I am pleased to welcome the readers to the Wiley Encyclopedia
of Telecommunications. The Encyclopedia contains
275 tutorial articles focused on modern telecommunications
topics. The contents include articles on communication
networks, source coding and decoding, channel
coding and decoding, modulation and demodulation, optical
communications, satellite communications, underwater
acoustic communications, radio propagation, antennas,
multiuser communications, magnetic storage systems, and
a variety of standards. Additional details on these topics
are given below. The authors of these articles were
selected for their expertise and leadership in their respective
areas in the field of telecommunications. All of the
authors possess advanced graduate degrees and have published
widely in prestigious international journals and
conferences.
COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
There are approximately 60 articles on the subject of
communication networks, including several articles on
protocols, such as the wireless application protocol (WAP)
and MAC protocols; network flow; congestion control;
admission control broadband integrated digital networks;
local area networks and standards; satellite networks;
network reliability and fault tolerance; DWDM ring
networks, wireless ad hoc networks; and multi-protocol
label switching (MPLS).
MODULATION AND DEMODULATION
There are over 40 articles covering various basic modulation
and demodulation techniques, including analog
amplitude modulation (AM), frequency modulation (FM)
and phase modulation; digital modulation techniques,
namely, pulse amplitude modulation (PAM); phase-shift
keying (PSK), quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM),
continuous-phase modulation (CPM); continuous-phase
frequency shift-keying (CPFSK); partial response signals;
spread spectrum modulation; adaptive equalization; turbo
equalization; and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
(OFDM).
OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
There are approximately 30 articles about optical
communication, including articles on optical modulation;
optical detectors; optical amplifiers; optical correlators;
optical filters; photonic A/D conversion; optical transport;
opticalmultiplexers and demultiplexers, optical switching;
and characterization of optical fibers.
ANTENNAS
Various types of antennas and antenna arrays are
described in 10 articles, including parabolic antennas;
microstrip antennas; waveguide antennas; television
antennas; loop antennas; horn antennas; leaky wave
antennas; and helical and spiral antennas.
PROPAGATION
Six articles are devoted to electromagnetic radio signal
propagation, including propagation at very low frequencies
(VLF), low frequencies (LF), medium frequencies (MF),
high frequencies (HF), very high frequencies (VHF),
microwave frequencies, and millimeter wave frequencies.
CHANNEL CODING AND DECODING
Approximately 35 articles cover various channel codes and
decoding algorithms, including BCH codes; convolutional
codes; concatenated codes; trellis codes; space-time codes;
turbo codes; Gold codes; Kasami codes; Golay codes; finite
geometry codes; codes for magnetic recording channels;
Viterbi decoding algorithm; and sequential decoding
algorithm.
SOURCE CODING AND DECODING
Eight articles cover various data compression and source
coding and decoding methods, including waveform coding
techniques such as pulse code modulation (PCM) and
differential PCM (DPCM); linear predictive coding (LPC);
Huffman coding; and high definition television (HDTV).
MULTIUSER COMMUNICATION
There are 12 articles focused on multiuser communications,
including multiple access techniques such as
code-division multiple access (CDMA), frequency-division
multiple access (FDMA), time-division multiple access
(TDMA), and carrier-sense multiple access (CSMA);Ethernet
technology; multiuser detection algorithms; and thirdgeneration
(3G) digital cellular communication systems.
ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS
There are 5 articles on acoustic communications dealing
with acoustic transducers; underwater acoustic communications
and telemetry; underwater acoustic moderns, and
acoustic echo cancellation.
SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
Two articles focus on geosynchronous satellite communications
and on low-earth-orbit (LEO) and medium-earthorbit
(MEO) satellite communication systems.

John G. Proakis, Editor
Northeastern University

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