TABLE OF CONTENTS The telephone profoundly changed our methods of communication, thanks to Alexander Graham Bell and other pioneers (Bell, incidentally, declined to have a telephone in his home!). Communication has been at the heart of the information age. Electronic communication deals with transmitters and receivers of electromagnetic waves. Even digital communications systems rely on this phenomenon. This section of the handbook covers information sources, codes and coding, communication channels, error correction, continuous and band-limited channels, digital data transmission and pulse modulation, and noise and interference. C.A.
Section Bibliography:
Of Historical Significance
Davenport, W. B., Jr., and W. L. Root, An Introduction to the Theory of Random Signals and Noise, McGraw-Hill, 1958. ( Reprint edition published by IEEE Press, 1987.)
Middleton, D., Introduction to Statistical Communication Theory, McGraw-Hill, 1960. ( Reprint edition published by IEEE Press, 1996.)
Sloane, N. J. A., and A. D. Wyner (eds.), Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers, IEEE Press, 1993.
General
Carlson, A. B., et al., Communications Systems, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Gibson, J. D., Principles of Digital and Analog Communications, 2nd ed., Macmillan, 1993.
Haykin, S., Communication Systems, 4th ed., Wiley, 2000.
Papoulis, A., and S. U. Pillai, Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic...
