Engineering Bookshelf

Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook
by Ray Horak

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
ISBN: 0470396075

Finally, there is a commonsense guide to telecommunications and data communications that non-engineers can understand. Popular author Ray Horak provides comprehensive, up-to-date information in plain English, instead of confusing technotalk.

Comprehensive survey of telecom and datacom technologies and services, from the most basic to the most complex, sets the technologies in context, providing an excellent level of detail on the origin and evolution of fiber optics, cellular radio, digital carrier systems, TCP/IP, and the Internet. Complete with a discussion of the current regulatory and business environments, including divestiture and revestiture as well as mergers and acquisitions, this is the ideal reference for non-engineering professionals in the end-user, carrier, content or service provider, manufacturing, regulatory, or financial communities.

Telecommunication System Engineering
by Roger L. Freeman

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
ISBN: 0471451339

Through its three previous editions, Roger Freeman’s Telecommunication System Engineering has become a must-have reference on telecommunication networks. Since the third edition appeared in 1996, telecommunications has evolved exponentially, growing more multifaceted in its forms and applications, and more pervasive in everyday life.

This new edition of Telecommunication System Engineering answers the challenges of today’s telecommunication industry by presenting a technical overview of telecommunication networks from a system viewpoint, demonstrating how disciplines can interact to achieve desired goals.

Telecommunications System Reliability Engineering, Theory, and Practice
by Mark L. Ayers

Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
ISBN: 1118130510

Engineers in the telecommunications industry must be able to quantify system reliability and availability metrics for use in service level agreements, system design decisions, and daily operations. Increasing system complexity and software dependence require new, more sophisticated tools for system modeling and metric calculation than those available in the current literature.

Telecommunications System Reliability Engineering, Theory, and Practice provides a background in reliability engineering theory as well as detailed sections discussing applications to fiber optic networks (earth station and space segment), microwave networks (long-haul, cellular backhaul and mobile wireless), satellite networks (teleport and VSAT), power systems (generators, commercial power and battery systems), facilities management, and software/firmware. Programming techniques and examples for simulation of the approaches presented are discussed throughout the book.

Understanding Fiber Optics
by Jeff Hecht

Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0131174290

Ideal for technicians, entry-level engineers, and other nonspecialists, this practical, thorough, and accessible introduction to fiber optics reflects the expertise of an author who has followed the field for over 20 years.

This book is thorough, up to date, and provides comprehensive and intuitive introduction to fiber optics. With mathematics limited to basic algebra, the book takes a practical approach to understanding fiber optics. It thoroughly describes important concepts for the novice, building up an understanding of optical fibers, their properties, light sources and detectors, and fiber-optic components and their application in fiber-optic systems.

Fiber Optic Communications
by Joseph C. Palais

Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0130085103

The fifth edition of Fiber Optic Communications by Joseph C. Palais marks the book's twentieth anniversary. In the 20 years since the first edition of the book was published, fiber optics systems have become more flexible and less costly and information capacity and transmission length have increased.

This edition includes the many new and improved components and system architectures that have been added to the fiber-optic-communications designer's tool kit.

Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering
by Henry W. Ott

Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0470189304

Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering is a completely revised, expanded, and updated version of Henry Ott's popular book Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic Systems. It reflects the most recent developments in the field of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and noise reduction¿and their practical applications to the design of analog and digital circuits in computer, home entertainment, medical, telecom, industrial process control, and automotive equipment, as well as military and aerospace systems.

While maintaining and updating the core information such as cabling, grounding, filtering, shielding, digital circuit grounding and layout, and ESD that made the previous book such a wide success.

Telecommunications Wiring
by Clyde N. Herrick

Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0130286966

Resource for wiring professionals has just been updated to reflect the latest media, wiring schemes, products, and techniques - plus critical new safety and fire requirements from the latest National Fire Code (NEC).

Telecommunications Wiring, Third Edition offers the industry's most coherent, end-to-end approach to designing and implementing cabling systems. It delivers every skill you need, across the entire system lifecycle: planning, selecting media, defining architectures, creating successful RFPs, choosing vendors, installation, testing, documentation, and maintenance.