Telecommunication Breakdown Concepts of Communication

Transmitted via Software-Defined Radio

C. Richard Johnson Jr. William A. Sethares

TELECOMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Digital Radio

C. Richard Johnson, Jr.

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Cornell University johnson@ece.cornell.edu and

William A. Sethares
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Wisconsin - Madison sethares@ece.wisc.edu

February 2003
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C. Richard Johnson Jr., Cornell University William A. Sethares, University of Wisconsin
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
A. Einstein
The fundamental principles of telecommunications have remained much the same since Shannons time. What has changed, and is continuing to change, is how those principles are deployed in technology. One of the major ongoing changes is the shift from hardware to software. Telecommunication Breakdown: Concepts of Communication Transmitted via Software-Defined Radio reflects this trend by focusing on the design of a digital software-defined radio. Telecommunication Breakdown: Concepts of Communication Transmitted via Software-Defined Radio helps the reader build a complete digital radio that includes each part of a typical digital communication system. Chapter by chapter, the reader creates a MATLAB realization of the various pieces of the system, exploring the key ideas along the way. In the final chapter, the reader puts it all together by building a complete receiver. This is accomplished using only knowledge of calculus, Fourier transforms, and MATLAB.

Concepts of Communication Transmitted via Software-Defined Radio

Key benefits:
a hands-on approach that provides the reader with a sense of continuity and motivation for exploring communication system concepts provides invaluable preparation for industry, where software-defined digital radio is increasingly important CD-ROM extras include lesson PDFs; final projects; received signals for assignments and projects; all MATLAB code presented in the text; a bonus chapter on QAM Radio

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