Telecommunications demystified : a streamlined course in digital communications (and some analog) for EE students and practicing engineers / by Carl Nassar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nassar, Carl, 1968-

Series:

Demystifying technology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommunication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Eagle Rock, Virginia : LLH Technology Pub., [2001]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Carl R. Nassar, Ph.D., is professor of telecommunications at Colorado State University and director of the Research in Advanced Wireless Communications (RAWCom) laboratory there. He also consults for telecommunications firms and publishes extensively in the wireless literature.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 s

Contents:

Front Cover; Telecommunications Demystified; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Foreword; What's on the CD-ROM?; Chapter 1. Introducing Telecommunications; 1.1 Communication Systems; 1.2 Telecommunication Systems; 1.3 Analog and Digital Communication Systems; 1.4 Congrats and Conclusion; Chapter 2. Telecommunication Networks; 2.1 Telecommunication Network Basics; 2.2 POTS: Plain Old Telephone System; 2.3 Communication Channels; 2.4 Data Communication Networks; 2.5 Mobile Communications; 2.6 Local Area Networks (LANs); 2.7 Conclusion

Chapter 3. A Review of Some Important Math, Stats, and Systems3.1 Random Variables; 3.2 Random Processes; 3.3 Signals and Systems: A Quick Peek; 3.4 Onward; Chapter 4. Source Coding and Decoding: Making it Digital; 4.1 Sampling; 4.2 Quantization; 4.3 Source Coding: Pulse Code Modulator (PCM); 4.4 Predictive Coding; 4.5 Congrats and Conclusion; Chapter 5. Getting It from Here to There: Modulators and Demodulators; 5.1 An Introduction; 5.2 Modulators; 5.3 Just-in-Time Math, or How to Make a Modulator Signal Look Funny; 5.4 Bring it Home, Baby, or Demodulators

5.5 How Good Is It Anyway (Performance Measures)5.6 What We Just Did; Chapter 6. Channel Coding and Decoding: Part 1-Block Coding and Decoding; 6.1 Simple Block Coding; 6.2 Linear block codes; 6.3 Performance of the Block Coders; 6.4 Benefits and Costs of Block Coders; 6.5 Conclusion; Chapter 7. Channel Coding and Decoding Part 2-Convolutional Coding and Decoding; 7.1 Convolutional Coders; 7.2 Channel Decoding; 7.3 Performance of the Convolutional Coder; 7.4 Catastrophic Codes; 7.5 Building Your Own; Chapter 8. Trellis-Coded Modulation (TCM): The Wisdom of Modulator andCoder Togetherness

8.1 The Idea8.2 Improving on the Idea; 8.3 The Receiver End of Things; Chapter 9. Channel Filtering and Equalizers; 9.1 Modulators and Pulse Shaping; 9.2 The Channel That Thought It Was a Filter; 9.3 Receivers: A First Try; 9.4 Optimal Receiver Front End; 9.5 Optimal Rest-of-the-Receiver; 9.6 Linear Equalizers; 9.7 Other Equalizers: the FSE and the DFE; 9.8 Conclusion; Chapter 10. Estimation and Synchronization; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Estimation: Part 1; 10.3 Evaluating Channel Phase: A Practical Example; 10.4 Conclusion

Chapter 11. Multiple Access Schemes: Teaching Telecommunications Systems to Share11.1 What It Is; 11.2 The Underlying Ideas; 11.3 TDMA; 11.4 FDMA; 11.5 CDMA; 11.6 CIMA; 11.7 Conclusion; Chapter 12. Analog Communications; 12.1 Modulation-An Overview; 12.2 Amplitude Modulation (AM); 12.3 Frequency Modulation (FM); 12.4 The Superheterodyne Receiver; 12.5 Summary; Annotated References and Bibliography; Index; Demystifying TechnologyTM series

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-347) and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

862826234