Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Signals and signal space -- Analysis and transmission of signals -- Amplitude modulations and demodulations -- Angle modulation and demodulation -- Sampling and analog-to-digital conversion -- Principles of digital data transmission -- Fundamentals of probability theory -- Random processes and spectral analysis -- Performance analysis of digital communication systems -- Spread spectrum communications -- Digital communications under linearly distortive channels -- Introduction to information theory -- Error correcting codes -- Orthogonality of some signal sets -- Cauchy-Schwarz inequality -- Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization -- of a vector set -- Basic matrix properties and operations -- Miscellaneous

Professor Lathi introduces modern digital and analog communication systems without using probabilistic concepts, with the intention that students will be ready to master probabilistic concepts as they progress through the book.