Multi-Carrier Digital Communications - Theory and Applications of OFDM (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: TRANSMISSION, PROCESSING AND) [Hardcover]

Ahmad R.S. Bahai (Author), Burton R. Saltzberg (Author), Ahmad Bahai (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 31, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0306462966 | ISBN-13: 978-0306462962 | Edition: 1

Multi-carrier modulation, in particular orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), has been successfully applied to a wide variety of digital communications applications for several years. Although OFDM has been chosen as the physical layer standard for a diversity of important systems, the theory, algorithms, and implementation techniques remain subjects of current interest. This book is intended to be a concise summary of the present state of the art of the theory and practice of OFDM technology. This book offers a unified presentation of OFDM theory and high speed and wireless applications. In particular, ADSL, wireless LAN, and digital broadcasting technologies are explained. It is hoped that this book will prove valuable both to developers of such systems, and to researchers and graduate students involved in analysis of digital communications, and will remain a valuable summary of the technology, providing an understanding of new advances as well as the present core technology.

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Multi-Carrier Digital Communications is essential both to developers of communications systems and to researchers and graduate students involved in analysis of digital communications, and will remain a valuable summary of the technology, providing an understanding of new advances as well as present core technology. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Multi-carrier modulation, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) particularly, has been successfully applied to a wide variety of digital communications applications over the past several years. Although OFDM has been chosen as the physical layer standard for a diversity of important systems, the theory, algorithms, and implementation techniques remain subjects of current interest. This is clear from the high volume of papers appearing in technical journals and conferences. Multi-carrier modulation continues to evolve rapidly. It is hoped that this book will remain a valuable summary of the technology, providing an understanding of new advances as well as the present core technology.

The Intended Audience

This book is intended to be a concise summary of the present state of the art of the theory and practice of OFDM technology. The authors believe that the time is ripe for such a treatment. Particularly based on one of the author’s long experience in development of wireless systems (AB), and the other’s in wireline systems (BS), we have at-tempted to present a unified presentation of OFDM performance and implementation over a wide variety of channels. It is hoped that this will prove valuable both to developers of such systems and to researchers and graduate students involved in analysis of digital communications. In the interest of brevity, we have minimized treatment of more general communication issues. There exist many excellent texts on communication theory and technology. Only brief summaries of top-ics not specific to multi-carrier modulation are presented in this book where essential. As a background, we presume that the reader has a clear knowledge of basic fundamentals of digital communications.

Highlights of the Second Edition

During the past few years since the publication of the first edition of this text, the technology and application of OFDM has continued their rapid pace of advancement. As a result, it became clear to us that a new edition of the text would be highly desirable. The new edition provides an opportunity to make those corrections and clarifications whose need became apparent from continued discussions with many readers. However, the main purpose is to introduce new topics that have come to the forefront during the past few years, and to amplify the treatment of other subject matter. Because of the particularly rapid development of wireless systems employing OFDM, we have introduced a section early in the text on wireless channel fundamentals. We have extended and modified our analysis of the effects of clipping, including simulation results that have been reported in a recent publication. These new results are re-stated here. A section on channel estimation has been added to the chapter on equalization. The chapter on local area networks has been greatly expanded to include the latest technology and applications. Two totally new chapters are added, on OFDM multiple access technology, ultra wideband technology, and WiMAX.

Organization of This Book

We begin with a historical overview of multi-carrier communications, wherein its advantages for transmission over highly dispersive chan-nels have long been recognized, particularly before the development of equalization techniques. We then focus on the bandwidth efficient technology of OFDM, in particular the digital signal processing tech-niques that have made the modulation format practical. Several chap-ters describe and analyze the sub-systems of an OFDM implementa-tion, such as clipping, synchronization, channel estimation, equaliza-tion, and coding. Analysis of performance over channels with various impairments is presented. The book continues with descriptions of three very important and diverse applications of OFDM that have been standardized and are now being deployed. ADSL provides access to digital services at sev-eral Mb/s over the ordinary wire-pair connection between customers and the local telephone company central office. Digital Broadcasting enables the radio reception of high quality digitized sound and video. A unique configuration that is enabled by OFDM is the simultaneous transmission of identical signals by geographically dispersed transmitters. And, the new development of wireless LANs for multi-Mb/s communications is presented in detail. Each of these successful applications required the development of new fundamental technology. Finally, the book concludes with describing the OFDM based multiple access techniques and ultra wideband technology. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 31, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0306462966
• ISBN-13: 978-0306462962
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,599,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Overall Basics Covered...BUT with extreme brevity, September 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Multi-Carrier Digital Communications - Theory and Applications of OFDM (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: TRANSMISSION, PROCESSING AND) (Hardcover)

This book attempts to cover all basic theory and practical of OFDM. It covers historical developments, future developments, the basic theory of OFDM, as well as concepts used with OFDM such as the equalization, pilot tones, and cyclic prefix methods. However, (partially due to the many on-going research projects in the area) most of the discussion is extremely terse. It is often necessary to look at the reference and other papers in order to get full understandings of certain topics. Hopefully as OFDM develops there will be another edition which has more depth.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The quite a guide on OFDM theory and applications, September 26, 2004

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Kathy Griffin - See all my reviews

This review is from: Multi-carrier Digital Communications: Theory And Applications Of OFDM (Hardcover)

I found this book very diverse and rich. It covers the theory of OFDM and continues with a very excellent through explanation of WLAN system and mentiones the uwb, adsl and wimax.

Theory and application sides of OFDM and multi-carrier communications has never been melted like this,

1.0 out of 5 stars The book is rubbish, October 20, 2009

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A. Wedisinghe (Washington, DC.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Multi-carrier Digital Communications: Theory And Applications Of OFDM (Hardcover)

I am not sure why the other reviewers are glorifying a book that throws down equations without explaining any of their terms. Essentially, the authors try to cover a lot of material, but none are covered in great detail. I would stay clear of this and stick to another to learn more on OFDM and MCM.