Software Defined Radio using MATLAB & Simulink and the RTL-SDR
The availability of the RTL-SDR device for less than $20 brings software defined radio (SDR) to the home and work desktops of EE students, professional engineers and the maker community. The RTL-SDR can be used to acquire and sample RF (radio frequency) signals transmitted in the frequency range 25MHz to 1.75GHz, and the MATLAB and Simulink environment can be used to develop receivers using first principles DSP (digital signal processing) algorithms. Signals that the RTL-SDR hardware can...
Speech Communications: Human and Machine
"Today the wireless communications industry is heavily dependent upon advanced speech coding techniques, while the integration of personal computers and voice technology is poised for growth. In this revised and updated second edition, a timely overview of the science of speech processing helps you keep pace with these rapidly developing advances. Students of electrical engineering, along with computer scientists, systems engineers, linguists, audiologists, and psychologists, will find in...
Video Codec Design: Developing Image and Video Compression Systems
Video compression coding is the enabling technology behind a new wave of communication applications. From streaming internet video to broadcast digital television and digital cinema, the video codec is a key building block for a host of new multimedia applications and services. Video Codec Design sets out to de-mystify the subject of video coding and present a practical, design-based approach to this emerging field. Featuring: Guidance on the practical design and implementation of video...
Understanding LTE with MATLAB: From Mathematical Modeling to Simulation and Prototyping
An introduction to technical details related to the Physical Layer of the LTE standard with MATLAB®
The LTE (Long Term Evolution) and LTE-Advanced are among the latest mobile communications standards, designed to realize the dream of a truly global, fast, all-IP-based, secure broadband mobile access technology.
This book examines the Physical Layer (PHY) of the LTE standards by incorporating three conceptual elements: an overview of the theory behind key enabling technologies; a concise...
Principles of Digital Communication and Coding (Dover Books on Electrical Engineering)
Written by two distinguished experts in the field of digital communications, this classic text remains a vital resource three decades after its initial publication. Its treatment is geared toward advanced students of communications theory and to designers of channels, links, terminals, modems, or networks used to transmit and receive digital messages.The three-part approach begins with the fundamentals of digital communication and block coding, including an analysis of block code ensemble...
Detection of Signals in Noise
The Second Edition is an updated revision to the authors highly successful and widely used introduction to the principles and application of the statistical theory of signal detection. This book emphasizes those theories that have been found to be particularly useful in practice including principles applied to detection problems encountered in digital communications, radar, and sonar. Detection processing based upon the fast Fourier transform
Synchronization in Digital Communication Systems
Do you need to know how to develop more efficient digital communication systems? Based on the author's experience of over thirty years in industrial design, this practical guide provides detailed coverage of synchronization subsystems and their relationship with other system components. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of the techniques needed for the design, performance analysis and implementation of synchronization functions for a range of different modern communication...
Signal Detection and Estimation (Artech House Radar Library (Hardcover))
This reference spells out the fundamentals of Augmented with 1024 equations, 138 references and 82 figures and 69 problems, this book provides an introduction to and overview of signal detection and estimation. detection and estimation theory, reviews mathemat ical techniques and gives the essential background needed to understand the more advanced material, provides detailed examples stated and solved showing all the necessary steps, and contains chapter-end problems and provides...
Digital Speech: Coding for Low Bit Rate Communication Systems
Building on the success of the first edition Digital Speech offers extensive new, updated and revised material based upon the latest research. This Second Edition continues to provide the fundamental technical background required for low bit rate speech coding and the hottest developments in digital speech coding techniques that are applicable to evolving communication systems. * Features new chapters on Pitch Estimation and Voice--Unvoiced Classification of Speech, Harmonic Speech Coding...
Speech Coding and Synthesis
The fields of speech coding and synthesis have developed rapidly over the last decade. Text-to-text speech systems now produce reasonable quality speech, and currently available speech coders can transmit good quality speech at below 10kb/s. This, in combination with the ever-increasing speed of microprocessors and signal processing hardware, has resulted in a large number of practical applications. These applications in turn have stimulated research, and the number of papers published on...
Channel Equalization for Wireless Communications: From Concepts to Detailed Mathematics (IEEE Series on Digital & Mobile
In the past, channel equalization was addressed as a single chapter in a digital communications textbook for graduate students. The area has developed and increased so significantly that there is now a need for an entire textbook devoted to this subject. Filling this need for expanded coverage, Channel Equalization: From Concepts to Detailed Mathematics presents each channel equalization topic with incremental learning methodology, from the very fundamental concept to more advanced...
Multidimensional Signal, Image, and Video Processing and Coding
This book gives a concise introduction to both image and video processing, providing a balanced coverage between theory, applications and standards. It gives an introduction to both 2-D and 3-D signal processing theory, supported by an introduction to random processes and some essential results from information theory, providing the necessary foundation for a full understanding of the image and video processing concepts that follow. A significant new feature is the explanation of practical...
Software Receiver Design: Build your Own Digital Communication System in Five Easy Steps
Have you ever wanted to know how modern digital communications systems work? Find out with this step-by-step guide to building a complete digital radio that includes every element of a typical, real-world communication system. Chapter by chapter, you will create a MATLAB realization of the various pieces of the system, exploring the key ideas along the way, as well as analyzing and assessing the performance of each component. Then, in the final chapters, you will discover how all the parts...
Wideband Beamforming: Concepts and Techniques (Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing)
This book provides an excellent reference for all professionals working in the area of array signal processing and its applications in wireless communications.
Wideband beamforming has advanced with the increasing bandwidth in wireless communications and the development of ultra wideband (UWB) technology.
In this book, the authors address the fundamentals and most recent developments in the field of wideband beamforming. The book provides a thorough coverage of the subject including...
Principles of Speech Coding
It is becoming increasingly apparent that all forms of communication―including voice―will be transmitted through packet-switched networks based on the Internet Protocol (IP). Therefore, the design of modern devices that rely on speech interfaces, such as cell phones and PDAs, requires a complete and up-to-date understanding of the basics of speech coding.
Outlines key signal processing algorithms used to mitigate impairments to speech quality in VoIP networks
Offering a detailed...
Modern Communications Receiver Design a (Artech House Intelligence and Information Operations)
This comprehensive 462 pages textbook and reference on the subject of radio frequency (RF) receiver design presents the concepts, mathematics and design for such systems. Chapters include discussions on superheterodyne receivers, dynamic range, mixers, complex coherent frequency synthesizers, automatic gain control and beat frequency oscillators and additional sections cover advanced topics like digital signal processing (DSP) and software defined radios (SDR) as well as electronic warfare...
Statistical Signal Processing of Complex-Valued Data: The Theory of Improper and Noncircular Signals
Complex-valued random signals are embedded in the very fabric of science and engineering, yet the usual assumptions made about their statistical behavior are often a poor representation of the underlying physics. This book deals with improper and noncircular complex signals, which do not conform to classical assumptions, and it demonstrates how correct treatment of these signals can have significant payoffs. The book begins with detailed coverage of the fundamental theory and presents a...
Wireless Communications (IEEE Press)
"Professor Andreas F. Molisch, renowned researcher and educator,has put together the comprehensive book, WirelessCommunications. The second edition, which includes a wealth ofnew material on important topics, ensures the role of the text asthe key resource for every student, researcher, and practitioner inthe field." Professor Moe Win, MIT, USA
Wireless communications has grown rapidly over the past decadefrom a niche market into one of the most important, fast movingindustries. Fully...
The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard
H.264 Advanced Video Coding or MPEG-4 Part 10 is fundamental to agrowing range of markets such as high definition broadcasting,internet video sharing, mobile video and digital surveillance. Thisbook reflects the growing importance and implementation of H.264video technology. Offering a detailed overview of the system, itexplains the syntax, tools and features of H.264 and equips readerswith practical advice on how to get the most out of thestandard. * Packed with clear examples and...
Channel Codes: Classical and Modern
Channel coding lies at the heart of digital communication and data storage, and this detailed introduction describes the core theory as well as decoding algorithms, implementation details, and performance analyses. Known for their writing clarity, Professors Ryan and Lin provide the latest information on modern channel codes, including turbo and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. They also present detailed coverage of BCH codes, Reed-Solomon codes, convolutional codes, finite geometry...
