Features & Benefits

Balances a solid theoretical treatment of subjects with practical applications and examples. Covers both digital and analogue telecommunications systems, including digital modulation techniques. The CD accompanying the book includes MATLAB® tutorials that permit readers to model various telecommunications systems and an electronic version of the book

Contents

Preface;

INTRODUCING TELECOMMUNICATIONS: communications systems; telecommunications systems; analog and digital communications systems;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS: communication channels; data communications; mobile communications; local area networks (LANs);

REVIEW OF MATH, STATS, AND SYSTEMS: random variables; random processes; signals and systems;

SOURCE CODING AND DECODING: sampling; quantization; pulse code modulation; predictive coding;

MODULATORS AND DEMODULATORS: modulators; mathematical representation of modulated signals; demodulators; performance measures;

BLOCK CODING AND DECODING: block coding; linear block codes; performance of block coders; decoding;

CONVOLUTIONAL CODING AND DECODING: convolutional coders; trellis diagrams; the Viterbi algorithm; catastrophic codes;

TRELLIS-CODED MODULATION: inputs; decoder front ends; decoder; best path determination;

CHANNEL FILTERING AND EQUALIZERS: modulators and pulse shaping; receivers; linear equalizers;

ESTIMATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION: estimation; evaluation of channel phase; practical channel estimators;

MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEMES: TDMA; FDMA; CDMA; FH-CDMA; MC-CDMA; CIMA; ANALOG COMMUNICATIONS: amplitude modulation; frequency modulation; superheterodyne receivers;

Index