Engineering

For single-semester courses in Communication Systems in Electrical Engineering and Computer departments.

This text reflects the recent shift in telecommunications technology from hardware to software by focusing on the design of a digital software-defined radio. Telecommunications Breakdown helps students build a complete digital radio that includes each part of a typical digital communication system. By following each chapter, students create a Matlab realization of the various pieces of the system, exploring key ideas along the way. In the final chapter, the reader “puts it all together” to build a fully functional receiver (not operational in real time).

• The only complete software radio design text—Shows that software-defined digital radio is increasingly important in the workplace.

  • Enables students to learn communications systems by building a fully functioning receiver.

• Comprehensive coverage—Includes all parts of the systems, including coding and synchronization.

  • Provides students and instructors with a text that presents the whole picture, and covers subjects that are usually not included in early courses.

• Three-step process—Emphasizes the creation of a working digital radio by 1) building the pieces; 2) assessing the performance of the pieces; and 3) integrating the pieces together.

  • Enables students to accomplish this task in a single semester.

• Learning through experimentation—Does not focus on an incomprehensible mass of formulas with no relevance.

  • Allows students to explore each piece in a hands-on manner.

• Assessment of component behavior—Provides the means to study the performance functions of components by the use of experiments.

  • Defines for students a 'performance' function and an algorithm that optimizes this function.

• A final project.

  • Challenges students by adding noises and imperfections, showing them that a successful design can operate even in the presence of distortions.

• Fewer pre-requisites than other texts—Requires no more than a knowledge of calculus and Fourier transforms.

  • Enables instructors to use this text earlier in their curriculum.

• Accompanying CD-ROM—Includes all the Matlab code needed to implement the software radio design that is presented in the text; as well as important papers in the field; an extra chapter called A Digital Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) Radio; and a complete collection of slides in .pdf format related to the text.

  • Gives students a useful resource to further explain the materials presented in the text. Provides instructors with help in preparing assignments, lectures, and tests.

 1. A Digital Radio.


 2. A Telecommunication System.


 3. The Five Elements.


 4. Modeling Corruption.


 5. Analog (De)Modulation.


 6. Sampling with Automatic Gain Control.


 7. Digital Filtering and the DFT.


 8. Bits to Symbols to Signals.


 9. Stuff Happens.


10. Carrier Recovery.


11. Pulse Shaping and Receive Filtering.


12. Timing Recovery.


13. Linear Equalization.


14. Coding.


15. Mix'n'Match® Receiver Design.


A. Transforms, Identities, and Formulas.


B. Simulating Noise.


C. Envelope of a Bandpass Signal.


D. Relating the Fourier Transform and the DFT.


E. Power Spectral Density.


F. Relating Difference Equations to Frequency Response and Intersymbol Interference.


G. Averages and Averaging.

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The fundamental principles of telecommunications have remained much the same since Shannon's time. What has changed, and is continuing to change, is how those principles are deployed in technology. One of the major ongoing changes is the shift from hardware to software. Telecommunication Breakdown: Concepts of Communication Transmitted via Software-Defined Radio reflects this trend by focusing on the design of a digital software-defined radio.

Telecommunication Breakdown. Concepts of Communication Transmitted via Software-Defined Radio helps the reader build a complete digital radio that includes each part of a typical digital communication system. Chapter by chapter, the reader creates a MATLAB^® realization of the various pieces of the system, exploring the key ideas along the way. In the final chapter, the reader "puts it all together" by building a complete receiver. This is accomplished using only knowledge of calculus, Fourier transforms, and MATT-AB.

Key benefits:

• a hands-on approach that provides the reader with a sense of continuity and motivation for exploring communication system concepts
• provides invaluable preparation for industry, where software-defined digital radio is increasingly important
• CD-ROM extras include lesson PDFs; final projects; "received signals" for assignments and projects; all MATLAR code presented in the text; a bonus chapter on QAM Radio

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