Based on the popular Artech House classic, Digital Communication Systems Engineering with Software-Defined Radio, this book provides a practical approach to quickly learning the software-defined radio (SDR) concepts needed. It explains how to create wireless design prototypes using SDR for real-world testing and experimentation and discusses advanced wireless communication techniques such as OFDM, LTE, WLA, and hardware targeting. Readers will gain an understanding of the core concepts behind wireless hardware, such as the radio frequency front-end, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, as well as various processing technologies. The book also includes details about HDL code generation and deployment as well as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. This volume includes chapters on timing estimation, matched filtering, frame synchronization message decoding, and source coding. It concludes with coverage of the WLAN toolbox with OFDM beacon reception and the LTE toolbox with downlink reception. Multiple case studies are presented throughout the book, and MATLAB and Simulink source codes are included to assist students and professionals with projects in the field.

This unique resource provides engineers and students with a practical approach to quickly learning the software-defined radio concepts they need to know for their work in the field. By prototyping and evaluating actual digital communication systems capable of performing "over-the-air" wireless data transmission and reception, this volume helps readers attain a first-hand understanding of critical design trade-offs and issues. Moreover, professionals gain a sense of the actual "real-world" operational behavior of these systems. With the purchase of the book, readers gain access to several ready-made Simulink experiments at the publisher's website. This collection of laboratory experiments, along with several examples, enables engineers to successfully implement the designs discussed the book in a short period of time. These files can be executed using MATLAB version R2011b or later.