Digital Communications

Digital Communications is a classic book in the area that is designed to be used as a senior or graduate level text. The text is flexible and can easily be used in a one semester course or there is enough depth to cover two semesters. Its comprehensive nature makes it a great book for students to keep for reference in their professional careers.

This all-inclusive guide delivers an outstanding introduction to the analysis and design of digital communication systems. Includes expert coverage of new topics: Turbocodes, Turboequalization, Antenna Arrays, Digital Cellular Systems, and Iterative Detection. Convenient, sequential organization begins with a look at the history and classification of channel models and builds from there.

Digital Communications is a classic book in the area that is designed to be used as a senior or graduate level text. The text is flexible and can easily be used in a one semester course or there is enough depth to cover two semesters. Its comprehensive nature makes it a great book for students to keep refer to in their professional careers.

This best-selling book in Digital Communications by John G. Proakis has been revised to reflect the current trends in the field. Some of the topics that have been added include Turbocodes, Antenna Arrays, Iterative Detection, and Digital Cellular Systems. Also new to this edition are electronic figures for presentation materials found on the website.

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This textbook for a first-year graduate-level course in an electrical engineering curriculum presents the basic principles that underlie the analysis and design of digital communication systems. The fourth edition adds several new topics, including serial and parallel concatenated codes, punctured convolutional codes, turbo TCM and turbo equalization, and spatial multiplexing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

John G. Proakis has been on the faculty of Northeastern University since September of 1969. During the period 1982-1997, he held the administrative positions of Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, and as Interim Dean of the College of Engineering. He has also served on the staffs of GTE Laboratories and the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Dr. Proakis received the BSEE Degree from the University of Cincinnati, the MSEE Degree from MIT, and the Ph.D. in Engineering from Harvard University. His professional experience and research interests are in the general areas of digital communications and digital signal processing, about which he has written extensively.