Digital Communications (eBook)

Professor Mehmet Safak, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. Professor Safak achieved his PhD on the topic of Antennas, and he taught electromagnetic theory and antennas before joining NATO in the Hague, Netherlands, where he worked on military satellite communications. Following this wide and multi-disciplined exposure, Safak returned to academia and taught courses in digital communications. He is currently a member of the CONASENSE Foundation which studies visionary projects in Communications, Navigation, Sensors and Services. Teaching and supervising remain his priority, however, and this book is the result of many years' lecture work, plus the most recent research outcomes.

Preface

1. Signal Analysis

2. Antennas

3. Channel Modeling

4. Receiver System Noise

5. Pulse Modulation

6. Baseband Transmission

7. Optimum Receiver in AWGN Channel

8. Passband Modulation Techniques

9. Error Control Coding

10. Broadband Transmission Techniques

11. Fading Channels

12. Diversity and Combining Techniques

13. MIMO Systems

14. Cooperative Communications

15. Appendix A Vector Calculus in Spherical Coordinates

Appendix B Gaussian Q Function

Appendix C Fourier Transforms

Appendix D Mathematical Tools

Appendix E The Wishart Distribution

Appendix F Probability and Random Variables