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Specialist personnel responsible for military communications
A signaller, signalman, colloquially referred to as a radioman or signaleer in the armed forces is a specialist soldier, sailor or airman responsible for military communications. Signallers, a.k.a. Combat Signallers or signalmen or women, are commonly employed as radio or telephone operators, relaying messages for field commanders at the front line, through a chain of command which includes field headquarters. Messages are transmitted and received via a communications infrastructure comprising fixed and mobile installations. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SignallerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Collective signalling is shaped by feedbacks between signaller variation, receiver perception and acoustic environment in a simulated communication networkInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Detection, estimation, and modulation theoryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The function of food-associated calls in white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus, from the perspective of the signallerCited 74 times
- Go sideways: Military communicationsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Signalman (rank)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun One who signals.
Noun Synonym of signalman.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The function of food-associated calls in white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus, from the perspective of the signaller
The Integrated Workload Scale (IWS): A new self-report tool to assess railway signaller workload
Signaller: receiver coordination and the timing of communication in Amazonian birds
The bacterial redox signaller pyocyanin as an antiplasmodial agent: comparisons with its thioanalog methylene blue
Chemical communication in the giant panda ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca ): the role of age in the signaller and assessor
Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase-1 and Ionizing Radiation: Sensor, Signaller and Therapeutic Target
Phytochrome type B family: The abiotic stress responses signaller in plants
Eavesdropping in an African large mammal community: antipredator responses vary according to signaller reliability
🆕 Influential since 2022
Collective signalling is shaped by feedbacks between signaller variation, receiver perception and acoustic environment in a simulated communication network
Acoustic ecology of terrestrial mammals: a new Signaller–Receiver Conceptual Framework
Loud Call Production in Male Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) Varies with Season and Signaller Rank
📚 Books worth reading
Detection, estimation, and modulation theoryHarry L. Van Trees, Harry L.Van Trees · 1968
Signals and SystemsAlan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky · 1983
Discrete-time signal processingAlan V. Oppenheim, Ronald Schafer · 1975
Detection theoryNeil A. Macmillan, C. Douglas Creelman · 2004
Digital signal processingJohn G. Proakis, Dimitris K Manolakis · 1992
Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using the Web and MatlabEdward W. Kamen, Bonnie S. Heck · 2000
Analog electronicsIan Hickman · 1990
Digital signal processingSanjit Kumar Mitra · 1998
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