Preface of the Editors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface of the Editors V
3. Advances in Systems, Signals and Devices VII
4. Editorial Board Members VIII
5. Advances in Systems, Signals and Devices XI
6. Contents XIII
7. New Proposed Adaptive Beamforming Algorithms Based on Merging CGM and NLMS methods 1
8. Efficient Hardware Architecture of DCT Cordic based Loeffler Compression Algorithm for Wireless Endoscopic Capsule 23
9. Exploring the Physical Characteristics of an On-chip Router for its Integration in a 3D-mesh NoC 37
10. Compact High Speed Hardware for SHA-2 on FPGA 47
11. An Extensible Platform for Smart Home Services 61
12. Fuzzy-Based Gang Scheduling Approach for Multiprocessor Systems 81
13. A Robust Multiple Watermarking Scheme Based on the DWT 97
14. Retinal Identification System based on Optical Disc Ring Extraction and New Local SIFT-RUK Descriptor 113
15. An Optimized Hardware Architecture of 4×4 Intra Prediction for HEVC Standard 127
16. Arabic Continuous Speech Recognition Based on Hybrid SVM/HMM Model 145
17. Enhancing the Odd Peaks Detection in OFDM Systems Using Wavelet Transforms 161
18. Methodology for Analysis of Direct Sampling Receiver Architectures from Signal Processing and System Perspective 175
19. A Hybrid PAPR Reduction Scheme for OFDM Using SLM with Clipping at the Transmitter, and Sparse Reconstruction at the Receiver 197
20. Mobile Workflow Management System Architecture Taking into Account Relevant Security Requirements 217