'This is an excellent introductory book on digital communications theory that is suitable for advanced undergraduate students and/or first-year graduate students, or alternatively for self-study. It achieves a nice degree of rigor in a clear, gentle, and student-friendly manner. The exercises alone are worth the price of the book.' Dave Forney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1. Introduction and objectives; 2. Receiver design for discrete-time observations: first layer; 3. Receiver design for the continuous-time AWGN channel: second layer; 4. Signal design trade-offs; 5. Symbol-by-symbol on a pulse train: second layer revisited; 6. Convolutional coding and Viterbi decoding: first layer revisited; 7. Passband communication via up/down conversion: third layer.
Rimoldi, Bixio
Bixio Rimoldi is a Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, where he developed an introductory course on digital communication. Previously he was Associate Professor at Washington University and took visiting positions at Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley. He is an IEEE fellow, a past president of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and a past director of the communication system program at EPFL.