Textbook

An Introduction to Digital Communications

ISBN: 978-0-471-15772-4

Hardcover

560 pages

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Unique use and presentation of simulation programs. Through the use of simulation programs in Matlab and in C, students are able to:
- Determine the power spectral density of complex data encoding rules (Chapter 3).
- Simulate the performance of passband data transmission techniques (Chapter 4).
- Design and assess the performance of carrier recovery systems (Chapter 6).
- Develop time domain models for a variety of channels (Chapter 7).
- Design and assess the performance of adaptive equalizers (Chapters 10 and 11).
- Use existing programs as the framework for creating their own simulation modules.
Offers a unified presentation.
- Develops a common Markov Process model for data encoding, ISI, and partial response, enabling an approach to the Viterbi Algorithm that is common to all these phenomena.
- Completely discusses all of the equalizer structures used in modem design and gives comparative performance on real channels.
- Develops a unified approach to communications channel modeling so comparisons of receiver structures appropriate to different channels can be made.