Applications of Communications Theory

1. Background.- 1.1. What is Telecommunication?.- 1.2. Historical Perspective.- 1.2.1. 801st Lifetime.- 1.2.2. Telegraph, Telephone, Radio, and Television.- 1.2.3. Data Communication.- 1.2.4. The Information Society.- 1.2.5. Distribution of Resources.- 1.2.6. Service Providers.- 1.3. Demand and Motivation.- 1.3.1. User Needs and Supplier Rewards.- 1.3.2. Market Pull.- 1.3.3. Technology Push.- 1.3.4. Effect of In-Place Facilities.- 1.4. Changes in the Telecommunication Industry.- 1.4.1. Deregulation.- 1.4.2. FCC Initiatives.- 1.4.3. Antitrust Settlement.- 1.4.4. Other Actions of the FCC.- 1.4.5. The New Environment.- 2. Media.- 2.1. The Message of Existing Media.- 2.1.1. Record Media.- 2.1.2. Real-Time Media.- 2.2. Evolution and Replacement.- 2.3. New Telecommunication Media.- 2.3.1. Videotex.- 2.3.2. Electronic Mail.- 2.3.3. Teleconferencing.- 2.3.4. Interactive Television.- 2.4. Other Media.- 3. Technology.- A. Signals.- 3.1. Basic Concepts.- 3.1.1. Analog and Digital Signals.- 3.1.2. Time and Frequency Analysis.- 3.1.3. Noise.- 3.1.4. The Decibel (dB).- 3.1.5. Analog Modulation.- 3.2. Speech/Sound Signals.- 3.2.1. Natural Voice.- 3.2.2. Digital Voice.- 3.3. Data/Binary Signals.- 3.3.1. Line Coding.- 3.3.2. Bandwidth.- 3.3.3. Packets.- 3.3.4. Digital Modulation.- 3.3.5. Spread-Spectrum Signals.- 3.4. Television/Video Signals.- 3.4.1. NTSC Color Signal.- 3.4.2. Digital Television.- 3.5. Transmission.- 3.5.1. Transmission Means.- 3.5.2. Multiplexing and Concentration.- 3.5.3. Electromagnetic Spectrum.- 3.6. Digital Switching.- B. Control.- 3.7. Traffic Theory.- 3.7.1. Request Arrival Rate.- 3.7.2. Holding Time.- 3.7.3. Traffic Intensity.- 3.7.4. Grade of Service.- 3.7.5. Quality of Service.- 3.8. Software.- 3.8.1. Software Engineering.- 3.8.2. High-Level Languages.- 3.8.3. Compilers.- 3.8.4. Switch Software.- 3.8.5. Next Generation Software.- 3.9. Artificial Intelligence.- 3.9.1. Expert Systems.- 3.9.2. Speech Recognition.- 3.9.3. Speech Synthesis.- 3.9.4. Automatic Programming.- 3.10. Signaling and Protocols.- 3.10.1. Telephone Signaling.- 3.10.2. Data Protocols.- C. Microstructures.- 3.11. Solid-State Electronic Devices.- 3.11.1. Bipolar and Field-Effect Transistors.- 3.11.2. Silicon Integrated Circuits.- 3.11.3. Commercial Considerations.- 3.11.4. Next Generation Systems.- 3.11.5. GaAs Integrated Circuits.- 3.11.6. Josephson Junctions.- 3.12. Solid-State Optical Devices.- 3.12.1. Optical Fiber.- 3.12.2. Cables.- 3.12.3. Connections.- 3.12.4. Sources and Detectors.- 3.12.5. Optical Multiplexing.- 3.12.6. An All-Optical System?.- 4. Facilities.- A. Telephony.- 4.1. Interexchange Facilities.- 4.1.1. Interexchange Transmission.- 4.1.2. Interexchange Switching.- 4.2. Exchange Area Facilities.- 4.2.1. Customer Loops.- 4.2.2. Mobile Telephone.- 4.2.3. Intraexchange Transmission.- 4.2.4. Exchange Area Switching.- 4.3. Customer Premise Equipment.- 4.3.1. Telephone.- 4.3.2. Digital Private Branch Exchange.- 4.3.3. Picturephone Meeting Service (PMS).- B. Television and Radio.- 4.4. Television.- 4.4.1. Television Receivers.- 4.4.2. Digital Television.- 4.4.3. Videotex Applications.- 4.4.4. Other Approaches.- 4.4.5. Cable Television.- 4.4.6. Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Television.- 4.5. Radio.- C. Data Communications.- 4.6. Data Terminal Equipment.- 4.6.1. Input/Output Devices.- 4.6.2. Signal Conversion.- 4.6.3. Use of IR Links.- 4.6.4. Facsimile.- 4.7. Switching and Transmission.- 4.7.1. Voiceband Data.- 4.7.2. Circuit-Switched Digital Capability (CSDC).- 4.7.3. Local Area Data Transport (LADT) Capability.- 4.7.4. Packet Data.- 4.7.5. SNA Networks.- 4.7.6. Digital Termination Service (DTS).- 4.8. Local Area Networks.- 4.8.1. Network Architecture.- 4.8.2. Transmission Media.- 4.8.3. Protocols.- 5. Integration.- 5.1. Integration of Point-to-Point Voice and Data (and Video).- 5.1.1. Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN).- 5.1.2. Voice and Data Local Area Network.- 5.1.3. Voice and Data PBX.- 5.1.4. PBX or LAN?.- 5.1.5. Integrated Voice and Data Switching.- 5.1.6. Reduced Bit-Rate Voice.- 5.1.7. Reduced Bit-Rate Video.- 5.2. Business Services.- 5.2.1. The Automated Office.- 5.2.2. Telecommunication Connections.- 5.2.3. Security.- 5.3. Point-to-Multipoint and Broadcast Facilities.- 5.4. Residence Services.- 5.4.1. The Wired Household.- 5.4.2. Facility Integration.- 5.4.3. Integrated Services Field Trials.- 5.5. The Future.- 5.5.1. United States.- 5.5.2. The Rest of the World.- 5.5.3. Telecommunication in the 801st Lifetime.- References.