What do you think?
Rate this book
Information transmission, modulation, and noise: A unified approach to communication systems
The new edition of this classic text retains its comprehensive treatment of communications systems and theory employing current and future developments. The new edition discussion of the widespread usage of Optical Transmission Systems for communications, stressing international data networking; extensive use of real-life problems and applications; a new comprehensive chapter on Networks; new discussions on Satellite Systems, International Data Networking Standards, Digital and Optical Transmission Hierarchy, and Space Communications examples.
646 pages, Hardcover
First published October 27, 1980
12 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
January 20, 2015
Still a thrill
Schwartz is still at it. An octogenarian, and still listed at Columbia, he’s left a powerful legacy in Information Transmission and has a 2005 book out on wireless communication. What makes Info Transmission so thrilling is the way Schwartz tells the story. It’s not often that technical texts of such dense topics are written with grace but Schwartz does it in a concept development process that somehow rings like a bell when the reader gets that ah-ha experience – and they’re everywhere in this book. Books like these are the kind old men read in retirement when they visit the shelf, open the text and see once more that marginalia, read those elegant descriptions and turn back the clock to younger days, realizing the older they get the better they were. Schwartz is an old friend that’s always there on the shelf inviting readers to take a break, to have fun one more time. His descriptions of that ubiquitous sinc function – required reading for all good Americans – is like music. This reader isn’t exactly sure how he does it – just what is it that makes the text flow so well - but I can only imagine just how thrilling it must have been to be in one of his classes.
Schwartz is still at it. An octogenarian, and still listed at Columbia, he’s left a powerful legacy in Information Transmission and has a 2005 book out on wireless communication. What makes Info Transmission so thrilling is the way Schwartz tells the story. It’s not often that technical texts of such dense topics are written with grace but Schwartz does it in a concept development process that somehow rings like a bell when the reader gets that ah-ha experience – and they’re everywhere in this book. Books like these are the kind old men read in retirement when they visit the shelf, open the text and see once more that marginalia, read those elegant descriptions and turn back the clock to younger days, realizing the older they get the better they were. Schwartz is an old friend that’s always there on the shelf inviting readers to take a break, to have fun one more time. His descriptions of that ubiquitous sinc function – required reading for all good Americans – is like music. This reader isn’t exactly sure how he does it – just what is it that makes the text flow so well - but I can only imagine just how thrilling it must have been to be in one of his classes.
Displaying 1 of 1 review