Index

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The words 'and following pages' indicate that the topic is also covered on a number of pages after the one that is linked to.

 

A

AC coupled channels
adjacent channel interference
advanced block coding and following pages
a (filter roll-off factor)
    choice of in baseband data transmission
    in symbol timing recovery
amplitude modulation to phase modulation (AM-PM) distortion
amplitude ripple
amplitude shift keying (ASK) and following pages
analogue message
ASCII character format
asynchronous transmission
atmospheric noise
automatic repeat request (ARQ) coding

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B

bandlimited white Gaussian noise
bandpass filtering
bandpass modulation and following pages
bandwidth and following pages
    and binary signalling
    capacity, calculation of and following pages
    channel restrictions
    finite
    minimum transmission bandwidth
    and multi-level signalling
    and noise
    and power
    square wave fundamental
bandwidth efficiency
    of ASK
    of multi-level PSK
    and power
    in telephone channels
bandwidth limited ASK and following pages
baseband binary data stream, spectrum
baseband channel, capacity
baseband data transmission and following pages
baseband filtering
Baud rate in data transmission
binary PSK (BPSK)
binary signalling in data transmission
bipolar symbols
bipolar waveforms
bit error (BER) performance and following pages
    for ASK
    for DQPSK
    for FSK
    Hamming codes
    for matched filtering and following pages
    for multi-level FSK
    in multi-level signalling
    for PSK
    for QAM
    for QPSK
    relative, in bandpass modulation
bit error rate (BER)
    and SER
bits and symbols in multi-level signalling
block coding and following pages
block FEC coding
Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes
brick-wall filter
British Approvals Board for Telecommunications (BABT)
Butterworth filter

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C

carrier
carrier phase reference in PSK and following pages
carrier recovery
    ambiguity in
    for ASK
    coherent and following pages
    for PSK and following pages
CCITT telephone modem characteristics
channel bandpass
channel coding and following pages
channel degradation and following pages
channel equalizers in wireless channels
channel passband
Chebychev filters
circuit switched network operation
closed loop power control in wireless FDMA systems
co-channel interference
code division multiple access (CDMA) and following pages
coding and following pages
coherent detection in ASK
coherent detection in FSK
coherent PSK
    carrier recovery for and following pages
coloured noise
combined amplitude and phase keying (QAM/APK) and following pages
    peak and average power
communications link, elements of and following pages
communications networks and following pages
companding in source coding
component size in data transmission
connection orientated link layer
connectionless link layer
constellation diagrams in ASK
constellation diagrams in PSK
constellation diagrams in QPSK
continuous phase frequency shift keying (CPFSK)
convolutional coding and following pages
convolutional FEC coding
Costas loop
crosstalk

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D

data link layer
data pulse spectrum
data pulse width
data transmission and following pages
decoding differential data in PSK
decoding hard decision data
decoding soft decision data
differential Quadrature PSK (DQPSK) and following pages
differentially coherent PSK
differentially encoded phase shift keying (DEPSK)
differentially phase shift keying (DPSK)
digital audio broadcast (DAB)
digital message
digital non-recursive linear phase filters
digital ripple
digital signal processing (DSP), Nyquist filters for
digital signals and following pages
    bandwidth, factors affecting
    mixing and following pages
    carrier
time/frequency representation and following pages
    trigonometric relationships for and following pages
digital video broadcast (DVB)
direct sequence CDMA
    Qualcom as and following pages
directional antenna
distortion and following pages
    and bandwidth in data transmission
    introduction to common types
down-conversion of frequency
duo-binary signalling and following pages
    modified and following pages

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E

Elliptic filters
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
eye diagrams and following pages
    care with
    for raised cosine filtering

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F

filter roll-off factor (a)
    choice of
    in symbol timing recovery
finite impulse response (FIR) filters
flicker noise
forward error correction (FEC) coding
    types of
Fourier series
Fourier transform
frequency division multiple access (FDMA) and following pages
frequency domain of waveform and following pages
frequency flat fading
frequency hopped CDMA and following pages
frequency selective fading
frequency shift keying (FSK) and following pages
    multi-level and following pages
full duplex transmission protocols

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G

gain compression
gain distortion and following pages
Gaussian Minimum Key Shift (GMSK) format
ghosting
Go back N ARQ coding
government regulations and standards
gray coding in APK
gray coding in matched filtering
group delay filters
GSM cellular system
    as combined system
    as frequency hopped CDMA
    as TDMA system and following pages

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H

half duplex transmission protocols
Hamming codes and following pages
hard decision decoding

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I

information flow, speed of and following pages
information transfer rate
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
intelligent source coding
interference
    dealing with
    sources of
interleaving and following pages
International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
    modem characteristics
intersymbol interference (ISI) and following pages
    matched filter design
    and multipath fading

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L

linear modulation of ASK
linear phase filters, digital non-recursive
linear phase filters and distortion
linear predictive coding
local oscillation error

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M

Manchester encoding
M-ary amplitude and phase keying (APK) and following pages
M-ary ASK and following pages
    and PSK
M-ary FSK and following pages
M-ary PSK and following pages
M-ary signalling and following pages
    BER performance for
    fundamentals of
matched filtering and following pages
    for ASK
minimum shift keying (MSK)
modified duo-binary signalling
multi-level amplitude and phase keying (APK) and following pages
multi-level ASK and following pages
multi-level FSK and following pages
multi-level modulation and following pages
    comparison of kinds and following pages
multi-level PSK and following pages
    performance
    and QAM
    spectrum
multi-level signalling and following pages
    BER performance for
    fundamentals of
multi-level symbol operation
multi-mode propagation
multipath distortion
    predicting
multipath fading
    coping with
    time domain problem
multiple access in wireless communication
multiplexing communication
    wavelength division in FDMA
multi-user modulation and following pages

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N

No return to zero (NRZ) encoding
noise
    atmospheric
    and bandwidth
    and channel capacity and following pages
    characteristics of
    matched filtering for symbol recovery and following pages
    flicker
    shot
    sources of
    statistical properties
    thermal
non-coherent detection in ASK and following pages
non-coherent detection in FSK and following pages
Nyquist filters
    implementing and following pages
    and intersymbol interference and following pages
    and symbol timing and following pages
Nyquist sampling in source coding and following pages

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O

offset QPSK
orthogonal FSK detection
orthogonal signalling in multi-level FSK and following pages

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P

packet switched network operation
parallel transmission in wireless channels
parity check bit
parity in channel coding and following pages
partial response signalling and following pages
passband channel
passband ripple
periodic pulse train, spectrum
phase distortion and following pages
phase shift keying (PSK) and following pages
    multi-level and following pages
physical link layer
p/4 QPSK
PLL-based non-coherent FSK detection
power consumption
power control in wireless FDMA systems
power efficiency
propagation in wireless channels, and frequency
propagation in wireless channels, multi-mode
propagation in wireless channels, unguided
pulse shaping and following pages

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Q

Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and following pages
quadrature modulator
Quadrature PSK and following pages
Qualcom as direct sequence CDMA and following pages
quantization noise

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R

raised cosine filtering and following pages
ray tracing in multipath distortion
Rayleigh distribution of envelope signal
receiver
Reed-Solomon codes
reference sounding in wireless channels
Ricean statistical distribution of fading
root raised cosine filtering

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S

selective ARQ coding
seven-layer OSI signalling protocol
Shannon-Hartley theorem and following pages
    Shannon-Hartley limit in multi-level modulation
    and TCM
shot noise
signal to noise ratio
    in matched filtering
simplex transmission protocols
soft decision decoding
source coding and following pages
spectral envelope in periodic pulse train
spectral occupancy of ASK
spectral spreading
stop and wait ARQ coding
Sunde's FSK
symbol (Baud) rate
symbol error curves in multi-level modulation
symbol error probabilitiy for QPSK
symbol error rate (SER)
    and BER
symbol timing circuits in Nyquist filters and following pages
symbol timing recovery, for ASK
symbol timing recovery, of Nyquist filters
symbol timing recovery, for PSK
symbols, and bits in multi-level signalling
symbols, recovery from noise by matched filtering and following pages
synchronous transmission
    advantages and disadvantages

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T

telephone channel degradation and following pages
thermal noise
time division multiple access (TDMA) and following pages
timing jitter in ISI
Trans European Trunked Radio Access (TETRA)
transmission channel
    bandwidth, factors affecting
    bandwidth, finite
    capacity and minimum bandwidth and following pages
transmission protocols
    full duplex
    half duplex
    seven-layer OSI model
    simplex
transmission standards
transmitter
Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) and following pages
Trellis diagrams in convolutional coding
trigonometric relationships in digital signals and following pages

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U

unguided propagation in wireless channels
unipolar symbols
unipolar waveforms
up-conversion of frequency

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V

vector modulator in signal mixing
voice coding and following pages
waveform source coding
waveforms and following pages
    baseband binary data stream, spectrum
    data pulse, spectrum
    Fourier series on
    frequency domain of and following pages
    periodic pulse train, spectrum
    unipolar and bipolar

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W

wavelength division multiplexing in FDMA
white noise
wireless channels and following pages
wireless FDMA systems and following pages
wireless TDMA systems
World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC)