JPL DESCANSO - Deep Space Communications and Navigation Center of Excellence

DESCANSO Publication List

Books by Former JPL Employees
(in Deep Space Communications and Navigation)

Compiled by
    Joseph H. Yuen
    Last Updated: March 2009

* To the readers: This list includes books we are aware of by former JPL employees in Deep Space Communications and Navigation. If you know of other books that should be included or have corrections to the current list, please send the information to Joseph.H.Yuen@jpl.nasa.gov

Eberhardt Rechtin (1949 - 1967 at JPL)
  1. A. V. Balakrishnan, E. Rechtin, et al, Space Communications, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1963.
  2. Eberhardt Rechtin, Systems Architecting: Creating and Building Complex Systems, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1991.
  3. Eberhardt Rechtin and Mark W. Maier, The Art of Systems Architecting, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1997.
  4. Eberhardt Rechtin, Systems Architecting of Organizations: Why Eagles Can't Swin, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2000.
Solomon W. Golomb (1956 -1964)
  1. Solomon W. Golomb, et al, Digital Communications with Space Applications, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1964.
  2. Solomon W. Golomb, et al, Shift Register Sequences, Holden-Day, San Francisco, CA, 1967. (Rev.ed by Aegean Park Press, Laguna Hill, CA, 1982.)
Andrew J. Viterbi (1957 - 1964)
  1. Andrew J. Viterbi, Principles of Coherent Communication, McGraw-Hill , New York, 1966.
  2. Andrew J. Viterbi and Jim K. Omura, Principles of Digital Communication and Coding, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1979.
Robert C. Tausworth (1958 - 1999)
  1. Standardized Development of Computer Software, Volume I: Methods, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977.
  2. Standardized Development of Computer Software, Volume II: Standards, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1979.
Thomas Kailath (1961 - 1963)
  1. Thomas Kailath, Linear Systems, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1980.
  2. Thomas Kailath, Lectures on Wiener and Kalman Filtering, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1981.
  3. Babak Hassibi, Ali H. Sayed, and Thomas Kailath, Indefinite-Quardratic Estimation and Control: a Unified Approach to H (square) and H (infinity) Theories, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, 1999.
  4. Thomas Kailath and Ali H. Sayed (eds.), Fast Reliable Algorithms for Matrices with Structure, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, 1999.
Edward C. Posner (1961 - 1993)
  1. John A. Pierce and Edward C. Posner, Introduction to Communication Science and Systems, Plenum Press, New York, 1980.
Tom Y. Otoshi (1961-2004)
  1. Tom Y. Otoshi, Noise Temperature Theory and Applications for Deep Space Communications Antenna Systems, Artech Publishing House, Norwood, MA, 2008.
Douglas J. Mudgway (1962 - 1999)
  1. Douglas J. Mudgway, Uplink-Downlink: A History of the Deep Space Network 1957-1997, NASA, Washington D.C., 2002.
  2. Douglas J. Mudway, Big Dish: Building America's Deep Space Connection to the Planets, University Press of Florida, Gainsville, Fl, 2005.
William C. Lindsey (1962 - 1968)
  1. William C. Lindsey, Synchronization Systems in Communication and Control, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1972.
  2. William C. Lindsey and Marvin K. Simon, Telecommunication Systems Engineering, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1973. Reprinted by Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, 1991.
  3. William C. Lindsey and Marvin K. Simon (eds.), Phase-Locked Loops and Their Application, IEEE Press, Piscataway, New Jersey, 1978.
  4. William C. Lindsey and Chak M. Chi, (eds.), Phase-Locked Loops, IEEE Press, New York, 1986.
  5. Marvin K. Simon, Sami M. Hinedi, and William C. Lindsey, Digital Communication Techniques: Signal Design and Detection, PTR Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1995.
Irwin M. Jacobs (1964 - 1965)
  1. John M. Wozencraft and Irwin M. Jacobs, Principles of Communication Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1965. (Reissued by Waveland Press, Prospect, IL, 1990).
Robert E. McEliece (1964 - 2008)
  1. Robert J. McEliece, Finite Fields for Computer Scientists & Engineers, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 1986.
  2. Robert J. McEliece and Robert B. Ash, Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, Random House, New York, 1988.
  3. Robert J. McEliece, The Theory of Information and Coding, Addison-Wesley, Massachusetts, 1977. Updated and reissued as The Theory of Information and Coding : a Mathematical Framework for Communication, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002.
Robert M. Gray (1966 and 1967 summers)
  1. Robert M. Gray, Entropy and Information Theory, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990.
  2. Allen Gersho and Robert M. Gray, Vector Quantization and Signal Compression, Kluwer Academic Press, New York, 1992.
  3. Jia Li and Robert M. Gray, Image Segmentation and Compression Using Hidden Markov Models, Kluwer Academic Press, Boston, MA, 2000.
  4. Chee Son Won and Robert M. Gray, Stochastic Image Processing, Kluwer/ Plenum, New York, 2004.
  5. Robert M. Gray and Lee D. Davisson, Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004,
  6. Robert M. Gray, Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices: a Review, Now Publishers Inc, Boston-Delft, 2005.
Jack K. Holmes (1967 -1973)
  1. Jack K. Holmes, Coherent Spread Spectrum Systems, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1982.
  2. Jack K. Holmes, Spread Spectrum Systems For GNSS and Wireless Communications, Artech Publications, 2007, 855 pages.
Barry K. Levitt (1967 - 2000)
  1. Marvin K. Simon, Jim K. Omura, Robert A. Scholtz, and Barry K. Levitt, Spread Spectrum Communications, Vols. I, II, and III, Computer Science Press, New York, 1984. Updated and reissued as Spread Spectrum Communications Handbook, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1994.
Roy Levy (1968 - 1995)
  1. Roy Levy, Structural Engineering of Microwave Antennas, IEEE Press, New York, 1996.
MacGregor S. Reid (1969 - 1998)
  1. Macgregor S. Reid and Walter Flury, (Eds.).Space Safety, Rescue, and Quality 1998. Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univelt, 2000.
  2. Macgregor. S. Reid and Manola Romero, (Eds.).Space Safety, Rescue, and Quality, 1999-2000. Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univelt, 2001.
  3. MacGregor S. Reid, Editor, Low-Noise Systems in the Deep Space Network, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2008.
  4. Charles T. Stelzried, Arthur J. Freiley, Macgregor S. Reid.LONRS: Low Noise Receiving Systems Performance and Analysis Toolkit. Boston, Mass: Artech House, 2010.
Marvin K. Simon (1969 - 2007)
  1. William C. Lindsey and Marvin K. Simon, Telecommunication Systems Engineering, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1973. Reprinted by Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, 1991.
  2. Ezio Biglieri, Dariush Divsalar, Peter J. McLane, and Marvin K. Simon, Introduction to Trellis-Coded Modulation with Applications, Macmillan, New York, 1991.
  3. Marvin K. Simon, Jim K. Omura, Robert A. Scholtz, and Barry K. Levitt, Spread Spectrum Communications, Vols. I, II, and III, Computer Science Press, New York, 1984. Updated and reissued as Spread Spectrum Communications Handbook, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1994.
  4. Marvin K. Simon, Sami M. Hinedi, and William C. Lindsey, Digital Communication Techniques: Signal Design and Detection, PTR Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1995.
  5. Marvin K. Simon and Mohamed-Slim Alounini, Digital Communication over Fading Channels: A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2000.
  6. Marvin K. Simon, Bandwidth-Efficient Digital Modulation with Application to Deep Space Communications, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2003.
  7. Jon Hamkins and Marvin K. Simon, Editors, Autonomous Software-Defined Radio Receivers for Deep Space Applications, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2006.
John R. Pierce (1981 -1982)
  1. John A. Pierce, A. A. McKenzie, and Richard H. Woodward, (eds.), Loran, Long Range Navigation, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1984. (MIT Radiation Lab Series, 4).
  2. John A. Pierce, Theory and Design of Electron Beams, Van Nostrand, New York, 1949. (2ne edition 1954), (The Bell Telephone Laboratory Series).
  3. John A. Pierce, Traveling-Wave Tubes, Van Nostrand, New York, 1950. (The Bell Telephone Laboratory Series).
  4. John A. Pierce, (with Preface by Arthur C. Clarke), The Beginnings of Satellite Communications, San Francisco Press, San Francisco, CA, 1968.
  5. John A. Pierce, Almost All About Waves, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1974.
  6. John A. Pierce and Edward C. Posner, Introduction to Communication Science and Systems, Plenum Press, New York, 1980.
Sami M. Hinedi (1986 - 1996)
  1. Marvin K. Simon, Sami M. Hinedi, and William C. Lindsey, Digital Communication Techniques: Signal Design and Detection, PTR Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1995.