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Digital Communications Andy Bateman

Digital Communications By Andy Bateman

Digital Communications by Andy Bateman


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This applications-based text places theory in context and equips the reader for further study of the more mathematical aspects of digital communications. The book contains a hypertext CD-ROM version, complete with definitions, examples and problems, and animated graphics.

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Digital Communications: Design for the Real World by Andy Bateman

Digital Communications: Design for the Real World introduces readers to the fundamentals of digital communications through an applications-driven approach.

Devised specifically to serve as a first stage text for undergraduate students, this textbook + CD package relates theory to real-world products and emphasizes the design choices facing professional communications engineers, thereby bringing this exciting subject vividly to life. Students encountering communications topics for the first time, practising engineers and managers will all appreciate the stimulating and motivational treatment of the subject.

About Andy Bateman

Andy Bateman is a leading authority in this field. Until recently he was Professor of Signal Processing at the University of Bristol and is he now a Director of Wireless Systems International Ltd. The book is based on his undergraduate teaching at Bristol and his training courses for professionals. He has extensive practical experience in the real-world' having performed consultancies with organisations such as the Canadian Department of Communications, Renishaw UK, British Telecom, Australia Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Plessey Avionics, Bell Operating Company USA, Nokia Mobile Communications, and Uniden Japan. He has published eighty papers and has registered thirteen patents.

Table of Contents

Preface.
How to use the combined book and CD.
1 Background material.
1.1 Time/frequency representation of digital signals.
1.2 Trigonometric relationships.
1.3 Communications networks and signalling protocols.
1.4 Definition of terms.
2 Data transmission fundamentals.
2.1 Factors affecting system design.
2.2 Data transmission fundamentals.
2.3 Multi-level signalling (M-ary signalling).
2.4 Calculation of channel capacity.
3 Baseband data transmission.
3.1 Introduction.
3.2 Intersymbol interference (ISI).
3.3 Eye diagrams.
3.4 Raised cosine filtering.
3.5 Matched filtering.
3.6 Partial response signalling.
4 Sources and examples of channel degradation.
4.1 Introduction.
4.2 Gain, phase and group delay distortion.
4.3 Interference and noise.
4.4 The telephone channel.
4.5 The wireless channel.
5 Bandpass digital modulation.
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Amplitude shift keying (ASK).
5.3 Frequency shift keying (FSK).
5.4 Phase shift keying (PSK).
5.5 Comparison of binary modulation schemes.
6 Multi-level digital modulation.
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 M-ary amplitude shift keying (M-ary ASK).
6.3 M-ary frequency shift keying (M-ary FSK).
6.4 M-ary phase shift keying (M-ary PSK).
6.5 Combined amplitude and phase keying.
6.6 Relative performance of multi-level bandpass modulation formats.
7 Coding theory and practice.
7.1 Source coding.
7.2 Channel coding.
7.3 Block coding.
7.4 Advanced block coding.
7.5 Convolutional coding.
7.6 Combined coding and modulation.
8 Multi-user digital modulation techniques.
8.1 Introduction.
8.2 Frequency division multiple access (FDMA).
8.3 Time division multiple access (TDMA).
8.4 Code division multiple access (CDMA).
8.5 Combined multiple access systems.
Glossary.
References.
Index.

Additional information

GOR013627188
9780201343014
0201343010
Digital Communications: Design for the Real World by Andy Bateman
Used - Like New
Hardback
Pearson Education (US)
1998-09-10
248
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