For junior/senior-level courses in Advanced Topics in Electronic Communications.
Comprehensive in scope and contemporary in coverage, this text explores modern digital and data communications systems, microwave radio communications systems, satellite communications systems, and optical fiber communications systems. This text is the last 10 chapters from the Tomasi Electronic Communication Systems: Fundamental Through Advanced, 4/e.
Advanced Electronic Communications Systems, Fifth Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of the field of digital communications. It extends and updates the knowledge of the reader to more modern digital communications systems, optical fiber communications systems, terrestrial and microwave radio communications systems, satellite communications systems, and cellular and PCS telephone communications systems.
In addition to updating all topics in order t present the latest information available in this fast-changing field, completely new sections have been added in this edition to include coverage of the following important topics:
- Trellis encoding
- CCITT modem recommendations
- PCM line speed
- Extended superframe format
- Wavelength division multiplexing
- Kepler's laws
- Clark orbits
- Limits of visibility
Also included is an entirely new chapter (Chapter 10) which is devoted to critical coverage of:
- Mobile telephone systems (including AMPS, PCS, and PCSS)
This text is written for use in undergraduate level electronic communications courses in which students have prior knowledge of some of the basic electronic principles as well as an understanding of mathematics through the fundamental concepts of calculus.