Performance by Design or Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems

Performance by Design: Computer Capacity Planning by Example

Author: Daniel A Menasc

Practical systems modeling: planning performance, availability, security, and more

Computing systems must meet increasingly strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for performance, availability, security, and maintainability. To achieve these goals, designers, analysts, and capacity planners need a far more thorough understanding of QoS issues, and the implications of their decisions. Now, three leading experts present a complete, application-driven framework for understanding and estimating performance. You'll learn exactly how to map real-life systems to accurate performance models, and use those models to make better decisions--both up front and throughout the entire system lifecycle. Coverage includes:

• State-of-the-art quantitative analysis techniques, supported by extensive numerical examples and exercises
• QoS issues in requirements analysis, specification, design, development, testing, deployment, operation, and system evolution
• Specific scenarios, including e-Business and database services, servers, clusters, and data centers
• Techniques for identifying potential congestion at both software and hardware levels
• Performance Engineering concepts and tools
• Detailed solution techniques including exact and approximate MVA and Markov Chains
• Modeling of software contention, fork-and-join, service rate variability, and priority

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The accompanying Web site provides companion Excel workbooks that implement many of the book's algorithms and numerical examples.

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Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems

Author: B P Lathi

Lathi's trademark user-friendly and highly readable text presents a complete and modern treatment of communication systems. It begins by introducing students to the basics of communication systems without using probabilistic theory. Only after a solid knowledge base--an understanding of how communication systems work--has been built are concepts requiring probability theory covered. This third edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to include expanded coverage of digital communications. New topics discussed include spread-spectrum systems, cellular communication systems, global positioning systems (GPS), and an entire chapter on emerging digital technologies (such as SONET, ISDN, BISDN, ATM, and video compression).
Ideal for the first communication systems course for electrical engineers, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems offers students a superb pedagogical style; it consistently does an excellent job of explaining difficult concepts clearly, using prose as well as mathematics. The author makes every effort to give intuitive insights--rather than just proofs--as well as heuristic explanations of theoretical results wherever possible. Featuring lucid explanations, well-chosen examples clarifying abstract mathematical results, and excellent illustrations, this unique text is highly informative and easily accessible to students.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	Introduction to Signals	14
3	Analysis and Transmission of Signals	71
4	Amplitude (Linear) Modulation	151
5	Angle (Exponential) Modulation	208
6	Sampling and Pulse Code Modulation	251
7	Principles of Digital Data Transmission	294
8	Emerging Digital Communications Technologies	354
9	Some Recent Developments and Miscellaneous Topics	404
10	Introduction to Theory of Probability	434
11	Random Processes	487
12	Behavior of Analog Systems in the Presence of Noise	532
13	Behavior of Digital Communication Systems in the Presence of Noise	577
14	Optimum Signal Detection	626
15	Introduction to Information Theory	679
16	Error Correcting Codes	728
App. A	Orthogonality of Some Signal Sets	764
App. B	Schwarz Inequality	766
App. C	Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization of a Vector Set	768
	App. D: Miscellaneous	771
	Index	775