Software Receiver Design
Build your Own Digital Communication System in Five Easy Steps

Learn the key concepts and get hands-on experience with this step-by-step guide to constructing a fully functioning software receiver.

C. Richard Johnson, Jr (Author), William A. Sethares (Author), Andrew G. Klein (Author)

9780521189446, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 August 2011

480 pages, 235 b/w illus. 9 tables 421 exercises
24.4 x 16.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.77 kg

Have you ever wanted to know how modern digital communications systems work? Find out with this step-by-step guide to building a complete digital radio that includes every element of a typical, real-world communication system. Chapter by chapter, you will create a MATLAB realization of the various pieces of the system, exploring the key ideas along the way, as well as analyzing and assessing the performance of each component. Then, in the final chapters, you will discover how all the parts fit together and interact as you build the complete receiver. In addition to coverage of crucial issues, such as timing, carrier recovery and equalization, the text contains over 400 practical exercises, providing invaluable preparation for industry, where wireless communications and software radio are becoming increasingly important. A variety of extra resources are also provided online, including lecture slides and a solutions manual for instructors.

Part I. The Big Picture: 1. A digital radio
Part II. The Basic Components: 2. A telecommunication system
3. The six elements
Part III. The Idealized System: 4. Funny things
5. Analog (de)modulation
6. Sampling with automatic gain control
7. Digital filtering and the DFT
8. Bits to symbols to signals
9. Stuff happens
Part IV. The Adaptive Components: 10. Carrier recovery
11. Pulse shaping and receive filtering
12. Timing recovery
13. Linear equalization
14. Coding
Part V. Putting it All Together: 15. Make it so
A. Transforms, identities, and formulas
B. Simulating noise
C. Envelope of a bandpass signal
D. Relating the Fourier transform to the DFT
E. Power spectral density
F. The Z-transform: difference equations, frequency responses, open eyes, and loops
G. Averages and averaging
H. The B3IG transmitter.

Subject Areas: Signal processing [UYS], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ]