This is one of the most comprehensive introductory textbooks in communication systems available now. Each chapter presents fundamental concepts as
well as a host of basic and advanced applications.
B.P. Lathi is Professor Emeritus at California State University - Sacramento. An authorial impresario, he is the author of Signals and Systems (2000), Linear Systems and Signal Processing (2nd Edition 2004), Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems (4th Edition 2009), and the forthcoming Digital Signal Processing (2014). Dr. Lathi is renowned for his excellent writing, and each of his books has found significant markets in the crowded upper-level electrical
engineering segment.
Zhi Ding is the Child Family Endowed Professor of Engineering and Entrepreneurship, at University of California - Davis. His research contributions cover a broad range of signal processing and communication problems including wireless transceiver optimization, blind channel estimation and equalization, multi-input-multi-output communications, multiuser detection, source separation, adaptive signal processing, parameter estimation, radar target discrimination, multimedia wireless
communications, and cross-layer
wireless communications. He has published over 200 refereed papers and book chapters. He received the IEEE Outstanding Instructor of the Year Award in 2002 for contributions to electrical engineering education from the IEEE student section in University of California, Davis.