Principles of spread-spectrum communication systems

The level of presentation in this book is suitable for graduate students with a prior graduatelevel course in digital communication and for practicing engineers with a solid background in the theory of digital communication. As the title indicates, this book stresses principles rather than specific current or planned systems, which are described in many other books. Although the exposition emphasizes theoretical principles, the choice of specific topics is tempered by my judgment of their practical significance and interest to both researchers and system designers.

Throughout the book, learning is facilitated by many new or streamlined derivations of the classical theory. Problems at the end of each chapter are intended to assist readers in consolidating their knowledge and to provide practice in analytical techniques. The book is largely self-contained mathematically because of the four appendices, which give detailed derivations of mathematical results used in the main text.