Author Description

The authors hope that this book will be one of the all-the-time-reserved books in most libraries and can be found always on the desks of most communication engineers. The features of this book can be summarized as 1. This book presents more MATLAB programs for the simulation of communication systems than any existent books with the same or similar titles as an approach to explain most things using MATLAB and figures rather than English and equations. 2. Most MATLAB programs are presented in a complete form so that the readers can run them instantly with no programming skill and focus on understanding the behavior and characteristic of the simulated systems and making interpretations based on the tentative and final simulation results. 3. Many programs have a style of on-line processing rather than batch processing so that the readers can easily understand the whole system and the underlying algorithm in details block by block and operation by operation. Furthermore, the on-line processing style of the programs is expected to let the readers develop their insight into the real system. 4. Authors never think that this book can replace the existent books made by many great authors to whom they are not comparable to. They neither expect that this book can take the place of the MATLAB manual. Instead, this book is designed to play a role of bridge between MATLAB software and the theory, block diagrams, and equations appearing in the field of communications so that the readers can feel free to utilize MATLAB software for studying communication systems and become much more interested in communications than before reading this book. Some PPT slides can be downloaded from, which is the HP of the first author, Won Y. Yang. He authored several other books, including "Applied Numerical Methods Using MATLAB" (Wiley, 2005), "Circuit Systems with MATLAB and PSpice" (Wiley, 2007), and "Signals and Systems with MATLAB" (Springers, 2009).