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 fit together and interact as you build the complete receiver. In addition to coverage of crucial issues, such as timing, carrier recovery and equalization, the text contains over 400 practical exercises, providing invaluable preparation for industry, where wireless communications and software radio are becoming increasingly important. A variety of extra resources are also provided online, including lecture slides and a solutions manual for instructors.

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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