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PREFACE This book is a result of the recent rapid advances in two related technologies: com- munications and computers. Over the past few decades, communication systems have increased in complexity to the point where system design and performance analysis can no longer be conducted without a signi?cant level of computer sup- port. Many of the communication systems of ?fty years ago were either power or noise limited. A signi?cant degrading e?ect in many of these systems was thermal noise, which was modeled using the additive Gaussian noise channel. Many modern communication systems, however, such as the wireless cellular system, operate in environments that are interference and bandwidth limited. In addition, the desire for wideband channels and miniature components pushes transmission frequencies into the gigahertz range, where propagation characteristics are more complicated and multipath-induced fading is a common problem. In order to combat these ef- fects, complex receiver structures, such as those using complicated synchronization structures, demodulators and symbol estimators, and RAKE processors, are often used. Many of these systems are not analytically tractable using non-computer based techniques, and simulation is often necessary for the design and analysis of these systems. The same advances in technology that made modern communication systems possible, namely microprocessors and DSP techniques, also provided us with high- speed digital computers. The modern workstation and personal computer (PC) have computational capabilities greatly exceeding the mainframe computers used just a few years ago. In addition, modern workstations and PCs are inexpensive and therefore available at the desktop of design engineers. As a result, simulation- based design and analysis techniques are practical tools widely used throughout the communications industry. As a result, graduate-level courses dealing with simulation-based design and analysis of communication systems ar