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What is a key characteristic of parallel transmission?
Which of the following is an advantage of serial transmission?
What is a significant disadvantage of parallel transmission?
Which statement about serial transmission is true?
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How does parallel transmission increase data transfer speed?
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What role does the input transducer play in a communication system?
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Which process is NOT performed by the transmitter in a communication system?
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What type of communication system is designed to transmit analog data?
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Which of the following is an example of how noise affects a communication channel?
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What is the primary purpose of the receiver in a communication system?
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Which criterion is NOT essential for effective communication systems?
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What impact does VLSI technology have on digital communication systems?
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What characterizes a digital communication system?
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What advantage does digital transmission have over analog transmission regarding signal impairments?
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What is a significant benefit of using encryption in digital communications?
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What is one of the main benefits of using modulation in digital communication systems?
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Which line configuration type allows multiple devices to share a single communication link?
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Which element converts a string of symbols into a binary sequence in a digital communication system?
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What is the primary function of a modulator in a digital communication system?
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Which mode of data transmission can only send information in one direction?
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In half-duplex communication, what happens when one station is transmitting?
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Why is it challenging to design a communication system at a specific frequency?
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What is the primary limitation faced in communication systems related to noise?
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What role does a channel encoder play in a digital communication system?
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What is the impact of removing interference in digital communication systems?
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Which aspect do modulation schemes primarily aim to minimize in a communication system?
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In a full-duplex communication system, what capacity sharing occurs?
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Which of the following best describes a discrete information source?
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What characteristic defines a point-to-point communication link?
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Study Notes
The model of a communication system serves as the framework for understanding how information is transmitted from one point to another. Initially, the information source, such as a human speaker or a musical instrument, generates non-electrical messages like sound waves or visual signals. These messages are then transformed into electrical signals through a device known as a transducer, which translates the physical form of the message for further processing. The transmitter plays a crucial role in modifying these electrical signals to optimize them for transmission, ensuring that they remain intact despite potential disruptions. The communication channel, which can be either wired, like fiber optics or coaxial cables, or wireless, like radio waves, can experience interference from noise, which disrupts signal clarity. The receiver at the other end captures the signal and processes it through various methods including demodulation, amplification to boost signal strength, and filtering to eliminate unwanted noise, ultimately restoring the original message for the user.
Classification of a Communication System
- Analog Systems: Transmit analog data using analog modulation (e.g., AM, FM, & TV).
- Digital Systems: Transmit digital data using digital or analog modulation. They can be wired or wireless, and the data can be binary or binary-coded analog data.
Criteria for Communications Systems
- Data delivery: Ensures confidentiality and privacy by delivering data to the correct destination.
- Data integrity: Maintains accuracy by delivering data without errors, loss, addition, or duplication.
- Timeliness of data transfer: Delivers data within specific delay constraints for each service.
Digital Communications Systems
- Use of Modern Digital Technology: Enhances reliability while reducing cost and size through VLSI technology advancements.
- Data Integrity: Improved reliability due to repeaters that minimize the impact of signal impairments.
- Ease of Multiplexing and Robust Transmission: Digital techniques offer efficient link capacity utilization compared to analog techniques.
- Security and Privacy: Encryption can readily be applied to digital signals to ensure security and privacy.
- Integration of Diverse Services: Digital processing allows transmission systems to manage various services efficiently.
- Performance Monitorability: Assessing the quality of received digital signals is simplified by the digital nature of the data without requiring knowledge of the traffic type.
Elements of Digital Communication System
- Information Source: Can be analog (e.g., microphone or TV camera emitting continuously varying signals) or digital (e.g., text generating a binary bit sequence).
- Source Encoder/Decoder: Converts a symbol string to a binary sequence of 0s and 1s, and vice versa for decoding.
- Channel Encoder/Decoder: Introduces extra bits for error detection and correction capabilities.
- Modulator/Demodulator: Modulator converts a bit stream into an electrical waveform for transmission, while the demodulator extracts the message from the received waveform.
Why Modulation?
- Overcoming Equipment Limitations: Enables systems to operate at practical frequencies and use antennas with dimensions comparable to the operating wavelength.
- Removing Interference: Helps avoid interference by transmitting signals in different frequency ranges.
- Reducing Noise: Minimizes the impact of noise on the signal.
- Allowing Efficient Capacity Utilization: Enables multiplexing to increase efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
- Matching Signal to Channel: Allows for better signal transmission through different mediums like optical fiber or wireless channels.
Line Configuration
- Point-to-point: Dedicated link between two devices, utilizing the entire link capacity for transmission (e.g., infrared remote control).
- Multipoint (Multidrop): Shared link among multiple devices, requiring sharing of channel capacity (e.g., bus network topology).
Direction of Data Flow
- Simplex: Unidirectional communication where one station transmits data; while the other only receives (e.g., FM radio, paging systems).
- Half-duplex: Both stations can transmit and receive but not simultaneously. The entire channel capacity is taken over by the transmitting station (e.g., “Push-to-talk” walkie-talkies).
- Full-duplex: Both stations can transmit and receive simultaneously, sharing the link’s capacity (e.g., videoconferencing, telephone network).
Transmission Modes
- Parallel Transmission: Multiple bits are sent with each clock tick using multiple wires (n bits transmitted through n wires).
- Advantages: High speed of data transmission, increasing transfer speed by a factor of n over serial transmission.
- Disadvantages: High cost due to multiple wires required, limited to short distances.
- Serial Transmission: One bit follows another, requiring only one channel and can be synchronous or asynchronous based on timing and framing information.
- Advantages: Reduced cost due to using only one channel, fewer errors, and practical for long distances.
- Disadvantages: Slow speed, requires serial to parallel conversions, making it better for long distances.
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This quiz covers the essential components and classifications of communication systems, including models of information sources, transmitters, channels, and receivers. It also distinguishes between analog and digital systems based on their transmission methods. Test your understanding of how these systems operate.
