Index

A

AbS. See Analysis-by-Synthesis methods

Absolute Threshold of Hearing (ATH), 8

Absorption

atmospheric, 244–246, 262

free-space propagation, 259

optical fibers, 116–117

rain, 270

terrestrial line-of-sight propagation, 270

Acceptance angle, 113

Accommodation, dispersion, 181–182, 187

Accumulation

DGD, 191–192

jitter, 47, 50–51

noise, 161

nonlinear crosstalk, 185

Adaptive arrays, 285–286

adaptive null steering, 291–292

beam steering, 289–291

nulls, 288–289

radiation pattern, 286–288

Adaptive Multirate Wideband (AMR-WB) speech coder, 7–8

Adaptive null steering, 291–292

Add-Drop Multiplexers (ADMs), 363

Adjacent channel interference, 41

ADPCM. See Adaptive Differential PCM

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), 104

Aerial fibers, 192

A-law companding, ...

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