A Foundation in Digital Communication Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is for the serious student/engineer/scientist that has a solid foundation in math. For such a person this book is a tremendous tool. It explains in the most rigorous way all concepts in the basis of digital comm. No ambiguities are left. Everything is rigorously introduced. I felt like many concepts are more clear now and if you assimilate the material, you'll gain more confidence in dealing with the concepts of digital comm. The author is not afraid of proving important results no matter how long the proof is.
As a unique characteristic (I've read the first 400 pages so far) I could not find but just 1 typo! If you compare this to books like proakis, gallager, goldsmith, Tse, these books have pages and pages of typos. You're almost afraid to start reading them...
With Lapidoth you're in solid ground. Overall a great achievement. I wish and hope that prof. Lapidoth will write a couple of more books on wireless communications, a hot topic where still I cannot find an exceptional textbook (there are several ones that are OK but still with so many errors...).

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This intuitive yet rigourous introduction derives the core results of digital communication from first principles. Theory, rather than industry standards, motivates the engineering approaches, and key results are stated with all the required assumptions. The book emphasizes the geometric view, opening with the inner product, the matched filter for its computation, Parseval's theorem, the sampling theorem as an orthonormal expansion, the isometry between passband signals and their baseband representation, and the spectral-efficiency optimality of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). Subsequent chapters address noise, hypothesis testing, Gaussian stochastic processes, and the sufficiency of the matched filter outputs. Uniquely, there is a treatment of white noise without generalized functions, and of the power spectral density without artificial random jitters and random phases in the analysis of QAM. This systematic and insightful book, with over 300 exercises, is ideal for graduate courses in digital communication, and for anyone asking 'why' and not just 'how'.

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Fundamentals of Digital Communication Review

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(More customer reviews)Dr. Madhow is an exceptional lecturer. I took several classes from him when he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has a very easy to read and intuitive writing style. I highly recommend this book for advanced undergraduates, 1st and 2nd year graduate students and professionals looking for a good review of the fundamentals of digital communications. I have designed many digital communications systems over the course of my career and I can tell you that without the fundamentals I learned from Dr. Madhow, I would have never been able to be an effective communication system designer.

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This is a concise presentation of the concepts underlying the design of digital communication systems, without the detail that can overwhelm students. Many examples, from the basic to the cutting-edge, show how the theory is used in the design of modern systems and the relevance of this theory will motivate students. The theory is supported by practical algorithms so that the student can perform computations and simulations. Leading edge topics in coding and wireless communication make this an ideal text for students taking just one course on the subject. Fundamentals of Digital Communications has coverage of turbo and LDPC codes in sufficient detail and clarity to enable hands-on implementation and performance evaluation, as well as 'just enough' information theory to enable computation of performance benchmarks to compare them against. Other unique features include space-time communication and geometric insights into noncoherent communication and equalization.

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