Foreword -- Contributing Authors -- Contents -- Symbols and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Modeling and analysis of telecom frontends: basic concepts -- 3. A framework for frequency-domain analysis of linear periodically timevarying Systems -- 4. Applications of LPTV system analysis using harmonic transfer matrices -- 5. Modeling oscillator dynamic behavior -- 6. Conclusions -- A. HTM norms and the comparison of HTMs -- B. The Sherman-Morisson-Woodbury formula -- C. HTM elements of the linear downconversion mixer -- D. Oscillator dynamics: analysis of the deviation from the attracting manifold -- E. Analysis of a harmonic oscillator -- Bibliography.