Reidar Skaug was born in Norway in 1949. He received the B.Sc. (Honours) degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Heriot Watt University, UK in 1972 and the Diploma in Business Administration from North European Management Institute, Norway in 1973. He joined the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (NDRE) as a research scientist in 1974 after having completed his national service as a technical instructor in the Norwegian Navy. At NDRE he has worked as a project manager for several projects involving spread spectrum communication systems. He was awarded a Canadian Defence Research Fellowship in 1981 and spent one year at the Communication Research Centre, Ottawa. In September 1982 he was appointed Assistant Head of Division, Division for Electronics, NDRE. He has published and presented several papers in the field of spread spectrum communication. Mr Skaug is a Norwegian representative to the NATO AGARD Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Panel and is a Member of the IEE.
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* Chapter 1: Introduction to spread spectrum communications * Chapter 2: Spreading techniques - unified description * Chapter 3: Coding for bandwidth spreading * Chapter 4: Implentation * Chapter 5: Propagation medium * Chapter 6: Code division multiple access networks * Chapter 7: Final word * Appendix A: Expression for crosscorrelation between maximal length sequences using their autocorrelation functions * Appendix B: Crosscorrelation parameters for maximal length sequences * Appendix C: Bounds on odd autocorrelation and crosscorrelataion of sequences * Appendix D: Experiments with spread spectrum modulation over dispersive medium
