Communication Systems

Communication Systems is a textbook designed for a one-semester course on the subject providing an overview of various communication medium, which has its foundation in the principles of analog and digital communication. Starting from the basic principles of analog and digital communication, the book in subsequent chapters talks about various media such as the transmission lines, waveguides, microwave, optical, and satellite communication followed by discussion on data communication and its equipment's. The last chapter is devoted to the understanding of spread spectrum modulation, a recent technique in which information is transmitted through multiple frequencies ensuring greater security. Providing a balance between theory and the applications, the book features review questions, case-studies, appendices on AT commands for modem and standard tables, numerical solved problems, numerical exercises, and MATLAB codes.