This book provides postgraduate students and practising engineers with a thorough grounding in the core principles and design issues of digital communications to meet the industry demand for in-depth expertise in digital transmission techniques.

Ifiok Otung is Professor of Satellite Communications at the University of South Wales (USW), dubbed 'Best Lecturer International' by the Students' Union in April 2012. A Chartered Engineer with broad and international experience, Prof. Otung has served as External Examiner in a number of universities in Africa, Asia and Europe and as consultant for several research establishments. He has also presented short courses attended by engineers from leading companies and organisations in Europe. He leads the Mobile & Satellite Communications Group at USW and has supervised around 15 PhD and 85 MSc projects, and authored several books as well as numerous articles in learned Journals and international conference proceedings. Ifiok holds a PhD from the University of Surrey and first class honours and Masters degrees from University of Ife.

• Chapter 1: Overview of digital communication


• Chapter 2: Linear channels and systems


• Chapter 3: Non-linear systems


• Chapter 4: Sampling of base band and band pass signals


• Chapter 5: Quantisation and PCM


• Chapter 6: Source coding and lossless data compression


• Chapter 7: Line codes


• Chapter 8: Transmission through band limited AWGN channels


• Chapter 9: Transmitted digital signals


• Chapter 10: Noise impact in digital transmission


• Chapter 11: Error control coding


• Chapter 12: Digital transmission link analysis and design


• Appendix A: Character codes


• Appendix B: Trigonometric identities


• Appendix C: Fourier transform


• Appendix D: Tables and constants