Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications

This course focuses on digital signaling methods, error-correction coding, spread-spectrum techniques, and bandwidth-efficient signaling in the context of wireless communication systems, telephony, satellites and other systems. Emphasis is placed on an orderly approach for defining, designing, and evaluating digital communication system performance, and the various transformations involved. Emphasis is also placed on system goals and the need to trade off basic system parameters such as signal-to-noise ratio, probability of error, bandwidth expenditure, and complexity. This course is presented in a clear, plain fashion that's not bogged down with heavy technological terms.After completing this course, you will be able to understand the basic relationships that drive the design choices for digital communication modulation methods and error-correction coding. You will also learn about source coding and error-correction coding and how to verify that a code meets system requirements.Sklar, Bernard is the author of 'Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications', published 2001 under ISBN 9780780348325 and ISBN 078034832X.