long, is by far the best and easiest to read book in the area of CDMA. It's wonderfully complete, nicely written, and just an all- around gem. For further reading about wireless telecommunications, consider: 14. T. Rappaport, Wireless Communications. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996. If you want to learn about the wireless world, I would recommend in particular the first four chapters in this book as an introduction. Rappaport does a wonderful job of providing an easy-to-read vision of the wireless communication channel, the first step to a good understanding of the wireless world. Index 3-dB bandwidth, 55 baseband signal, 322 4-ASK, 126, 143 BASK, 143 4-FSK, 129 Bayes' Rule, 154 4-PSK, 129, 146, 151 benefits of block coders, 192 4-PSK signals, 140 BFSK, 129 8-ASK, 127, 143 Binary ASK, 125 8-FSK, 129 bipolar RZ, 118 8-PSK, 129, 141, 142 bit rate, 94, 95 u-law description, 91 bit-to-symbol mapper, 98 bit-to-symbol mapping, 95 block coding, 172 A-law description, 91 BPF, 18, 57 absolute bandwidth, 55 BPSK, 127, 165 additive white gaussian noise, 147 BPSK modulator, 139, 162, 222, 225 aliasing, 65 burst, 304 alternative mark inversion, 118 BW compression, 123 AM, 322, 340, 341 AM modulator, 325 AM modulators, 323 carrier interferometry multiple access, 315 AM receiver, 339 catastrophic code, 214, 215 amplitude modulation, 322 CDMA, 306, 310 amplitude shift-keying, 125 cell, 74 analog, 6 Centroid Rule, 83 analog communication, 7, 8, 321 channel, 3, 147 analog signal, 6 channel coder, 171, 175 antenna, 26 channel decoder, 171, 172, 176, 183, 203 ASK, 131, 132, 143 channel filter, 250 ASK modulators, 125 check bit, 173 autocovariance, 48 CIMA, 315, 318 AWGN, 147, 149 Class 1 switching center, 21 Class 2 switching center, 21 Class 3 switching center, 21 B-ASK, 125 Class 4 switching center, 20 bandpass filter, 18, 57, 294, 340 Class 5 switching center, 19 bandpass modulator, 124 coaxial cable, 24 bandwidth, 53 code, 307, 311 baseband filter, 250 code division multiple access, 306 baseband modulator, 116, 122, 