Digital Communications - Fundamentals and Applications (2nd Edition)

Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications (2nd Edition) By Bernard Sklar (with Pabitra Kumar Ray, this edition)

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the field's classic, best-selling introduction to digital communications. With remarkable clarity, Dr. Bernard Sklar introduces every digital communication technology at the heart of today's wireless and Internet revolutions, providing a unified structure and context for understanding them — all without sacrificing mathematical precision. The book begins by introducing the fundamentals of signals, spectra, formatting, and baseband transmission, then moves into practical coverage of virtually every contemporary modulation, coding, and signal processing technique, supported throughout by numeric examples and step-by-step implementation guidance. This second edition expands the error-correction coding chapters, particularly in the areas of Reed-Solomon codes, turbo codes, and trellis-coded modulation, and adds an entirely new chapter on fading channels and how to mitigate their degrading effects — essential for anyone working with wireless systems, xDSL, fiber or coax-based services, satellite networks, or Internet infrastructure.

Topics commonly covered include:

• Signals, spectra, and signal processing fundamentals

• Formatting and baseband transmission

• Bandpass modulation and demodulation

• Channel coding (block codes, convolutional codes, Reed-Solomon, turbo codes)

• Trellis-coded modulation

• Synchronization

• Multiplexing and spread spectrum techniques

• Fading channels and mitigation techniques

• Link budget analysis and system tradeoffs (SNR, probability of error, bandwidth)

Key features:

• Nearly 500 illustrations and 300 problems and exercises

• Companion CD-ROM with SystemView DSP design software and over 50 additional communications exercises

• New chapter on fading channels added specifically for this edition

• Expanded coverage of advanced channel coding techniques

• Written by an author with over 40 years of technical design and management experience, including work on the MILSTAR satellite system

Perfect for:

• Senior-level undergraduate and first-year graduate students in electrical/communications engineering

• Practicing engineers working on wireless, satellite, or Internet infrastructure systems

• Students needing both theoretical grounding and practical implementation guidance

• Faculty teaching a comprehensive digital communications course

Available at Prince Book Depot. Cash on Delivery available. Nationwide delivery across Pakistan.