Product Description

For junior/senior introductory communication systems courses for engineering students or an introductory graduate course.

Exceptionally up-to-date, this text provides balanced coverage of both digital and analog communication systems with an emphasis on the design of digital communication systems. It provides students with a working knowledge of both classical mathematical and personal computer methods to analyze, design, and simulate modern communication systems. MATLAB is integrated throughout.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1271187 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 758 pages

Customer Reviews

A great book for those who need a communication's reference
This is an excellent book that explains the fundamentals of digital and analogue communications.

As with most recommended texts, the usefulness of the book depends largely on the course that one undertakes. Personally, Couch's book proved very helpful as an aid to revision, explaining most of the difficult concepts in communications.

An interesting feature of this edition is that it describes some of the latest developments in communications, including GSM.

The book devotes a chapter to the mathematical base of modern communications. I found, however, that most of the maths was beyond my capability to understand - but did not inhibit the usefulness of this text, to any significant extent.

A key feature of all technical books should be worked examples of typical problems - and Couch's book is no exception, providing ample detail to most of his solutions.

"Digital and Analog Communication Systems" is a great book, providing all the features that one would expect from a book on this diverse subject.

In my rating it loses a star since it is a student's book at a non-student price!

A complete book, but lacks structure
If you look at the contents, you'll see that book is extemely complete. It contains all aspects of modern telecommuncation and gives a very thorough base on the mathematical theory.

Looking at the structure, I found it very hard to see the structure in this book: if you want to find something, you will have to extract the pieces out of more chapters. On some points this book gives examples and facts that, I think, really aren't interesting or relevant and sometimes you must be a telecommuncationsfreak to get through the loads of text.

Conclusion:

If you have lots of time and you are very interested in telecommunications, you can use this book to study all of telecommunications. If you're just focussing on some subjects, you'll have a hard time in gathering the pieces and understanding it in short time.