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

by William A. Sethares and C. Richard Johnson Jr.

Written as an introductory textbook for digital wireless communication, this volume introduces the step-by-step procedures needed for building a digital radio incorporating typical system components.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131430475
• ISBN13: 9780131430471
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 379 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Job by Authors

I'm an engineering student and took a 'transmission of information' class that talked about many subjects mentioned in this text. During the class, the whole concept of Matched Filtering, symbol recovery, etc was completely lost upon me because we treated it with mathematical rigor, not application specifics. This book breaks down the application. It doesn't have lengthy derrivations but gives you the essential information. I STRONGLY recommend it to anyone interested in how digital/analog communcations take place.

Great Introduction to Modem Design

This book is a great introduction to digital modem design. I put together my first crude QPSK modem just before getting this book. I read a bunch of different articles and papers in order to design my modem pieces and put them together. Most of that reading was a waste of time. I wish that I had this book back then because it covers everything you need to design a basic modem ...such as AGC, pulse shape filtering, carrier recovery, symbol timing recovery, etc. This book is also VERY easy to understand. Anyone new to modem design should definitely get this book. You will get a simple understanding of all the modem parts, how they work, why they are used, and how to put them together to make a fully operational modem. You can also play with the matlab code provided to tweak various parameters and see how they affect their respective modem part. After this book, you are fully prepared for the more advanced modem papers and books out there that would have been very hard to start with. The authors did a great job.