• ISBN13: 9780198078050
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: January 1, 2012
• Pages: 948
• Original Price: INR 1500.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1089 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Computer Science

Communication Systems is a textbook designed for a one-semester course on the subject providing an overview of various communication medium, which has its foundation in the principles of analog and digital communication.

Starting from the basic principles of analog and digital communication, the book in subsequent chapters talks about various media such as the transmission lines, waveguides, microwave, optical, and satellite communication followed by discussion on data communication and its equipment's. The last chapter is devoted to the understanding of spread spectrum modulation, a recent technique in which information is transmitted through multiple frequencies ensuring greater security.

Providing a balance between theory and the applications, the book features review questions, case-studies, appendices on AT commands for modem and standard tables, numerical solved problems, numerical exercises, and MATLAB codes.

V Chandra Sekar is currently working as the Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering in SASTRA University at Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu. He has over 35 years of combined industry and academic experience. While undertaking various projects of R & D in many organizations of repute, like the TIFR, Bombay and ECIL, Hyderabad, he has also taught various subjects of ECE to fresh and practicing Engineers. He has also presented several research papers in various seminars. He has already authored a book on Analog Communication for OUP, India.