Digital Communications

Digital communications is an elective course often taken as the second semester of an analog/digital sequence or as a follow-on course to communication systems. This new text offers the most complete, up-to-date coverage available on the principles of digital communications, focusing on core principals and relating theory to practice wherever possible. Numerous examples, worked out in detail, have been included to help the reader develop an intuitive grasp of the theory. Topics covered include the sampling process, digital modulation techniques, error-control coding, robust quantization for pulse-code modulation, coding speech at low bit radio, information theoretic concepts, coding and computer communication. Because the book covers a broad range of topics in digital communications, it should satisfy a variety of backgrounds and interests. Simon Haykin is a leading author in the field of Communication Systems. His Digital Communications from 1988 is a classic, but it is well above the level of today's undergraduate. Moreover, technology has advanced considerably in 20 years. This new book is designed to cover current technology and introduce principles at a level suitable for a senior elective at mainstream North American universities. Co-author Mathini Sellathurai is on the faculty of Queen's University, Belfast and author of the recent Wiley-IEEE monograph, Space-Time Layered Information Processing for Wireless Communications.Haykin, Simon is the author of 'Digital Communications', published 2012 under ISBN 9780471647355 and ISBN 0471647357.