Introduction to Digital Communications explores the basic principles in the analysis and design of digital communication systems, including design objectives, constraints and trade-offs. After portraying the big picture and laying the background material, this book lucidly progresses to a comprehensive and detailed discussion of all critical elements and key functions in digital communications. The first undergraduate-level textbook exclusively on digital communications, with a complete coverage of source and channel coding, modulation, and synchronization.Discusses major aspects of communication networks and multiuser communicationsProvides insightful descriptions and intuitive explanations of all complex conceptsFocuses on practical applications and illustrative examples.A companion Web site includes solutions to end-of-chapter problems and computer exercises, lecture slides, and figures and tables from the text