B. Preetham Kumar holds a BE and ME from the College of Engineering, Chennai, India, and a Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. He is professor and graduate coordinator in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at California State University (CSUS), Sacramento, USA. Previously, he was part-time faculty at CSUS, and researcher/lecturer in the RF and Microwave Laboratory at University of California, Davis, USA. Widely published and highly decorated, Dr. Kumar has worked on projects funded by Lockheed Martin, Agilent Technologies, National Semiconductor, Intel, and Antenna Wireless, Inc. Currently, he is heading an effort to expand the use of microwave heating in the treatment of cancer.
... suitable for electronic engineering students and young researchers to build up their initial knowledge in communications system analysis and design. ... provides an insightful overview of the communications system's structure, hierarchy, requirement identification, analysis, and performance evaluation. The main distinguishing point of this book is a great and well-structured offer of MATLAB(R) exercises associated to each communications system component design. Such an approach enables beginners, such as undergraduate or postgraduate students, to easily develop their experience and understanding of mutual relations and interdependencies of various communications system factors. It also facilitates quick development of MATLAB(R) simulations for designing and evaluating communications systems in realistic environments. --Dr. Vladan Velisavljevic, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK