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The first spread spectrum challenge was answered by the original communicator to schedule a time for sending and receiving messages because of heavy "traffic" or the desire to avoid interception. Today, spread spectrum systems are a unique blend of analog and digital technology answering an ever increasing range of military, commercial, and consumer communications, data transmission, message privacy, signal hiding, and position location challenges. For nineteen years telecommunications, electrical, and electronics engineers looking for a thoroughly practical, self-contained guide to this important field have turned here. Now this new edition offers... Complete coverage of the latest commercial applications, including everything from direct sequence versus frequency hopping, operation below ambient noise level, error correction coding, near-far performance, linear signal requirements, and synchronization. A full CDMA guide that features discussion of the number of signals in a bandwidth, frequency division multiplex, time-division multiplex, code division multiple access, receiver sensitivity, multipath rejection, direct sequence, fading rate, and more. A new section on the testing and evaluation of spread spectrum systems, including techniques for monitoring sensitivity, selectivity, jamming margin, synch acquisition, loss of synchronization, S/N ratio versus interference level, process gain, cross correlation, transmitter measurements, and more. Three new appendices covering typical error correction coding integrated circuits; typical integrated circuit frequency synthesizers; and spread spectrum's effect on standard microwave communications links. Continuing the freedom fromburdensome mathematical rigor and precedence that made the previous editions of this practical presentation of the technology so popular, the Third Edition is assured of its place as one of the most useful working references for a wide range of engineers.

Securitization has revolutionized the business of lending. By packaging financial promises and transforming them so that they can be freely transferred among a multitude of investors, securitization has broadened the opportunities for individuals and institutions to borrow and manage risk– in the process, creating new classes of instruments for investors. Here is the first work to bring together a full spectrum of information and ideas on securitization in one comprehensive presentation. Written by innovators and leaders in the field, Securitization describes how financial instruments can be securitized, structured, analyzed, and valued. Whether you’ re an issuer or an investor, a market participant or a student, Securitization will help you more fully understand this market and its instruments. Securitization functions as both a reference and a textbook, providing insight into not just how securitization operates, but also why. It provides a broad overview of securitization, in-depth discussions of particular products, and hands-on learning of key concepts with exercises at the end of each chapter. A companion CD-ROM, which includes calculation tools and data for models, enhances the learning experience. With Securitization, you will better understand choices available to you as an issuer or an investor, and be able to make better decisions every day. Organized into comprehensive sections built on common principles– but written to be self-contained so that they can be read separately– this valuable resource skillfully explores the securitization market in the United States and Europe. The authors establish a framework for evaluating the securitization processand provide an excellent discussion of basic fixed-income mathematics from yield curves to complex valuation methods.