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Introduction to Digital Communications

  • 2nd Edition - August 7, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Ali Grami
  • Language: English

Introduction to Digital Communications, written especially for upper-level undergraduate courses, explores the basic principles in the analysis and design of digital co… Read more

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Introduction to Digital Communications, written especially for upper-level undergraduate courses, explores the basic principles in the analysis and design of digital communication systems, including design objectives, constraints and trade-offs. After portraying the big picture and laying the background material, this book lucidly progresses to a comprehensive and detailed discussion of all critical elements and key functions in digital communications.

The second edition has been fully revised, with timely new chapters on wireless enabling systems and encryption, more practical examples, more application-focused real-world end of chapter exercises, and a more crisp and concise approach to the content.

Key features

  • Focuses exclusively on digital communications, with complete coverage of source and channel coding, modulation, and synchronization
  • Discusses major aspects of communication networks and multiuser communications
  • Provides insightful descriptions and intuitive explanations of all complex concepts
  • Includes a companion website with solutions to end-of-chapter problems and computer exercises, lecture slides, and figures and tables from the text
  • Presents enhanced coverage of signal space constellations, phase-locked loop, and link analysis

Readership

3rd and 4th year electrical/computer and software engineering students, and first year graduate students, Practicing engineers, project leaders, and technical supervisors in industry

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Fundamental Aspects of Digital Communications

3. Signals, Systems, and Spectral Analysis

4. Probability, Random Variables & Random Processes

5. Analog-to-Digital Conversion

6. Digital Baseband Transmission

7. Digital Passband Transmission

8. Synchronization

9. Information Theory

10. Error-Control Coding

11. Communication Networks

12. Network Security and Cryptography

13. Mobile Communications

14. Enabling Wireless Technologies and Evolving Mobile Systems
APPENDIX Analog Continuous-Wave Modulation (Online)

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 14, 2025
  • Language: English

About the author

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Ali Grami

Dr. Grami received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He has worked for Nortel Networks, where he was involved in the research, design, and development of North America’s first digital cellular wireless system.He later joined Telesat Canada, where he was the lead researcher and principal designer of Canada's Anik-F2 Ka-band system, the world’s first broadband access satellite system. Dr. Grami is currently an associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), where as a founding faculty member he has led the development of various programs, including the BEng, MEng, and PhD programs in ECE.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Programming, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Ontario Tech), Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

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