Professor Serguei L. Primak, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Professor Primak is an Associate Professor at the University of the Western Ontario, Canada. His main areas of interest include modelling and performance evaluation of MIMO systems, Markov processes, non-Gaussian random processes and communications aspects of robotic assisted telesurgery. He has co-authored a book "Stochastic Methods and their Applications to Communications: Stochastic Differential Equations Approach", Wiley, 2004. Professor Valeri Kontorovich, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico Professor Kontorovich is a Professor at the CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico. His main areas of interest include modelling and performance evaluation of MIMO systems, Markov processes, non-Gaussian random processes, fractal, electromagnetic compatibility and other related topics. Professor Kontorovich has co-authored a book "Stochastic Methods and their Applications to Communications: Stochastic Differential Equations Approach", Wiley, 2004, and has co-authored 4 other books (In Russian) and a large number of publications in the field of communications. Vladimir Lyandres is the author of Stochastic Methods and their Applications to Communications: Stochastic Differential Equations Approach, published by Wiley.

1. Introduction.

2. Random Variables and Their Description.

3. Random Processes.

4. Advanced Topics in Random Processes.

5. Markov Processes and Their Description.

6. Markov Processes with Random Structures.

7. Synthesis of Stochastic Differential Equations.

8. Applications.

Index.

"The last chapter is an excellent exposition of applied models for
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