Digital Baseband Transmission and Recording

The main features of this text include: a survey of digital subscriber lines and digital magnetic and optical storage; a review of fundamental transmission and reception limits; an encyclopedic introduction to baseband modulation codes; development of a rich palette of equalization techniques; a coherent treatment of Viterbi detection and many near-optimum detection schemes; an overview of adaptive reception techniques that encompasses adaptive gain and slope control, adaptive detection, and novel forms of zero-forcing adaptation; an in-depth review of timing recovery and PLLs, with an extensive catalog of timing-recovery schemes. Featuring around 450 figures, 200 examples, 350 problems and exercises, and 750 references, this text is a reference source to engineers and researchers active in telecommunications and digital recording. It should also be useful for advanced courses in digital communications.