Fundamentals of Communications Systems covers essential theory and current engineering practice, carefully explaining the real-world tradeoffs necessary among performance, spectral efficiency, and complexity.

Fundamentals of Communications Systems features:

• A modern approach to communications theory, reflecting current engineering applications
• Numerous MATLAB problems integrated throughout, with software available for download
• Detailed coverage of tradeoffs among performance, spectral efficiency, and complexity in engineering design
• Text written in four parts for easy modular presentation

Contents

Mathematical Foundations

1. Signals and Systems Review
2. Review of Probability and Random Variables
3. Complex Baseband Representation of Bandpass Signals

Analog Communication

4. Analog Communications Basic
5. Amplitude Modulation
6. Analog Angle Modulation
7. More Topics in Analog Communications

Noise in Communications Systems

8. Random Processes
9. Noise in Bandpass Communication Systems
10. Fidelity in Analog Demodulation

Fundamentals of Digital Communication

11. Digital Communication Basics
12. Optimal Single Bit Demodulation Structures
13. Transmitting More Than One Bit
14. Managing the Complexity of Optimum Demodulation
15. Spectrality Efficient Data Transmission
16. Orthogonal Modulations with Memory

Index

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