Multiple Access Schemes
Teaching Telecommunications Systems to Share
This chapter explores the different ways in which a communication channel can be shared by multiple users. We looked at this briefly in Chapter 2, where we introduced time division multiplexing and frequency division multiplexing. In this chapter, we provide more details so that you can understand how to build a communication system that shares the channel among the many users who want to use it.
11.1 What It Is
Let’s say you have been given a license by the FCC to build a wireless communication system operating in a frequency band of 1.8 GHz to 1.805 GHz. You decide that you would like many users to be able to use your system. You also decide that each user will ...
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