Digital Communication: Modulation, Coding, and Information Theory

Digital Communication: Modulation, Coding, and Information Theory by Kim Winick
English | 2026 | Tue PDF | 791 pages | 10.1 MB

This textbook is devoted to the subject of digital communication. What does the word digital imply? In digital communication, the information transmitted or stored comes from a finite set of possible “messages.” In contrast, the set of possible messages in an analog communication system is of infinite size and can consist, for example, of the set of all continuous-time waveforms.

One distinguishing feature of this book is that a discussion of modulation is delayed until the second half of the book after data compression, error-correcting codes, and the concept of channel capacity for the discrete memoryless channel have been introduced. This approach allows the study of modulation to be seamlessly integrated with a performance analysis of communication systems. It also has the secondary advantage of delaying the use of more advanced probability theory and random processes, subjects students are often studying concurrently. Thus, this ordering allows the students to appreciate many other facets of communications before they need to use their deeper knowledge of probability and random processes.

The book could be used by advanced undergraduate or graduate students taking their first digital communication course.

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