Digital Communications Principles and Systems

Digital communications: Principles and Systems aims to provide post graduate students and practising engineers with a thorough understanding in the core principles and design issues of digital communications to meet the industry demand for in-depth expertise in digital transmission techniques.
A worldwide digital and wireless communication revolution has taken place in the last 20 years which has created a high demand in industry for graduates with in-depth expertise in digital transmission techniques and a sound and complete understanding of their core principles.
Although digital communications is developing at a fast pace, this book recognises that the core principles remain the same. Many existing works on emerging digital transmission techniques are largely confined to academic research papers; therefore this book will give postgraduate students and practicing engineers a sound mastery of the subject.
This textbook concentrates on giving a solid foundation of core principles and design issues of digital communications. Engineering concepts and underlying physical considerations are described as well as a clear appreciation of the parameters involved, offering a good feel for the interplay of these parameters. Extensive coaching in the solution of practical problems are also drawn from various application areas.
Digital communications: Principles and Systems is an ideal textbook for those who wish to;
gain a thorough understanding of the core principles
undertake digital communication systems analysis
design and computer simulations
deal with specialised applications
keep up to date with advances in the technology
Topics covered include:
overview of digital communication
linear channels and systems
nonlinear systems
sampling of baseband and bandpass signals
quantisation and PCM
source coding and lossless data compression
line codes
transmission through bandlimited AWGN channels
transmitted digital signals
noise impact in digital transmission
error control coding
digital transmission link analysis and design