Preface

1 TELECOMMUNICATIONS

1.1 Usage today

1.2 History

1.3 Basic elements

1.4 Multiple user systems

1.5 Appendix: the division and usage of the electromagnetic spectrum

2 LINK BUDGET

2.1 Signal to noise ratio

3 INFORMATION THEORY AND SOURCE CODING

3.1 The concept of information

3.2 Channel

3.3 Source coding

3.4 Appendix

4 CHANNEL CODING

4.1 Error detection and error correction
4.2 Automatic repeat request

4.3 Block codes
4.4 Convolutional codes
4.5 Interleaving

4.6 Turbo coding
4.7 Cryptography
4.8 Appendix
5 MODULATION

5.1 Baseband modulation
5.2 Calculation methods for bandpass systems and signals

5.3 Analogue carrier modulation
5.4 Digital carrier modulation
5.5 Appendix

6 DETECTION IN NOISE

6.1 Fundamentals of narrowband noise

6.2 Analogue systems
6.3 Digital systems
6.4 Diversity

6.5 The radio receiver

6.6 Appendix

7 ADAPTIVE CHANNEL EQUALISERS

7.1 Channel equaliser
7.2 Algorithms for adaptation
7.3 Appendix
8 ADAPTIVE ANTENNAS

8.1 Array antennas

8.2 Signal processing with array antennas
8.3 Spatio-temporal equalisers

9 CDMA: CODES AND DETECTORS
9.1 Spreading codes
9.2 Detectors for CDMA

9.3 Appendix: generator polynomials for m-sequences

10 SYNCHRONISATION

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Fundamentals of phase locked loops
10.3 Carrier synchronisation

10.4 Clock synchronisation

10.5 Frame synchronisation
APPENDIX A
Answers to exercises

Index