ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Southern Methodist University
EE 6302 and EE6304 (NTU TM716 N and TM708-N) Digital Telephony and Switching
Continually Revised. Print when desired but note the date
Revised Oct.. 20, 1997
Bibliography of Selected Telecommunication Topics
Many of these books and journals are available in the SMU library. You can gain access to the SMU library catalog via the PONI computer system, which can be viewed at terminals in the library and also via dial in connections using software available from the SMU Bradfield computer center. Call 214 768 4357 to speak to the Bradfield support desk. All books and articles cited are in the English language except where specifically noted. Please bring corrections of any omissions or errors to the attention of Prof. R. Levine.
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or two letters, followed by a number), a cross index is available in most
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Number --ISBN, not to be confused with ISDN, is used by the publishing
industry for ordering and stock keeping of each published title.
One of the most widely used college physics textbooks is: D. Halliday, R. Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics, (3rd Ed. Extended), John Wiley & Sons, 1988 and later editions as well. For background on scientific principles underlying the technology of telecommunications, you may review the following sections. If you have another physics textbook, look for similar topics in the index.
Dr. Anwar Mahamoud Abd-El-Wahed [compiler and revisor], Technical Dictionary Electrical Engineering; Dictionnaire Technique Électrotechnique; Technisches Wörterbuch Elektrotechnik; [additional title in arabic]. Original edition (no German) published by Al Ahram, Cairo [undated], reprinted with German added by Edition Leipzig, 1975.[English, French, German, Arabic]
W.E.Clason, Elseviers'sTelecommunication Dictionary; English/American, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, 1976, Elsevier, Holland.
W. Doedecke, Dictionnaire de l'Électrotechnique des Télécommunications et de l'Électronique; Dictionary of Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications and Electronics; Wörterbuch der Electrotechnik, Fernmeldtechnik und Electronik; Français-Anglais-Allemand [French-English-German], Dunod, Paris, and Brandstetter, Wiesbaden, 1972.
S.G. Ettingen, Technical Dictionary, [n.b. Hebrew font version text lost in HTML translation, an English phonetic version of this title would be "Milon Ha-tekhnika"], 5th. ed., Yavneh, Tel-Aviv, 1977. [English, French, German, Hebrew, Russian]
M.Fleutry, Dictionnaire encyclopédique d'électronique (Anglais-français), La Maison du Dictionnaire, Paris, 1991.
W. Goedecke, Dictionary of Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications and Electronics; English-French-German, 2nd Ed., Brandstetter Verlag, Weisbaden, Germany, 1968.
John Graham, Facts on File Dictionary of Telecommunications, New York, Facts on File (London, Penguin Books), 1991.
· International Electrotechnical Commission (3 rue de Varembé, Geneva, Switzerland), Multilingual Dictionary of Electricity, Electronics and Telecommunications, 1992:
H. Kirchoff, Telecom Lingo Guide, 6th Ed., Telecom Publishing Group, 1101 King St., Suite 444, Alexandria, VA 22314 [undated pamphlet]
F.Jay, editor in chief, IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronics Terms, 3rd Ed., IEEE and Wiley, New York, 1984
S. Ishibashi, Dictionary of Electronics and Electrical Engineering; English, Japanese, German, Russian, Plenum Press, 1987.
Japan Engineering and Business Newspaper Company, A Handbook for Electrical and Electronic Translators (Japanese & English), distributed by Maruzen, Tokyo [undated, no author listed]
Japanese Scientific Terms; Electrical Engineering; Revised and Enlarged Edition compiled by Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan, Published by the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, 1979.
Kluwer's Universeel Technich Woordenboek Nederlands- on der redactie van [edited by] Ing. G. Schuurmans Stekhoven, Kluwer Technische Boeken BV, Deventer [Netherlands] & Antwerpen [Belgium], 1977. [In 2 volumes: Nederlands-Engels (Dutch-English) and Engels-Nederlands; the same dictionary is also published in Dutch-French, French-Dutch, and German-Dutch.]*
G. Langley, Telephony's Dictionary, Second Edition. Telephony Publishing Corp., Chicago, 1986 [also later editions].
[See Lee's ABC of the Telephone, below, particularly:
Dr.-Ing. Peter Neidhardt, Technical Dictionary of Electronics, Elektronik, Électronique, [n.b. Russian font version text lost in HTML translation], [English, German, French, Russian], Pergamon Press, London, and VEB Verlag Technik, Berlin, 1966.* Footnote for dictionaries: "Ing." is an abbreviation for the title "Ingenieur" or "Ingeniero" [Engineer], used in several European languages. It is not a part of the author's name.
H. Newton, Newton's Telecom Dictionary, The Official Dictionary of Telecommunications, Networking and Voice Processing, Expanded 6th Ed., New York, Telecom Library, 1993 [and later editions]
H. Plöhn, W. Preikschat and M. Schwertner, Technical Dictionary of Radio and Telecommunication Installations, Pergamon-MacMillan, 1963. [English, French, German, Russian]
A [English-Chinese] Glossary of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong [unidentified and undated]
J.Whitaker, Ed., The Information Age Dictionary, Intertec Books, Box 12901, Overland Park, KS, 66282, published 1993.
D.F.Beer, Writing and Speaking in the Technology Professions: A Practical Guide, IEEE Press, 1992
M.Markel, Writing in the Technical Fields: A Step-by-Step Guide for Engineers, Scientistis, and Technicians, IEEE Press, 1994.
C. Belove, Handbook of Modern Electronics and Electrical Engineering, John Wiley, 1986.
R.C.Dorf, The Electrical Engineering Handbook, CRC Press, 1993.
D.G.Fink, H.W.Beaty, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, 13th Ed., McGraw Hill, 1993. [previous editions by Fink and Christiansen under the name Electronics Engineers' Handbook,]
H.C. Folts, McGraw-Hill's Compilation of Open Systems Standards, 4th ed., (6 volumes), McGraw-Hill, New York, 1992
R.L.Freeman, Reference Manual for Telecommunication Engineering, Second Edition, Wiley, 1993. [Excellent source of standards information and general telecom industry practices. Many relevant Bell System and ITU-T (formerly CCITT) technical standards are reprinted in this useful volume.]
R.L.Freeman, Telecommunication Transmission Handbook, 3rd Ed., Wiley, 1991. [More tuturial and smaller format than above, but similar coverage of telecom standards]
F.E.Froehlich, A.Kent, Eds., Froehlich/Kent Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, Marcel Dekker, New York. Volume 1 issued in 1991, volume 11 issued in 1995 but labeled 1996. Issue of additional volumes continues. [Contains a number of long articles by authoritative authors. Articles are well written, but finding a specific topic is difficult, requiring searching the index of many volumes.]
L.J. Giacoletto, Electronics Designers' Handbook, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1977.
D. Hoeschele, Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Conversion Techniques, 2nd. Ed. Wiley, 1994
A.F.Inglis, Editor-in-chief, Electronic Communications Handbook, McGraw-Hill, 1988.
F.F.Mazda, Electronics Engineer's Reference Book, 5th Ed., Butterworths-Heinemann, 1993.
F.F.Mazda, Telecommunications Engineer's Reference Book., Butterworths-Heinemann, 1993.
R.A.Meyers, Ed., Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, Academic Press, 1989.
D.Minoli, Telecommunications Technology Handbook, Artech House, 1991.
M.E. Van Valkenburg, Reference Data for Engineers: Radio, Electronics, Computer and Communications, 8th ed., H.W. Sams, 1995. [Earlier editions were titled Reference Data for Radio Engineers and issued by ITT Corporation. 7th Ed. was edited by E.C.Jordan]
W.L.Vignault, Worldwide Telecommunications Guide for the Business Manager, Wiley, New York, 1987
Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers, Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1984.
Naomi S. Baron, Computer Languages: A Guide for the Perplexed, Anchor Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1986. [The book is a useful explanation, but the title is a pun on a famous medieval philosophical book: Maimonidies' A Guide for the Perplexed,]
A.R.Burks and A.W.Burks, The First Electronic Computer: The Atanasoff Story, Ann Arbor, U. of Michigan Press, 1988. [History of the first digital computer developed in the 1930s at Iowa State University, and its rediscovery because of patent litigation 30 years later, with a good explanation of the operation of digital computers.]
F.de Coulon, Theorie et traitement des signaux, Presses Polytechniques Romandes, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1984. [English translation, Signal Theory and Processing, Artech House, 1986.]
M.Hasler & J.Neirynck, Filters électriques , Presses Polytechniques Romandes, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1981. [English translation, Electric Filters, Artech House, 1986.]
Peter Laurie, Electronics Explained: A Handbook for the Layman, Faber & Faber, London, Boston, 1980. [Introductory level explanation of electronic devices and their applications.]
S. Levine, Library of Basic Electronics, Vol. 1 Basic Concepts and Passive Components, Electro-Horizons, Plainview, New York, 1986. [Introductory level description of electronic components.]
David Linden, Handbook of Batteries, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill, 1996.
D.Mange, Analyse et synthèse des systèms logiques, Presses Polytechniques Romandes, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1979. [English translation, Analysis and Synthesis of Logic Systems, Artech House, 1986.]
F.W. Mims, Understanding Digital Computers, H.W. Sams and Radio Shack, 1987.
R.G. Middleton, Understanding Digital Logic Circuits, H.W. Sams and Radio Shack, 1982.
R. Warring and M.J. Sanfilippo, Understanding Digital Electronics, Tab Books, 1990.
S. Aidarous and T. Plevyak, Telecommunications Network Management into the 21st Century, IEEE Press, 1994. [Data communications via CCS7 between network facilities to track status, health and housekeeping, remote testing, etc.]
T.C.Bartee, Editor in chief, Digital Communications, H.W.Sams, Indianapolis,1986 [Contains excellent brief summaries of cellular radio and speech coding.]
R.J.Bates, Introduction to T1/T3 Networking, Artech House, 1992.
Bellcore [corporate author], LSSGR (LATA Switching Systems Generic Requirements, Document number TR-TSY-000064 (POB 485100, [Describes the specifications for a central office telephone switch used by the regional Bell operating companies in the USA. LATA=Local Access and Transport Area, a legal name for the service area and service function of the local operating company vis-à-vis the interexchange operating company.]
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Transmission Systems for Communications, 4th ed., Western Electric Co., Technical Publications, 1971. [Various earlier and later editions also.]
J. Bellamy, Digital Telephony, 2nd Ed.,Wiley, 1991. [Textbook for SMU EE6302 or NTU TM716N.]
G.H. Bennett, Pulse Code Modulation and Digital Transmission, 2nd ed., Marconi Instruments, St. Albans, Harts, UK 1983.
S.J.Bigelow, J.L. Fike and G. E. Friend, Understanding Telephone Electronics, 3rd Ed., H.W.Sams and Radio Shack, 1992. [Earlier editions by J.L. Fike and G. E. Friend mainly treat the subscriber's telephone set. Bigelow's revision of Understanding Telephone Electronics delves more into switching, transmission, multiplexing, etc.]
S.J.Bigelow, Telephone Repair Illustrated, TAB-McGraw Hill, 1993. [Technician level description of repair and construction of telephone sets, transmission equipment, etc.]
B.E.Briley, Introduction to Telephone Switching, Addison-Wesley, 1983.
S.A.Caswell, E-MAIL, Artech, 1988. [Marketing oriented.]
G.Calhoun, Wireless Access and the Local Telephone Network, Artech House, 1992. [Fixed radio telephone access equipment for locations not readily served by traditional subscriber wire loops. This service is sometimes known as Rural Radio or by the initials BETRS -- Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service.]
R.J.Chapuis, 100 Years of Telephone Switching; 1878-1978, North Holland Publishing Co., 1982.
R.J.Chapuis and A.E. Joel, Jr., Electronics, Computers and Telephone Switching, North Holland, 1990. [ Labeled as Part 2 of 100 Years... above.]
R.A. Chipman, Theory and Problems of Transmission Lines, Schaum's Outline Series, McGraw-Hill, 1968. [Theory of transmission line propagation, reflections, characteristic or surge impedance, and standing waves.]
D.N.Chorofas, Telephony Today and Tomorrow, Prentice Hall, 1984.
E.Coover, Digital Private Branch Exchanges (PBXs), IEEE Press, 1989.
L.G.Cuthbert, J-C. Sapanel, ATM: The Broadband Telecommunications Solution, IEE Telecommunications Series No. 29, IEE, London, 1993.
M.L. Currie and P.J. O'Connor, Voice/Data Telecommunications Systems, Prentice Hall, 1986.
J.L. Dempsey, Telecom Basics, Telephony Div. of Intertec Publishing Co., 1988. [Extremely Elementary]
J.L. Dempsey, Transmission Basics, Telephony Div. of Intertec Publishing Co., 1988. [Extremely Elementary]
J. Dunlop and D.G. Smith, Telecommunication Engineering, VanNostrand Reinhold, 1989.
G.Fantauzzi, Digital Switching Control Architectures, Artech, 1990. [Structure of digital telephone switches and call processing software.]
W.Flanagan, The Guide to T-1 Networking, Telecom Library, 1990.[Business oriented guide to leasing of US and Canada T-1 digital links.]
W.Flanagan, ISDN, a Practical Simple, Easy-to-use Guide to Getting Up and Running on ISDN, Telecom Library, 1995
T.H.Flowers, Introduction to Exchange Systems, Wiley, 1976.
Pierre-Girard Fontolliet, Telecommunication Systems, Artech House, 1986. [Translation of Systemes de Telecommunications, Presses Polytechniques Romandes, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1983. Very good tutorial text, with emphasis on European systems.]
France, Direction Generale des Télécommunications, Cahier des Charges Generales des Autocommutateurs Telephoniques, Impr. Nationale, Paris, 1968. [Notebook of General Capabilities of Automatic Telephone Switching. In the French language1
F.Gardiol, Hyperfréquences, Presses Polytechniques Romandes, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1979. [English translation, Introduction to Microwaves Artech House, 1984.]
W.D.Gayler, Telephone Voice Transmission: Standards and Measurement, Prentice Hall, 1989.
GRINSEC (Groupe des Ingenieurs du Secteur Commutation du CNET), Electronic Switching, Elsevier-North Holland, 1983.
J.G.Gruber and G.Williams, Transmission Performance of Evolving Telecommunications Networks, Artech House, 1992. [Voice transmission level planning.]
H. Gumhalter, Power Supply Systems in Communications Engineering, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, and Wiley, New York, 1984.
M. Harb, Modern Telephony, Prentice-Hall, 1989.
W. Hilberg, Characteristische Größen elektrischer Leitungen, Verlag Berliner Union GmBh, Stuttgart, Germany 1975, [translated and reprinted as Electrical Characteristics of Transmission Lines, Artech House, 1979.] [Mathematical conformal transformations of a complex variable applied to calculation of surge impedance of transmission lines.]
M.T. Hills and S. Kano, Programming Electronic Switching Systems: Real-Time Aspects and Their Language Implications, P. Peregrinus for IEE, 1976.
M. Hobbs, Modern Communications Switching Systems, Tab Books, 1981.
F.Ivanek, Ed., Terrestrial Digital Microwave Communications, Artech, 1989.
A.E. Joel (Ed.), Electronic Switching: Digital Central Office Systems of the World, (collected journal article reprints) IEEE Press, 1982.
W.C. Johnson, Transmission Lines and Networks, McGraw-Hill, 1950. [Chapter 9 on telephone applications describes phantom power feed (used in T-1 and ISDN), hybrid coil directional couplers, and transpositions used to reduce crosstalk.]
B. Keiser and E. Strange, Digital Telephony & Network Integration, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985.
Lee's ABC of the Telephone, Box 537 Geneva, IL 60134, telephone 312 879 9000, publishes a set of instructional books and pamphlets used for internal technician training programs in many telephone operating companies: The series includes the following:
Basic Series:
Traffic Series
Specialized Series
PocketGuide Series
W.Lidinsky & D. Vlack, Eds., Packetized Voice and Data Communications, IEEE Press, 1991.
J.C. MacDonald, Fundamentals of Digital Switching, Plenum, 1983.
A.Macpherson, International Telecommunications: Organizations and Standards, Artech, 1990.[A guide to find which organizations cover various standards areas, and some history.]
P.C. Magnusson, G.C.Alexander, V.K. Tripathi, Transmission Lines and Wave Propagation, 3rd.Ed., CRC Press, 1992.
J.T. Martin, Chiltons Guide to Telephone Installation and Repairs, Chilton, Radnor, PA, 1985. [Technician level presentation of telephone wiring practices.]
Michael J. Miller and Syed V. Ahamed, Digital Transmission Systems, Vol. I and II, Computer Science Press, 1986(?). [Thorough technical treatment of digital multiplexing and transmission technology.]
D. Minoli, Enterprise Networking, Fractional T1 to SONET, Frame Relay to BISDN, Artech House, 1992.
D. Minoli and G.Dobrowski, Principles of Signaling for Cell relay and Frame Relay , Artech House, 1994.
D. Minoli, Telecommunications Technology Handbook, Artech House, 1991
R.J. Murphy, Telecommunications Networks, H.W.Sams, 1987.
A. Michael Noll, Introduction to Telephones and Telephone Systems, Second Ed. Artech House, 1991. [An intermediate technical level book, with much unique historical information.]
A. Michael Noll, Introduction to Telecommunications Electronics, Artech House, 1988.
F.E. Owen, PCM and Digital Transmission Systems, McGraw-Hill, 1979(?). [Introductory level]
Joseph A. Pecar, R.J. O'Connor, D.A. Garbin, Telecommunications Factbook: A Readable Guide to Planning and Acquiring Products and Services, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
U.W.Pooch, D.Machuel and J.McCann, Telecommunications and Networking, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1993(?). [Very wide scope of coverage. Surveys both voice and data communication, but more devoted to data.]
J.B. Pruitt, T-1 Networks, Design to Installation: Handbook for Managing Voice & Data Systems, PennWell Books, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1988.
T. Ramteke, Networks, Prentice Hall, 1994. [Survey of voice telecommunications and data communications networks with emphasis on the latter.]
F. Redmill and A.R. Valdar, SPC Digital Telephone Exchanges, P. Peregrinus for IEE, 1990. [SPC is abbreviation for Stored Program Control -- telephone jargon for "computer controlled."]
W.D.Reeve, Subscriber Loop Signaling and Transmission Handbook; Analog, IEEE Press, 1991.
W.D.Reeve, Subscriber Loop Signaling and Transmission Handbook; Digital, IEEE Press, 1994.
R.F.Rey and Members of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Engineering and Operations in the Bell System, 2nd Ed., 1984.
J.P. Ronayne, Introduction to Digital Communications Switching, H.W.Sams (Indianapolis, Indiana) and Pitman (London), 1986.
E. Rossberg, H. Korta, Fernschreib-Verbindungstechnik, R. Oldenberg, München, 1959. [Teletypewriter switching technology, in German language]
Travis Russell, Signaling System #7, McGraw-Hill, 1995.
J.R. Smith, Modern Communication Circuits, 2nd Ed, McGraw-Hill, 1997. [Dewey 621.384'12, ISBN: 0070592837]
M.Smouts, Packet Switching evolution from Narrowband to Broadband ISDN, Artech House, 1992.
W.Stallings, Ed., Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), 2nd Ed., IEEE Press, 1988.
Y.Takasaki, Digital Transmission Design and Jitter Analysis, Artech, 1991.
D. Talley, Basic Carrier Telephony, Rev. 3rd ed., Hayden Book Co., 1977. [Explains numerous analog carrier and mulitplexer systems, analog transmission compensation methods such as compression-expansion, voice operated gain, and echo suppressors, and a brief description of T-1 digital carrier.]
D. Talley, Basic Telephone Switching Systems, Hayden Book Co., 1970(??). [Introductory level explanation of electro-mechanical switching systems, primarily step-by-step and crossbar.]
D. Talley, Basic Electronic Switching for Telephone Systems, Hayden Book Co., 1982. [Introductory explanation of digital switching devices and the electro-mechanical but computer-controlled 1ESS electronic telephone switch.]
W.Tetschner, Voice Processing, Artech, 1991. [Telephone services such as voice mail, automated attendants, automatic call routing and text to speech. Introductory or elementary technical level.]
P.R.Trischitta and E.L.Varma, Jitter in Digital Transmission Systems, Artech, 1989.
J.E.Trulove, A Guide to Fractional T1, Artech House, 1992.
P.D. Vander Puije, Telecommunication Circuit Design, Wiley, 1992. [Electric and electronic circuits of both radio and telephone equipment explained.]
G.D.Wallenstein, Setting Global Telecommunications Standards: The Stakes, the Players, and the Process, Artech, 1990.
V.Waterford, All About Telephones, TAB Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1978. [Elementary explanation of telephone technology.]
R.G.Winch, Telecommunication Transmission Systems, McGraw Hill, 1993. [discusses microwaves, fiber optics, mobile cellular radio, data and digital multiplexing as well]
S. Welch, Signalling inTelecommunications Networks, P.Peregrinus-IEE Press, 1979. [Briefly surveys most of the analog telephone signaling systems of the world, and some material on Common Channel No. 7 switching as it was in the late 1970s.]
Robert G. Winch, Telecommunication Transmission Systems, McGraw-Hill, 1996. [claims coverage of microwave, fiber optics, mobile cellular, data and digital multiplexing]
D. Bear, Principles of Telecommunications--Traffic Engineering, P. Peregrinus for IEE, 1976.
Neil J. Boucher, Traffic System Design Handbook, IEEE Press, 1992. [Contains tables derived from numerical solution of special cases such as Neal-Wilkinson peaked traffic, binomial distribution, Engset, and sample computer programs to allow the user to develop values for special cases.]
Petr Beckmann, Introduction to Elementary Queuing Theory and Telephone Traffic, Golem Press, 1968.
A. Girard, Routing and Dimensioning in Circuit Switched Networks, Addison Wesley, 1990.
D. Gross and C.M.Harris, Fundamentals of Queuing Theory, New York, Wiley, 1974.
HTL Telemanagement, Ltd., Hills' Turbo Tables, Telecom Library, 1995 [Brief instruction book with diskette for use with Lotus 123 covering Poisson, Erlang-B and -C traffic calculations.]
J.Y. Hui, Switching and Traffic Theory for Integrated Broadband Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.
J.Jewett, J. Schrago, J.Gilliland and B. Yomtov, Traffic Engineering Tables: The Complete Practical Encyclopedia, Telephony Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, 1980.[Tabulated values of the usual Erlang B and also other traffic distributions such as partial retries (partial Erlang C), queued delay retries with Erlang B, and non-random cases.]
L. Kleinrock, Queuing Systems (2 volumes), Wiley, 1975. [Theoretical basis of traffic theory, and applications to many other areas in addition to telephone traffic.]
R. Mina, Introduction to Teletraffic Engineering, Telephony Magazine, 1974.
M. Reiser, et al, Congestion Control of Store and Forward Networks by Input Buffer Limits, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 1977.
H.Saito, Teletraffic Technologies in ATM Networks, Artech, 1994.
R. Syski, Introduction to Congestion Theory in Telephone Systems, 2nd Ed., North Holland Publishing Co., 1986.
B.Albert and A.P.Jayasumana, FDDI and FDDI-II: Architecture, Protocols, and Performance, Artech, 1994. [Fiber Distributed Data Interface is a LAN or MAN fiber optics data standard.]
G. E. Friend, J.L. Fike, H.C. Baker and J.C. Bellamy, Understanding Data Communications, H.W.Sams [and Radio Shack], 1988.
E. Rossberg, H. Korta, Fernschreib-Verbindungstechnik, 1959, R. Oldenberg, München [Teletypewriter switching technology, in German language]
Ray Sarch and Data Communications Magazine, Integrating Voice and Data (collected reprints), McGraw-Hill, 1987
Please note, in view of the extensive controversy regarding health implications of electromagnetic radiation, an extensive explanatory set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) and answers with a bibliography on the subject at URL http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/powerlines-cancer-FAQ/toc.html, prepared by Dr. John E. Moulder, Prof. of Radiation Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
A comprehensive study by researchers from the National Cancer Institue and the Children's Cancer Group, published in the July 3, 1997 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, compared magnetic field exposure from power line frequency sources for 638 children with leukemia and 620 children without leukemia who were similar in age and race. About 58% of the children were under the age of 5, the age group in which acute lymphoblastic leukemia is most common. The researchers found that, in general, children who lived in homes with high measured magnetic fields were not significantly more likely to be diagnosed with leukemia than children living in homes with lower magnetic fields. The same was true when the magnetic field was not measured, but estimated by means of the proximity to high voltage power lines, a method used in previous studies. According to the National Cancer Institue, several previous studies going back to 1979 which indicated a correlation between various types of cancer and proximity to electric power lines were inconclusive for methodological reasons and the small number of cases which were studied.[Note that this study does not address radio frequencies.]
A news article appeared in the New York Times, Tuesday, June 22, 1993, page B5. This article attempts to summarize the state of knowledge regarding this topic, and concludes that the majority of authorities find no plausible biological mechanism for the cause or development of cancer due to non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, and no consistent causative pattern of epidemiology in statistical studies. The article quotes from two major studies published in 1992. One is a three year study prepared for the British Government by Dr. Richard Doll, a well known epidemiologic researcher, who said, "The evidence is really much too weak to justify the conclusion that here you have got a cause and effect relationship." The second study was prepared at the request of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities, an association of 65 southeastern universities. The study concludes, ""Epidemiologic findings of an association between electric and magnetic fields and childhood leukemia or other childhood or adult cancers are inconsistent and inconclusive."
A more recent study published in January 1995 in the American Journal of Epidemology examined the cause of death of over 20,000 men from a total sample of over 138,000 men who worked at electric power utility companies. Mortality overall from leukemia, brain cancer and most other causes of death was lower than for the general population (164 died of leukemia and 144 of brain cancer). Within the study group, workers with the highest expected exposure to low frequency electric power lines (60 Hz) because of their occupation (lineman or electrician as opposed to office worker) died from brain cancer at 2.5 times the rate for those with no expected occupational exposure to power lines. No statistically significant difference in death rates from leukemia was detected, comparing technical to office workers. This is the best controlled statistical study of its type to date and is not related to radio frequency exposure but only includes power line frequencies. It shows the opposite of other studies with regard to leukemia, but suggests a link between low frequency currents and brain cancer which othe studies have not shown. The wide variation in results of individual studies is in itself a cause for some concern that there are other un-controlled factors present in one study which are not present in another. This variation in type or site of high cancer occurrence for perhaps only one type or body site in each study, with lower (and contradictory) occurrence for types or body sites which were identified as high incidence cancer sites in other studies is a pattern which has occurred in almost all the studies on this subject.
The American Physical Society issued a statement on April 22, 1995 saying it could find no evidence that the electromagnetic fields that radiate from power lines cause cancer. The statement says, "More serious environmental problems are neglected for lack öf funding and public attention. The burden of cost placed on the American public is incommensurate with the risk, if any." Dr. Robert L. Park, a physicist at the University of Maryland and a society spokesman, said in an interview that the group felt the time had come to take a position because "public concern was growing even as the epidemiologic evidence was shrinking and becoming fainter." The statement noted that the field was full of on-going research, but said that all the existing data and reports to date "show no consistent, significant link between cancer and power line fields." (Note that this statement does not address radio frequency waves.) The American Physical Society is the nation's leading group of physicists, with over 45,000 members.[NY Times, May 14, 1995, p19]
Books:
P. Brodeur, Currents of Death, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1989. [Based on a series of articles which first appeared in the New Yorker magazine. This is an admittedly alarmist book which blames many diseases on exposure to power line frequency electromagnetic radiation but also claims ill effects of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation as well. Although many of its arguments are based on statistical epidemiologic studies which are not unequivocal due to contradictory results, this book presents a view which reflects the position of those who are very sensitive to health hazards from electromagnetic fields.]
P. Brodeur, The Great Power-Line Cover Up, New York, New York, Little Brown & Co., 1993. [The New York Times review of this book stated that the author finds a conspiracy with everyone who disagrees with his point of view.]
R.T Compton, Jr., Adaptive Antennas, Concepts and Performance, Prentice Hall, 1988.
K. Fujimoto, J.R. James, Eds. Mobile Antenna Systems Handbook, Artech, 1994
W.F. Hammett, Radio Frequency Radiation: Issues and Standards, McGraw-Hill, 1997.
R.C.Johnson, Antenna Engineering Handbook,3rd Ed., [previous editions edited by H. Jasik], McGraw-Hill, 1993.
John D. Kraus, Antennas, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill, 1988. [Widely recognized as the most comprehensive text on the subject. Nominally out of print from original publisher. If not available from bookstores, purchase from Cygnus Quasar-Books, P.O.Box 85, Powell, Ohio 43065, telephone 614 548 7895]
John D. Kraus, Keith R. Carver, Electromagnetics, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1973.[If not available in bookstores, can be purchased from Cygnus-Quasar Books, Powell, Ohio]
A.Kumar, Fixed and Mobile Terminal Antennas, Artech, 1991.
Y.T. Lo, S.W. Lee, Antenna Handbook, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988
M.T. Ma, Theory and Application of Antenna Arrays, Wiley, 1974.
P.C. Magnusson, G.C.Alexander, V.K. Tripathi, Transmission Lines and Wave Propagation, 3rd.Ed., CRC Press, 1992.
S.M. Michaelson and J.C.Lin, Biological Effects and Health Implications of Radiofrequency Radiation, New York, Plenum Press, 1987.
A. Nussbaum, Field Theory, Merrill Books, 1966. [Compact review of basic electromagnetic field theory.]
Electro Magnetic Fields and Public Health, website http://omega. albany.edu:8008/EMF.html. A list of links to other bibiliographies on this subject.
J.E.Moulder, Ph.D., Prof. of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, website on Electromagnetic Fields and Human Health, http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/powerlines-cancer-FAQ/toc.html
[Note: Bartee, Boucher, Garg & Wilkes, Gibson, Harte (3 titles), Bell Sys. Tech. Journal, Macario, Rappaport (1996), Winch, Mouly and Prentiss are good sources for a comprehensive treatment of cellular. Harte ('92) is the only description at this date covering specifically North American Dual Mode (IS-54) digital cellular in detail. Harte's books are descriptive and not highly technical. Mouly covers only GSM.]
D.M.Balston & R.C.V.Macario, Eds., Cellular Radio Systems, Artech, 1993.
T.C.Bartee, Editor in chief, Digital Communications, Indianapolis, H.W.Sams, 1986 [excellent brief summaries of cellular radio by P.T.Porter, and of speech coding.]
Bell System Technical Journal, January 1979, Vol. 58, No. 1. [This special issue of BSTJ is entirely devoted to the AMPS system, essentially equivalent to the present North American Analog Cellular standard. One of the most complete detailed descriptions of Analog cellular technology available.]
D. Bodson, G.F. McClure, S.R. McConoughey (eds.), Land-Mobile Communications Engineering, IEEE Press, 1984.
Neil J. Boucher, The Cellular Radio Handbook, Quantum Publishing Co. 1995 edition, Box 1738, Mill Valley, CA 94942, telephone 415 381 4488.[Describes technology of several foreign analog cellular systems such as TACS (U.K.), NMT-900, etc.]
George Calhoun, Digital Cellular Radio, Artech House, 1988. [Excellent historical survey but written just before the North American digital cellular standards were decided, and consequently does not describe the technology used in actual operating digital cellular systems.]
V. K. Garg, J.E. Wilkes, Wireless and Personal Communications Systems, Prentice-Hall, 1996.[medium to highly detailed technical level.]
J. Gardiner, B. West, Eds., Personal Communication Systems and Technologies, Artech, 1995
J. Gibson (editor), Mobile Communications Handbook, CRC Press/IEEE Press joint publication, 1996. [Newest and most comprehensive technological description of various cellular and PCS technologies.]
L. Harte, Dual Mode Cellular, P.T.Steiner Publishing Co., [6 Four Coins Dr., Canonsburg, PA 15317, telephone 412 746 7133] 1992. [The most complete and clear description of North American standard IS-54 digital cellular available.]
L. Harte, S. Prokup, Cellular and PCS/PCN Telephones and Systems, APDG Publishing Co., [4736 Shady Greens Dr., Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. Telephone 919 557 2260 or 800 227 9681. Email: bookworm@nando.net] 1996. [Survey of almost every cellular or PCS/PCN technology available, at medium technical level.]
L. Harte, S. Prokup, R.Levine, Cellular and PCS, The Big Picture, McGraw-Hill, 1997.[Introductory level explanation of basics of cellular, PCS, in-building wireless, satellites, etc.]
R.J. Holbeche (ed.), Land Mobile Radio Systems, P. Peregrinus for IEE, 1985.
J. Holtzman and D.J.Goodman, Eds., Wireless and Mobile Communications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
J. Holtzman and D.J.Goodman, Eds., Wireless Communications; Future Directions, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.
W.C. Jakes, Microwave Mobile Communication, IEEE Press (reprint of 1974 J.Wiley edition), 1993. [Research on 800 MHz radio channels leading up to the design of North American Cellular.]
W.C.Y. Lee, Mobile Cellular Telecommunications Analog and Digital Systems, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1995. [ Second edition of the author's prior book Mobile Cellular Telecommunications Systems, published 1989. This second edition is greatly improved and has some specific information on North American analog cellular, TDMA, CDMA and GSM which is not in any other books by Lee. However, the first printing suffers from numerous errors and appears to omit essential information in some sections.]
W.C.Y. Lee, Mobile Communications Engineering, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1982.
W.C.Y. Lee, Mobile Communications Design Fundamentals, H.W. Sams, 1986.
R.C.V.Macario, Cellular Radio Principles and Design, McGraw Hill (USA) or MacMillan (UK), 1993.
R.C.V.Macario, Personal and Mobile Radio Systems, P.Peregrinus for IEEE, 1991.
A.Mehrotra, Cellular Radio: Analog and Digital Systems, Artech House, 1994.
A.Mehrotra, Cellular Radio Performance Engineering, Artech House, 1994.
M.Mouly, M.B.Pautet, GSM- Global System for Mobile Communicaiions, privately published by the author(s) who also offer a training course, at 49, rue Louise Bruneau, F-91120 Paliseau, France, telephone +33 1 69 31 0318, fax +33 1 69 31 0338
A. M. Noll, Landmobile and Marine Radio Technical Handbook, H.W. Sams, 1985.
T.S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications, Principles & Practice, Prentice Hall/IEEE Press joint publication, 1996. [Strong on quantative analysis of radio propagation, how various systems work.]
T.S. Rappaport, B.D. Woerner and J.H.Reed, Wireless Personal Communications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
S. Prentiss, Introducing Cellular Communications; The New Mobile Telephone System, TAB Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1984. [Repeats large parts of the IS-3 analog cellular standard verbatim, with varying levels of added explanation. Also contains descriptions of several systems proposed in 1983 which were never FCC approved.]
S. Redl, M. Weer, M.W. Oliphant, Introduction to GSM, Artech, 1995
R. Schneiderman, Wireless Personal Communications; The Future of Talk, IEEE Press, 1994.
R. Steele, Mobile Radio Communications, IEEE Press, 1992.
W.H.W.Tuttlebee, Cordless Telecommunications in Europe: The Evolution of Personal Communications, Springer-Verlag, 1991. [Historical information on CT-2 and related systems.]
J.Walker, Ed., Mobile Information Systems, Artech, 1990. [Data communication for mobiles.]
R.G.Winch, Telecommunication Transmission Systems, McGraw Hill, 1993. [discusses microwaves, fiber optics, mobile cellular radio, data and digital multiplexing as well]
P. Wong, D. Britland, Mobile Data Communications Systems, Artech, 1995
M.D. Yacoub, Foundations of Mobile Radio Engineering, CRC Press, 1993.
J.B. Anderson, T. Aulin and C.-E. Sundberg, Digital Phase Modulation, Plenum, 1986.
W.R. Bennett, J.R. Davey, Data Transmission, McGraw Hill, 1965.
C. Betanov, Introduction to X.400, Artech House, 1993. [ITU-T standard for file transfers over data communication links, including electronic mail.]
J.C.Bic, D. Duponteil, J.C.Imbeaux, Elements of Digital Communication, Wiley, 1991. [Translation of Eléments de Comunications Numeriques]
E. Bigliari et al, Introduction to Trellis-Coded Modulation, with Applications, MacMillan, 1991.
F.R. Connor, Modulation, Edward Arnold, London and Herman Publishing, Boston, 1973.
F.R. Connor, Noise, Edward Arnold, London and Herman Publishing, Boston, 1973.
F.R. Connor, Signals, Edward Arnold, London and Herman Publishing, Boston, 1972.
C.W. Davidson, Transmission Lines for Communication: With CAD Programs, 2nd Ed., Halstead Press, 1989.
K. Feher, Digital Modulation Techniques in an Interference Environment, D. White Consultants, Germantown, Maryland, 1977.
Jerry D. Gibson, Principles of Digital and Analog Communications, MacMillan, 1989. [Also has considerable speech coding information.]
M.S. Kiver, FM Simplified, D.VanNostrand [Introductory technician level explanation of FM broadcasting technology. Date uncertain. Originally issued in late 1940s. An "oldie but goodie."]
R.W. Lucky, J. Salz, E.J. Weldon, Jr., Principles of Data Communication, McGraw Hill, 1968.
Herbert Taub, Donald L. Schilling, Principles of Communications Systems, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1986.
M. Schwartz, Information Transmission, Modulation and Noise, McGraw Hill, 1990.
M. Schwartz, Telecommunication Networks: Protocols, Modeling and Analysis, Addison-Wesley, 1987.
M. Schwartz, Computer-Communication Network Design and Analysis, Prentice-Hall, 1977.
M. Schwartz and L. Shaw, Signal Processing: Discrete Spectral Analysis, Detection and Estimation, McGraw-Hill, 1975.
Mischa Schwartz, William R. Bennett, Seymour Stein, Communication Systems and Techniques, McGraw-Hill, 1966. ["Oldie but a Goodie." A unique source of information on radio and other telecommunication related signal processing, reception, noise, diversity, etc. etc. Republished 1995 by IEEE press.]
E. Schwartzlander, VLSI Signal Processing, Kluwer Academic, 1986? [Undergraduate level college textbook, fairly thorough and not overly mathematical.]
S.G.Wilson, Digital Modulation and Coding, Prentice Hall, 1996. [Very readable, with good examples and explanation. More about error correcting code than modulation.]
R.E. Ziemer, W.H. Tranter, Principles of Communications: Systems, Modulation and Noise, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin Co., 1985.
CCITT [now ITU-T], Standard T.30 in volume T of the "White books" [also substantially identical in earlier Blue, Orange, Red books], Geneva, Switzerland, 1992.[T.30 is the Group 3 FAX standard.]
R.M.Gray, Source Coding Theory, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.
G.Hutson, P. Shepherd, J. Brice, Colour Television, McGraw Hill, 1990. [British practices in PAL (Phase Alternating Line) European color TV, as the British spelling of the title indicates, but also discusses SECAM and NTSC (National Television System Committee, the North American and Japanese standard for color TV) to a limited extent.]
A.K.Jain, Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Prentice Hall, 1989.
N.S. Jayant, Digital Coding of Waveforms: Principles and Applications to Speech and Video, Prentice-Hall, 1984.
D.C.Kay & J.R.Levine, Graphics File Formats, 2nd Ed., Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, 1995. [Computer graphics file formats such as PCX, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, MPEG, QuickTime, etc.]
M.S. Kiver, Television Simplified, D.VanNostrand, 1962. [Good non-mathematical explanation of television broadcast technology.]
K.McConnell, D.Bodson and R. Schaphorst, FAX: Facsimile Technology and Applications Handbook, 2nd.ed., Artech House, 1992.[Marketing oriented, semi-technical in detail.]
A. Michael Noll, Television Technology: Fundamentals and Future Prospects,. Artech House, 1988.
Michael Robin, Michel Poulin, Digital Television Fundamentals: Design and Installation of Video and Audio Systems, McGraw-Hill, 1997.
J.C.Russ, The Image Processing Handbook, CRC Press and Times Mirror Books, 1992. [Addresses scanning, correction of image defects, image enhancement, frequency space processing, segmentation and thresholding, processing binary images, tomography and three dimensional images.]
T.S. Rzeszewski, Television Technology Today, IEEE Press, 1985 [Selected reprints of key technical papers on television technology.]
Stephen J. Solari, Digital Video and Audio Compression, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
J.A.Storer, Image and Text Compression, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.
John Watkinson, The Art of Digital Video, 2nd. Ed., Focal Press, London and New York, 1994.
R.N. Williams, Adaptive Data Compression, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.
R. Blahut, D.J.Costello, U. Maurer and T. Mittelholzer, Communications and Cryptography, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
Bruce Bosworth, Codes, Ciphers and Computers, Hayden, 1982.
D.W.Davies and W.L. Price, Security for Computer Networks, Wiley, 1984. . [Intermediate technical level presentation of cryptography, including NBS DES and Public Key with clear examples.]
D. Kahn, The Codebreakers, MacMillan, 1967. [Semi-popular exposition of historical and technical information on codes and ciphers and their importance in war and diplomatic history in the hard cover edition. The paperback edition of this book omits all the technical explanations and contains only the history.]
D. Kahn, Kahn on Codes; Secrets of the New Cryptology, MacMillan, 1983. [Semi-popular exposition of historical and technical information on codes and ciphers and their importance in war and diplomatic history.]
Kranakis, Primality and Cryptography, Teubner (Germany) and Wiley (New York), 1986. [Many of the public key cryptography algorithms require extracting prime factors of a very large integer.]
V.B.Lawrence, J. L. Locicero and L.B .Milstein, editors, IEEE Communication Society's Tutorials on Modern Communication, Computer Science Press, 1983. [Includes modulation and error coding as well as cryptology.]
M. Purser, Secure Data Networking, Artech House, 1993.
B. Schneier, Applied Cryptography; Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C, J. Wiley, 1994.
G.J. Simmons, Contemporary Cryptology, IEEE Press, 1992.
H.C.A. van Tilborg, An Introduction to Cryptology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.
H.O.Yardley, American Black Chamber, Ballantine Books, 1981, and many prior editions from 1931 onwards. [History of Yardley's notorious activities intercepting and decrypting military and diplomatic messages for the US Government until dismissed by the Secretary of State with the famous naïve comment, "Gentlemen do not read each others' mail." No technical information.]
A.S.Acampora, et.al., An Introduction to Broadband Networks: LANs, MANs, ATM, B-ISDN, and Optical Networks for Integrated Multimedia Telecommunications , Plenum, 1994.
B.Albert and A.P.Jayasumana, FDDI and FDDI-II: Architecture, Protocols, and Performance, Artech, 1994. [Fiber Distributed Data Interface --FDDI-- is a LAN or MAN fiber optics data standard.]
A.Bhargava, Integrated Broadband Networks, Artech, 1991. [Fast packet, ATM and other broadband switching.]
A. Bjarklev, Optical Fiber Amplifiers, Artech, 1993. [Rare-earth doped fibers used to amplify optical signals.]
M. Chen, S.S. Liu, ATM Switching Systems, Artech, 1995
M. de Prycker, Asynchronous Transfer Mode Solution for Broadband ISDN, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 1993.
C.Dhas, V.K.Konangi and M.Sreetharan, Broadband Switching: Architectures, Protocols, Design and Analysis, IEEE Press, 1991.
H.F. Elion, V.N. Mozorov, Optoelectronics Systems in Telecommunications and Computers, M. Dekker, 1984.
W.Flanagan, Frames, Packets and Cells for Broadband Networking, Telecom Library, 1991.[Introductory level treatment.]
L.D.Green, Fiber Optic Communications, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1992.
J. Hecht, Understanding Lasers, H.W. Sams- Radio Shack, 1988. [Introductory level.]
H.S.Hinton, et.al., An Introduction to Photonic Switching Fabrics, Plenum, 1993.
R.J.Hoss, E.A.Lacy, Fiber Optics, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 1993.
G. Jacobsen, Noise in Digital Optical Transmission Systems, Artech House, 1994.
A.E.Joel, Jr., Asynchronous Transfer Mode Switching, IEEE Press, 1994
C.K. Kao, Optical Fiber Systems, McGraw-Hill, 1982.
N. Kashima, Optical Transmission for the Subscriber Loop, Artech House, 1993
B.G. Lee, M. Kang, J. Lee, Broadband Telecommunications Technologies, Artech House, 1993.
T. Li (Ed.), Optical Fiber Communications, Vol. 1, Fiber Fabrication, Academic Press, 1985.
D.E. McDysan and D.L. Spohn, ATM: Theory and Applications, MCGraw Hill, 1994.
J.E. Midwinter, Optical Fibers for Transmission, John Wiley & Sons, 1979.
S.E. Miller and A. Chynoweth (Eds.), Optical Fiber Telecommunications, Academic Press, 1979.
D.Minoli and M. Vitella, ATM & Cell Relay Service for Corporate Environments, McGraw Hill, 1994.
D.Minoli, Broadband Network Analysis and Design, Artech House, 1993.
D.Minoli and R. Keinath, Distributed Multimedia Through Broadband Communications Services, Artech House, 1994.
D.Minoli, Enterprise Networking, Fractional T1 to SONET, Frame Relay to BISDN, Artech House, 1992.
D.J. Morris, Pulse Code Formats for Fiber Optical Data Communication, Marcel Dekker, 1983.
J.G. Nelliss, Understanding Telecommunications and Ligntwave Systems, H.W. Sams- Radio Shack, 1988. [Introductory level.]
R.O. Onvural, Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks: Performance Issues, Artech House, 1994.
J.Powers, An Introduction to Fiber Optic Systems, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1993.
D.P.Reed, Residential Fiber Optic Networks: An Engineering and Economic Analysis, Artech House, 1992.
T.Robertazzi, Ed., Performance Evaluation of High-Speed Switching Fabrics and Networks; ATM, Broadband ISDN, and MAN Technology, IEEE Press, 1993.
E.L. Safford, J.A. McCann, Fiber optics and Laser Handbook, TAB Books, 1988.
H.Saito, Teletraffic Technologies in ATM Networks, Artech, 1994.
M.J.Sexton and A.B.D.Reid, Transmission Networking: SONET and the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, Artech House, 1992.
M.J.N.Sibley, Optical Communicaitons, McGraw Hill, 1990.
A.W. Snyder and J.D. Love, Optical Wave guide Theory, Chapman and Hall, 1983.
W.Stallings, Ed., Advances in Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), and Broadband ISDN , IEEE Press, 1992.
J. Thörner, Intelligent Networks, Artech House, 1994. [Advanced signaling features in CCS7 networks.]
Y.Viniotis, & R.O.Onvural, Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks , Plenum, 1993.
T-H Wu, Fiber Network Service Survivability, Artech House, 1992. [Mainly on SONET topologies.]
H.Zanger, C.Zanger, Fiber Optics, MacMillan, 1991.
C.E. Cooke, et al, Spread Spectrum Communications, IEEE Press, 1983.
G.R. Cooper and C.D. McGillen, Modern Communications and Spread Spectrum, McGraw-Hill
R.C. Dixon, Spread Spectrum Systems, 2nd ed., Wiley
R.C. Dixon, Spread Spectrum Techniques, IEEE Press
J.K. Holmes, Coherent Spread Spectrum Systems, Wiley
A.W. Lam and S. Tantaratana, Theory and Applications of Spread Spectrum Systems, IEEE Press, 1994.
David L. Nicholson, Spread Spectrum Signal Design, Computer Science Press, 1988.
Marvin K. Simon, Jim Omura, R.A. Scholtz, B.K. Levitt, Spread Spectrum Communications Handbook, MdGraw-Hill, 1995.[Earlier edition by Simon alone, Computer Science Press, 1985.]
Bernard Sklar, Digital Communications, 1985
D.J.Torrieri, Principles of Secure Communication Systems, 2nd ed., Artech House, 1992.
R..E. Ziemer and R..L. Peterson, Digital Communications and Spread Spectrum Systems, Prentice Hall, 1988.
Benjamin Arazi, A Commonsense Approach to the Theory of Error Correcting Codes, MIT Press, 1988. [Less theoretical than other treatments, using hardware such as shift registers to explain many convolutional coding processes.]
R.E. Blahut, Theory and Practice of Error Control Codes, Addison-Wesley, 1983.
G.C. Clark, Jr., and J.B. Cain, Error Correction Coding for Digital Communications, Plenum, 1981.
G. Cullmann, Codes Detecteurs et Correcteurs d'Erreurs, Dunod, Paris, 1967. [in French language]
S.W.Golomb, R.E. Piele and R.A. Scholtz, Basic Concepts in Information Theory and Coding: The Adventures of Secret Agent 00111, Plenum Press, 1994. [Easy reading but covers error protection codes, data compression and some cryptography.]
D. Goppa, Geometry and Codes, Dordrecht, Netherlands and Kluwer, Boston, 1988.
R. Hill, A First Course in Coding Theory, Oxford, 1986.
H. Imai (Ed.), Essentials of Error-Control Coding Techniques, Academic Press, 1990.
Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, 2nd ed., Vol. 2, Addison-Wesley [Mathematical random number generation and testing algorithms.]
Shu Lin and D.J. Costello, Jr., Error-Control Coding: Fundamentals and Applications, Prentice Hall, 1983. [Widely used textbook, its notation is used in several standards documents.]
A.M. Michelson and A.H. Levesque, Error-Control Techniques for Digital Communication, Wiley, 1985.
W.W. Peterson, E.J. Weldon, Jr., Error-Correcting Codes, MIT Press, 1972.
V. Pless, Introductions to the Theory of Error Correcting Codes, Wiley, 1989.
M. Purser, Introduction to Error-Correcting Codes, Artech, 1995
T.R.N. Rao and E. Fujiwara, Error-Control Coding for Computer Systems, Prentice Hall, 1989.
Man Young Rhee, Error Correcting Coding Theory, McGraw-Hill, 1989.
P. Sweeney, Error Control Coding: An Introduction, Prentice Hall, 1991.
S.A. Vanstone and P.C. van Oorschot, An Introduction to Error Correcting Codes with Applications, Kluwer, 1989.
J. Verhoeff, Error Detecting Decimal Codes, Amsterdam, Mathematisch Centrum, 1969. [Covers many of the codes used in practical systems such as European postal cheque (giro), bar codes, and book-publishing ISBN codes, as well as the dihedral group code.]
Andrew J. Viterbi, Jim K. Omura, Principles of Digital Communication and Coding, McGraw-Hill, 1979.
D.Wiggert, Codes for Error Control and Synchronization, Artech House, 1988.
S.G.Wilson, Digital Modulation and Coding, Prentice Hall, 1996. [Very readable, with good examples and explanation. More about error correcting code than modulation.]
A. Bar-Lev, Semiconductors and Electronic Devices, 3rd Ed., Prentice Hall, 1979.
R.S.Carson, Radio Concepts Analog, 1990, Wiley.
Kenneth K. Clarke and Donald T. Hess, Communication Circuits: Analysis and Design, Addison-Wesley, 1971.
D.C. Cox, "Linear Amplification with Non-Linear Components," IEEE Trans. Comm, vol. 22, December 1974, pp. 1942-1945. [Surveys methods of feedback and feed-forward. Linearity is important to prevent distortion of certain waveforms upon amplification, for radio transmitters, etc.]
D.C. Cox, R. P. Leck, "Signal Separation and Recombination for Linear Amplification with Non-linear Components," IEEE Trans. Comm, vol. 23, November 1975, pp. 1281-1287.
M.I. Frerking, Crystal Oscillator Design and Temperature Compensation, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978.
Herbert L. Krauss, Charles W. Bostian, Frederick H. Raab, Solid State Radio Engineering, Wiley, 1980.
U.L. Rhode, J. Whitaker, T.T.N. Bucher, Communications Receivers, Principles & Design, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 1997. [Earlier edition by Rhode and Bucher 1988.]
B. Streetman, Semiconductor Device Electronics, 3rd. Ed., Prentice Hall, 1990.
S. M. Sze, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, 2nd. Ed., Wiley, 1981. [Advanced technical level. Explains the physics of transistors, FETs, microwave diodes, and electro-optic convertor devices such as the Light Emitting Diode, laser diode, and Avalanche Photo Diode]
S.M.Sze, Ed., VLSI [Very Large Scale Integration] Technology, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill, 1988.
J.F. Wakerly, Digital Design Principles and Practices, Prentice Hall, 1990.
P. Beckmann, A. Spizzichino, The Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from Rough Surfaces, Macmillan, 1963.
B. Goldberg (ed.), Communications Channels: Characterization and Behavior, [collected reprints], IEEE Press, 1975.
E Green, M. Hata, "Microcellular Propagation Measurements in an Urban Environment," Vehicular Technology Conference, [year, date uncertain- gives a theoretical model to explain the 4th power decrease of signal strength with distance based on an antenna image below the conductive earth surface. Circulated in the form of an undated draft paper.]
M. Hata, "Empirical Formula for Propagation Loss in Land Mobile Radio Services," IEEE Trans. on Veh. Tech., Vol. VT-29, No. 3, August 1980, pp. 317-325.
William C. Jakes, Jr., Microwave Mobile Communications, Wiley, 1974. [Reprinted 1993 by IEEE Press. Extensive information on UHF channel and coverage characteristics.]
Y. Okumura, et al, "Field Strength and its variability in UHF and VHF land-mobile radio service," Rev. Elec. Commun. Lab. (Japan), Vol. 16, 1968.
J.F.Ossana, Jr., "A Model for Mobile Radio Fading Due to Building Reflections: Theoretical and Experimental Fading Waveform Power Spectra," Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 43, November 1964, pp. 2935-2971.
A.J. Rustako, Jr., N. Amitay, G.J. Owens, R.S. Roman, "Radio Propagation at Microwave Frequencies for Line-of-Sight Microcellular Mobile and Personal Communications," IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Tech., vol. 40, No. 1, February 1991, pp. 203-210.
Mischa Schwartz, William R. Bennett, Seymour Stein, Communication Systems and Techniques, McGraw-Hill, 1966. ["Oldie but a Goodie." A unique source of information on radio and other telecommunication related signal processing, reception, noise, diversity, etc. etc. Reprinted 1995 by IEEE Press.]
K. Siwiak, Radiowave Propagation and Antennas for Personal Communications, Artech, 1995
H. Suzuki, "A Statistical Model for Urban Radio Propagation," IEEE Trans. Comm., Vol. 25, July 1977, pp. 673-680
B.Ackroyd, World Satellite Communication Systems: An Earth Station Design, Blackwell (UK) and CRC Press, 1990.
B.R.Elbert, Introduction to Satellite Communication, Artech, 1987.
A.F.Inglis, Satellite Technology, Focal-Butterworths-Heinemann, 1991.
G. Maral, M.Bosquet, Satellite Communication Systems, 2nd Ed., Wiley, 1993. [Translated from French]
D. Ruddy, Satellite Communications, Prentice Hall, 1989.
J.Wood, Satellite Communications & DBS [Direct Broadcast Satellite Television] Systems, Focal-Butterworths-Heinemann, 1992.
M.D.Abrams and J.J.Podell, Eds., Computer and Network Security, IEEE Press, 1987.
Syed R. Ali, Digital Switching Systems: Sytem Reliability and Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1997.
MIL-HDBK-2170 (7th ed., 1992) Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment, [Military specification for reliability of equipment, which is the standard method used in the electronics industry.]
P. O'Connor, Practical Reliability, [date and publisher not known]
I.A. Ushakov, R.A. Harrison (Eds.) Handbook of Reliability Engineering, Wiley, 1994
L.Wrobel, Disaster Recovery Planning for Telecommunications, Artech, 1990.
D. Crystal, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 3rd Ed., Blackwell, 1991.
D. Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
P. Denes and E.N. Pinson, The Speech Chain: The Physics and Biology of Spoken Language, Anchor Science Study Series, Doubleday, 1973. [Elementary explanation of speech, acoustics, hearing, speech formants, etc.]
D.E. Hall, Musical Acoustics: An Introduction, Wadsworth, 1980
J.R. Pierce, The Science of Musical Sound, W.H. Freeman & Co., 1983.[Semi-popular treatment]
Irwin Stambler, The Worlds of Sound, W.W.Norton, New York, 1967.[Introductory level non-mathematical presentation of sound, acoustics, production of speech, etc.]
W.J.Strong and G.R.Plitnik, Music, Speech Audio, Soundprint, Provo, Utah, 1992. [Introductory explanations of acoustics for musicians and non-technical readers.]
J. Allen, M.S.Hunnicutt and D. Klatt, From text to speech: the MITalk system, Cambridge U. Press, 1987. [One of the best documented general-purpose English-language text-to-speech systems, much more based on transformation rules than most "commercial" systems, which use restricted vocabularies and extensive tables of exceptions with minimal rules.]
Alexander G. Bell, The Mechanism of Speech, Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1914. Bell's treatise on speech physiology based on his experience as a speech teacher for the deaf. Also includes a description of the phonetic alphabet developed by Alexander Melville Bell, father of A.G. Bell, which used small pictograms representing the position of the tongue, lips, teeth, etc. Historically interesing.
A.Burgess, Language Made Plain, Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1964. [Survey of phonetic and historical linguistics by a British literary man. Good introduction for non-technical readers.]
N. Chomsky and M. Halle, The Sound Pattern of English, Harper & Row, 1968.
Suzette H. Elgin, A Primer of Transformational Grammar for Rank Beginners, National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL, 1975 [A brief pamphelet introduction to Chomsky's transformational grammar.]
K. Heffner, General Phonetics, U. of Wisconsin Press, 1950.
F. Katamba, Introduction to Phonology, Longmans, 1989
P. Ladefoged, Elements of Acoustic Phonetics, U. of Chicago Press, 1962. [Good explanation for non-scientific readers, but still complete and correct.]
M.R. Schroeder (ed.), Speech and Speaker Recognition, Karger (Basel and New York), 1985.[Detailed technical discussion]
Joan Wall, International Phonetic Alphabet for Singers: A Manual for English & Foreign Language Diction, Pst Inc., Box 800208, Dallas, TX 75380, telephone 800 284 7043.
I.H.Witten, Principles of Computer Speech, Academic Press, 1982.
T.C.Bartee, Editor in chief, Digital Communications, Indianapolis, H.W.Sams, 1986 [Good but very brief chapter summary of speech coding by N.S.Jayant.]
K.G. Beauchamp, Transforms for Engineers: A Guide to Signal Processing, Oxford University Press, 1987.
J.C.Candy and G.C.Temes, Oversampling Delta-Sigma Data Converters, IEEE Books, 1993. [A widely used method for digital coding of waveforms involves Delta-modulation type one-bit coding at a sample rate much higher than the Nyquist rate, and then a conversion to multi-bit coding at a lower sample rate.]
J.P. Cater, Electronically Speaking: Computer Speech Generation, H.W.Sams, 1983. [Introductory technical level, simple phoneme synthesis and storage-reconstruction methods with construction diagrams for hobbyists.]
D.J. Creasy (ed.), Advanced Signal Processing, Peter Peregrinus for IEE, 1985.
Jerry D. Gibson, Principles of Digital and Analog Communications, MacMillan, 1989. [Also has considerable speech coding information.]
Leland B.Jackson, Digital Filters and Signal Processing, Kluwer, 1986. [A college level textbook based on finite differences and z-transform mathematical treatment of the subject.]
N.S. Jayant, Digital Coding of Waveforms: Principles and Applications to Speech and Video, Prentice-Hall, 1984.
M.Kunt, Traitement numérique des signaux, Presses Polytechniques Romandes, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1980. [English translation, Digital Signal Processing, Artech House, 1986.]
J.S. Lim and A.V. Oppenheim (eds.), Advanced Topics in Signal Processing, Prentice Hall, 1988.
A.V. Oppenheim (ed.), Applications of Digital Signal Processing, Prentice Hall, 1978.
K.C.Pohlmann, Principles of Digital Audio, 2nd Ed., H.W.Sams-MacMillan, 1989.[The two books by Pohlmann treat digital compact disks for sound recording in detail, but at a simple technical level.]
K.C.Pohlmann, Ed., Advanced Digital Audio, H.W.Sams-MacMillan, 1991.
L. Rabiner, Theory and Application of Digital Signal Processing, Prentice-Hall, 1975.
R.W. Schafer, J.D. Markel (eds.), Speech Analysis, IEEE Press, 1979. [Selected reprints of key important papers on the subject prior to publication, some otherwise not available.]
Schuyler R. Quackenbush, Thomas P. Barnwell III, Mark A. Clements, Objective Measures of Speech Quality, Prentice Hall, 1988. [methods for testing speech quality of digital speech coders]
J.S.Walker, Fast Fourier Transforms, CRC Press, 1992.
M Aguirre, La Escritura en el Mundo [writing in the world], Libreria Reliex, Madrid, 1961. In Spanish language. Contains samples of many written languages.
Carol Andrews, British Museum Book of the Rosetta Stone, Peter Bedrick Books, New York, 1981.
A. Arlotto, Introduction to Historical Linguistics, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1972.
Frederick Bodmer, The Loom of Language, Norton, 1944. Popular introduction to study of linguistics and languages.
E. Buchholz, Schriftgeschichte als Kulturgeschichte [The history of writing as the history of culture], Verlag des Instituts für Geosoziologie und Politik, Bellnhausen über Gladenbach/Hessen, 1965. [German language.]
Robert Claiborne, The Birth of Writing, Time-Life Books, 1974 [popular exposition].
E. Clodd, The Story of the Alphabet, Appleton, New York, 1900.
M. Cohen, La Grande Invention de L'Ecriture et son Evolution [the great invention of writing and its evolution], C. Klincksieck, Paris, 1958. [In French language.]
Florian Coulmas, Writing Systems of the World, Blackwell, 1989. [Ancient and non-european.]
D. Diringer, The Book Before Printing, Dover, 1982.
Henry .Dreyfuss, Symbol Sourcebook, McGraw Hill, 1972. [Non-alphabetic signs and symbols such as pictorial traffic signs. Drefuss was the industrial designer of the 500 and 2500 telephone sets for AT&T in the 1940s and 1960s.]
E.Ehrlich and R. Hand, Jr., NBC Handbook of Pronunciation, 4th Ed, Harper & Row, 1984.[Many proper names given in IPA writing.]
Rene Etiemble, Written Word, Prentice Hall (also Orion Press), 1961.
J.L.Flanagan, Speech Analysis, Synthesis and Perception, 2nd Ed., Springer Verlag, New York, 1972. [Excellent and complete review of technology of speech analysis at the time of publication. Contains fundamental information of value in connection with later sources.]
Albertine Gaur, History of Writing, Cross River Press, 1992 [Comprehensive popular exposition of historical writing systems. Earlier editions published by British Library and by Scribners, 1985.]
Ignace J. Gelb, Study of Writing, 2nd ed. rev., University of Chicago Press, 1963.
J.C.Giblin, The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, Harper Collins, New York, 1990. [Champollion deciphered ancient hieroglyphics from this stone inscribed in three languages, which was found by Napoleon's army in Rosetta, Egypt. It also contained Greek and Coptic translations of the hieroglyphics.]
R.M.S. Heffner, General Phonetics, U. of Wisconsin Press, 1950.
Lewis Herman and Marguerite S. Herman, American Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors and Writers, Theatre Arts Books, New York, 1973.
Lewis Herman and Marguerite S. Herman, Foreign Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors and Writers, Theatre Arts Books, New York, 1973.
Hans Jensen, Sign, Symbol and Script, Putnam, 1969.
Otto Jesperson, Growth and Structure of the English Language, Free Press Macmillan, New York, 1958 (original 1938).
Donald H. Molin, Actor's Encyclopedia of Dialects, Sterling Publishing Co., New York, 1984. [Uses non-standard phonetic symbols ]
Alfred C. Moorhouse, Triumph of the Alphabet, A History of Writing, Schuman, 1953.
Oscar Ogg, 26 Letters, Crowell, 1971.
Kenneth L. Pike, Phonemics, University of Michigan Press, 1974.
A. Robinson, The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms, Thames and Hudson, 1995.
Geoffrey Sampson, Writing Systems, a Linguistic Introduction, Stanford University Press, 1985.
David S. Thomson and the Editors of Time-Life Books. Language, (a volume in the series Human Behavior), Time-Life Books, 1975. [A popular, qualitative, and sometimes superficial treatment of the psychology of language, including discussion of the roles of hearing and deafness, language learning in children and adults, gestures and "body language," and the theories of Whorf and others on how language influences one's view of the world. There is a simplified explanation of Chomsky's theory of constructive grammars, but Chomsky's own writings are clearer.]
G.D. Leon, L.G. Sands, Dial 911: Modern Emergency Communications Networks, Hayden, 1975.
S.C. Ivy, T.I. Dayharsh, T.J. Young, Statewide Considerations in Illinois 911 System Development: final report (SRI Project 4477), Illinois Commerce Commission, Springfield, IL, 1976.
Texas Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 911 and Other Emergency Single-Number Access Systems in Texas: An Informational Report, Austin, 1979.
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. (Roland Mueser, ed.), Bell Laboratories'
Innovation in Telecommunications 1925-1977, Murray Hill, NJ, 1979.
G.G. Blake, History of Radio Telegraphy and Telephony, Arno Press, [book from early 1900s reprinted 1974.]
John Brooks, Telephone, the First Hundred Years, Harper & Row, 1976. [An "authorized" history of AT&T.]
Thomas Burns, Tales of ITT, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
Allen Churchill, The Incredible Ivar Kreuger, New York: Rinehart, 1957. [ Kreuger, known as the "Swedish match king" because of his acquisition of the Swedish safety match industry, also acquired and then lost control of L M Ericsson during his notorious financial career.]
Thomas B. Costain, Chord of Steel, [Biography of Alexander Graham Bell]
Maurice Deloraine, When Telecom and ITT were Young, New York: Lehigh Books, 1974.
Robert Goolrick, Public Policy Toward Corporate Growth: The ITT Merger Cases, Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1978.
W.J. Harder, Daniel Drawbaugh, U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1960. . Biography of a would-be inventor of the telephone, one of the losing parties in the Supreme Court Telephone Cases.
Hasler, A.G.[corporate author] Hundert Jahre Hasler [100 Years of Hasler, A.G., a commemorative volume in the German language. This Swiss telephone manufacturing firm later became the nucleus of the present ASCOM joint operation of Swiss telecommunications manufacturing companies.]
A.N.Holcombe, Public Ownership of Telephones on the Continent of Europe, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1911.
A.H.Inglis, W.L. Tufnell, "An Improved Telephone Set," Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 30, No.2, April 1951, pp.239-270. [The "500" type set, which contains most of the features still standard today in telephone station set circuitry.]
Larry Kahaner, On The Line: How MCI took On AT&T- And Won!, Warner Books, New York, 1986.
Sonny Kleinfeld, The Biggest Company on Earth, a Profile of AT&T, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. [A view just before divestiture.]
Leinwoll, (Frank Shunaman, ed.), From Spark to Satellite: A History of Radio Communication, Scribner, 1979. [Slight technical content, primarily history]
L. Lessing, Man of High Fidelity: Edward Howard Armstrong, J.B.Lippincott, 1956. [Biography with slight technical content. Armstrong invented several major radio advances, including regeneration (legally credited to DeForest after a long series of patent lawsuits but credited to Armstrong by most authorities), the superheterodyne receiver, and frequency modulation.]
T. Lewis, Empire of the Air, Edward Burlingame Books (HarperCollins), 1991 [Excellent triple biography of Lee DeForest, Edwin H. Armstrong, and David Sarnoff, describing their contributions to radio technology, their personal and legal battles, and the history of radio in the early 20th century. Not technical in content. This book was the basis of a public television documentary by Ken Burns, which is frequently re-broadcast and is available on videotape.]
R.G.K. Loeffler, Telephone Communication Systems, MacMillan, 1937. [Dated view if telephone technology, but some things like hybrid coils have not improved since then!]
Martin, "Seventy Five Years of the Telephone: An Evolution in Technology," Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 30, No.2, April 1951, pp.239-270.
J.L.Merill, "Theory of the Negative Impedance Repeater," Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 30, No.1, January 1951, pp.88-109. [Negative impedance repeaters, such as the AT&T type E-1, were extensively used for bidirectional aplification of audio signals on two-wire transmission links. They are not used in four-wire systems.]
K.B. Miller, Telephone Theory and Practice, McGraw-Hill, 1930 [Historically interesting view of 1920s telephone technology.]
E.E.Mott, R.C.Milner, "The Ring Armature Telephone Receiver," Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 30, No.1, January 1951, pp.110-140. [This improved earphone design had such reduced external audio frequency magnetic field that hearing aids which were designed to utilize this magnetic coupling to the audio signal were not able to function as well. For public telephones a modified earphone with an external coil to generate a magnetic field for hearing aids is installed in some telephones, which are identified by means of a blue color grommet where the handset cord connects to the handset.]
Frederick Philips, 45 Years with Philips, Poole, England: Blandford Press, 1978.
P.J. Povey, R.A.J. Earl, Vintage Telephones of the World, Peregrinus for IEE, 1988.
Robert Rines, Create or Perish, Academy of Applied Science, Cambridge, MA, 1960. [An iconoclastic history of the invention of the telephone and the significance of the resulting patent interference actions by Gray, Drawbaugh, and Dolbear is used as a case in point to illustrate the importance of invention and protection of intellectual property.]
Anthony Sampson, The Sovereign State of ITT, New York, Stein & Day, 1973. [Controversial account of the development of ITT by Col. Sosthenes Behn and his brother Hernand Behn, who parlayed the Puerto Rico telephone company into a world wide telephone manufacturing and operating company by acquisition of AT&T's overseas manufacturing operations when AT&T was forced to divest them in the 1930s. Highly critical of ITT's role in World War II, claiming that they played both the allied and axis sides, and of their role in the overthrow of the Chilean government of President Allende. ITT's former telephone manufacturing operations are now owned by Alcatel.]
Robinson Sandford, The Murder of Allende and the End of the Chilean Way to Socialism, New York: Harper & Row, 1975. [This book claims that ITT pulled political strings to get Allende deposed, but never intended that he be assassinated.]
Robert Shaplen, Kreuger: Genius and Swindler, New York, Knopf, 1960. [Includes description of Kreuger's takeover of LM Ericsson.]
Shaw, "Evolution of Inductive Loading for Bell System Telephone Facilities," Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 30, [in four parts] No.1, January 1951, pp.149-204; part 2, April 1951, pp.447-472; part 3, July 1951, pp.721-764; part 4, October 1951, pp. 1221-1243. [Loading colis are installed at equal spacing -- typically 6000 feet -- in a subscriber loop or other analog audio frequency trunk to improve the low-frequency transmission, while also severely increasing the higher frequency attenuation. The original 1899 patent interference between Carson and Pupin is alluded to on page 151.]
Georg Siemens, History of the House of Siemens, 2 Vols. Freiburg-Munich: Karl Alber, 1957.
Robert Sobel, ITT: The Management of Opportunity, New York, Times Books, 1982. [Written with co-operation of ITT, but not an "official" history. Undertaken to provide another view of the World War II era, and does not condemn ITT as does Sampson. However, this book is equally critical of ITT's political role in the overthrow (and ultimately the assassination) of President Allende of Chile.]
Earl Sparling, Kreuger's Billion Dollar Bubble, New York: Greenburg, 1932.
Ellen Stern and Emily Gwathmey, Once Upon a Telephone: An Illustrated Social History, Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1994. [Non-technical. Attributes the first use of alphabetic letter dial labels in 1921 to the idea of William G. Blauvelt of AT&T.]
Michael F. Wolff, "The Marriage that Almost Was," IEEE Spectrum Magazine, 1976, February, pp. 41-51. [The "truth" regarding the rejection of the offer by Hubbard and Bell to sell the telephone patent for $100,000 was that Hubbard was a bitter long-term business competitor of the Western Union Company, and they would not deal with him on any terms at that time.]
Wright, A.F. Puchstein, Telephone Communication, McGraw-Hill, 1925 [Old but comprehensive view of 1920s telephone technology, including switching and transmission.]
C.H.Kennedy, An Introduction to U.S. Telecommunications Law, Artech House, 1994.
Other sources of information on vintage and antique telephone equipment and systems are the numerous museums and collections, including those operated by the Telephone Pioneers, an organization of long-time telephone industry employees. Many cities have exhibits in local telephone operating company buildings showing antique equipment. For example, there is a collection at the offices of SouthWestern Bell Telephone Company in downtown Dallas, Texas. Telephone +1 214 464 3562 for more information.
Several museums of science and technology have extensive exhibits of this nature, notably:
Henry Ford Museum in Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan
The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
La Cité, a museum of science, industry, communications, motion pictures, etc. in the northeast part of Paris, France.
Museum of Television and Radio, New York and Los Angeles. This museum is devoted almost entirely to the "software" aspects of broadcasting rather than technology. Extensive recordings of past radio and television programs are available for review and study.
The Science Museum, London, England.
Alexander Graham Bell family homestead museum, Brantford, Ontario, Canada and the separate Bell estate and memorial in Nova Scotia, Canada
National Museum of Communications, 4 Dallas Communications Complex, 6305 N. O'Connor Rd., Suite 123, Irving (Las Colinas), Texas. Telephone +1 972 869 7767. Present schedule (Fall 1997) Tuesday-Saturday 10AM-4PM, Sunday, Noon-4PM. Closed Monday. Admission charges: $4.95, lower prices for seniors, children. Combined tour of this museum and the motion picture studios at Los Colinas, a midcities suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth, is available. This museum includes telecommunications artifacts and also radio and television broadcasting, motion pictures, printing, and other miscellaneous materials.
Journals and trade magazines: The major engineering journals in the area of telecommunications are published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). These include the Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Spectrum, and various Transactions (Communications; Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing; Vehicular Technology) and Journals (Selected Areas in Communications) related to communications and telecommunications. The IEEE Communications magazine is particularly useful as a source of timely overview articles on new telecommunications technology. The AT&T Technical Journal (formerly called Bell System Technical Journal) is another scholarly publication. Other major scholarly publications are published by the British IEE, and similar organizations in other major countries. There are several trade magazines, which are less rigorous technically but which concentrate more on news coverage of the business aspects of the industry. Major trade magazines of this type are Telephony, Data Communications, Teleconnect,, and Telephone Engineer and Management. The magazine Business Communications Review addresses the economic and business interests of the industrial user of telecommunications equipment such as leased line services and PBXs. The land mobile telecommunications industry is addressed by the trade magazines RCR and Cellular Business. There are also several technical magazines published by vendors of telecommunications equipment which have well illustrated articles on their own equipment, usually explaining the principles of operation in a semi-technical manner. These include AT&T Bell Laboratories Record and AT&T Technology, Bell-Northern Research's Telesis, Ericsson's Ericsson Review, Siemens' Telcom Report, and Alcatel's (formerly ITT's) Electrical Communications.
Standards: There are several major sources of telecommunications standards.
| Organization | Contact Information (http:// is omitted for Internet URLs) |
Comments and Explanations |
| ATIS | www.atis.com | Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (formerly Exchange
Carriers Standards Association). Houses T1 standards committes on wireless and switching interfaces to telephone exchange systems. Many projects are done jointly with TIA. |
| Bellcore | www.bellcore.com | Bell Communications Research. Split off from Bell Laboratories in 1984. Recently sold to Science Applications International Corp (SAIC). Issues TR (technical reference) and TA (technical advisory) standards for the North American public telephone industry. |
| CTIA | www.wow-com.com | Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Represents the Cellular
and PCS system operators/license holders in the USA. |
| DECT Forum |
www.dect.ch | Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephone system, also known as Digital European
CT and DCT or PWT in the North American versions. The North American versions use DQPSK modulation, while the European version uses digital GMSK FM. |
| ETSI | www.etsi.fr | European Telecommunication Standards Institute. Administers GSM, DECT,
and and other wireless/cellular standards. Publishes the standards which are successors to the former CCITT standards. |
| FCC | www.fcc.gov | United States Federal Communications Commission. Writes and administers
rules governing wire and radio/television communication in the USA. |
| Global Engineering Documents |
global.ihs.com | Formerly Indian Head Systems. Franchised distributor of TIA standards
documents and other selected standards documents. |
| IEC | www.iec.ch | International Electrotechnical Commission. Publishes standards mainly
devoted to electrical and optical fiber connectors and power systems and graphic standards for diagrams and labeling. |
| IEEE | www.ieee.org | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Publishes the 802.x LAN standards. |
| ISO | www.iso.ch | International Standards Organization. Issues numerous data processing
standards including the ISO OSI layered communications model, ASN.1, ISO-9000 quality control standards, and others. |
| ITU-T | www.itu.ch | International Telecommunications Union- Telecom Sector. Publishes all former CCITT standards which appeared in the past in the quadriennial color books ending with the 1992 white books. These standards have a letter-number code such as T.30, V.32, X.25, etc. [ITU-R is the organization for the world administrative radio conference and its relaated treaties. They also publish radio standards formerly issued by CCIR.] |
| T1P1 etc. | www.t1.org | Planning committee of ATIS. Issues many wireless standards jointly with TIA. |
| TIA | www.industry.net/ c/orgunpro/tia/welcome |
Telecommunications Industry Association. Issues standards on consumer
end telecom equipment (telephone sets, PBX equipment, etc.) and cellular/PCS systems. |
| USTA | www.usta.org | U.S. Telephone Association (formerly US Independent Telephone Association). Affiliated with TIA. Represents the telephone industry. |
Technical librarians are extremely helpful in finding material once you give them a clear explanation of what you are seeking. Although some city public libraries may have only limited technical books and journals in their collection, most universities and colleges have more complete technical holdings. Most companies in the telecommunications industry, whether vendor or operating company, have technical libraries holding many of these journals and standards. As an enrolled student, you can use the SMU science library.
Citation Indexes: Technical libraries have citation indexes which allow you to go both "forward and backward" in time, starting from a single publication on a subject of interest. You can go forward in time by finding all later publications which have cited the known publication as a reference. You can also use the known publication to search backwards, by finding the references which it cites as sources, without the citation index. If you locate the known publication in the various indexes organized by subject, you can then use this subject name to look for other publications on the same topic and related topics.
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