Electronic Technologies in Communications Engineering

Advances in Optical Communications Technologies

MEMS Technologies for Communications

Micromechanical (or “μmechanical) communication circuits fabricated via IC-compatible MEMS technologies and capable of low-loss filtering, mixing, switching, and frequency generation, are described with the intent to miniaturize wireless transceivers. Possible MEMS-based receiver front-end architectures are then presented that use these micromechanical circuits in large quantities to enhance ro...

Communications through Virtual Technologies

The evolution of technology in support of the Knowledge Society of the years 2000’s will be rooted into three dominant trends: a) increase of richness and completeness of communications, through the development of multimedia technologies, towards the ”Immersive Virtual Telepresence” (IVT), including an increased attention to the aspects of human perception and of person-machine interaction; b) ...

Smart Grid Technologies: Communications Technologies and Standards

For a hundred years, there has been no change in the basic structure of the electrical power grid. Experiences have shown that the hierarchical, centrally-controlled grid of the twentieth century is ill-suited to the needs of the twenty-first. To address the challenges of the existing power grid, the new concept of smart grid has emerged. The smart grid can be considered as a modern electric po...

Communications in Electronic Textile Systems

Electronic textiles (e-textiles) are emerging as a novel method for constructing electronic systems in wearable and large area applications. This new type of processing system merges textile and electronic technologies. This paper studies the communication requirements between the computing and sensing elements of an e-textile. This communication is studied through the construction of a prototy...