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• Chapters 2-4 are devoted to second-order random processes—Emphasizing correlation functions, spectral densities, and their role in the analysis of random processes in linear systems.

  • Gives students a solid understanding of random processes that is essential to the study of digital communications.

• The basic principles of digital communications are presented in Chapters 5-7—Covers baseband communications, coherent radio-frequency communications, and noncoherent radio-frequency communications.

  • Provides students with the core background needed for a career in wireless communications system design.

• The basic principles of matched filtering, optimal correlation receivers, and statistical decision theory are introduced in the simpler setting of baseband communications in Chapter 5.

  • The complications of carrier phase estimation and noncoherent reception are postponed until later chapters, after the student has first mastered the basic principles of optimal and suboptimal filtering and optimal decision strategies.

• Chapters 6 and 7 are devoted to carrier-modulated digital communications.

  • Exploits the students' familiarity with the Fourier series to explain optimal coherent receivers for binary and quaternary phase-shift keying and optimal noncoherent receivers for frequency-shift keying.

• Intersymbol-interference effects and equalization are introduced in Chapter 8, and direct-sequence and frequency-hop spread spectrum are described in Chapter 9.

  • Chapter 9 includes descriptions of the spread-spectrum modulation used in the Global Positioning System (GPS) and in mobile cellular telephone systems.

Introduction. 


1. Probability and Random Variables–Review and Notation. 


2. Introduction to Random Processes. 


3. Linear Filtering of Random Processes. 


4. Frequency-Domain Analysis of Random Processes in Linear Systems. 


5. Baseband Transmission of Binary Data. 


6. Coherent Communications. 


7. Noncoherent Communications. 


8. Intersymbol Interference.


9. Spread-Spectrum Communication.


Appendix A: The Hamming Codes.


Appendix B: The Reed Solomon Codes.

Appendix C: Complex Representation of Signals and Systems.

Appendix D: On the Optimum Receiver for General Signal Sets.

Appendix E: Alternative Receiver Structures for Coded Signals.

Index.

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Michael B. Pursley joined Clemson University in 1992 as the Holcombe Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the B.S. (with highest distinction) and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University and the Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. He has several years industrial experience, primarily with the Space and Communications Group of the Hughes Aircraft Company. He served on the faculty of the University of Illinois for nearly 20 years, he has held visiting positions at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California at Los Angeles, and he has served as a consultant in digital communications to several industrial and government organizations.

Dr. Pursley was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1982 and president of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1983. He has held editorial and organization positions for several journals and conferences in information theory and communications. He received an IEEE Centennial Medal, an IEEE Millennium Medal, the IEEE Communications Society Ellersick Award, and the IEEE Military Communications Conference Award for Technical Achievement. His most recent award is the 2002 IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award.

Dr. Pursley's current research interests include mobile wireless communication systems and networks, spread-spectrum communications, applications of error-control coding, and adaptive protocols for packet radio networks.

Clarity, thoroughness, and rigor set this book apart from other digital communications texts. Written by a recognized expert and an award winning researcher, this book is ideal for a first course in digital communications at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate levels. Complete and clear derivations and many solved exercises also make the book an excellent choice for self study. It is one of the few recent books that does not require leaps of faith by the reader. In addition to full analyses of optimum systems, the book develops the analytical tools needed to evaluate suboptimum systems and conduct the tradeoff studies that are required in the design of new digital communication systems.

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