Telecommunications Breakdown: Concepts of Communication Transmitted via Software-Defined Radio

Summary

This book 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 readers build a complete digital radio that includes each part of a typical digital communication system. KEY TOPICS: By following each chapter, users create a Matlab realization of the various pieces of a typical digital communication system, exploring key ideas along the way. It defines the three steps in the creation of a working digital radio: building the pieces, assessing the performance of the pieces, and integrating the pieces together. In the final chapter, the reader “puts it all together” to build a fully functional receiver (not operational in real time). MARKET: For workers in the field of telecommunications.

Table of Contents

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.