This practical resource provides professionals with a solid understanding of the essential engineering and mathematical fundamentals associated with communications electronic warfare (EW) systems. From an introduction to jamming and the properties of signals and systems to channel coding and pulsed jamming, you get comprehensive coverage of the basics of EW systems and find details on critical design factors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction to jamming -- 2. Mathematical preliminaries -- 3. Properties of signals and systems -- 4. Digital communication systems -- 5. Information theory and electronic warfare -- 6. Source coding -- 7. Channel coding and electronic warfare -- 8. Jammer performance in noisty, fading channels -- 9. Jamming performance evaluation using dynamic, noncooperative games -- 10. Noise jamming -- 11. Pulsed noise jamming -- 12. Tone jamming -- Appendix A. Introduction to the calculus of variations.