Review of Digital Communication: State of the Art in Digital Signalling, Digital Switching and Data Networks

Current developments and techniques in digital communication are reviewed in this book which emphasizes state-of-the-art digital communication networks and discusses important results in the context of present-day developments. It provides comprehensive coverage of the field, including treatments of A- to-D conversion, optimum detection and estimation, and information theory and coding. Also discussed are multiplexing and multiaccessing, digital radio, computer communication networks, and baseband pulse transmission. In addition, this is one of the few works to consider important results and their applications, starting from fundamentals and developing the concepts historically. Future trends in the industry are also examined.