Telecommunications Demystified (Demystifying Technology Series) - Softcover

Nassar, Carl R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878707558 ISBN 13: 9781878707550

Publisher: Newnes, 2001

Synopsis

Telecommunications Demystified provides details of developments in telecommunications, and their underlying theory, are thoroughly examined in this sweeping tutorial. The book first builds a strong mathematical foundation, introduces the basic concepts of analogue and digital telecommunications, and then develops more complex topics such as source and channel coding, baseband and carrier modulation, estimation and synchronization, multiple access schemes, and trellis-coded modulation. Includes several MATLAB® tutorials that permit readers to model various telecommunications systems.

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

About this title

Review

"Professor Nassar has an uncanny ability to demystify the complexities of telecommunications systems engineering." --Dale N. Hatfield, former chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, Federal Communications Commission

"Provides a wide-ranging tutorial on theory and practical issues using the requisite math and equations. This book does not provide primarily a circuit-design or even a system-level, block-diagram treatment; instead, it seeks to explain the underlying principles, problems, techniques, and constraints of standard telecommunication functions. The book covers networks, source coding/decoding, modulators and demodulators, channel coding and decoding, trellis-coded modulation, filtering and equalizers, signal detection and estimation, and error detection and correction, among other topics. I won't mislead you and say this book is an easy read or a quick read. If you plan to get the most out of it, you need to pay attention and follow the equations and derivations, which include integrals, differentials, matrices, and more. Fortunately, the author clearly explains the transitions from one equation to the next without those fear-inducing phrases, such as "we can see," "the derivation is left as an exercise to the reader," and "it can be shown." If you want to increase your understanding of the issues and answers in digital-communications systems and some analog systems, this book should help." --EDN Magazine

Synopsis

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. This book balances a solid theoretical treatment of subjects with practical applications and examples. It covers both digital and analogue telecommunications systems, including digital modulation techniques. The CD accompanying the book includes MATLAB[registered] tutorials that permit readers to model various telecommunications systems and an electronic version of the book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Newnes
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1878707558
• ISBN 13: 9781878707550
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376