Introduction to Digital Communications 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 first undergraduate-level textbook exclusively on digital communications, with a 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
• Focuses on practical applications and illustrative examples.
• A companion Web site includes solutions to end-of-chapter problems and computer exercises, lecture slides, and figures and tables from the text