Practical Digital Wireless Signals - 9780521516303

Industry professionals wishing to become adept in digital communications via radio will welcome this volume by McCune, who brings decades of practical experience to the topic, presenting a clear, practical text for learning the modulation types, technology, and the specifics of relative cost and systems operation requirements. Focusing more on the physics than the mathematics (though equations are included throughout), McCune begins the volume with discussion of the impact of Shannon capacity and ways its impact can be modulated, an overview of common issues and signal characterization, and individual chapters on digital amplitude modulation, digital frequency modulation, and digital phase modulation. Subsequent chapters present practical information on spread spectrum, the principles of wireless propagation and antennas, the principles of coding, and multiple access techniques, including carrier sense, frequency division, time division, code division, and orthogonal FDMA. Each chapter concludes with a brief list of references, often annotated by McCune. Appendices contain selected DWC standards and their modulations as well as several tutorials to refresh the reader's knowledge on basic concepts such as phasors, decibels, and analog modulation. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)