Features of Principles of Digital Communication and Coding

• Written by two distinguished experts in the field of digital communications, this classic text remains a vital resource three decades after its initial publication.
• Its treatment is geared toward advanced students of communications theory and to designers of channels, links, terminals, modems, or networks used to transmit and receive digital messages.
• The three-part approach begins with the fundamentals of digital communication and block coding, including an analysis of block code ensemble performance.
• The second part introduces convolutional coding, exploring ensemble performance and sequential decoding.
• The final section addresses source coding and rate distortion theory, examining fundamental concepts for memoryless sources as well as precepts related to memory, Gaussian sources, and universal coding.
• Appendixes of useful information appear throughout the text, and each chapter concludes with a set of problems.
• Preface to the Dover Edition
• Preface
• Part One. Fundamentals of Digital Communication and Block Coding
• Digital Communication Systems: Fundamental Concepts and Parameters
  
• Channel Models and Block Coding
  
• Block Code Ensemble Performance Analysis
  
• Part Two. Convolutional Coding and Digital Communication
  
• Convolutional Codes
  
• Convolutional Code Ensemble Performance
  
• Sequential Decoding of Convolutional Codes
  
• Part Three. Source Coding for Digital Communication
  
• Rate Distortion Theory: Fundamental Concepts for Memoryless Sources
  
• Rate Distortion Theory: Memory, Gaussian Sources, and Universal Coding, Bibliography, Index, Authors' Biographies