Digital Transmission Engineering (IEEE Series on Digital & Mobile Communication)
This book introduces the "physical layer" of digital communication at the level of the practicing design engineer, in a measured and teaching-oriented format. It delivers first-time coverage of important topics such as synchronization of radio signals and networks and the physical reality of radio and mobile channels. A complete set of homework and computer exercises are also included. Digital Transmission Engineering provides complete and balanced coverage of the entire communication system in a user-friendly format. It will enable the reader with important software tools and the ability to perform real communication system design.
Why Read This Book
You should read this book if you need a practical, engineering-focused guide to designing and analyzing real digital communication links — not just theory. You will get hands-on treatments of synchronization, channel behavior (especially mobile radio), modulation choices and link-level performance, plus exercises that reinforce practical system design.
Who Will Benefit
Practicing communications or DSP engineers and graduate students who design or analyze physical-layer systems and want a pragmatic, design-oriented complement to more theoretical texts.
Level: Intermediate — Prerequisites: Undergraduate signals & systems and probability/statistics; basic complex baseband and linear systems; familiarity with Fourier transforms and digital modulation concepts.
Key Takeaways
- Evaluate and model radio and wired channel impairments and their impact on system performance
- Analyze bit/symbol error rates for common modulation schemes and link budgets under noise and fading
- Design and implement synchronization algorithms for carrier and symbol timing recovery
- Select and analyze equalization and diversity techniques to mitigate intersymbol interference and fading
- Incorporate coding and error-control techniques into link design to meet target performance
- Apply practical calculators and simulation exercises to predict real-world system performance
Topics Covered
- 1. Introduction and System Overview
- 2. Signals, Spectra and Baseband Representation
- 3. Performance Metrics and Noise
- 4. Digital Modulation Techniques (PSK, QAM, CPM etc.)
- 5. Carrier and Symbol Synchronization
- 6. Channel Models and Mobile Radio Propagation
- 7. Detection, Estimation and Demodulation
- 8. Equalization and ISI Mitigation
- 9. Diversity, Multipath and Fading Countermeasures
- 10. Coding and Forward Error Control (practical considerations)
- 11. System Design Examples and Link Budgeting
- 12. Homework and Computer Exercises / Simulation Projects
Languages, Platforms & Tools
How It Compares
More design-oriented and applied than Proakis' Digital Communications, and more system-focused than Sklar's Fundamentals and Applications; Anderson emphasizes practical synchronization, channel reality, and link design.
