Telecommunications demystified : a streamlined course in digital communications (and some analog) for EE students and practicing engineers / by Carl Nassar.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-347) and index.

Preface -- Introducing Telecommunications: Communications Systems -- Telecommunications Systems -- Analog And Digital Communications Systems -- Telecommunication Networks: Communication Channels -- Data Communications -- Mobile Communications -- Local Area Networks (Lans) -- Review Of Math, Stats, And Systems: Random Variables -- Random Processes -- Signals And Systems -- Source Coding And Decoding: Sampling -- Quantization -- Pulse Code Modulation -- Predictive Coding -- Modulators And Demodulators: Modulators -- Mathematical Representation Of Modulated Signals -- Demodulators -- Performance Measures -- Block Coding And Decoding: Block Coding -- Linear Block Codes -- Performance Of Block Coders -- Decoding -- Convolutional Coding And Decoding: Convolutional Coders -- Trellis Diagrams -- The Viterbi Algorithm -- Catastrophic Codes -- Trellis-Coded Modulation: Inputs -- Decoder Front Ends -- Decoder -- Best Path Determination -- Channel Filtering And Equalizers: Modulators And Pulse Shaping -- Receivers -- Linear Equalizers -- Estimation And Synchronization: Estimation -- Evaluation Of Channel Phase -- Practical Channel Estimators -- Multiple Access Schemes: TDMA -- FDMA -- CDMA -- FH-CDMA -- MC-CDMA -- CIMA -- Analog Communications: Amplitude Modulation -- Frequency Modulation -- Superheterodyne Receivers -- Index