3.10  Comments and Further Reading

John Cioffi’s class notes [ url5cln] are good and freely available source for more advanced material. Classical textbooks such as the ones by Stremler, Barry/Messerschmitt/Lee, Sklar, Proakis and Haykin have plenty of information about the subject of this chapter.

It should be noted that many implementation aspects have considerable importance in practice but are seldom discussed in the open literature. For example, there are several tricks to speed up the demodulation of QAM while not decreasing performance, receivers for specific scenarios and target embedded systems, etc. Sometimes, more advanced material such as contributions to standardization bodies or the standards themselves are useful source of information when the goal is to optimize an implementation.

Textbooks that more “implementation-oriented” are [FB10, JSK11, Mia07] with the first two having several Matlab scripts.