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Title: Communications Systems by Simon Haykin ISBN: 0-471-17869-1 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $118.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.41 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Book to Start !
Comment: This book is excellent for a beginner in this subject. The author gives rigorous mathematical treatment as well as useful insights on difficult concepts. In my opinion, one of the best Communication Systems books ever written ! A must-have for a DSP or a Communications Engineer.
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Summary: A nice book with some errors
Comment: Dr. Haykin's book on Communication Systems is one of the standard textbook in the world. It is the first book from which many EE students start to learn the theory of communications. I have used several books written by Dr. Proakis and Dr. Haykin in my class for many years. Haykin's book features complete (and concise) coverage of fundamental topics in communications, and is mathmatically clear.
However, the high standard required for an excellent writer is not completely achieved in this book.
First, in Example 1.3 (middle of Page 39), the derivation process of the conditional expectation is misleading: the condition $t_d
Thirdly, in Eq. (3.20) (Page 191), the absolute value symbol is missing in two terms related to the magnitude |H(f)|. Also, in Figure 3.6 (b) (Page 190), the phase arg[H(f)] is not illustrated correctly.
There are other errors throughout this book (even in the 4th Edition!).
Also, many problems in Haykin's book are quite lengthy and not well-suited for midterm and final exams from an instructor's perspective.
I wonder where to find an error-free comprehensive textbook in the field of telecommunications like Knuth's (hard to read, though) in computer science.
Compared with other textbooks in communications, this book still ranks among the best in terms of its clarity, illustratoins, and comprehensive coverage - if and only if the errors aforementioned can be corrected.
Summary: A BOOK FOR PROFESSORS NOT STUDENTS
Comment: IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS BOOK COMPLETELY YOU MUST READ IT MAY BE HUNDREDS TIMES,IF YOU HAVE TIME!MATHEMATICAL AND LOGICAL EXPLANATIONS ARE ACTUALLY NOT ENOUHG.SOMETHINGS THAT MAY BE EXPLAINED IN A FEW MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS WERE EXPLAINED IN A LOT OF TEXT.WHY?I REALLY DID NOT UNDERSTAND THAT.Similar Books:
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