ABSTRACT

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.

part I|277 pages

Basic Principles

chapter 2|10 pages

Sampling

chapter 6|9 pages

Queuing*

chapter 7|8 pages

Multiplexing

chapter 10|13 pages

Signal Space

chapter 11|9 pages

Channel Models

chapter 16|10 pages

Diversity

part III|157 pages

Networks

chapter 32|6 pages

Ethernet Networks

chapter 37|11 pages

Transport Layer

part IV|168 pages

Optical

chapter 52|13 pages

Optical Amplifiers

chapter 53|11 pages

Coherent Systems

part V|172 pages

Satellite

chapter 63|18 pages

Path Diversity

part VI|446 pages

Wireless

chapter 69|11 pages

Access Methods

chapter 78|11 pages

Power Control

chapter 85|12 pages

Wireless LANs

part VII|117 pages

Source Compression

chapter 94|14 pages

Facsimile

chapter 95|13 pages

Speech

chapter 96|12 pages

Video

chapter 100|16 pages

Videoconferencing

part VIII|36 pages

Data Recording