Product Description
Featuring a variety of applications that motivate students, this book serves as a companion or supplement to any of the comprehensive textbooks in communication systems. The book provides a variety of exercises that may be solved on the computer using MATLAB„µ (The authors assume that the student is familiar with the fundamentals of MATLAB). By design, the treatment of the various topics is brief. The authors provide the motivation and a short introduction to each topic, establish the necessary notation, and then illustrate the basic concepts by means of an example.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 7 reviews)

Not something I reach for as often... by wagnerite (Boynton Beach, FL USA)

4 Stars
April 23, 2009
This is one of those books that can be useful, but only in a limited way. In particular, I am biased towards books that not only instruct but can serve as future reference, and this book leaves you wanting in that area. First, the positives. This book guides you step by step, enabling more capabilities as you go along. It is moderately paced and touches many essential topics in communications. Problems and solutions are clearly presented. There are some negatives, however. The communication systems are not that "contemporary." For example, key technologies such as OFDM are treated very sparingly. Furthermore, some of the Matlab code is not as useful as it seems at first sight. If you are a student wishing to learn some basic fundamentals in communications while testing out the theory in Matlab, then this book can certainly be useful. If you want a good treatment of more contemporary systems such as OFDM, then this book is not for you. You can get some useful information initially, but the book's value as a reference is limited. Soon you may find yourself like me and not be reaching for it that much.

It's ok but not useful in the course i bought it for by Lakesha C. Etienne

3 Stars
March 28, 2007
It's ok but not useful in the course i bought it for

Fast Shipping by Troy K. Nakasone

4 Stars
March 14, 2007
The book arrived with no problems. The book was shipped out 1 or 2 days after the purchase.

Of unusually high quality for a Proakis text

5 Stars
November 27, 2002
The is a superb book. My only complaint with this text is that it should have been included with Proakis' Digital Communication book in the first place. You will notice that 90% of the graphs and diagrams are straight from that text. One of the winning ingredients is that all the Matlab code is written to be understood. Where some texts will write all code to be as optimal as possible, this book actually uses loops where Matlab array operations could have been used (which is not recommended in Matlab due to speed). It actually makes the code very readable and enjoyable. Surprisingly a few of the code snippets have left out the plot and stem commands? This is not too much of a hassle if you understand Matlab well, you can just generate that code yourself. Newcomers to Matlab will probably not be impressed. While the Matlab code is very simple and readable, it is still not for the beginner.NOTE: This book will not teach you communication systems. This book is written like a Schaums text, where they briefly go over the key points, and then start programming them. If you only have this book and no other one to reference, you will be lost.If you hate the Proakis Digital Communications text (as I do), you will love this one. This book has all the examples and fills in the missing points of that text. I find it interesting that this book has a co-author. I suspect that Salehi must influence the reign of reason in Proakis since this book is written so much clearer than Digital Communications.In a nutshell, this book is worth its price. Very happy with this purchase.

good recap

5 Stars
May 03, 2002
another reviewer puts "must for begginer", but please notice it's for "a first-year grads" not for under-grads or sheer novices. i'm a plain novice, and i should say this book is not a tutorial. you need basic exposition on this field. i found "Lee and Miller:CDMA Systems Engineering Handbook" is helpful. the handbook is rather verbose and this MATLAB companion makes a good recapitulation of the handbook.

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