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Communication systems, in their most primitive form, are systems that enable or improve the transmission and dissemination of useful information among people in different locations. Technically speaking, the purpose of a communication system is to transmit messages from an information source to one or more destinations. In general, we can identify four basic components in a communication system, as represented by the functional block diagram shown in Fig. 1.1, namely, information source, transmitter, channel, and receiver [Proakis and Salehi (1994); Wozencraft and Jacobs (1965)].
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Lau, F.C.M., Tse, C.K. (2003). Introduction. In: Chaos-Based Digital Communication Systems. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05183-2_1
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