Principles of Communications Networks and Systems

Addressing the fundamental technologies and theories associated with designing complex communications systems and networks, Principles of Communications Networks and Systems provides models and analytical methods for evaluating their performance. Including both the physical layer (digital transmission and modulation) and networking topics, the quality of service concepts belonging to the different layers of the protocol stack are interrelated to form a comprehensive picture.

The book is designed to present the material in an accessible but rigorous manner. It jointly addresses networking and transmission aspects following a unified approach and using a bottom up style of presentation, starting from requirements on transmission links all the way up to the corresponding quality of service at network and application layers. The focus is on presenting the material in an integrated and systematic fashion so that students will have a clear view of all the principal aspects and of how they interconnect with each other.

A comprehensive introduction to communications systems and networks, addressing both network and transmission topics

• Structured for effective learning, with basic principles and technologies being introduced before more advanced ones are explained
• Features examples of existing systems and recent standards as well as advanced digital modulation techniques such as CDMA and OFDM
• Contains tools to help the reader in the design and performance analysis of modern communications systems
• Provides problems at the end of each chapter, with answers on an accompanying website

Professor Nevio Benvenuto, University of Padova, Italy Professor Benvenuto was employed by Bell Laboratories to work on signal analysis problems and held faculty positions at the universities of Ancona and L'Aquila before being appointed as a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Padova. He is an Editor for Modulation/Detection of the IEEE Communications Society and is the author of Algorithms for Communications Systems and their Applications.

Professor Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy Professor Zorzi joined the faculty at the Information Engineering Department at the University of Padova in 2003. He has been a member of faculty at the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Ferrara in Italy, and he spent three years with the Center for Wireless Communications at UCSD. Zorzi was the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine in 2003―2005, is currently the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and serves on the Editorial Boards for a variety of respected journals. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.