Simulation of
Communication Systems
Second Edition
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Simulation of
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Second Edition
Modeling, Methodology, and Techniques
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Preface
Since the first edition of the book was published, the field of modeling and simulation of
communication systems has grown and matured in many ways, and the use of simulation as a
day-to-day tool is now even more common practice. Many new modeling and simulation
approaches have been developed in the recent years, many more commercial simulation
packages are available, and the evolution of powerful general mathematical applications
packages has provided still more options for computer-aided design and analysis. With the
current interest in digital mobile communications, a primary area of application of modeling
and simulation is now to wireless systems of a different flavor than the traditional ones.
Since the objective of modeling and simulation is to study and evaluate the behavior and
performance of systems of current interest, the practice of simulation has naturally evolved
along with the types of systems that have emerged or are being designed for the future.
Nevertheless, to the extent that simulation is an embodiment of fundamental principles of
several disciplines, communication theory in particular, the practice of modeling and simu-
lation is still very much grounded in those basics. It is these principles, along with the many
tricks of the trade that accompany their application, that still form the main focus of this
second edition.
This edition represents a substantial revision of the first, partly to accommodate the new
applications that have arisen. The text has been extensively reorganized and expanded. It now
contains 13 chapters instead of the previous 7. Some of the former chapters have been divided
into more logical units, edited for greater clarity where needed, and extended in coverage for
selected topics. This division was made in part to facilitate the use of this book as a teaching
text. Two new chapters were added on material only lightly covered in the first edition. One
new chapter, on modeling and simulation of nonlinear systems, provides a fairly extensive
discussion of “black-box” modeling of nonlinear systems with memory, and a comple-
mentary section on related measurement techniques. As hinted above, perhaps the most
dramatic change in the communications/telecommunications industry since the first edition
has been the explosion of wireless services. In consequence, we have included a new chapter
on channel modeling, the bulk of which deals with multipath and fading channels, the usual
environment for wireless systems. As in the first edition, one chapter provides several case
studies as a means of illustrating different ways of approaching a problem and applying
specific modeling and computational techniques from the arsenal of possibilities available to
the simulation practitioner. The first case study is a thoroughly reworked version of a previous
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