The renowned communications theorist Robert Gallager brings his lucid writingstyle to the study of the fundamental system aspects of digital communicationfor a one-semester course for graduate students. With the clarity and insightthat has characterized his teaching and earlier textbooks, he develops a simple framework and then combines this with careful proofs to help the reader understand modern systems and simplified models in an intuitive yet precise way. A strong narrative and links between theory and practice reinforce this concise, practical presentation. The book begins with data compression for arbitrarysources, Gallager then describes how to modulate the resulting binary data for transmission over wires, cables, optical fibers, and wireless channels. Analysis and intuitive interpretations are developed for channel noise models, followed by coverage of the principles of detection, coding, and decoding. The various concepts covered are brought together in a description of wireless communication, using CDMA as a case study. INDICE: Preface; 1. Introduction to digital communication; 2. Coding for discrete sources; 3. Quantization; 4. Source and channel waveforms; 5. Vector spaces and signal space; 6. Channels, modulation, and demodulation; 7. Random processes and noise; 8. Detection, coding and decoding; 9. Wireless digital communication.
- ISBN: 978-0-521-87907-1
- Editorial: Cambridge University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 422
- Fecha Publicación: 28/02/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés