This book is intended for courses at least at Masters level to provide an introduction to the field of signal processing in telecommunications. The text therefore deals mainly with source coding, channel coding, modulation and demodulation. Adaptive channel equalisation, the signal processing aspects of adaptive antennas as well as multi-user detectors for CDMA are also included. Shorter sections on link budget, synchronising and cryptography are also included. Network aspects are not discussed and very little is given about wave propagation. The book aims to give the reader an understanding of the fundamental signal processing functions and of the methods used when analysing the capacity of a complete communication system.
