Digital Radio System Design

Grigorios Kalivas, Applied Electronics Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Patras, Greece Dr Kalivas is a lecturer at the University of Patras. His research and development interests include receiver system design for wireless indoor and cellular communications and the design and implementation of tranceiver components and subsystems such as receiver front-end, frequency synthesizers and data synchronizers. His research areas include spread-spectrum communications, propagation measurements and channel modelling for portable radio systems in the 1GHz to 30GHz frequency range. Dr Kalivas has developed extensive expertise in every level of design and implementation of the physical layer of systems for wireless communications applications and in particular indoor portable radio at 1.75 GHz and wireless LANs and PCN at 30 GHz. Dr Kalivas has about 30 publications in IEEE journals and conferences.

Preface. 1 Radio Communications: System Concepts, Propagation and Noise.

1.1 Digital Radio Systems and Wireless Applications.

1.2 Physical Layer of Digital Radio Systems.

1.3 Linear Systems and Random Processes.

1.4 Radio Channel Characterization.

1.5 Nonlinearity and Noise in Radio Frequency Circuits and Systems.

1.6 Sensitivity and Dynamic Range in Radio Receivers.

1.7 Phase-locked Loops.

2 Digital Communication Principles.

2.1 Digital Transmission in AWGN Channels.

2.2 Digital Transmission in Fading Channels.

2.3 Transmission Through Band-limited Channels.

2.4 Equalization.

2.5 Coding Techniques for Reliable Communication.

2.6 Decoding and Probability of Error.

3 RF Transceiver Design.

3.1 Useful and Harmful Signals at the Receiver Front-End.

3.2 Frequency Downconversion and Image Reject Subsystems.

3.3 The Heterodyne Receiver.

3.4 The Direct Conversion Receiver.

3.5 Current Receiver Technology.

3.6 Transmitter Architectures.

4 Radio Frequency Circuits and Subsystems.

4.1 Role of RF Circuits.

4.2 Low-noise Amplifiers.

4.3 RF Receiver Mixers.

4.4 Oscillators.

4.5 Frequency Synthesizers.

4.6 Downconverter Design in Radio Receivers.

4.7 RF Power Amplifiers.

5 Synchronization, Diversity and Advanced Transmission Techniques.

5.1 TFR Timing and Frequency Synchronization in Digital Receivers.

5.2 Diversity.

5.3. OFDM Transmission.

5.4 Spread Spectrum Systems.

6 System Design Examples.

6.1 The DECT Receiver.

6.2 QAM Receiver for 61 Mb/s Digital Microwave Radio Link.

6.3 OFDM Transceiver System Design.

Index.