For more than six years, The Communications Handbook stood as the definitive, one-stop reference for the entire field. With new chapters and extensive revisions that reflect recent technological advances, the second edition is now poised to take its place on the desks of engineers, researchers, and students around the world.

From fundamental theory to state-of-the-art applications, The Communications Handbook covers more areas of specialty with greater depth that any other handbook available.

• Telephony
• Communication Networks
• Optical Communications
• Satellite Communications
• Wireless Communications
• Source Compression
• Data Recording

Expertly written, skillfully presented, and masterfully compiled, The Communications Handbook provides a perfect balance of essential information, background material, technical details, and international telecommunications standards. Whether you design, implement, buy, or sell communications systems, components, or services, you'll find this to be the one resource you can turn to for fast, reliable, answers.

• Extensive revisions that reflect the many significant developments of the last six years
• New chapters focusing on wireless technologies and next-generation networking
• An impressive team of authors from around the world, all leaders in their fields
• Unparalleled depth and breadth of coverage
• Outstanding organization that makes it easy to find the information you need
• A table of contents, references, and sections for Defining Terms and Further Information in each chapter

Contents

• Complex Envelope Representations for Modulated Signals, Leon W. Couch, II
• Sampling, Hwei P. Hsu
• Pulse Code Modulation, Leon W. Couch, II
• Probabilities and Random Variables, Michael O' Flynn
• Random Processes, Autocorrelation, and Spectral Densities, Lew E. Franks
• Queuing, Richard H. Williams
• Multiplexing, Martin S. Roden
• Pseudonoise Sequences, Tor Helleseth and P. Vijay Kumar
• D/A and A/D Convertors, Susan A.R. Garrod
• Signal Space, Rodger E. Ziemer
• Channel Models, David E. Smith
• Optimum Receivers, Geoffrey C. Orsak
• Forward Error Correction Coding, V.K. Bhargava and I.J. Fair
• Automatic Repeat Request, David Haccoun and Samuel Pierre
• Spread Spectrum Communications, Laurence B. Milstein and Marvin K. Simon
• Diversity, Arogyaswami J. Paulraj
• Information Theory, Bixio Rimoldi and Rudiger Urbanke
• Digital Communication System Performance, Bernard Sklar
• Synchronization, Costas N. Georghiades
• Digital Modulation Techniques, Ezio Biglieri

• Plain Old Telephone Service(POTS), A. Michael Noll
• FDM Hierarchy, Pierre Catala
• Analog Telephone Channels and the Subscriber Loop, Whitham D. Reeve
• Baseband Signalling and Pulse Shaping, Michael L. Honig and Melbourne Barton
• Channel Equalization, John G. Proakis
• Pulse-Code Modulation Codec Filters, Michael D. Floyd and Garth D. Hillman
• Digital Hierarchy, B.P Lathi and Maynard A. Wright
• Line Coding, Joseph L. LoCicero and Bhasker P. Patel
• Telecommunications Network Synchronization, Madihally J. Narasimha
• Echo Cancellation, Giovanni Cherubini

• The Open Systems Interconnections (OSI) Seven-Layer Model, Frederick Halsall
• Ethernet Networks, Ramesh R. Rao
• Fiber Distributed Data Interface and Its Use for Time-Critical Applications, Biao Chen, Nicholas Malcolm and Wei Zhao,
• Broadband Local Area Networks, Joseph A. Bannister
• Multiple Access Methods For Communications Networks, Izhak Rubin
• Routing and Flow Control, Rene L. Cruz
• Transport Layer, A. Udaya Shankar
• Gigabit Networks, Jonathan M. Smith
• Local Area Networks, Thomas G. Robertazzi
• Asynchronous Time Division Switching, Achille Pattavina
• Internetworking, Harrell J. Van Norman
• Architectural Framework for ATM Networks: Broadband Network Services, Gerald A. Marin, Raif O. Onvural
• Service Control and Management in Next Generation Networks: Challenges and Opportunities, Abdi R. Modarressi and Seshadri Mohan

• Fiber Optic Communications Systems, Joseph C. Palais
• Optical Fibers and Lightwave Propagation, Paul Diament
• Optical Source for Telecommunications, N.K. Dutta and N. Choudhury
• Optical Transmitters, Alistair J. Price, Ken D. Pedrotti
• Optical Receivers, Richard G. Smith, Byron L. Kasper
• Fiber Optic Connectors and Splices, William C. Young
• Passive Optical Components, Joseph C. Palais
• Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, Daniel J. Blumenthal
• Optical Amplifiers, Anders Bjarklev
• Coherent Systems, Shinji Yamashita
• Fiber Optic Applications, Chung-Sheng Li
• Wavelength-Division Multiplexed Systems and Applications, Mari W. Maeda

• Geostationary Communications Satellites and Applications, Bruce R. Elbert
• Satellite Systems, Robert L. Douglas
• The Earth Station, David R. Pritchard
• Satellite Transmission Impairments, Louis J. Ippolito, Jr.
• Satellite Link Design, Peter P. Nuspl, Jahangir A. Tehranil
• The Calculation of System Temperature for a Microwave Receiver, Wilbur Pritchard
• Onboard Switching and Processing, Ahmed K. Elhakeem
• Path Diversity, Curt A. Levis
• Mobile Satellite Systems, John Lodge and Michael Moher
• Satellite Antennas, Yeonhming Hwang and Youn Ho Choung
• Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, Erwin C. Hudson

• Wireless Personal Communications: A Perspective, Donald C. Cox
• Modulation Methods, Gordon L. Stüber
• Access Methods, Bernd-Peter Paris
• Rayleigh Fading Channels, Bernard Sklar
• Space-Time Processing, Arogyaswami J. Paulraj
• Location Strategies for Personal Communications Services, Ravi K. Jain, Yi-Bing Lin, and Seshadri Mohan
• Cell Design Principles, Michel Daoud Yacoub
• Microcellular Radio Communications, Raymond Steele
• Microcellular Reuse Patterns, Michel D. Yacoub and Paula R. C. Gomez
• Fixed and Dynamic Channel Assignment, Bijan Jabbari
• Radiolocation Techniques, Gordon L. Stüber and James J. Caffery, Jr.
• Power Control, Roman Pichna and Qiang Wang
• Enhancements in Second Generation Systems, Marc Delprat and Vinod Kumar
• The Pan-European Cellular System, Lajos Hanzo
• Speech and Channel Coding for North American TDMA Cellular Systems, Paul Mermelstein
• The British Cordless Telephone Standard: CT-2, Lajos Hanzo
• Half-Rate Standards, Wai-Yip Chan, Ira Gerson, and Toshio Miki
• Wireless Video Communications, Madhukar Budagavi and Raj Talluri
• Wireless LANs, Suresh Singh
• Wireless Data, Allen H. Levesque and Kaveh Pahlavan
• Wireless ATM: Interworking Aspects, Melbourne Barton, Matthew Cheng, and Li Fung Chang
• Wireless ATM: QoS and Mobility Management, Bala Rajagopalan and Daniel Reininger
• An Overview of cdmaWCDMA, and EDGE, Tero Ojanperä and Steven D. Gray
• Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Wireless Systems , Helmut Bölcskei and Arogyaswami J. Paulraj
• Near-Instantaneously Adaptive Wireless Transceivers of the Near Future , Lie-Liang Yang and Lajos Hanzo NEW!
• Ad-Hoc Routing Techniques for Wireless LANs, Ahmed K. Elhakeen

• Lossless Compression, Khalid Sayood, Nasir D. Memon
• Facsimile, Nasir D. Memon and Khalid Sayood
• Speech, Boneung Koo
• Video, Eric Dubois
• High Quality Audio Coding, Peter Noll
• Cable, Jeff Hamilton, Mark Kolber, Charles E. Schell, Len Taupier
• Video Servers, A.L. Narasimha Reddy, Roger Haskin
• Videoconferencing, Madhukar Budagavi

• Magnetic Storage, Jaekyun Moon
• Magnetic-Optical Disk Data Storage, Masud Mansuripur