Communication Systems/Print Version

__NOTOC__ Communication Systems Current Status: 25% Introduction This book will eventually cover a large number of topics in the field of electrical communications. The reader will also require a knowledge of Time and Frequency Domain representations, which is covered in-depth in the Signals and Systems book. This book will, by necessity, touch on a number of different areas of study, and as such is more than just a text for aspiring Electrical Engineers. This book will discuss topics of analog communication schemes, computer programming, network architectures, information infrastructures, communications circuit analysis, and many other topics. It is a large book, and varied, but it should be useful to any person interested in learning about an existing communication scheme, or in building their own. Where previous Electrical Engineering books were grounded in theory (notably the Signals and Systems book), this book will contain a lot of information on current standards, and actual implementations. It will discuss how current networks and current transmission schemes work, and may even include information for the intrepid engineer to create their own versions of each. This book is still in an early stage of development. Many topics do not yet have pages, and many of the current pages are stubs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Table of Contents Communications Introduction Communications History Communications Basics Baseband and Broadband Signals Time Division Multiplexing Frequency-Division Multiplexing Voltage-Controlled Oscillators (VCO) Envelope Filters (Envelope Detectors) What is Modulation? Analog vs. Digital Communication Mediums Coherent Receivers Analog Modulation Analog Modulation Introduction Amplitude Modulation (AM) Frequency Modulation (FM) Phase Modulation (PM) FM and PM Generalization Transmission Wave Propagation Noise Figure Wired Transmission Wireless Transmission Space-Division Multiplexing Digital Modulation Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) Binary Modulation Schemes M-ary Modulation Schemes Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) Noncoherent Receivers Line Codes Analog Networks Circuit Switching Networks Cable Television Network Radio Communications Digital Networks Parallel vs Serial OSI Reference Model Channels Internet Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) Wireless Internet Hybrid Networks Analog and Digital TV Analog and Digital Telephony Advanced Internet Berkeley Socket API IP Protocol and ICMP TCP and UDP Protocols HTTP Protocol FTP Protocol Routing Coding and Security Transmission Codes Code-Division Multiplexing Lossless Data Compression Error Correcting Codes Appendices IEEE 802 Working Groups Further reading Wikibooks Communication Theory Voice over IP Internet Technologies Networking:Ports and Protocols Internet Engineering Serial Communications Bookshelf Analog and Digital Conversion Wireless Mesh Networks Wikipedia Articles Wikipedia:History Of Internet Books Garcia and Widjaja, "Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures", Second Edition, McGraw Hill, 2004. 007246352X Stern and Mahmoud, "Communication Systems: Analysis and Design", Prentice Hall, 2004. 0130402680 Silage, Dennis, "Digital Communication Systems Using SystemVue", DaVinci Engineering Press, 2006. 1584508507 Haykin and Moher, "Modern Wireless Communications", Prentice Hall, 2005. 0130224723 Gibson, Jerry D. "Principles of Digital and Analog Communications, Second Edition", Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989. 0023418605