Advanced Electronic Communications Systems (6th Edition)

Comprehensive in scope and contemporary in coverage, this book extends and updates the knowledge of the reader to the most modern topics in Electronic Communications systems. Numerous examples throughout provide readers with real-life applications of the concepts of analog and digital communications systems, while chapter-end questions and problems give them a chance to test and review their understanding of fundamental and key topics. Modern digital and data communications systems, microwave radio communications systems, satellite communications systems, and optical fiber communications systems. Cellular and PCS telephone systems coverage presents the latest and most innovative technological advancements being made in cellular communication systems. Optical fiber communications chapter includes new sections on light sources, optical power, optical sources and link budget. Current topics include trellis encoding, CCITT modem recommendations, PCM line speed, extended superframe format, wavelength division multiplexing, Kepler's laws, Clark orbits, limits of visibility, Satellite Radio Navigation and Navstar GPS. For the study of electronic communications systems.

The sixth edition of Advanced Electronic Communications Systems provides a comprehensive coverage of modern systems including digital communications, optical fiber communications, terrestrial and satellite systems, and the wireless environment.

• Three chapters on telephone circuits and systems
• Two chapters on cellular and PCS telephone systems
• Three chapters on fundamental concepts of data communications and networking
• New and updated figures

This text is designed for undergraduate communications courses in which students have prior knowledge of some basic electronic principles as well as an understanding of mathematics through the fundamental concepts of calculus.