Principles of Communications: A First Course in Communications (Book cover and details) Kwang-Cheng Chen
"In my 33 years of industrial co-operations and of teaching "radio signal transmission and processing", "radio frequency communications", "spread spectrum techniques and FEC coding", "adaptive multi-element antennas" and "mobile radio communications" I gained a clear view about which subjects should be studied when educating engineers for the field of modern communications. Chen's book comprehensively covers these subject.
In doing so it finds the right balance between enabling intuitive understanding and enforcing mathematical rigour when necessary. Chen writes in the preface that the book addresses undergraduate students. As far the curricula in our country are concerned, also students heading for communications have to study some basics of mechanical engineering, power engineering and so on, which limits the volume available for communications topics; therefore, in our case the book would be (more) suited for graduate students."
