Electronic Communication Systems (Fourth Edition)

Author: WAYNETomasi
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: Series of foreign electronic and communication textbooks. This book is a professional textbook for undergraduate students in the United States, systematically covering comprehensive content in the field of electronic communication. It starts from the basic concepts of conventional analog electronic communication systems and extends to more modern digital, fiber-optic, microwave, satellite, and cellular and PCS telephone communication systems. The book consists of 20 chapters, including an introduction to electronic communication, signal generation, amplitude modulation transmission and reception, single-sideband communication systems, angle modulation transmission and reception, transmission lines, radio wave propagation, antennas and waveguides, fiber-optic communication, digital communication, data communication, data communication protocols and network configuration, digital transmission, multiplexing, microwave radio communication and system gain, satellite communication, satellite multiple access, and mobile telephone services. It covers content related to communication principles, communication circuits, radio waves and antennas, digital and data communication, and communication systems, spanning multiple courses. The prerequisite courses are calculus fundamentals and electronic circuits. The book includes numerous examples to reinforce fundamental concepts, as well as a large number of problems and exercises for readers to review and practice. This book can be used as a textbook for the electronic communication systems course in communication engineering programs, or as a supplementary textbook for related courses or reference material for self-study by technical professionals.