Digital Signal Processing in Communication Systems

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Summary: Livingstone's Review
Review: A practical book written in a good style to be found useful by both beginners and advanced users. The concepts of practical DSP with focus on applications to communications are well explained.

Some of the algorithms, like in DSP based Modems, would be found immensely useful to both academic and practicing engineers.

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Summary: A very usful, practical (and good) book except that.......
Review: I bought this book a while ago but didn't really read it (it cost me a lot to buy this book). I almost sold this book two years ago but nobody wanted to pick it up. How lucky I was!!! Recently I need to implement algorithms for a wireless Modem, and I need many tricks for such like sin(), cos(), arctan(), 1/x.... and I couldn't found other books talking about how to approximate those functions for real world application until I got this book from the basement, and suddenly I found this is the book that can show me those practical skill in the real world problem!!

This book talks about many wireless systems and subcircuits, and much more useful than other books is that this book show you how you can make the real circuit (Singal Processing) to approximate many fucntions used in those subcircuits.

However, this book has two weakness, first, some of the sentences are not easy to understand and second, it was written in 1994, it doesn't have up-to-date information and there are many advancement in todays digital radio.