1.1 INTRODUCTION1.2 THE FOURIER TRANSFORM AND FOURIER SERIES1.3 PULSE DISTORTION WITH IDEAL FILTER MODELS1.4 CORRELATION PROCESSING1.5 RANDOM VARIABLES AND PROBABILITY1.6 RANDOM PROCESSES1.7 THE MATCHED FILTER1.8 THE LIKELIHOOD AND LOG‐LIKELIHOOD RATIOS1.9 PARAMETER ESTIMATION1.10 MODEM CONFIGURATIONS AND AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST1.11 WINDOWS1.12 MATRICES, VECTORS, AND RELATED OPERATIONS1.13 OFTEN USED MATHEMATICAL PROCEDURES1.14 OFTEN USED MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIPSACRONYMSPROBLEMSREFERENCES