Spark your creativity with the world's most popular animation software and the detailed instruction in this power-packed book from an industry expert. If you're new to 3ds Max, jump right in with a Quick Start program that will have you modeling and rendering a complete image your first day....
Cross-layer design seeks to enhance the capacity of wireless networks significantly through the joint optimization of multiple layers in the network, primarily the physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layers. Although there are advantages of such design in wireline networks as well, this approach is particularly advantageous for wireless...
While Adobe has made Photoshop increasingly easier for the beginner to create and customize professional-looking designs, users still require a guide to fully utulize Photoshop's many features. This book walks the reader through the sometimes intimidating and overwhelming feature set of Photoshop by presenting tasks in concise steps complemented...
A comprehensive introduction to the protocols and architecture everyone must know in order to implement H.323-based IP telephony
IP Telephony with H.323
Internet Protocol (IP) telephony is changing the way business gets done, allowing multimedia messages such as voice, data, and video to be transmitted over standard routers,...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Forensics in Telecommunications, Information and Multimendia, e-Forensics 2009, held in Adelaide, Australia, in January 2009.
The focus of this year's conference has shifted to the legal rather than the deeply technical especially...
Thirty years ago, Jack Trout and Al Ries published their classic bestseller, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind—a book that revolutionized the world of marketing. But times have changed. Competition is fiercer. Consumers are savvier. Communications are...
Information Visualization: Perception for Design is a comprehensive guide to what the science of human perception tells us about how we should display information.
The human brain is a super-computer for finding patterns in information. Our understanding of visual data and visual information is greatly enhanced or impeded by...
Discover how the most trusted approach to statistics today is Simply Powerful. The latest market-leading text from respected authors Anderson/Sweeney/Williams, STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS, 11e, introduces sound statistical methodology within a strong applications setting like no other text. The authors clearly demonstrate how...
iOS 6 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is your code reference and guide to developing solutions on iPad, iPhone, and other iOS 6 SDK devices and platforms. This book provides in-depth code samples and discussions for scenarios that developers face every day. You'll find numerous examples of real-world cases...
Functional programming is a style of programming that emphasizes the use of functions (in contrast to object-oriented programming, which emphasizes the use of objects). It has become popular in recent years because of its simplicity, conciseness, and clarity. This book teaches functional programming as a way of thinking and problem solving,...
Next time you hit the wall with a tough C# development problem, get the code behind the solution—and solve it the right way. The C# Programmer’s Cookbook provides at-a-glance reference to hundreds of C# and Microsoft .NET Framework programming scenarios using a concise, problem/solution format. The book’s organized so...
Find out how IAX can complement SIP to overcome complications encountered in current SIP-based communications
Written by an expert in the field of telecommunications, this book describes the Inter-Asterisk Exchange protocol (IAX) and its operations, discussing the main characteristics of the protocol including NAT traversal,...
