Providing key background material together with advanced topics, this self-contained book is written in an easy-to-read style and is ideal for newcomers to multicarrier systems. Early chapters provide a review of basic digital communication, starting from the equivalent discrete time channel and including a detailed review of the MMSE receiver. Later chapters then provide extensive performance analysis of OFDM and DMT systems, with discussions of many practical issues such as implementation and power spectrum considerations. Throughout, theoretical analysis is presented alongside practical design considerations, whilst the filter bank transceiver representation of OFDM and DMT systems opens up possibilities for further optimization such as minimum bit error rate, minimum transmission power, and higher spectral efficiency. With plenty of insightful real-world examples and carefully designed end-of-chapter problems this is an ideal single-semester textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a self-study guide for researchers and professional engineers.

Yuan-Pei Lin is a Professor in Electrical Engineering at the National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. She is a recipient of the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award, the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering's Outstanding Youth Electrical Engineer Award, and the Chinese Automatic Control Society's Young Engineer in Automatic Control Award. See-May Phoong is a Professor in the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Taiwan University (NTU). He is a recipient of the Charles H. Wilts Prize for outstanding independent doctoral research in electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, and the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering's Outstanding Youth Electrical Engineer Award. P. P. Vaidyanathan is a Professor in Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, where he has been a faculty member since 1983. He is an IEEE Fellow and has authored over 400 technical papers and invited chapters in leading journals, conferences, and handbooks. He was a recipient of the Award for Excellence in Teaching at the California Institute of Technology three times and he has received numerous other awards including the F. E. Terman Award of the American Society for Engineering Education and the Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.