Communication Systems and Techniques

by Schwartz, Mischa; Bennett, William R.; Stein, Seymour

• ISBN13: 9780780347151
• ISBN10: 0780347153
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-11-22
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press

Summary

An introductory, graduate-level look at modern communications in general and radio communications in particular. This seminal presentation of the applications of communication theory to signal and receiver design brings you valuable insights into the fundamental concepts underlying today's communications systems, especially wireless communications.Coverage includes: AM, FM Phase Modulation, PCM, fading, and diversity receivers.This is a classic reissue of a book published by McGraw Hill in 1966.

Author Biography

Mischa Schwartz is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Columbia University, which he joined in 1974 as professor of electrical engineering and computer science. William R. Bennett is the author of Communication Systems and Techniques, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the IEEE Press Reissue	ix
Preface	xi
PART I Mischa Schwartz
General Tutorial Material	3	(43)
Summary of Statistical Properties of Noise	3	(6)
Orthogonal Series Representations of Noise	9	(6)
A Simple Application to Binary Transmission	15	(5)
Narrowband Noise and Envelope Detection	20	(6)
Application to Binary Transmission	26	(3)
Hilbert-transform Representation of Signals	29	(6)
Preen velope and Envelope of Signals; Application to Noise	35	(6)
Low-pass Equivalents of Bandpass Signals	41	(5)
Statistical Communication Theory as Applied to Digital Communications	46	(54)
Statistical Decision Theory	46	(8)
Decision Theory in the Case of Binary-signal Repetition	54	(3)
Neyman-Pearson Theory of Testing Hypotheses with Application to Radar	57	(6)
Signal Shape and Matched Filters	63	(5)
Transmission of Two Known Messages of Arbitrary Shape	68	(14)
Sampling of Band-limited Signals	82	(3)
Decision-theory Approach to M-ary Signal Transmission	85	(15)
CW Communications: Comparison of AM and FM	100	(73)
S/N ratios in AM	100	(7)
Spectral Analysis of Envelope Detectors	107	(10)
Correlation-function Method of Determining Power Spectrum	117	(3)
Frequency-modulation Noise Analysis	120	(9)
FM Noise Output, Carrier Absent	129	(5)
Second Threshold in FM: Decrease in Output Signal	134	(4)
Zero-crossing Analysis	138	(6)
A Heuristic Approach to FM Threshold Analysis---Rice's ``Clicks'' Analysis	144	(10)
Threshold Extension in FM: FMFB Demodulators and Phase-locked Loops	154	(9)
FM Spectrum Analysis, Noiselike Modulating Signal	163	(10)
PART II William R. Bennett
Amplitude Modulation and Related CW Systems	173	(52)
Structure of an AM Wave	174	(2)
Amplitude Modulators	176	(3)
Amplitude Detectors	179	(5)
Systems Derived from AM	184	(15)
Analysis of Modulating and Demodulating Circuits	199	(9)
Effect of Distortion in Transmitting Medium	208	(8)
Multiplexing of AM Channels	216	(9)
Angle Modulation in CW Systems	225	(14)
Phase Modulation	225	(1)
Frequency Modulation	225	(2)
Spectral Resolution for Sinusoidal Angle Modulation	227	(2)
Transmission through Linear Networks	229	(3)
The FM Interference Problem	232	(2)
Compound CW Modulation Systems	234	(5)
Pulse Modulation	239	(40)
Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM)	239	(8)
Pulse Time Modulation	247	(12)
Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)	259	(12)
Compound Pulse-modulation Systems	271	(8)
PART III Seymour Stein
Basic Binary Communications Techniques	279	(35)
Carrier Telegraphy	280	(3)
Relation of Character or Code Performance to Binary Error Rate	283	(1)
Representations of Bandpass Signals, Noise, and Filtering	284	(3)
On-off Keying	287	(8)
Frequency-shift Keying (FSK)	295	(7)
Phase-shift Keying (PSK)	302	(8)
Suboptimum versus Matched Filters	310	(4)
General Analysis of Single-Channel Binary Systems in Additive Noise	314	(29)
Generalized Models	314	(6)
A Unified Formulation and Its Solution	320	(3)
Specializations, Including Previous Results	323	(6)
Distribution of Instantaneous Frequency for Signal Plus Noise	329	(5)
Binary FSK with Frequency Detection	334	(9)
Fading Communication Media	343	(73)
Role of Fading Channels within the Radio Spectrum	344	(3)
Phenomenological Descriptions of Multipath and Fading	347	(27)
High-frequency Ionospheric-skywave Propagation	374	(10)
Tropospheric-scatter Propagation	384	(12)
Single Binary Channels in Slow, Nonselective Rayleigh Fading	396	(15)
Signal Behavior in Channels with Arbitrary Selectivity and Rapidity	411	(5)
Linear Diversity Combining Techniques	416	(74)
Methods for Achieving Diversity Branches	417	(9)
General Principles of Linear Combining	426	(3)
Diversity Improvement and Relation to System Design	429	(3)
Selection Combining	432	(8)
Maximal-ratio Combining	440	(13)
Equal-gain Combining	453	(4)
Further Comments on Comparative Combiner Statistics	457	(2)
Digital Data Performance of Ideal Linear Combining Systems	459	(7)
Postdetection versus Predetection Combining in FM Systems; Digital Data Transmission in FDM-FM	466	(2)
Effect of Correlation in Fading among Diversity Branches	468	(12)
Effect of Diversity on Distributions of Lengths of Fades	480	(7)
Effect of External Noise or Interference	487	(3)
Decision-Oriented Diversity for Digital Transmission	490	(95)
Optimum Combining for Digital Signaling in Slow, Nonselective Fading	490	(21)
Performance of Quadratic Combiner Systems in Slow, Multiplicative Fading	511	(17)
Performance of Suboptimal Systems	528	(27)
Diversity Operation Involving Energy Sharing and Energy Detection	555	(6)
Wideband Antimultipath Systems (Rake)	561	(24)
Appendix A. The Q Function and Related Integrals	585	(5)
Appendix B. Distribution of Hermitian Quadratic Form in Complex Gaussian Variates	590	(7)
Bibliography	597	(12)
Index	609