Communication Systems Engineering

I don't know how they fit so much great stuff in this book. I bought it for a class - communications II at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, but then I noticed that it actually TOLD me about stuff I had actually earlier SEARCHED the entire UIUC library for and come up empty-handed on. That alone gives it an A++++++++++++++ as far as I'm concerned. I mean, this book out of the blue tells me what I can't find in a whole library when I'm looking for it explicitly. It gives great information not just about the concepts behind various parts of practical information/coding theory and signal processing, but even gives some very useful hardware implementations of stuff, that before I never knew how was done. I mean, so you may see in other books all sorts of junk about multiplying 2 signals to convolve them in frequency domain, so multiplying by a sinusoid makes shifted copies. Big deal. This thing gives you a CIRCUIT with 4 diodes that actually modulates a signal by a sinusoid! Cool. This is one of the few books I've bought for classes that I'm keeping. If I'd known how cool it was BEFORE I bought it for the class, I would have bought it ANYWAY, even if I didn't then know it was going to be the book for the class! Such a deal!

This is probably the best textbook around. Well, it is not meant to be read in "21 days" but it provides the hardworking students, all the background to explore the world of digital communications. This book treats almost every topic in communication systems with high accuracy, and this makes it an outstanding introduction for anyone that really wants to know-how communications work. An all time clacicWarning:Not for blondes or dummies-contains explicit Math!

I have used this book in my Communications Systems class at Northeastern, though Proakis was not the teacher. I see all the bad ratings everyone gives this book and I wonder why? Maybe they do not have the necessary background to fully understand digital communication? Just maybe...I liked this book. I used it along with the Matlab book and enjoyed the course. I would have given it a 5* if it had more examples.

I bought this book as a reference for my second semester course in communications. Although I like Haykin's book very much, I believe Proakis handles digital comm. more thoroughly. After the first exam, my contemporaries started asking to borrow it!

Proakis has done it again with his newest textbook, "Communication Systems Engineering." This book is an invaluable reference and learning tool. It will remain on my desk as long as the desk is there!