Wiley Survival Guide in Global Telecommunications : Signaling Principles, Protocols, and Wireless Systems

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A survival guide to global telecommunication technologies

As our world grows ever more complex, no one can expect to be knowledgeable in, let alone master every technology. But as telecommunications technologies permeate nearly every aspect of our lives, gaining a working understanding of their principles and applications has become essential for both professional and personal success. For the undergraduate student preparing for his or her future vocation, as well as the accomplished professional on track for a rapid career move, this book is the "survival guide" to telecommunications–a quick introduction to the most important telecom technologies. Written with accuracy and rigor, this guide avoids any unnecessary background or academic style in order to introduce you directly to the core knowledge and understanding.

Wiley Survival Guide in Global Telecommunications: Broadband Access, Optical Components and Networks, and Cryptography provides in-depth discussions of key areas in telecommunications, including:

• Broadband wireline access (xDSL flavors, VoDSL, FTTx, xPON, HFC, home networking)
• Optical communications, from planar/fiber waveguides to passive/active photonic components, including fiber gratings, erbium/Raman fiber amplifiers, E/O switches, semiconductor lasers, SOA-based devices, photoreceivers, and optical cross-connects
• WDM transport and standards, network integration, protection, evolution, and convergence
• Cryptography, from ancestral algorithms to modern RSA, DES, and AES, and quantum key distribution
• Communications security over the Internet and current/futuristic applications

Designed to be accessible to a wide range of readers, the book steers you directly into the relevant issues, while elucidating the science and engineering involved without heavy-duty mathematics, allowing you to produce results using your pocket calculator. You can read each chapter in sequence or, if you prefer, jump to topics of interest as you wish. A wealth of easy and practical exercises illustrate the concepts, chapter-end summaries of main keywords and acronyms clarify the technical language, and a selected reference list including Web sites leads you to other helpful sources for further investigation.

Arm yourself with the knowledge you need to survive in the telecom world by reading this book!

Table of Contents:

Foreword.

Preface.

Acronyms.

Introduction: The Network Cloud.

Chapter 1. Signal Modulation, Coding, Detection and Processing.

1.1 Waves and Analog Signals.

1.2 Digital Signals and Coding.

1.3 Analog to Digital Voice Conversion.

1.4 Channel Noise.

1.5 Binary Transmission and Detection.

1.6 Error-Correction Coding.

1.7 Channel Information Capacity.

Chapter 2. Telephony and Data Networking.

2.1 Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTN) and Services.

2.2 Analog Frequency-Division Multiplexing.

2.3 Plesiosynchronous Multiplexing.

2.4 Packet-Switched Networks.

2.5 Local-Area Networks.

Chapter 3. An Overview of Core-network Transmission Protocols.

3.1 Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) and Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) Protocols.

3.2 Asynchronous Transfer-Mode (ATM) Protocol.

3.3 Transmission Control (TCP) and Internet (IP) Protocols.

Chapter 4. Wireless Communications.

4.1 Basic Physics of Radio-wave Signals.

4.2 Moblie Radio Communications.

4.3 Satellite-based Communications.

4.4 Fixed Wireless Networks.

Solution to Exercises.

Bibliography.

Index.

描述：
這是一本關於全球電信技術的生存指南。隨著世界變得越來越複雜，沒有人能指望自己對每一種技術都有所了解，更不用說精通了。但是隨著電信技術滲透到我們生活的幾乎每個方面，對其原理和應用的工作理解變得對於專業和個人的成功都至關重要。對於準備迎接未來職業的大學生，以及正在迅速職業發展的專業人士，這本書是電信技術的“生存指南”-一本快速介紹最重要的電信技術的書籍。這本指南以準確和嚴謹的方式撰寫，避免了任何不必要的背景或學術風格，直接介紹核心知識和理解。

《Wiley全球電信生存指南：寬頻接入、光學元件和網絡以及加密學》深入討論了電信領域的關鍵領域，包括：
- 寬頻有線接入（xDSL、VoDSL、FTTx、xPON、HFC、家庭網絡）
- 光通信，從平面/光纖波導到被動/主動光子元件，包括光纖光柵、鉭/拉曼光纖放大器、E/O開關、半導體激光器、SOA器件、光接收器和光交換
- WDM傳輸和標準，網絡集成、保護、演進和融合
- 加密學，從古老的算法到現代的RSA、DES和AES，以及量子密鑰分發
- 互聯網上的通信安全和當前/未來的應用

這本書旨在讓廣大讀者都能理解，引導您直接進入相關問題，同時解釋涉及的科學和工程，而不需要繁重的數學，讓您可以使用口袋計算器獲得結果。您可以按順序閱讀每一章，或者根據自己的興趣跳到感興趣的主題。豐富的簡單實用的練習示例說明了概念，章末的主要關鍵詞和縮略語摘要澄清了技術語言，選定的參考書目包括網站引導您到其他有用的資源進一步研究。

通過閱讀這本書，武裝自己以應對電信世界所需的知識！

目錄：
前言
前言
縮略語
引言：網絡雲
第1章：信號調製、編碼、檢測和處理
1.1 波和類比信號
1.2 數字信號和編碼
1.3 類比到數字語音轉換
1.4 通道噪聲
1.5 二進制傳輸和檢測
1.6 錯誤校正編碼
1.7 通道信息容量
第2章：電話和數據網絡
2.1 公共交換電話網（PSTN）和服務