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The renowned communications theorist Robert Gallager brings his lucid writing style to the study of the fundamental system aspects of digital communication for a one-semester course for graduate students. With the clarity and insight that have 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 arbitrary sources. 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.
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Principles of Digital Communication Robert G. Gallager May 4, 2007 ii Preface: introduction and objectives Tfhe digital communication industry is an enormous and rapidly growing industry, roughly comparable in size to the computer industry. The objective of this text is to study those aspects of digital communication systems that are unique to those systems. That is, rather than focusing on hardware and software for these systems, which is much like hardware and software for many other kinds of systems, we focus on the fundamental system aspects of modern digital communication. Digital communication is a field in which theoretical ideas have had an unusually powerful impact on system design and practice. The basis of the theory was developed in 1948 by Claude Shannon, and is called information theory. For the fi