Overview
Covers all important topics in digital transmission at the intuitive level of physical systems. The presentation attempts to bridge the gap between communication practice and theory, emphasizing the interplay between modulation and coding and their receiver counterparts. KEY TOPICS: Emphasizes the engineering tradeoffs in signal design, energy and spectral properties of modulation choices, and receiver design aspects including synchronization. Presents expanded material on lattices and block coding theory and applications. Reed-Solomon and BCH encoding and decoding algorithms are treated at length along with applications to bandlimited Gaussian channels and fading channels.
Synopsis
Covers all important topics in digital transmission at theintuitive level of physical systems. The presentation attempts to bridge thegap between communication practice and theory, emphasizing the interplaybetween modulation and coding and their receiver counterparts. KEYTOPICS: Emphasizes the engineering tradeoffs in signal design,energy and spectral properties of modulation choices, and receiverdesign aspects including synchronization. Presents expanded material onlattices and block coding theory and applications. Reed-Solomonand BCH encoding and decoding algorithms are treated at length along withapplications to bandlimited Gaussian channels and fading channels.
Booknews
A text for a technical audience that has been exposed to introductory communication theory, but that is seriously encountering digital communications for the first time. It addresses fundamental aspects of digital communication systems--the process of signaling efficiently to accommodate spectrum and power limitations and the process of efficient decoding. The principal objective is to unify the topics of signal design, error coding methodology, demodulation techniques, and decoding. The text is appropriate for beginning graduate-level courses in digital communications, especially those emphasizing digital transmission theory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)