The subject of Signals and Systems is enormously complex, involving many concepts such as signals, mathematics and filter design that are woven together in an intricate manner. To cope with this scope and complexity, many Signals and Systems texts are often organized around the "numerical examples" of a system. With such organization, students can see through the complexity of Signals and Systems, they can learn about the distinct concepts and protocols in one part of the communication system while seeing the big picture of how all parts fit together. From a pedagogical perspective, our personal experience has been that such approach indeed works well. Based on the Authors extensive experience of teaching and research, the book is written with such a reader in mind. The Book is intended for a course on signals & systems at the senior undergraduate level and above. The authors consider all the requirements and tools used in analysis and design of discrete time systems for filter design and signal processing.
Key features of the International Edition:
- The extensive use of MATLAB based examples to illustrate how to solve the signals & systems problems. The textbook includes a wealth of problems with solutions.
- Worked-out examples have been included to explain new and difficult concepts and to expose the reader to real-life signal processing problems.
The inclusion of FIR and IIR filter design further enriches the contents of the book.
Hasnain, Syed K.: - Syed K. Hasnain worked in different national level engineering colleges with an excellent teaching record. He worked with the Pakistan Naval Engi- neering College as a professor, specializing in digital signal processing for communications. He served as an adjunct professor in Electrical Engineering Department, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests include detection schemes and channel coding.
Jamil, Mohsin: - Mohsin Jamil (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in indus- trial electronics from NED University, Pakistan, in 2004, two master's degrees from the National University of Singapore and Dalarna University Sweden, in 2008 and 2006, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southampton, U.K., in 2012. He was an associate professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Islamic University Madinah, Saudi Arabia and an assistant professor with the Department of Robotics and AI, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. He is currently an assistant professor with the Department of Elec- trical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada. His research interests include control system design for power electronic converter and mechatronic systems. His additional interests include myoelectric control, system identification and renewable energy sys- tems for smart grid technologies. He is the author and co-author of several IEEE publications in different journals and peer-reviewed conferences. He is a recipient of different awards and funding grants. He is an associate editor of the IEEE ACCESS.
Khan, Muhammad Nasir: - Muhammad Nasir Khan received his B.E. degree in electronic engineering from Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan in 2003 and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands in 2009 and the Ph.D. degree in elec- trical engineering at the Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR), University of South Australia, Australia in 2013. He worked with Pakistan Telecommunication Industries (PCI) Pty. Ltd. from 2003 to 2005 as an assistant manager, specializing in telecommunication. He worked with the SUPARCO, SRDC Lahore from 2005 to 2007 as an RF communication engineer, specializing in modem and codec design for satellite communica- tions. Currently, he is a Professor in Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Lahore, Pakistan. His research interests include communication theory, signal processing and channel decoding and free space adaptive communications systems.
