Audio, video, and data telecommunications / David Petersen.
By: Petersen, David.
Material type: BookPublisher: London ; New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1992Description: xiii, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0077074270 .Subject(s): TelecommunicationDDC classification: 621.382Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 621.382 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016740 |
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Bibliography: p. 324-325 - Includes index.
Telecommunication signals - getting information across -- Channels and networks - carrying and routing signals -- Signal representation and channel frequency response - mathematical modelling -- Sinusoidal carrier modulation - altering carrier frequencies to suit a channel -- Radio receivers - recovering signals from carriers -- Television principles - encoding and decoding video signals -- Pulse carrier and pulse code modulation - exchanging information using pulse carriers -- Noise and errors - dealing with obscured signals -- Information theory - describing what is being telecommunicated -- The telephone network - making connections between subscribers -- Data communication systems - exchanging digitized information -- Summary and future trends - taking stock and speculating.