Designed to help teach and understand communication systems using a classroom-tested, active learning approach.

This book covers the basic concepts of signals, and analog and digital communications, to more complex simulations in communication systems.  Problem-Based Learning in Communication Systems Using MATLAB and Simulink begins by introducing MATLAB and Simulink to prepare readers who are unfamiliar with these environments in order to tackle projects and exercises included in this book. Discussions on simulation of signals, filter design, sampling and reconstruction, and analog communications are covered next. The book concludes by covering advanced topics such as Viterbi decoding, OFDM and MIMO. In addition, this book contains examples of how to convert waveforms, constructed in simulation, into electric signals. It also includes problems illustrating how to complete actual wireless communications in the band near ultrasonic frequencies.

A content-mapping table is included in this book to help instructors easily find lab projects for communications, wireless communications, and signal and systems classes.

Special features of this book:

• Discusses communication concepts and algorithms, which are explained using simulation projects, accompanied by MATLAB and Simulink
• Provides step-by-step code exercises and instructions to implement execution sequences
• Includes a companion website that has MATLAB and Simulink model samples and templates (link provided below)

This book is intended for students and instructors, enrolled in or teaching communications systems, analog and digital communications, and wireless communication courses.