Acronyms

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There are many acronyms in 422. I will try to catch the most common ones on this page, by chapter.

Chapter 7

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
 

Chapter 10

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

Chapter 11

AWGN - Additive White Gaussian Noise
PSD - Power Spectral Density
WSS -Wide Sense Stationary

Chapter 13

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

Chapter 14 and 15

BSC - Binary Symmetric Channel
ML - Maximum likelihood
 

 

04/30/2002