Communication Systems Engineering with GNU Radio
eBook - PDF

Communication Systems Engineering with GNU Radio

A Hands-on Approach

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eBook - PDF

Communication Systems Engineering with GNU Radio

A Hands-on Approach

About this book

An approachable guide to an invaluable radio frequency communication toolkit

Software-defined radio (SDR), which emerged in the 1990s, has become a core development method in certain high-profile fields, including military and space communications. High cost and problems with hardware availability, however, prevented this technology from being widely disseminated. The advent of low-cost hardware beginning in the 2010s, however, has made GNU Radio—the leading open-source software toolkit for developing SDR systems—an increasingly viable and even critical tool for a new generation of radio frequency communication engineers.

Communication Systems Engineering with GNU Radio provides an accessible overview of this toolkit and its applications. Beginning with the fundamentals of using GNU radio for digital signal processing, the volume then moves to the practicalities of decoding data and the advantages of accessing raw data normally unavailable in hardware-defined radio frequency receivers. The result is a potentially crucial tool for engineers looking to adopt this cost-effective and flexible standard for transmitting and processing radio frequency signals.

Readers will also find:

  • A careful balance of radio communications theory with GNU Radio practicalities
  • Practical implementation examples employing well-developed open-source GNU Radio platforms
  • Extensive accompanying documentation and explanation

Communication Systems Engineering with GNU Radio is ideal for graduate and undergraduate students in communications systems courses, as well as professionals working in SDR.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. About the Authors
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Acronyms
  9. About the Companion Website
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter 1 Getting Started with GNU Radio: Synthetic Signals
  12. Chapter 2 Using GNU Radio with Signals Collected from SDR Hardware
  13. Chapter 3 Communicating with External Software (Python, Networking, ZeroMQ, MQTT)
  14. Chapter 4 Correlating: Passive and Active Software‐Defined Radio (SDR)–RADAR
  15. Chapter 5 Digital Communications in Action: Design and Realization of a QPSK Modem
  16. Chapter 6 Messages, Tags, and Packet Communications
  17. Chapter 7 A Digital Communication Standard: The DAB+ Radio Broadcasting System
  18. Chapter 8 QPSK and CCSDS Packets: Meteor‐M 2N Satellite Signal Reception
  19. Chapter 9 Custom Source and Sink Blocks: Adding Your Own Hardware Interface
  20. Chapter 10 Conclusion
  21. Index
  22. EULA