Digital Com.Sys.Eng. W/SF Def (Mobile Communications)
This unique resource provides you with a practical approach to quickly learning the software-defined radio concepts you need to know for your work in the field. By prototyping and evaluating actual digital communication systems capable of performing over-the-air wireless data transmission and reception, this volume helps you attain a first-hand understanding of critical design trade-offs and issues. Moreover you gain a sense of the actual real-world operational behavior of these systems.
With the purchase of the book, you gain access to several ready-made Simulink experiments at the publisher s website. This collection of laboratory experiments, along with several examples, enables you to successfully implement the designs discussed the book in a short period of time. These files can be executed using MATLAB version R2011b or later.
Contents: What is SDR? Signal & System Overview. Probability Review. Digital Communications Review. Basic SDR Implementation of a Transmitter and a Receiver. Receiver Structure and Waveform Synthesis of a Transmitter and a Receiver. Multi-Carrier Modulation. Spectrum Sensing Techniques. Synchronization. Appendices.
Why Read This Book
You should read this book if you want a practical, lab-driven pathway from simulation to real over-the-air digital communication systems using software-defined radio. It shows you how design choices behave in the real world by walking you through Simulink experiments and SDR hardware prototypes so you can evaluate performance and trade-offs yourself.
Who Will Benefit
Graduate students, RF/communications engineers, and systems engineers who already know basic digital communications and want to prototype and test mobile communication links on SDR hardware.
Level: Intermediate — Prerequisites: Basic signals & systems and digital communications (modulation, sampling, basic channel models), plus familiarity with MATLAB/Simulink and basic programming.
Key Takeaways
- Prototype end-to-end digital communication links on SDR hardware and perform over-the-air experiments
- Implement modulation/demodulation, synchronization, and channel estimation algorithms in Simulink
- Evaluate link-level performance and real-world trade-offs such as RF impairments and latency
- Translate simulation models into real-time SDR implementations and manage hardware constraints
- Design and test OFDM-based and other modern modulation schemes in a practical lab environment
- Analyze measurement results to refine algorithms and optimize system-level parameters
Topics Covered
- Introduction to Software-Defined Radio and Mobile Communications
- SDR Hardware Platforms and RF Front-Ends (USRP overview)
- MATLAB/Simulink for SDR Prototyping and Publisher Labs
- Baseband Modulation and Demodulation Techniques (BPSK, QPSK, QAM)
- Synchronization: Timing, Carrier Recovery, and Frame Detection
- Channel Models, Estimation and Equalization
- OFDM Principles and Implementation in Simulink
- Link-Level Design, Performance Metrics and Testing
- Real-Time Implementation Issues and SDR Constraints
- Over-the-Air Lab Experiments and Measurement Procedures
- Advanced Topics: MIMO/Spatial Techniques and System Optimization
- Appendices: Hardware setup, Simulink experiment files, and troubleshooting
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How It Compares
Covers similar practical SDR/implementation ground as 'Software Defined Radio for Engineers' but Wyglinski places more emphasis on mobile-communications examples and publisher-provided Simulink lab files; it is far more hands-on than theory-heavy texts like Proakis or Tse.
