Introduction to Digital Mobile Communication

YOSHIHIKO AKAIWA is a leading researcher in the digital mobile communication field. Currently a professor at Kyushu University, he worked as a researcher for over twenty years at the NEC Corporation.

Introduction: digital mobile radio communication system; the purpose of digitization of mobile radio communications. Signal and noise analysis: signal analysis; noise analysis; appendix. The elements of digital communication system: pulse shaping; line coding; signal detection; synchro nization; scrambling. Mobile radio channels: path loss; shadowing; fast fading; delay spread and frequency selective fading; the near-far problem; co-channel interference; appendices. Elements of digital modulation: digitally modulated signals; linear modulation versus constant envelope modulation; digital modulations; power spectral density of digitally modulated signal; demodulation; computer simulation of digital transmission system; appendices. Digital modulation system for mobile radio communication: digital modulation for analog FM mobile radio systems; constant envelope modulation; linear modulation. Other topics in digital mobile radio transmission: anti-multipath fading modulation; multicarrier transmission; spread spectrum system; diversity transmission system; adaptive automatic equalizer; error control techniques; trellis coded modulation; adaptive interference cancellation; voice coding; appendices. Equipment and circuits for digital mobile radio: base station; mobile station; super heterodyne and direct conversion receivers; transmit and receive duplexing; frequency synthesizer; transmitter circuits; receiver circuits; countermeasures against DC-Blocking and DC-Offset; appendices. Digital mobile radio communication system: fundamental concepts; digital transmission in analog mobile communication systems; paging systems; two-way digital mobile radio; mobile data service systems; digital cordless phone; digital mobile telephone systems; wireless local area network; mobile satellite systems; personal communication and FPLMTS.