Offers electrical engineers 22 core problems that lie at the heart of the architecture, design, and performance of contemporary telecommunications systems. After reviewing deterministic and probabilistic analysis, considers such aspects as surrogate functions including signals and periodic and transient functions, random variables and processes, queuing models, noise, information theory, radio signals and modulation, characteristics of shared media systems, and satellite systems. Includes very few bibliographic references. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
E. BRYAN CARNE is the author of the best-selling companion volume, Telecommunications Primer. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of London and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. For over 30 years, he held positions in engineering and marketing in computer, aerospace, and telecommunications companies. He resides in Peterborough, NH.