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1
COE 341 Data Computer Communications
(T071)Dr. Radwan E. Abdel-Aal
  • Chapter 3 Data Transmission

2
Remaining Six Chapters
Chapter 7 Data Link Flow and Error
control, Link management
Data Link
Chapter 8 Improved utilization Multiplexing
Physical Layer
Chapter 6 Data Communication Synchronization,
Error detection and correction
Chapter 4 Transmission Media
Transmission Medium
Chapter 5 Encoding From data to signals
Chapter 3 Signals, their representations, their
transmission over media, Resulting impairments
3
Agenda
  • Concepts Terminology
  • Signal representation
    Time and Frequency domains
  • Bandwidth and data rate
  • Decibels and Signal Strength (Appendix 3A )
  • Fourier Analysis (Appendix B )
  • Analog Digital Data Transmission
  • Transmission Impairments
  • Channel Capacity

4
Terminology (1)
  • Transmission system Components
  • Transmitter
  • Receiver
  • Medium
  • Guided media
  • e.g. twisted pair, coaxial cable, optical fiber
  • Unguided media
  • e.g. air, water, vacuum

5
Terminology (2)
  • Link Configurations
  • Direct link
  • No intermediate communication devices
  • (these exclude repeaters/amplifiers)
  • Two types
  • Point-to-point
  • Only 2 devices share link
  • Multi-point
  • More than two devices share the same link,
    e.g. Ethernet bus segment

A
Amplifier
C
B
6
Terminology (3)
  • Transmission Types (ANSI Definitions)
  • Simplex
  • Information flows in one direction only all the
    time
  • e.g. Television, Radio broadcasting
  • Duplex
  • Information flows in both directions
  • Two types
  • Half duplex
  • Only one direction at a time
  • e.g. Walki-Talki
  • Full duplex
  • In both directions at the same time
  • e.g. telephone

7
Frequency, Spectrum and Bandwidth
  • Time domain concepts
  • Analog signal
  • Varies in a smooth, continuous way in both time
    and amplitude
  • Digital signal
  • Maintains a constant level for sometime and then
    changes to another constant level
    (i.e.
    amplitude takes only a finite number of discrete
    levels)
  • Periodic signal
  • Same pattern repeated over time
  • Aperiodic signal
  • Pattern not repeated over time

8
Analogue Digital Signals
All values on the time and amplitude axes are
allowed
Only a few amplitude levels allowed - Binary
signal 2 levels
9
PeriodicSignals
T
Temporal Period

t
t1T
t2T
S (tnT) S (t) 0 ? t ? T Where t is time
over first period T is the waveform period n is
an integer
Signal behavior over one period describes
behavior at all times
10
Aperiodic (non periodic) Signals in time
s(t)
11
Continuous and Discrete Representations
Availability of the signal over the horizontal
axis
(Time or Frequency)
Continuous Signal is defined at all points on
the horizontal axis
Sampling with a train of delta function
Discrete Signal is defined Only at certain
points on the horizontal axis
12
Sine Wave s(t) A sin(2?f t ?)
T (Period)
A sin (F)
A (Amplitude)
w
  • Peak Amplitude (A)
  • Peak strength of signal, volts
  • Repetition Frequency (f)
  • Measures how fast the signal varies with time
  • Number of waveform cycles per second (Hz)
  • f 1/ T(xx sec/cycle) yy cycles/sec yy Hz
  • Angular Frequency (w)
  • w radians per second 2? f 2? /T
  • Temporal (time) Period, T 1/f
  • Phase (?)
  • Determines relative position in time, radians
    (how to calculate?)

13
Varying one of the three parameters of a sine
wave carriers(t) A sin(2?ft ?) A
sin(wtF)
Can be used to convey information!
M o d u l a t I o n
AM
Varying A
Varying ?
FM
PM
Varying f
14
Sine Wave Traveling in the ive x directions(t)
A sin (k x - ? t
? Angular Frequency 2? f 2? / T
k Wave Number 2? / ?
  • Spatial Period
  • Wavelength

?
  • For point p on the wave
  • Total phase at t 0 kx - ? (0) kx
  • Total phase at t ?t k(x ?x) - ? (?t)
  • Same total phase,
  • kx k(x ?x) - ? (?t)
  • k ?x ? ?t
  • Wave propagation velocity v ?x / ?t
  • v ?/k ?/T ?f

?x
p
x
Distance, x
t 0
t ?t
ive x direction
Direction of wave travel, at velocity v
? Show that the wave s(t) A sin (k x ?
t travels in negative x direction
v ?f
V is constant for a given wave type and medium
15
Wave Propagation Velocity, v m/s
  • Constant for
  • A given wave type (e.g. electromagnetic, seismic,
    ultrasound, ..)
  • and a given propagation medium (air, water,
    optical fiber)
  • For all types of waves
  • v l f
  • For a given wave type and medium (given v)
    higher frequencies correspond to shorter
    wavelengths and vise versa
  • Electromagnetic waves
  • long wave radio (km), short wave radio (m),
    microwave (cm) light (nm)
  • For electromagnetic waves
  • In free space, v ? speed of light in vacuum
  • v c 3x108 m/sec
  • Over other guided media (coaxial cable, optical
    fiber, twisted pairs) v is lower than c

Shorter wavelength .. Higher frequency
16
Wavelength, l (meters)
  • Is the Spatial period of the wave
    i.e. distance between two points
    in space on the wave propagation path where the
    wave has the same total phase
  • Also Distance traveled by the wave during one
    temporal (time) cycle
  • dT v T (l f) T l

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Frequency Domain Concepts
  • Response of systems to a sine waves is easy to
    analyze
  • But signals we deal with in practice are not all
    sine waves, e.g. Square waves
  • Can we relate waves we deal with in practice to
    sine waves? YES!
  • Fourier analysis shows that any signal can be
    treated as the sum of many sine wave components
    having different frequencies, amplitudes, and
    phases (Fourier Analysis Appendix B)
  • This forms the basis for frequency domain
    analysis
  • For a linear system, its response to a complex
    signal will be the sum of its response to the
    individual sine wave components of the signal.
  • Dealing with functions in the frequency domain is
    simpler than in the time domain

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Addition of Twofrequency Components
Fundamental
A 1(4/?) frequency f

1/3 rd the Amplitude 3 times the frequency
3rd harmonic
A (1/3)(4/?) frequency 3f
Frequency Spectrum

Approaching a square wave
Fourier Series
t
3
f
Frequency Domain S(f) vs f
Time Domain s(t) vs t
Fourier Series
Discrete Function in f
Periodic function in t
19
Asymptotically approaching a square wave by
combining the fundamental an infinite number of
odd harmonics at prescribed amplitudes
Topic for a programming assignment
Adding more higher harmonics
What is the highest Harmonic added?
20
More Frequency Domain Representations A single
square pulse (Aperiodic signal)
Sinc(f) sin(f)/f
Fourier Transform
To ?
To ?
To ?
frequency
1/X
Fourier Transform
Frequency Domain S(f) vs f
Time Domain s(t) vs t
Continuous Function in f
Aperiodic function in t
  • What happens to the spectrum as the pulse gets
    broader ? DC ?
  • What happens to the spectrum as the pulse gets
    narrower ? spike ?

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Spectrum Bandwidth of a signal
  • Spectrum of a signal
  • Range of frequencies contained in a signal
  • Absolute (theoretical) Bandwidth (BW)
  • Is the width of spectrum fmax- fmin
  • But in many situations, fmax ?!
  • (e.g. a square wave), so
  • Effective Bandwidth
  • Often called bandwidth
  • Narrow band of frequencies containing most of the
    signal energy
  • Somewhat arbitrary what is most?

S(f)
.
f
5f
7f
3f
f
22
Signals with a DC Component
NO DC Component, Signal average over a period 0

_
t

1V DC Level

t
1V DC Component
DC Component Component at zero
frequency Determines if fmin 0 or not
23
Bandwidth for these signals
(fmax- fmin)
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Bandwidth of a transmission system
  • Is the Range of signal frequencies that are
    adequately passed by the system
  • Effectively, the transmission system
    (TX, medium, RX) acts as a filter
  • Poor transmission media, e.g. twisted pairs, have
    a narrow filter bandwidth
  • This cuts off higher frequency signal components
  • ? poor signal quality at receiver
  • And limits the signal frequencies (Hz) that can
    be used for transmission
  • ? limits the data rates used (bps)

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Limiting Effect of System Bandwidth
Received Waveform
1,3
Better reception requires larger BW
BW 2f
More difficult reception with smaller BW
f
3f
1
1,3,5
BW 4f
5f
f
3f
2
Varying System BW
1,3,5,7
BW 6f
7f
f
5f
3f
3

BW ?
1,3,5,7 ,9,?
?
f
5f
7f
3f
4
Fourier Series for a Square Wave
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System Bandwidth and Achievable Data Rates
  • Any transmission system supports only a limited
    range of frequencies (bandwidth) for satisfactory
    transmission
  • For example, this bandwidth is largest for
    expensive optical fibers and smallest for cheap
    twisted pair wires
  • So, bandwidth is money ? Economize in its use
  • Limited system bandwidth degrades higher
    frequency components of the signal transmitted ?
    poorer received waveforms ? more difficult to
    interpret the signal at the receiver (especially
    with noise) ? Data Errors
  • More degradation occurs when higher data rates
    are used (signal will have more components at
    higher frequency )
  • This puts a limit on the data rate that can be
    used with a given signal to noise requirement,
    receiver type, and a specified error performance
    ? Channel capacity issues

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Bandwidth and Data Rates
Data Element Signal Element
Period T 1/f
T/2
Data rate 1/(T/2) (2/T) bits per sec 2f bps
B
0
0
1
1
Data
B 4f
Given a bandwidth B, Data rate 2f B/2
To double the data rate you need to double f Two
ways to do this
1. Double the bandwidth with same received
waveform (same RX conditions error rate)
2B 4f
2B
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
New bandwidth 2B, Data rate 2f 2(2f) 4f B
X 2
f
3f
5f
2. Same bandwidth, B, but tolerate poorer
received waveform (needs better receiver, higher
S/N ratio, or tolerating more errors in data)
1
B 2f
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
B
X 2
Bandwidth B, Data rate 2f 2(2f) 4f B
5f
3f
f
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Bandwidth Data Rates Tradeoffs Compromises
  • Increasing the data rate (bps) while keeping BW
    the same (to economize) means working with
    inferior (poorer) waveforms at the receiver,
    which may require
  • Ensuring higher signal to noise ratio at RX
    (larger signal relative to noise)
  • Shorter link distances
  • Use of more en-route repeaters/amplifiers
  • Better shielding of cables to reduce noise, etc.
  • More sensitive ( costly!) receiver
  • Suffering from higher bit error rates
  • Tolerate them?
  • Add more efficient means for error detection and
    correction- this also increases overhead!.

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Appendix 3A Decibels and Signal Strength
  • The decibel notation (dB) is a logarithmic
    measure of the ratio between two signal power
    levels
  • NdB number of decibels
  • P1 input power level (Watts)
  • P2 output power level (Watts)
  • e.g. ? Amplifier gain
  • ? Signal loss over a link
  • Example
  • A signal with power level of 10mW is inserted
    into a transmission line
  • Measured power some distance away is 5mW
  • Power loss in dBs is expressed as
  • NdB 10 log (5/10)10(-0.3) -3 dB
  • - ive dBs P2 lt P1 (Loss),
  • ive dBs P2 gt P1 (Gain)

P2
P3
P1
Lossy Link
Amplifier
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Relationship Between dB Values and Power ratio
(P2/P1)
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Decibels and Signal Strength
  • Decibel notation is a relative, not absolute,
    measure
  • A loss of 3 dB halves the power (could be 100 to
    50, 16 to 8, )
  • A gain of 3 dB doubles the power (could be 5 to
    10, 7.5 to 15, )
  • Will see shortly how we can handle absolute
    levels
  • Advantage
  • The log allows replacing
  • Multiplication with Addition
  • C A B
  • Log C Log A Log B
  • and Division with Subtraction
  • A C / B
  • Log A Log C - Log B

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Decibels and Signal Strength
  • Example Transmission line with an intermediate
    amplifier
  • Net power gain over transmission path
  • 35 12 10 13 dB ( ive means there is
    net gain)

?
  • Received signal power (4 mW) log10-1(13/10) 4
    x 101.3
  • 4 x 101.3 mW 79.8 mW

Still we use some multiplication!
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How to represent absolute power
levels?Decibel-Watt (dBW) and Decibel-mW (dBm)
WK 4
  • As a ratio relative to a fixed reference power
    level
  • With 1 W used as a reference ? dBW
  • With 1 mW used as a reference ? dBm
  • Examples
  • Power of 1000 W is 30 dBW, 1 W ? dBW
  • 10 dBm represents a power of 0.1 mW,
  • 1 mW ? dBm X dBW (X ?) dBm

Caution! Must be same units at top and bottom
Caution! Must be same units at top and bottom
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dBs dBms are added algebraically
P2
P1
G
G is ? Positive for gain ? Negative for
attenuation
G power ratio
G dBs 10 log10 G
Similarly for dBs dBWs
35
Decibels and Signal Strength
  • Example Transmission line with an intermediate
    amplifier
  • If all ratios are in dBs and all levels are in
    dBm ? solve by algebraic addition Same for
    dBs and dBWs (No need for
    any multiplication/division)

4 mW
?
Gain 35 dB
Transmitted Signal
Received Signal
Loss 10 dB
Loss 12 dB
Amplifier
  • Net power gain over transmission path
  • 35 12 10 13 dB ( ive means actual
    net gain)

TX Signal Power in dBm 4 mW 10 log (4/1)
6.02 dBm
  • RX signal power (dBm) 6.02 13 19.02 dBm
  • Check 19.02 dBm 10 log (RX signal in mW/1 mW)
  • ? RX signal log-1 (19.02/10) 79.8 mW

As in Slide 31
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Decibels Voltage ratios
  • Power decibels can also be expressed in terms of
    voltage ratios
  • Power P V2/R, assuming same R
  • Relative
  • Absolute dBV and dBmV
  • Decibel-millivolt (dBmV) is an absolute unit,
    with 0 dBmV being equivalent to 1mV. Also dBV

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Appendix B Fourier Analysis
Signals in Time
Aperiodic
Periodic

Discrete Continuous
Discrete Continuous
DFS
FS
FT
DFT
Use Fourier Series
Use Fourier Transform
FS Fourier Series DFS Discrete Fourier
Series FT Fourier Transform DFT Discrete
Fourier Transform
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Fourier Series for periodic continuous signals
  • Any periodic signal x(t) of period T and
    repetition frequency f0 (f0 1/T) can be
    represented as an infinite sum of sinusoids of
    different frequencies and amplitudes its
    Fourier Series. Expressed in Two forms
  • 1. The sine/cosine form

Frequencies are multiples of the
fundamental frequency f0
f0 fundamental frequency 1/T
Where
DC Component
f(n)
Two components at each frequency
All integrals over one period only
If A0 is not 0, x(t) has a DC component
f(n)
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Fourier Series 2. The Amplitude-Phase form
  • Previous form had two components at each
    frequency (sine, cosine i.e. in quadrature) An,
    Bn coefficients
  • The equivalent Amplitude-Phase representation has
    only one component at each frequency Cn, qn
  • Derived from the previous form using
    trigonometry
  • cos (a) cos (b) - sin (a) sin (b) cos a b

Now we have Only one component at each
frequency nf0
Now components have different amplitudes,
frequencies, and phases
The Cs and ?s are obtained from the previous
As and Bs using the equations
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Fourier Series General Observations
Fourier Series Expansion
Function
Odd Function
Even Function
DC
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Correction
42
Fourier Series Example
x(t)
Note (1) x( t)x(t) ? x(t) is an even
function (2) f0 1 / T ½ Hz
Note A0 by definition is 2 x the DC content
43
Contd
0 for n even
(4/n?) sin (n?/2) for n odd
f0 1/2
a function of n only
? Replace t by t ? Swap limits in the first
integral
- sin(2pnf t)
- dt
Then Bn 0 for all n
x(t), since x(t) is an even function
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Contd
f0 ½, so 2? f0 ?
A0 0, Bn 0 for all n, An 0 for n
even 2, 4, (4/n?) sin (n?/2) for n
odd 1, 3,
Original x(t) is an even function!
Amplitudes, n odd
Cosine is an even function
2 p 3 (1/2) t
2 p (1/2) t
3rd Harmonic
Fundamental
f0 ½ ?
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Another Example
Previous Example
x1(t)
1
1
-1
2
-2
-1
T
Note that x1(-t) -x1(t) ? so, x(t) is an odd
function
Also, x1(t)x(t-1/2)
This waveform is the previous waveform shifted
right by 1/2
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Another Example, Contd
Sine is an odd function
As given before for the square wave on slide 25.
Because
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Fourier Transform
  • For aperiodic (non-periodic) signals in time, the
    spectrum consists of a continuum of frequencies
    (not discrete components)
  • This spectrum is defined by the Fourier Transform
  • For a signal x(t) and a corresponding spectrum
    X(f), the following relations hold

Imaginary
1
nf0 ? f
T/2 ? ?
Inverse FT (from frequency to time )
Forward FT (from time to frequency)
Real
? Express sin and cos
  • X(f) is always complex (Has both real Imaginary
    parts), even for x(t) real.

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(Continuous in Frequency)
(non-periodic in time)
Sinc function
Sinc2 function
49
Fourier Transform Example
x(t)
A
Sin (x) / x i.e. sinc function
Area of pulse In time domain
50
Fourier Transform Example, contd.
Sin (x) / x sinc function
Lim x?0 (sin x)/x (cos x)x0/1 1
First zero in the Frequency spectrum
sin pft 0 pft p f 1/t
Study the effect of the pulse width ?
51
The narrower a function is in one domain, the
wider its transform is in the other domain
The Extreme Cases
0
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Power Spectral Density (PSD) Bandwidth
  • Absolute bandwidth of any time-limited signal is
    infinite
  • But luckily, most of the signal power will be
    concentrated in a finite band of lower
    frequencies
  • Power spectral density (PSD) describes the
    distribution of the power content of a signal as
    a function of frequency
  • Effective bandwidth is the width of the spectrum
    portion containing most of the total signal power
  • We estimate the total signal power in the time
    domain

53
Signal Power in the time domain
  • Signal is specified as a function s(t)
    representing signal voltage or current
  • Assuming resistance R 1 W,
  • Instantaneous signal power (t) v(t)2/1
    i(t)21 s(t)2
  • Signal power can be obtained as the average of
    the instantaneous signal power over a given
    interval of time constant
  • For periodic signals, this averaging is taken
    over one period, i.e.
  • This measure in the time domain gives the total
    signal power
  • Effective BW is then determined such that it
    contains a specified portion (percentage) of this
    total signal power

(1)
s
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Signal Power in the Frequency Domain Periodic
signals
  • For periodic signal we have a discrete spectrum
    (the F Series)
  • For a DC component, Power Vdc2
  • For AC components Power Vrms2 Vpeak 2 (use
    eqn. 1 on prev. slide)
  • Power spectral density (PSD) is a discrete
    function of frequency
  • Where ?(f) is the Dirac delta function
  • Total signal power (watts) up to the j th
    harmonic is

(A function of frequency)
(A quantity, summation of PSD components- not a
function of a frequency)
55
Example
  • Consider the following signal
  • The PSD is (A function of Frequency)
  • The signal power is (A quantity)

(No DC)
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Signal Power in the Frequency Domain Aperiodic
signals
Watts/Hz
  • Continuous (not discrete) frequency spectrum
  • PSD (Power spectrum density) function, in
    Watts/Hz, is a continuous function of frequency
    S(f),
  • Total signal power contained in the frequency
    band f1lt f lt f2 (in Watts) is given by
  • (Integration, instead of summation, over
    frequency)

Components exist in both negative and positive
frequencies
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Complete Fourier Analysis Example
  • Consider the half-wave rectified cosine signal,
    Figure B.1 on page 793
  • Write a mathematical expression for s(t) over its
    period T
  • Compute the Fourier series for s(t) (Amplitude
    Phase form)
  • Get an expression for the power spectral density
    function for s(t)
  • Find the total power of s(t) from the time domain
  • Find the order of the highest harmonic n such
    that the Fourier series for s(t) contains at
    least 95 of the total signal power
  • Determine the corresponding effective bandwidth
    for the signal

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Example (Cont.)
  • Mathematical expression for s(t)

T/2
Where f0 is the fundamental frequency, f0
(1/T)
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Example (Cont.)
  • 2. Fourier series
  • Before we start what to expect?
  • DC Component?
  • Even or odd function?
  • A0 ?
  • An ?
  • Bn ?

Sine/cosine form of the Fourier Series
To get to the amplitude-phase form of the Fourier
series, we must first obtain the sine-cosine form
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Example (Cont.)
  • Fourier Analysis

f0 (1/T)
DC ?
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Example (Cont.)
f0 (1/T)
  • Fourier Analysis (cont.)

n 1 will be treated Separately later
From integral tables
62
Example (Cont.)
  • Fourier Analysis (cont.)
  • n ? 1

, for n even
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Example (Cont.)
  • Fourier Analysis (cont.)
  • For n 1, A1 is obtained separately

Note cos2q ½(1 cos 2q)
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Example (Cont.)
  • Fourier Analysis (cont.)

-
65
Example (Cont.)
  • Fourier Analysis (cont.)
  • For n 1, B1 is obtained separately

i.e. Bn 0 for all n (our function is even!)
66
Example (Cont.)
  • Fourier Analysis (cont.)

Note qn are not required for PSD and power
calculations
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Example (Cont.)
  • 3. Power Spectral Density function (PSD)

n Even
n 1
n 0 (DC)
For large n, power decays ? (1/n4) Good or bad?
68
Example (Cont.)
  • 4. Total Power
  • (From the time domain)

Note cos2q ½(1 cos 2q)
0.25 A2
Zero
Half the power of a full sine wave
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Example (Cont.)
  • 5. Finding n such that we get at least 95 of the
    total power

(Only the DC component)
Power
of total power in this component
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Example (Cont.)
  • Finding n such that we get at least 95 of the
    total power, contd.

(DC first harmonic)
Power
of total power in these two components
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Example (Cont.)
  • Finding n such that we get at least 95 of the
    total power, Contd.

(DC first harmonic second harmonic)
Power
OK! ? 95
  • n 2, and
  • 6. the effective bandwidth is
  • Beff fmax fmin
  • Beff 2f0 0 2f0

Beff
?
f
2f0
0
f0
3f0
DC
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Bandwidth about a Center Frequency
  • So far we have considered signals in their base
    band form (without modulation)
  • Data is often sent as variations in a high
    frequency carrier signal having a frequency fc
    (modulation)
  • So, bandwidth (BW) of this signal occupies a
    range of frequencies centered about fc
  • The larger fc, the larger the BW obtainable
  • Largest BW obtainable for a given center
    frequency fc is 2 fc

Carrier
With Amplitude Modulation, For each component of
the modulating signal
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Analog and Digital Data Transmission
WK5
  • Data
  • Entities that convey meaning
  • Signals
  • Electric or electromagnetic representations of
    data
  • Data Transmission
  • Communication of data
    through propagation and processing of
    signals that represent them

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Data types in nature Analog and Digital Data
  • Analog Data
  • Continuous values within some interval
  • Examples audio, video
  • Typical bandwidths
  • Speech 100Hz to 7kHz
  • Voice over telephone 300Hz to 3400Hz
  • Video 4MHz
  • Digital Data
  • Discrete values (not necessarily binary)
  • Examples integers, text characters, mixture
  • 2347, text, SDR054

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Analog and Digital Signals
  • Means by which data get transmitted over various
    media, e.g. wire, fiber optic, space
  • Analog signal
  • Continuously variable in time and amplitude
  • Digital signal
  • Uses a few (two or more) DC levels

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Analog Signal Example 1 Speech Data
  • Frequency range for human hearing 20Hz-20kHz
  • Almost fully utilized by music
  • Human speech 100Hz-7kHz
  • Telephone voice channel Spectrum is further
    limited to 300-3400Hz (why?)
  • Mechanical sound waves (data) are easily
    converted into electromagnetic signal for
    processing and transmission
  • Mechanical waves (Sound) of varying pitch and
    loudness (Data)
  • is represented as
  • Electromagnetic signals of different frequencies
    and amplitudes (Signal)

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Analog Example 1. The Acoustic Spectrum
Dynamic range of the human ear can be as high as
120 dBs!
dBs
Source Data
Hearing Spectrum
Dynamic Range of Signal Power
SPEECH
Frequency Range
-70
Log Scale
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Conventional Telephony Analog data Analog
Signal
  • Telephone mouthpiece converts mechanical voice
    analog data into electromagnetic analog
    electrical signal
  • Signal travels on telephone lines
  • At receiver, speaker re-converts received
    electrical signal to voice

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Analog Signal Example 2. Video Data
  • Electrical signal proportional to the brightness
    of image spot on a raster-scanned phosphor screen

Interlaced Scan
11 ms
52.5 ms (Active)
Line Scan
Frame Scan
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Bandwidth of a Black White Video Signal
  • USA Specification 525 lines per frame scanned at
    the rate of 30 frames per second
  • 525 lines 483 active scan lines 42 lost
    during vertical retrace
  • So 525 lines x 30 frames/second 15750 lines per
    second
  • Line scan interval 1/15750 63.5?s
  • 11?s go for horizontal retrace, so 52.5 ?s for
    active video per line
  • Effective vertical resolution 0.7 x 483 338
    lines
  • Horizontal resolution 338 x aspect ratio
  • 338 x (4/3) 450 dots
  • Max frequency is when black and white dots
    alternate
  • 450 picture dots correspond to 225 cycles in 52.5
    ?s ? Time period 52.5/225 ?s ? fmax 1/Period
    4.2 MHz
  • fmin (DC) 0 ? Bandwidth fmax - fmin 4.2 MHz

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Digital Signals
  • Advantages
  • Cheaper and easier to generate No extra
    processing needed
  • Less susceptible to noise
  • (The threshold effect)
  • Disadvantages
  • When noise is above threshold ? Total data
    reversal (Bit error) (1? 0, 0 ?1)
  • Greater attenuation
  • Line capacitances make pulses rounded and smaller
    in amplitude, leading to loss of information
  • More so at higher data rates and longer distances
  • So, use at low data rates over short distances

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Attenuation of Digital Signals
1 1 1 1 . . .
0 0 0 0 . . .
Pulse shaping Due to line capacitances Worse
over longer distances
Worse at higher data rates (narrower pulses)
Effect of line capacitances
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Digital Binary Signal
  • Example Between keyboard and computer
  • Two bipolar dc levels ( and Why?)
  • Bandwidth required depends on the signal
    frequency, which depends on
  • The data rate (bps) and
  • The actual data sequence transmitted

_
Data
-
  • Data rate ?
  • - Maximum f ?
  • - Minimum f ?

Data element
Signal
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Data and Signal combinations
  • We have seen above (data and signal of same
    type)
  • Analog signals carrying analog data Telephony,
    Video
  • Digital signals carrying digital data Keyboard
    to PC
  • Simple- one only needs a transducer/transceiver
  • But we may also have (data and signal of
    different types)
  • Analog signal representing digital data Data
    over telephone wires (using a modem)
  • Digital signal representing analog data CD
    Audio, PCM (pulse code modulation) (using a
    codec)
  • More complex- We Need a converter
  • So, all the four data-signal combinations are
    possible!

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Analog Signals can carry Analog Data or Digital
Data
(Base band)
i.e. in its original form
(Transducer)
(Converter)
We need a converter when the signal type is
different from the data type
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Digital Signals can carry Analog Data or Digital
Data
Digitized Analog Samples
e.g. using PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)
Coder-Decoder
(Converter)
Transmitter-Receiver
We need a converter when the signal type is
different from the data type
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Four Data/Signal Combinations
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Two Modes of Transmitting Signals 1. The Analog
Mode (associated with FDM)
  • Treats the signal as analog regardless of what
    it represents (Not interested in the data content
    of signal)
  • Following attenuation over distance, signal level
    is boosted using amplifiers
  • Unfortunately, this also amplifies in-band noise
  • With cascaded amplifiers (i.e. one after the
    other at locations along the link), effect on
    noise and distortion is cumulative, i.e. they get
    amplified again and again
  • Effect of noise and distortion on analog systems
    may be tolerated, e.g. with telephony you can
    still manage to get it! (Humans are good at
    filling-in gaps!)
  • But digital systems are more sensitive to the
    effects of excessive noise and distortion ?
    unacceptable errors
  • So Do not transmit digital signals the analog
    way!

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Two Modes of Transmitting Signals 2. The
Digital Mode (Associated with TDM)
  • Concerned with the data content of the signal
  • It assumes that the signal carries digital data
  • Uses repeaters (not amplifiers), which
  • Receive the signal
  • Extract the data bit stream from it
  • Retransmit a fresh, strong signal representing
    the extracted bit stream
  • This way
  • Effect of attenuation is overcome
  • Noise and distortion are not cumulative

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Four Signal/Transmission Mode Combinations
Which transmission mode is more versatile and
useful for integrating different signal types?
FDM Frequency Division
Multiplexing TDM Time Division
Multiplexing
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Advantages of Digital Mode of Transmission
  • Use of digital technology
  • Lower cost, smaller size, and high speed VLSI
    technology
  • Higher data integrity (reliability) as noise
    effects are not cumulative (fresh signal
    restoration en-route)
  • Cover longer distances, at higher data rate, at
    low error rates, over lower quality lines
  • Easier to implement multiplexing for improved
    utilization of link capacity
  • High bandwidth links are now economical (Fiber,
    Satellite)
  • To utilize them efficiently we need to do a lot
    of multiplexing
  • This is done more efficiently using digital (TDM)
    rather than analog (FDM) (Chapter 8)
  • Encryption for data security
  • and confidentiality is digital
  • Easier to integrate different data types
  • Convert analog data to digital signalsand use
    one system to handle all voice, video, and data,
    e.g. one network for all types of traffic

Frequency Division Multiplexing
Time Division Multiplexing
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Transmission Impairments
  • Signal received is often a degraded form of the
    signal transmitted
  • Why? What happens en-route?... Impairments
  • Attenuation
  • Limits the bandwidth of the received signal
  • In-band signals arrive weaker
  • Attenuation distortion (Attenuation is not
    uniform over bandwidth)
  • Delay
  • Delay distortion
  • Noise and interference (including crosstalk)
  • Effect
  • On analog data - Some degradation in signal
    quality
  • On digital data Fatal bit errors (total bit
    reversals)

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Attenuation
  • Signal strength falls off with distance traveled
  • Nature of loss in signal power depends on medium
  • Guided (Wires, etc.)
  • Exponential drop is signal power with distance
    Pd P0 e-ad
  • 10 ln (Pd/P0) -ad
  • 10 log (Pd/P0) -ad
  • ? Loss a dBs per km (a depends on medium
    type e.g. fiber, twisted pair, cable)
  • Unguided (Open space)
  • Inverse square law spread with distance P ? P0
    /d2
  • ? Loss 6 dBs for each distance doubling
  • Absorption, scattering
  • May also depend on weather, e.g. rain, sunspots,

Signal power after traveling distance d
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Effects of Attenuation
  • Received signal strength must be
  • Sufficiently Large enough to be detected
  • Sufficiently higher than noise to be interpreted
    correctly (without error)
  • To overcome these problems
  • Use amplifiers (analog transmission mode)
  • or repeaters (digital transmission mode)
    en-route
  • Amplifier gains should not be too large as this
    may cause signal distortion due to saturation
    (nonlinearities)
  • Problem with networks distance actually traveled
    (hence attenuation) will depend on actual route
    taken through the network!

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Attenuation Distortion
  • Attenuation usually increases with frequency
  • This causes bandwidth limitation (understood)
  • Moreover, over the transmitted bandwidth itself
  • Different frequency components of the signal get
    attenuated differently ? Signal distortion
  • Affects analog signals more
  • To overcome this problem
  • Use Equalizers that reverse the effect of
    frequency-dependent attenuation distortion
  • Passive e.g. loading coils in telephone circuits
  • Active Amplifier gain designed specifically for
    this purpose

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Attenuation Distortion
Equalization To Reduce Attenuation Distortion
Q. What is the signal ?
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Delay Distortion
  • Happens only on guided media
  • Wave propagation velocity varies with frequency
  • Highest at the center frequency (minimum delay)
  • Lower at both ends of the bandwidth (larger
    delay)
  • Effect Different frequency components of the
    signal arrive at slightly different times!
    (Dispersion in time)
  • Affects digital data more due to bit spill-over
    (timing is more critical here than for analog
    data)
  • Again, equalization can help overcome the problem

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Delay Distortion
Equalization To Reduce Delay Distortion
Without Equalizer
With Equalizer
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Noise (1)
  • Definition Any additional unwanted signal
    inserted between transmitter and receiver
  • The most limiting factor in communication systems
  • Noise Types
  • Thermal Noise
  • Inter-modulation Noise
  • Crosstalk Noise
  • Impulse Noise

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Noise (2)
PSD
  • Thermal (White) Noise
  • Due to thermal agitation of electrons
  • (Increases with temperature)
  • Uniformly distributed over frequency (White
    noise)
  • ? Difficult to eliminate
  • (exists even in the same bandwidth as your
    signal!)
  • Effect is more significant on weak received
    signals, e.g. from satellites

f
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Thermal Noise, Contd.
  • Thermal noise power density in 1 Hz of bandwidth,
    N0 (Constant, Independent of frequency)
  • k Boltzmanns constant 1.38?10-23 J/K
  • T temperature in degrees Kelvin ( 273 t ?C)
  • Thermal noise power in a bandwidth of B Hz

PSD
N0
B
1 Hz
f
Can you see some disadvantage now in having a
larger BW?
10 log k
Example at t 21 ?C (T 294 ?K) and for a
bandwidth of 10 MHz N -228.6 10 log 294
10 log 107 - 133.9 dBW
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Noise (3)
WK 6
  • Inter-modulation Noise
  • Signals having the sum and difference (frequency
    mixing) of original frequencies sharing a
    transmission system
  • (e.g. in FDM systems)
  • f1, f2 ? (f1f2) and (f1-f2)
  • Caused by nonlinearities in the medium and
    equipment, e.g. due to overdrive and saturation
    of amplifiers
  • Danger Resulting new frequency components may
    fall within valid signal bands, thus causing
    interference

Linear System
A cos q1 B cos q2
A cos q1 B cos q2
Output
K(A cos q1 B cos q2)
A cos q1 B cos q2 f(2q1)f(2q2)f(q1-q2)f(q
1q2)
Non-Linear System
Input
A cos q1 B cos q2
K(A cos q1 B cos q2) K(A cos q1 B cos q2)2
Inter-modulation components
Input
New spurious components can fall within genuine
signal bands causing interference
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Noise (4)
  • Crosstalk Noise
  • A signal from one channel picked up by another
    channel in close proximity
  • Examples
  • Physical proximity coupling between adjacent
    twisted pair channels
  • ? Shield cables properly
  • Directional proximity antenna pick up from other
    directions ? Use directional antennas
  • Spectral proximity leakage between adjacent
    channels in frequency division multiplexing (FDM)
    systems
  • ? Use guard bands between adjacent channels

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Noise (5)
  • Impulse Noise
  • Pulses (spikes) of irregular shape and high
    amplitude lasting short durations
  • Causes External electromagnetic interference due
    to switching large currents, car ignition,
    lightning,
  • Minor effect on analog signals (e.g. crackling
    noise in voice channels)
  • Major effect on digital signals- Bit reversal
    error!
  • More damage at higher data rates
  • (a noise pulse of a given width can destroy a
    larger block of bits)

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Effect of Impulse Noise on a Digital Signal

Impulse

RX
Q What is the effect of the same noise at 10
times the data rate?
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Channel Capacity
  • Channel capacity Maximum data rate usable under
    a given set of communication conditions
  • How channel BW (B), signal level, noise and
    impairments, and the amount of data error that
    can be tolerated limit the channel capacity?
  • In general, Max possible data rate, C, on a given
    channel
  • Function (B, Signal wrt noise, Bit error rate
    allowed)
  • Max data rate Max rate at which data can be
    communicated on the channel, bits per second
    (bps)
  • Bandwidth BW of the transmitted signal as
    constrained by the transmission system, cycles
    per second (Hz)
  • Signal relative to Noise, SNR signal
    power/noise power ratio (Higher SNR ? better
    communication conditions ? higher C)
  • Bit error rate (BER) allowed in (bits received
    in error)/(total bits transmitted). Equal to
    the bit error probability.
    e.g. Higher allowed ? higher usable data
    rates ? higher C

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Channel Capacity, C
  • So, in general C bps F(B, SNR, BER)
  • Three Formulations under different assumptions

Idealistic
Realistic
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Bandwidth (or Spectral) Efficiency (BE)
  • Measures how well we are utilizing a given
    bandwidth to send data at a high rate.
  • Can be greater than 1 (not like engineering
    efficiencies)
  • The larger the better

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1. Nyquist Channel capacity (Noise-free,
Error-free)
  • Idealized, theoretical
  • Assumes a noise-free ? error-free channel
  • Nyquist showed that (without noise, without
    errors) If rate of signal transmission is 2B
    then a signal with frequency components up to B
    Hz is sufficient to carry that signalling rate
  • In other words Given bandwidth B, highest
    signalling rate possible is 2B signal elements/s
  • How much data rate does this represent?
  • (depends on how many bits are represented by
    each signal element!)
  • Given a binary signal (1,0), data rate is same as
    signal rate ? Data rate supported by a BW of
    B Hz is 2B bps ? C 2B
  • For the same B, data rate can be increased by
    sending one of M different signals (symbols) as
    each signal level now represents log2M bits
  • Generalized Nyquist Channel Capacity, C 2B
    log2M bits/s (bps)
  • Bandwidth efficiency C/B 2 log2M
  • (bits/s)/Hz Dimensionless quantity

bits/signal
Signals/s
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Nyquist Bandwidth Example
  • C 2B log2M bits/s
  • C Nyquist Channel Capacity
  • B Bandwidth
  • M Number of discrete signal levels (symbols)
    used
  • Data on telephone Channel
    B 3400-300 3100 Hz
  • With a binary signal (M 2 symbols, e.g. 2
    amplitudes)
  • C 2B log2 2 2B x 1 6200 bps
  • With a quadnary signal (M 4 symbols)
  • C 2B log2 4 2B x 2 4B 12,400 bps
  • Channel capacity increased, but
  • disadvantage Larger number of signal levels (M)
    makes it more difficult for the receiver to
    determine data correctly in the presence of noise

Signal Element
1
0
11
10
2 bits/Symbol i.e. 2 bits /signal
element
01
00
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2. Shannon Capacity Formula (Noisy, Error-Free)
  • Highest error-free data rate in the presence of
    noise
  • Signal to noise ratio SNR signal / noise levels
  • SNRdB 10 log10 (SNR ratio)
  • Errors are less likely with lower noise (larger
    SNR ratios). This allows higher error-free data
    rates i.e. larger Shannon channel capacities
  • Shannon Capacity C B log2(1SNR)
  • Highest data rate transmitted error-free with a
    given noise level
  • For a given BW, the larger the SNR the higher the
    data rate I can use without introducing errors
  • C/B Spectral (bandwidth) efficiency, BE,
    (bps/Hz) (gt1)
  • Larger BEs mean better utilization of a given
    bandwidth B for transmitting data fast.

Caution! Log2 Not Log10
Caution! Ratio- Not dBs
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Shannon Capacity Formula Comments
  • Formula says for data rates ? calculated C, it
    is theoretically possible to find an encoding
    scheme that achieves error-free transmission at
    the given SNR But it does not say how!
  • Also
  • It is a theoretical approach based on thermal
    (white) noise only. But in practice, we also have
    impulse noise, attenuation and delay distortions,
    etc
  • So, maximum error-free data rates measured in
    practice are expected to be lower than the C
    predicted by the Shannon formula due to the
    greater noise
  • However, maximum error-free data rates can be
    used to compare practical systems The higher
    that rate the better the system

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Shannon Capacity Formula Comments Contd.
  • Formula suggests that changes in B and SNR can be
    done arbitrarily and independently but
  • ? In practice, this may not be the case!
  • Higher SNR obtained through excessive
    amplification may also introduce nonlinearities ?
    increased distortion and inter-modulation noise
    which reduces SNR!
  • High Bandwidth B opens the system up for more
    thermal noise (kTB), and therefore reduces SNR!

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Shannon Capacity Formula Example
  • Spectrum of communication channel extends from 3
    MHz to 4 MHz
  • SNR 24dB
  • Then B 4MHz 3MHz 1MHz
  • SNRdB 24dB 10 log10 (SNR)
  • SNR (ratio) log-110 (24/10) 1024/10 251
  • Using Shannons formula C B log2 (1 SNR)
  • C 106 log2(1251) 106 8 8 Mbps
  • Based on Nyquists formula, determine M that
    gives the above channel capacity
  • C 2B log2 M
  • 8 106 2 (106) log2 M
  • 4 log2 M
  • M 16

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3. Eb/N0 Vs Error Rate Formulation
(Noise and Error are both specified Together)
  • Handling both noise and a quantified error rate
    simultaneously
  • We introduce Eb/N0 A standard quality measure of
    three channel parameters (B, SNR, R) and can also
    be independently related to the error rate
  • R is the data rate. Max value of R is the
    channel capacity C
  • It expresses SNR in a manner related to the data
    rate, R
  • Eb Signal energy in one bit interval (Joules)
  • Signal power (Watts) x bit interval Tb
    (second)
  • S x (1/R) S/R
  • N0 Noise power (watts) in 1 Hz kT. Two
    formulations

Tb 1/R
SNR/BE
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Eb/N0 (Cont.)
BER vs Eb/N0 curve for a given encoding scheme
Lower Error Rate larger Eb/N0
  • Bit error rate for digital data is a decreasing
    function of Eb/N0 for a given signal encoding
    scheme
  • Analysis ? For a given system (SNR, B, R) ?
    (Eb/N0), determine error rate BER
  • Design ? Given a desired error rate BER, get
    Eb/N0 to achieve it, then determine other
    parameters from formula, e.g. S, SNR, R, etc.
  • Effect of S, R, T on error performance
  • Which encoding scheme is better A
    or B?

B
A
Better Encoding
SNR

BE
Max R C, BE C/B
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Example
  • Given
  • The effective noise temperature, T, is 290oK
  • The data rate, R, is 2400 bps
  • Would like to operate with a bit error rate of
    10-4 (e.g. 1 error in 104 bits)
  • What is the minimum signal level required for the
    received signal?
  • From curve, a minimum Eb/No needed to achieve a
    bit error rate of 10-4 8.4 dB
  • 8.4 S(dBW) 10 log 2400 228.6 dBW 10
    log290
  • S(dBW) (10)(3.38) 228.6
    (10)(2.46)
  • S -161.8 dBW

Design or Analysis?
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Eb/N0 in terms of BE, assuming Shannon channel
capacity
  • From Shannons formula
  • C B log2(1SNR)
  • We have
  • From the Eb/N0 formula
  • C/B (bps/Hz) is the spectral (bandwidth)
    efficiency BE based on Shannon channel capacity

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Example
  • Find the minimum Eb/N0 required to achieve a
    Shannon bandwidth efficiency (BECShannon/B)
    of 6 bps/Hz
  • Substituting in the equation above
  • Eb/N0 (1/6) (26 - 1) 10.5 10.21 dB
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