Introduction to Communication Science and Systems

by John R. Pierce

1. Antennas and Transmission.- 2. Sources of Noise.- 3. Signals and Frequencies.- 4. Modulation and Noise.- 5. The Link between Continuous and Pulsed Signals-Sampling and Digitization.- 6. Autocorrelation and Stationarity.- 7. Pulse Shape, Filtering, and Arraying.- 8. Random Pulses and the Gaussian Distribution.- 9. Random Processes and Gaussian Signals and Noise.- 10. Some Aspects of Data Transmission.- 11. Limits to Error Information Theory.- 12. Applying Information Theory-Coding and Randomization.- 13. Sources, Source Encoding, and Source Characterization.- References.

408 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 1980

About the author

John Robinson Pierce (John R.^^Pierce)