Digital Communications: Microwave Applications

| Typical Equation or Section Reference | ||
| ? | Received phase | Eq. 3.13 |
| ? | Roll-off factor | Sec. 3.1 |
| ? | Phase error between the combined modulated carriers and recovered carrier phase | Fig. 10.8 |
| ?(t) | Impulse | Sec. 7.2 |
| ? f s | Bit stuffing rate | Sec. 9.3 |
| ? f | Bandwidth of the amplifier in Hertz | Eq. 4.12 |
| ? =e ?j 2 ?fT | One delay unit | Sec. 7.2 |
| ? 2 = e ?j 4 ?fT | Two delay unit | Sec. 7.2 |
| ? | Sampling instant | Sec. 3.2 |
| ? | Overall efficiency of an amplifier | Sec. 4.1 |
| ? k | Uniformly distributed random phase of the kth sine wave | Eq. 2.28 |
| Typical Equation or Section Reference | ||
| ? 1, ? 2, ? 0 | Angle of emission | Sec. 5.3.2 |
| ? | Parameter, companding characteristics | Fig. 1.11 |
| ? | Rms or root-mean-square value | Eq. 2.14 |
| ? 2 | Variance | Eq. 2.13 |
| ? | Average duration of a fade | Eq. 5.7 |
| | Fourier transform | Sec. 7.2 |
| | Clock pulses | Sec. 7.6.2 |
| A | ||
| A | Peak amplitude of the carrier wave | Eq. 10.1 |
| A | Roughness factor | Eq. 5.3 |
| A/D | Analog-to-digital converter | Sec. 1.1 |
| AGC | Automatic gain control | Sec. 11.1 |
| AM-AM | AM to AM conversion | Sec. 6.4 |
| AM-PM | AM to PM conversion | Sec. 6.4 |
| APK | Amplitude phase keyed | Sec. 3.4 |
| Sec. 8.1 | ||
| AWGN | Additive white gaussian noise | Sec. 2.5 |
| A t | Binary input sequence | Sec. 7.2 |
| a n | Original sequence | Sec. 7.3 |
| | Attenuation mask | Eq. 9.1 |
| Average ac symbol power | Eq. 3.5 | |
| A 2 | Constant proportional to PSK power | Eq. |