Abstract
Digital transmission of information has sufficiently overwhelming advantages that it increasingly dominates communication systems, and certainly all new designs. In computer-to-computer communication, the information to be transported is inherently digital. But information that at its source is inherently continuous time (or continuous space) and continuous amplitude, like voice, music, pictures, and video, can be represented, not exactly but accurately, by a collection of bits. Why does it make sense to do so?
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatever is more than these, cometh of evil.
— The Gospel According to St. Matthew (5:37)
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Barry, J.R., Lee, E.A., Messerschmitt, D.G. (2004). Introduction. In: Digital Communication. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0227-2_1
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