Fundamentals of Digital Communication Systems

Tolga M. Duman is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Bilkent University, and a former Professor of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, with a focus on digital communications, wireless and mobile communications, underwater acoustic communications, channel coding/modulation, signal processing, and information theory. He is a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, a former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Communications, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Mathematical preliminaries; 3. Digital versus analog transmission; 4. Digital information sources; 5. Digital modulation – Fundamentals; 6. Single-carrier bandpass transmission; 7. Spectrum of digitally modulated signals; 8. Multicarrier digital modulation; 9. Channel coding; 10. Topics in communication system design; Bibliography; Index.

'This is a concise textbook on digital communications which successfully meets the need in terms of scope and depth of treatment. The approach the author provides will appeal to a broad range of instructors and students.' Ender Ayanoglu, University of California, Irvine