Miller and Childers provides the reader with the tools and skills needed to solve problems. It provides enough depth to equip graduate students and professionals with the necessary tools to study modern communication systems, control systems, signal processing techniques, and many other applications, hut the concepts are explained in a clear and simple manner that makes the text accessible to undergraduates as well. The book also contains an entire chapter devoted to simulations which have become an integral part of both academic and industrial research and development. Features: Features real-world applications in digital communications, information theory, coding theory, image processing, speech analysis, synthesis and recognition, and others. Clearly presents concepts through exceptional exposition and numerous worked-out problems. Includes MATLAB exercises and applications throughout the text; other software.