Table of Contents

Part I. The Big Picture: 1. A digital radio; Part II. The Basic Components: 2. A telecommunication system; 3. The six elements; Part III. The Idealized System: 4. Funny things; 5. Analog (de)modulation; 6. Sampling with automatic gain control; 7. Digital filtering and the DFT; 8. Bits to symbols to signals; 9. Stuff happens; Part IV. The Adaptive Components: 10. Carrier recovery; 11. Pulse shaping and receive filtering; 12. Timing recovery; 13. Linear equalization; 14. Coding; Part V. Putting it All Together: 15. Make it so; A. Transforms, identities, and formulas; B. Simulating noise; C. Envelope of a bandpass signal; D. Relating the Fourier transform to the DFT; E. Power spectral density; F. The Z-transform: difference equations, frequency responses, open eyes, and loops; G. Averages and averaging; H. The B3IG transmitter.

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About the Author

C. Richard Johnson, Jr is the Geoffrey S. M. Hedrick Senior Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, where he has been on the faculty since 1981. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and co-author of Telecommunication Breakdown (2004, with William A. Sethares) and Theory and Design of Adaptive Filters (2001). William A. Sethares is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Rhythm and Transforms (2007) and Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale (2005). Andrew G. Klein is an Assistant Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In addition to working in academia, he has also held industry positions at several wireless start-up companies.