Practical Digital Wireless Signals
Practical Digital Wireless Signals
Do you need to know what signal type to select for a wireless application? Quickly develop a useful expertise in digital modulation with this practical guide, based on the author's experience of over thirty years in industrial design. You will understand the physical meaning behind the mathematics of wireless signals and learn the intricacies and tradeoffs in signal selection and design. Six modulation families and twelve modulation types are covered in depth, together with a quantitative ranking of relative cost incurred to implement any of twelve modulation types. Extensive discussions of the Shannon Limit, Nyquist filtering, efficiency measures and signal-to-noise measures are provided, radio wave propagation and antennas, multiple access techniques, and signal coding principles are all covered, and spread spectrum and wireless system operation requirements are presented.
- Presents the physical meaning behind the mathematics of wireless signals, plus the intricacies and tradeoffs in signal selection and design
- Provides a quantitative ranking of cost incurred to implement any of 12 different modulation types
- Covers radio wave propagation and antennas, multiple access techniques, and signal coding principles
Reviews & endorsements
Review of the hardback: 'Any architect defining communications features for wireless products should find this book useful … a book you can actually read. … experienced readers … will find details in the unique explanations that offer greater insight into principles they thought they already knew.' High Frequency Electronics
Review of the hardback: '… a fun tour of signals, noise, circuit techniques, wireless propagation limitations, the math of error correction codes, and the limits of information transfer.' IEEE Microwave Magazine
Product details
February 2010Hardback
9780521516303
434 pages
254 × 181 × 25 mm
1.1kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Glossary and abbreviations
- Terms and conventions
- 1. Keying, states, and block diagram construction
- 2. Common issues and signal characterization
- 3. Important details on results from Shannon, Nyquist, and others
- 4. Digital amplitude modulation: ASK
- 5. Digital frequency modulation: FSK
- 6. Digital phase modulation: PSK
- 7. Combined digital modulations: QAM and OFDM
- 8. Spread spectrum
- 9. Wireless propagation and antenna fundamentals
- 10. Principles of coding
- 11. Multiple access techniques
- 12. Signal trade-offs and system evolution
- Appendix A. Phasor review
- Appendix B. Decibels (dB) really are simple
- Appendix C. Analog modulation basics
- Appendix D. Quadrature modulation and demodulation principles
- Appendix E. Polar modulation and demodulation principles
- Appendix F. Derivative-zeroed pulse family
- Appendix G. Selected DWC standards and their modulations.
