 229 / /6.1 Introduction 229 /Moray Rumney / /6.2 Simulation and Early R&D Hardware Testing 232 /Jinbiao Xu and Greg Jue / /6.3 Testing RFICs With DigRF Interconnects 285 /Chris Van Woerkom and Roland Scherzinger / /6.4 Transmitter Design and Measurement Challenges 296 /Ben Zarlingo, Moto Itagaki, Craig Grimley and Moray Rumney / /6.5 Receiver Design and Measurement Challenges 340 /Randy Becker, Naoya Izuchi and Sandy Fraser / /6.6 Receiver Performance Testing 356 /Sandy Fraser, Naoya Izuchi and Randy Becker / /6.7 Testing Open- and Closed-Loop Behaviors of the Physical Layer 378 /Peter Cain / /6.8 Design and Verification Challenges of MIMO 392 /Peter Cain and Greg Jue / /6.9 Beamforming 430 /Craig Grimley / /6.10 SISO and MIMO Over-the-Air Testing 455 /Allison Douglas and Moray Rumney / /6.11 Signaling Protocol Development and Testing 472 /Ian Reading / /6.12 UE Functional Testing 480 /Mike Lawton / /6.13 Battery Drain Testing 493 /Moray Rumne and, Ed Brorein / /6.14 Drive Testing 499 /Bob Irvine, JDSU / /6.15 UE Manufacturing Test 509 /Jeff Dralla, Ken Horn and Moray Rumney / /6.16 References 526 / /Chapter 7 Conformance and Acceptance Testing 529 / /7.1 Introduction to Conformance Testing 529 /Moray Rumney / /7.2 RF Conformance Testing 531 /Hiroshi Yanagawa, Gim-Seng Lau, Andrea Leonardi and Moray Rumney / /7.3 UE Signaling Conformance Testing 549 /Pankaj Gupta, and Moray Rumney / /7.4 UE Certification Process (GCF and PTCRB) 555 /Masatoshi Obara, Mike Lawton and Moray Rumney / /7.5 Operator Acceptance Testing 560 /Bill McKinley / /7.6 References 564 / /Chapter 8 Looking Towards 4G: LTE-Advanced 567 /Moray Rumney / /8.1 Summary of Release 8 567 / /8.2 Release 9 568 / /8.3 Release 10 and LTE-Advanced 573 / /8.4 Release 11 587 / /8.5 Release 12 595 / /8.6 References 600 / /List of Acronyms 601 / /Index 613.…”

“…“Whether you are in a startup or Fortune 500 company; are a developer, development manager, or CEO; use agile, lean, waterfall, or other methodology–if software and quality are important to you, you should read and pay attention to Watts’s reflections.” …”