Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications, 3rd Edition

Appendix G

List of Symbols

aij	Coefficient of jth basis function
aj	Signal component output of jth correlator
A	Peak amplitude of a waveform
Ae	Effective area (of an antenna)
BL	Single-sided loop bandwidth
c	Speed of light ≈ 3 × 108 m/s
C	Channel capacity
C	Electrical capacitance
C/k T°	Ratio of average carrier power to noise power spectral density
d	Distance
d0	Reference distance
df	Free distance
dmin	Minimum distance
D	Delay time (of message)
D	Redundancy of a language
D	Decryption transformation
e	The natural number 2.7183
e	Error pattern vector
e( t)	Error signal
e( X)	Error pattern polynomial
E	Encryption transformation
Ex	Energy of waveform x( t)
E{ X}	Expected value of the random variable ...