Digital Modulation Techniques

ISBN 0-89006-970-0
Fuqin Xiong
674 pages.

"We recommend the book as reference for engineers and researchers in
communications. It can also be used by graduate students, or presented as a
half-year course. The information in this book is taken from prestigious journals
such as IEEE Transaction on Communications."
---Iasi Polytechnic Magazine 

"Digital Modulation Techniques is a self-contained, comprehensive and detailed
synthesis of nearly every digital modulation technique in use today. The author...has
succeeded admirably at the ambitious task of bringing together information that is largely
scattered throughout the engineering literature and presenting it in a form that is concise,
accurate, up to date, and extremely useful to the practicing engineer. Digital Modulation
Techniques provides a convenient single source of current information on the full spectrum of
modulation schemes and contemporary research in the field. Fortunately, the book does not
sacrifice detail for breadth...we are offered a self-contained source that does not require us
to make constant trips to the library or the Internet to 'fill in the gaps.' Digital Modulation
Techniques is not the sort of book that gathers dust on a shelf, but one used as a tool by
academics and practitioners in everday communication systems engineering...likely to become
a standard reference work in the telecommunications field. "
---IEEE Communications Magazine, June 2001 

"The book is well supported with easy to understand diagrams and a minimum of
mathematical derivations. It is well written and easily understood, and will make a good
addition to the reader's reference library."
---Microwave Journal, April 2001 

" This volume provides a comprehensive account of the modulation techniques used in digital
communication, covering principles and applications in detail. For each technique,
information is provided on operation principles, power efficiency, spectral characteristic,
modulator, demodulator, comparison with other techniques and applications. The book will
be a useful reference text for engineers, researchers, and graduate students with a good
background in Fourier series. " 
---Aslib Book Guide, Vol. 65 No. 5, May 2000 

From traditional techniques such as FSK, BPSK, QPSK, and QAM to state-of-the-art techniques
such as MSK, CPM, and MHPM and more, this new book is the first to cover the complete range of
digital modulation methods in one handy source. You develop an understanding of more than just
modulation technique principles, but practical applications as well.

This single volume covers the historical background of digital modulation, and examines operation
principles, symbol and bit error performance, and spectral characteristics. It also includes block diagrams and/or circuits of modulators, demodulators, carrier recovery, clock recovery and
comparison with other schemes. And in its comprehensive overview of digital modulation
applications, this book provides you a practical understanding of conventional, fixed microwave
terrestrial communications, satellite communications, mobile wireless, and mobile satellite communications.

Contents: Introduction. Baseband Modulation. Frequency Shift Keying. Phase Shift Keying.
Minimum Shift Keying. Continuous Phase Modulation. Multi-H Phase Shift Keying. Quadrature
Amplitude Modulation. Nonconstant-Envelope Bandwidth-Efficient Modulations. Performance of
Modulations in Fading Channels. Appendix A: Power Spectral Densities of Signals. Appendix B:
Detection of Signals. Index.