About the Authors

DR. BERNARD SKLAR has over 40 years of experience in technical design and management positions at Republic Aviation, Hughes Aircraft, Litton Industries, and The Aerospace Corporation, where he helped develop the MILSTAR satellite system. He is now head of advanced systems at Communications Engineering Services, a consulting company he founded in 1984. He has taught engineering courses at several universities, including UCLA and USC, and has trained professional engineers worldwide.

DR. FREDRIC J. HARRIS is a professor of electrical engineering and the CUBIC signal processing chair at San Diego State University and an internationally renowned expert on DSP and communication systems. He is also the co-inventor of the Blackman–Harris filter. He has extensively published many technical papers, the most famous being the seminal 1978 paper “On the Use of Windows for Harmonic Analysis with the Discrete Fourier Transform.” He is also the author of the textbook Multi-rate Signal Processing for Communication Systems and the source coding chapter in the previous edition of this book.