Digital Communications: Design for the Real World Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm a first year computing student taking an entry level networkings module. For the first month or so, I had quite a bit of problems understanding the concepts in the course. My problem was that I couldn't understand the lecturer, and the reference books that I borrowed never seemed to cater for new students like myself. I chanced upon this book, and it's only been a day since I've got it, but I feel that 90% of the concepts I couldn't understand have suddenly become clear to me.
I find that I can now understand the books I've been trying to read but with no success, with the basic knowledge I've gained from this book. I'd definitely recommend this book to any first/second year university student.

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Digital Communications: Design for the Real World introduces readers to the fundamentals of digital communications through an applications-driven approach.Devised specifically to serve as a first stage text for undergraduate students, this textbook + CD package relates theory to real-world products and emphasizes the design choices facing professional communications engineers, thereby bringing this exciting subject vividly to life. Students encountering communications topics for the first time, practising engineers and managers will all appreciate the stimulating and motivational treatment of the subject.

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Time Frequency Analysis: Theory and Applications Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is written clearly and well by a leading researcher in the area of time-frequency analysis. The main weakness, and the reason I've knocked off one star, is that the book deals exclusively with continuous-time representations. If you are specifically interested in discrete-time implementation of time-frequency representations, then this book may not be for you.

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Featuring traditional coverage as well as newresearch results that, until now, have been scattered throughout theprofessional literature, this book brings together—in simple language—thebasic ideas and methods that have been developed to study naturaland man-made signals whose frequency content changes with time—e.g.,speech, sonar and radar, optical images, mechanical vibrations, acousticsignals, biological/biomedical and geophysical signals. Coverstime analysis, frequency analysis, and scale analysis; time-bandwidthrelations; instantaneous frequency; densities and local quantities;the short time Fourier Transform; time-frequency analysis; the Wignerrepresentation; time-frequency representations; computation methods;the synthesis problem; spatial-spatial/frequency representations;time-scale representations; operators; general joint representations;stochastic signals; and higher order time-frequency distributions.Illustrates each concept with examples and shows how the methods havebeen extended to other variables, such as scale. Forengineers, acoustic scientists, medical scientists and developers,mathematicians, physicists, and mangers working in the fields of acoustics,sonar, radar, image processing, biomedical devices, communication.

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Adaptive Filter Theory (4th Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Despite the commonly negative opinion against Simon Haykin's book, I find this book to be a very fun reading. It starts off with a very brief review of DSP (more useful just for getting familiar with the notation, really), properties of random processes, and a small section on linear algebra in the middle of the book.
The rest of the book can be viewed as a story of how different approaches and algorithms were developed, and is a little difficult to use as reference due to its lack of structure and over-dependency on the previous chapters, both for technical content and notation.
But there's a lot of hidden treasures within this book that should have been more emphasized. For example, Mold's theorem that states that any discrete stationary process can be decomposed into a deterministic component and a random component, which are uncorrelated to each other. I'm sorry, but a reference to a proof in another book is not enough to really motivate me. This is a very fundamental theorem if you're interested in stochastic signal processing. Sure, you don't cover the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus in your very first calculus class, but then again this is supposed to be a fairly advanced book.
So if you're interested in learning certain things quickly, this is NOT the book to get. Consider Munson Hayes' book instead. Save this one when you feel like investing a little time to hear Haykin's story on stochastic signal processing.

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Adaptive Filter Theory, 4e, is ideal for courses in Adaptive Filters.

Haykin examines both the mathematical theory behind various linear adaptive filters and the elements of supervised multilayer perceptrons. In its fourth edition, this highly successful book has been updated and refined to stay current with the field and develop concepts in as unified and accessible a manner as possible.

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