Fundamentals of Digital Communication Systems

A concise and accessible introduction to the fundamentals of modern digital communications systems.

Tolga M. Duman (Author)

9781009318099, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 January 2025

434 pages
26.2 x 18.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.99 kg

'This book is an excellent textbook for undergraduate students, based on the years' teaching experience of the author. It very well explains and illustrates all the fundamental concepts in modern digital communications and has a good balance between mathematical fundamentals and practical applications. It also has excellent exercise problems at the end of each chapter. This book is well written and enjoyable to read.' Xiang-Gen Xia, University of Delaware

This dynamic textbook provides students with a concise and accessible introduction to the fundamentals of modern digital communications systems. Building from first principles, its comprehensive approach equips students with all of the mathematical tools, theoretical knowledge, and practical understanding they need to excel. It equips students with a strong mathematical foundation spanning signals and systems, probability, random variables, and random processes, and introduces students to key concepts in digital information sources, analog-to-digital conversion, digital modulation, power spectra, multi-carrier modulation, and channel coding. It includes over 85 illustrative examples, and more than 270 theoretical and computational end-of-chapter problems, allowing students to connect theory to practice, and is accompanied by downloadable Matlab code, and a digital solutions manual for instructors. Suitable for a single-semester course, this succinct textbook is an ideal introduction to the field of digital communications for senior undergraduate students in electrical engineering.

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.

Subject Areas: Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK]