M2M Communications: A Systems Approach

by OlivierHersent (Author), David Boswarthick (Author), OmarElloumi (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2012

  $104.20

  This guide provides the advanced reader with a practical and comprehensive understanding of this hot topic as a complete single source. The book addresses the end-to-end landscape for M2M including: M2M Devices, M2M area networks, access and core network optimizations for M2M, M2M Service Delivery Platform and M2M network applications.

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $24.90

  The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future. Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring decipher how universities can find innovative, less costly ways of performing their uniquely valuable functions.

  • Offers new ways forward to deal with curriculum, faculty issues, enrollment, retention, graduation rates, campus facility usage, and a host of other urgent issues in higher education
  • Discusses a strategic model to ensure economic vitality at the traditional university
  • Contains novel insights into the kind of change that is necessary to move institutions of higher education forward in innovative ways

  This book uncovers how the traditional university survives by breaking with tradition, but thrives by building on what it's done best.