Fundamentals of Communication Systems

(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with Further Reading and Problems.)

1 Introduction


1.1 Historical Review



1.2 Elements of an Electrical Communication



1.3 Communication Channels and Their Characteristics



1.4 Mathematical Models for Communication Channels



2 Signals and Linear Systems


2.1 Basic Concepts



2.2 Fourier Series



2.3 Fourier Transform



2.4 Filter Design



2.5 Power and Energy



2.6 Hilbert Transform and Its Properties



2.7 Lowpass and Bandpass Signals



3 Amplitude Modulation


3.1 Introduction to Modulation



3.2 Amplitude Modulation (AM)



3.3 AM Modulators and Demodulators



3.4 Signal Multiplexing



3.5 AM Radio Broadcasting



4 Angle Modulation


4.1 Representation of FM and PM Signals



4.2 Spectrum of Angle Modulated Signals



4.3 Angle Modulators and Demodulators



4.4 FM Radio and Television Broadcasting



4.5 Mobile Wireless Telephone Systems



5 Probability and Random Processes


5.1 Review of Probability and Random Variables



5.2 Random Processes: Basic Concepts



5.3 Gaussian and White Processes



6 Effect of Noise on Analog Communications


6.1 Effect of Noise on Amplitude Modulation Systems



6.2 Effect of Noise on Angle Modulation



6.3 Comparison of Analog Modulation Systems



6.4 Phase-Locked Loops



6.5 Effects of Transmission Losses



7 Analog to Digital Conversion


7.1 Sampling Theorem



7.2 Quantization



7.3 Encoding



7.4 Waveform Coding



7.5 Analysis-Synthesis Techniques



7.6 Digital Audio Transmission and Recording



7.7 The JPEG Image Coding Standard



8 Digital Modulation in AWGN Baseband Channels


8.1 Geometric Representation of Signal Waveforms



8.2 Binary Pulse Modulation



8.3 Optimum Receiver Design



8.4 M-ary Pulse Modulation



8.5 Probability of Error for M-ary Pulse Modulation



8.6 Symbol Synchronization



9 Transmission through Bandlimited AWGN Channels


9.1 Transmission through Bandlimited Channels



9.2 Signal Design for Bandlimited Channels



9.3 Probability of Error for Detection of Digital PAM



9.4 System Design for Channel Distortion



10 Transmission of Digital Information via Carrier Modulation


10.1 Amplitude Modulated Digital Signals



10.2 Phase Modulated Digital Signals



10.3 QAM Signals



10.4 Frequency Modulated Digital Signals



10.5 Comparison of Modulation Methods



11 Selected Topics in Digital Communications


11.1 Fading Multipath Channels



11.2 Multicarrier Modulation and OFDM



11.3 Spread-Spectrum Communication Systems



11.4 Digital Cellular Communication Systems



11.5 Performance Analysis for Wireline and Radio Communication Channels



12 An Introduction to Information Theory


12.1 Modeling Information Sources



12.2 The Source Coding Theorem



12.3 Source Coding Algorithms



12.4 Modeling of Communication Channels



12.5 Channel Capacity



12.6 Bounds on Communication



13 Coding for Reliable Communications


13.1 The Promise of Coding



13.2 Linear Block Codes



13.3 Convolutional Codes



13.4 Good Codes Based on Combination of Simple Codes



13.5 Low-Density Parity Check Codes



13.6 Coding for Bandwidth-Constrained Channels



13.7 Coding and Diversity for Fading Channels: Multiple Antenna Systems and Space-Time Codes



13.8 Practical Applications of Coding