sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) radio link, 131, 386 Entropy of stationary source, 203 Directive gain of an antenna, 146 Enveloped carrier wave, 16 Discard Eligibility (DE) bit, 175 EPLRS (Enhanced Position Location Reporting System), 119 Discrete cosine transform (DCT), 503, 511-13 Equivalent isotropic radiated power (EIRP), 148 Discrete Fourier transform (DFT), 512, 513 Equivalent radiated power (ERP), 148 Discrete memoryless source (DMS), 200, 201, 203, 510, 511 Ericsson, 8 Dispersion, in transmission systems, 43 Error correction codes (ECC), 506, 517 Displaced macroblock difference (DMD), 520 Error-detection techniques, 239 'Distortionless transmission', 49 Error-resilience techniques, 239 Distributed coordination function interframe space (DIFS), ESPRIT technique, 342 388, 416 Ethernet frame, 387 Distributed interframe space (DIFS), 388, 389 European Broadcasting Union (EBU), 483 DMR (Digital Modular Radio), 121 ExecutableDevice, 105 Dodecahedral antenna, 314 Extended service set (ESS), 387, 415 Domain Profile, 107 Extended-SuperFrames, 167 Domestic Yagi arrays, 28 Extensible Markup Language (XML), 106, 107 Double superheterodyne receivers, 39 Extrinsic information, 215 Downlink scheduling, 296-9 Duplex, 190 Duty cycle, 437-8 Fading prediction, 367-70 DVD players, 466-7 Fast Fourier transform (FFT), 399 Dynamic Bandwidth Circuit Emulation Services (DBCES), and OFDM implementation, 282-4 Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 3, 141 Dynamic frequency selection (DFS), 394, 425 FHS (frequency hop synchronization), 429 Fiber optic cable designs, 453, 454, 455-6 Fiber optic connectors: E&M interface, 166 mechanical properties, 455, 456-7 Echo, 191 optical properties, 457, 458 EDTV sample rate selection, 484 types, 454, 455, 456 Effective Aperture Distribution Function (EADF) concept, Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), 76, 97-8 346-7 Finite difference time domain models, 317-18 Electric field strength, 145 Finite impulse response (FIR) filters, 521 Electrical transmission lines, types of, 44 First-generatio