There are many acronyms in 422. I will try to catch the most common ones on this page, by chapter.
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| AMI - Alternate Mark Inversion | |
| ASK - Amplitude Shift Keying | |
| BPSK - Binary Phase Shift Keying | |
| DPSK - Differentially coherent Phase Shift Keying | |
| FSK - Frequency Shift Keying | |
| ISI - Intersymbol Interference | |
| NRZ - Non Return to Zero | |
| PSD - Power Spectral Density | |
| PSK - Phase Shift Keying | |
| QAM - Quadrature Amplitude Modulation | |
| QPSK - Quadrature Phase Shift Keying | |
| RZ - Return to Zero | |
| CDF - Cumulative Distribution Function | |
| CLT - Central Limit Theorem | |
| erf - error function (used to tabulate the Gaussian RV) | |
| erfc - complementary error function (used to tabulate the Gaussian RV) | |
| PDF - Probability Density Function | |
| RV - Random Variable |
| AWGN - Additive White Gaussian Noise | |
| PSD - Power Spectral Density | |
| WSS -Wide Sense Stationary |
| ASK - Amplitude Shift Keying | |
| AWGN - Additive White Gaussian Noise | |
| BER -Bit Error Rate | |
| BPSK - Binary Phase Shift Keying | |
| CDMA - code division multiple access | |
| CP-FSK - Continuous phase frequency shift keying | |
| DPSK - Differentially coherent Phase Shift Keying | |
| DS/SS - Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum | |
| FH/SS - Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum | |
| FSK - Frequency Shift Keying | |
| GMSK - Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying | |
| MAI - Multiple Access Interference | |
| MASK -Multi-amplitude shift keying | |
| MSK - Minimum Shift Keying | |
| Pb - Probability of bit error | |
| PN - pseudo-random noise | |
| PSD - Power Spectral Density | |
| PSK - Phase Shift Keying | |
| QAM - Quadrature Amplitude Modulation | |
| QPSK - Quadrature Phase Shift Keying |
| BSC - Binary Symmetric Channel | |
| ML - Maximum likelihood | |
04/30/2002