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Next Generation Wireless LANs: Throughput, Robustness, and Reliability in 802.11n

Eldad Perahia, Robert Stacey

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a book by engineer and for engineer 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

For people who working on 802.11n, they can not afford to miss this book. This is a book written by engineers who are actually working on the real product. The book helps reader to navigate through the complex 802.11n standard, and provides valuable design techniques.

Even for people not working on 802.11n, this book still serves as a nice reference book for MIMO and OFDM technology. I am not working on 802.11n, I am working on WiMAX. but the MIMO technology described in this book is far more better than any WiMAX book.

Editorial Review:

This exciting and comprehensive overview describes the underlying principles, implementation details, and key enhancing features of the new IEEE 802.11n standard, which has been created to significantly improve network throughput. A detailed discussion of important strength and reliability enhancing features is given in addition to a clear summary of any issues. Advanced topics are also covered. With numerous examples and simulation results included to highlight the benefits of the new features, this is an ideal reference for designers of Wireless Local Area Network (LAN) equipment, and network managers whose systems adopt the new standard. It is also a useful distillation of 802.11n technology for graduate students and researchers in the field of wireless communication.

Operating Systems Principles

Lubomir F. Bic, Alan C. Shaw

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not recommend 1 out of 5 stars.
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hard to read. difficult to understand. not recommended. waste your money if you buy it.

C++ Programming: Program Design Including Data Structures, Second Edition

D.S. Malik

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Find another book. Not for a beginner. 1 out of 5 stars.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This book doesn't flow at all. It is hard to follow along. I am a beginner and this book almost has turned me off from programming all together. I recommended looking for another book.

Great beginner's book 5 out of 5 stars.
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I don't care what anyone else says, I think this book is very helpful. I'm a computer science/mathematics major...though mathematics comes easily for me, I'm not finding the same with computer programming and this book has helped me tremendously to understand and apply these new concepts. Repetition? Some, but repetition is what helps us learn. But I don't think there is too much repetition, just enough...maybe more repetition should be used in some of the book's sections, especially higher level chapters, such as for structs and classes.
Great writing too, easy to understand and to absorb. I'm sensing that this is an author who is more concerned with having his readers understand c++ than to be impressed with his writing...I've had enough college classes and read enough text books to know that some authors are more about showing off their writing ability, forget it if the student gets it or not. But not so with D.S. Malik.
I highly recommend this book.

Editorial Review:

Written exclusively for the student as opposed to the IT professional, this text contains numerous clear and complete explanations and examples. Using problem-solving throughout, this book offers comprehensive coverage of introductory C++ programming topics and then moves the students confidentally into more advanced concepts. Written for the modern programmer, this innovative text focuses on the nature and obvious advantages of C++ as a language. Featuring problem solving throughout the text, examples are relevant to C++ and match and highlight the specific qualities of C++ rather than basic, generic programming examples. This book will provide excellent, comprehensive instruction and theory regarding this language.

LINUX & UNIX Programming Tools: A Primer for Software Developers

Syed Mansoor Sarwar, Khaled H. Al-Saqabi

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Excellent reference material in Unix work enviornment 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have been working in unix environment for last 8 years and this is an excellent reference for unix development and user environment. At my work my colleagues ask me about unix commands and tricks and of course I learned most of them by explaining it to them. "LINUX Programming Tools" covers what I need at work.

This book covers wide range, from C library functions, unix commands, debugger, make utility tricks, CVS and also your unix environment ( ENV ) i.e your shell explanation.

I would say, for beginner to intermediate user this book is a must and for advanced user this books is good reference source.

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This book approaches the LINUX environment as a programming companion. No previous exposure to LINUX is necessary to utilize this text. Initially, commands and utilities are reviewed, then the focus shifts toward systematically describing those software tools available to a LINUX programmer. For software practitioners interested in brushing up on basic Linux knowledge or for those learning it for the first time.@ISBN = 0-201-77345-7@MAINCAT = UNIX@SUBCAT = UNIX@DATALINE1 = 2003, 250 pages, 7 3/8 x 9 1/8@DATALINE2 = Paperback, $40.00k

Inside Com (Microsoft Programming Series)

Dale Rogerson

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The best way to *really* understand the fundamentals of COM 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book begins by assuming the reader knows little more than basic C++. In the second chapter it introduces some simple C++ classes about which the reader will think to herself, "okay, this is simple". From there it builds: adding incremental changes to the original C++ code, gradually making it more useful, explaining each change as it goes. By the end of the book, the original example has grown up into a full fledged COM component, written completely from scratch. No wizards, no templates. At this point the reader will not only be able to recognize the elements of a COM component, but more importantly, she will understand *why* COM works the way it does. The mystery surrounding the ATL and Visual Studio wizards evaporates, and the developer can see them for what they really are: simple shortcuts.

Editorial Review:

Here is a developer's guide to using the industry-leading component object model to build efficient, robust OLE components and ActiveX controls. This book will give the reader knowledge to better use OLE interfaces and create ActiveX components.

Java I/O

Elliotte Harold

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All of Java's Input/Output (I/O) facilities are based on streams, which provide simple ways to read and write data of different types. Java provides many different kinds of streams, each with its own application. The universe of streams is divided into four large categories: input streams and output streams, for reading and writing binary data; and readers and writers, for reading and writing textual (character) data. You're almost certainly familiar with the basic kinds of streams--but did you know that there's a CipherInputStream for reading encrypted data? And a ZipOutputStream for automatically compressing data? Do you know how to use buffered streams effectively to make your I/O operations more efficient? Java I/O, 2nd Edition has been updated for Java 5.0 APIs and tells you all you ever need to know about streams--and probably more.

A discussion of I/O wouldn't be complete without treatment of character sets and formatting. Java supports the Unicode standard, which provides definitions for the character sets of most written languages. Consequently, Java is the first programming language that lets you do I/O in virtually any language. Java also provides a sophisticated model for formatting textual and numeric data. Java I/O, 2nd Edition shows you how to control number formatting, use characters aside from the standard (but outdated) ASCII character set, and get a head start on writing truly multilingual software.

Java I/O, 2nd Edition includes:

• Coverage of all I/O classes and related classes
• In-depth coverage of Java's number formatting facilities and its support for international character sets

70-272 Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System Package (Microsoft Official Academic Course Series)

Microsoft Official Academic Course

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A complete program of textbook, lab manual, and software, this Microsoft Official Academic Course provides everything students need to build the knowledge and skills necessary to support end users and computers running the Microsoft suite of productivity applications. In addition, this textbook will help students to prepare for the Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician examination 70-272: Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System. The Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician is a new two-exam credential available from Microsoft Learning. The certification is directed at the skills needed for working in a variety of environments, including corporate environments as well as support for home users via phone support, remote support, and retail counter support. A complete set of instructor resources supports the book.

Multithreading Applications in Win32: The Complete Guide to Threads (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)

Jim Beveridge, Robert Wiener

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This material is still relevent, even when using .NET 5 out of 5 stars.
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This material is still relevent, even when using .NET. The discussion of Win32 multithreading transcends any particular development environment used with a Windows 32 bit environment.

The key idea behind this book is getting correct, reproducible results with windows multithreaded applications. Multithreaded applications are very hard to get right and even harder to properly test. The author explains the many sources of problems and how to avoid them.

In order to understand this book's code samples, you will have to understand the Win32 API and code written in Visual C++ for Windows NT. It is important to see examples of these concepts in code.

Not the best 3 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this book to get advanced concepts of win32 multithreading which I cant get by browsing through msdn. Although this book has covered all topics, I was expecting more like a "Concurrent Programming In Java, by Doug Lee" kind of book which has a lot of gotchas. I would recommend this book for beginners looking for examples of how to use the APIs. Advanced developers should look somewhere else.

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Programmers will get hands-on experience in when and how to use multithreading, together with expert advice and working examples in C++ and MFC.

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks

Holger Karl, Andreas Willig

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Learn all you need to know about wireless sensor networks!

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the nuts and bolts of wireless sensor networks.

The authors give an overview of the state-of-the-art, putting all the individual solutions into perspective with one and other.  Numerous practical examples, case studies and illustrations demonstrate the theory, techniques and results presented.  The clear chapter structure, listing learning objectives, outline and summarizing key points, help guide the reader expertly through the material.

 Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks:            

• Covers architecture and communications protocols in detail with practical implementation examples and case studies.
• Provides an understanding of mutual relationships and dependencies between different protocols and architectural decisions.
• Offers an in-depth investigation of relevant protocol mechanisms. 
• Shows which protocols are suitable for which tasks within a wireless sensor network and in which circumstances they perform efficiently. 
• Features an extensive website with the bibliography, PowerPoint slides, additional exercises and worked solutions.

This text provides academic researchers, graduate students in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering, as well as practitioners in industry and research engineers with an understanding of the specific design challenges and solutions for wireless sensor networks. 

Check out www.wiley.com/go/wsn for accompanying course material!

"I am deeply impressed by the book of Karl & Willig. It is by far the most complete source for wireless sensor networks...The book covers almost all topics related to sensor networks, gives an amazing number of references, and, thus, is the perfect source for students, teachers, and researchers. Throughout the book the reader will find high quality text, figures, formulas, comparisons etc. - all you need for a sound basis to start sensor network research."

Prof. Jochen Schiller, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin