Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications, 3rd Edition

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Features

• Step-by-step coverage helps you master every key digital communications technology, concept, and technique 
• Covers trellis-coded modulation, fading channels, Reed-Solomon codes, encryption, performance maximization techniques, and much more 
• Adds coverage of Partial Response Coding, Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) Codes, OFDM, MIMO, LTE wireless, Software Defined Radio, and 5G, plus three new appendices 
• Updated CD-ROM contains valuable MathWorks software for students 
• Solutions Manual will be available for instructors to download from Pearson.com/us 

Description

Step-by-step coverage

With remarkable clarity, Drs. Bernard Sklar and Fred Harris introduce every digital communication technology at the heart of todays wireless and Internet revolutions, with completely new chapters on synchronisation, OFDM, and MIMO.

Building on the fields 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.

• Understand signals, spectra, modulation, demodulation, detection, communication links, system link budgets, synchronisation, fading, and other key concepts
• Apply channel coding techniques, including advanced turbo coding and LDPC
• Explore multiplexing, multiple access, and spread spectrum concepts and techniques
• Learn about source coding: amplitude quantising, differential PCM, and adaptive prediction
• Discover the essentials and applications of synchronisation, OFDM, and MIMO technology

Sample Content

Table of Contents

• 1. Signals and Spectra
• 2. Formatting and Baseband Modulation
• 3. Baseband Demodulation/Detection
• 4. Bandpass Modulation and Demodulation/Detection
• 5. Communications Link Analysis
• 6. Channel Coding I: Waveform Codes and Block Codes
• 7. Channel Coding II: Convolutional Codes and Reed-Solomon Codes
• 8. Channel Coding III: Turbo Codes and Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) Codes
• 9. Modulation and Coding Trade offs
• 10. Synchronization
• 11. Multiplexing and Multiple Access
• 12. Spread Spectrum Techniques
• 13. Source Coding
• 14. Fading Channels
• 15. The ABCs of OFDM
• 16. The Magic of MIMO

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