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Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications

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The Best-Selling Introduction to Digital Thoroughly Revised and Updated for OFDM, MIMO, LTE, and More

With remarkable clarity, Drs. Bernard Sklar and fred harris introduce every digital communication technology at the heart of today's wireless and Internet revolutions, with completely new chapters on synchronization, OFDM, and MIMO.

Building on the field's classic, best-selling introduction, the authors provide a unified structure and context for helping students and professional engineers understand each technology, without sacrificing mathematical precision. They illuminate the big picture and details of modulation, coding, and signal processing, tracing signals and processing steps from information source through sink. Throughout, readers will find numeric examples, step-by-step implementation guidance, and diagrams that place key concepts in clear context.

More than ever, this is an ideal resource for practicing electrical engineers and students who want a practical, accessible introduction to modern digital communications.
This Third Edition includes online access to additional examples and material on the book's website.

1136 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1987

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May 17, 2013
A useful book beginners studying digital communications. The book includes signal processing, modulation, channel coding, source coding, encryption, etc. I prefer the Proakis book, but this is a good textbook.
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I read as a course book and found it really interesting and a little bit difficult.
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February 11, 2018
good book
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