Wiley Survival Guide in Global Telecommunications: Signaling Principles, Protocols, and Wireless Systems

By Emmanuel Desurvire

Book Overview

Wiley Survival Guide in Global Telecommunications: Signaling Principles, Protocols, and Wireless Systems provides a rapid introduction to the whole field of telecom technologies and will provide a consistent starting point for further study for the diverse set of interested populations, which the author differentiates into the following five categories: the rare telecom generalists, who can conceptually grasp the full picture; the greater number of individuals who are technical contributors, scientists, and engineers who concentrate on top-level applications; the majority of end users and consumers, professionals and private; the population of some underdeveloped countries who rarely or never use any of these technologies.

The book provides a comprehensive approach to telecom accessible to a broad audience. Each chapter concludes with a summary and exercises with solutions in some cases. Advanced equations requiring math background to appear only in the Appendix, and references are limited to books and review papers deemed accessible to the book's intended broad audience.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471446084
• ISBN13: 9780471446088
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

The perfect companion for today's telecom engineers

As perfectly emphasized by the title, Telecom are today Global. Operators are now business-driven rather technology-driven. This means that to work in the field of telecommunication we must be able to understand multiple and different technologies ranging from long haul to access and from wireline to wireless. Because it covers all of these aspects in a very clever and concise manner the books of Desurvire are the perfect companion for today's telecom engineers. My background being in long-haul optical transport I was particularly interested in Chapter 3.3 and Chapter 4, which describe, respectively, IP protocol and Wireless technologies. Desurvire's books are not leaving my office anytime soon.

teaching aid

Although i saw this and companion Guide at publication in 2004, it was only this spring that i had occasion to use it as a resource in teaching a grad course on 'optical communication systems' at UC Berkeley. In preparing lectures involving Shannon limit, m-ary modulation formats, error-correcting codes and other topics not really 'up my alley', i was able to get the essence and good illustrations in short order. As my grandaughter would say, the explanations did not suffer from TMI (too much information) but just enough. ipk