Data Communication & Networks Lecture 3 Physical Layer

Engr. Mazhar Islam Department of IT (Telecom) Hazara University Mansehra

QUIZ # 1

Draw a hybrid topology with a star backbone and three ring networks What is the difference between a port address, a logical address and a physical address.

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Physical Layer Topics to Cover

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To be transmitted, data must be transformed to electromagnetic signals.

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Analog & Digital

Data can be analog or digital. The term analog data refers to information that is continuous; digital data refers to information that has discrete states. Analog data take on continuous values. Digital data take on discrete values.

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Data can be analog or digital. Analog data are continuous and take continuous values. Digital data have discrete states and take discrete values.

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Signals can be analog or digital. Analog signals can have an infinite number of values in a range; digital signals can have only a limited number of values.

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Analog Vs Digital

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In data Communication, we commonly use periodic analog signals and non periodic digital signals.

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Periodic Analog Signals (Sine Wave)

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The bandwidth of a composite signal is the difference between the highest and the lowest frequencies contained in that signal.

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Bandwidth

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Digital Signals

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Digital Signals

In addition to being represented by an analog signal, information can also be represented by a digital signal. For example, a 1 can be encoded as a positive voltage and a 0 as zero voltage. A digital signal can have more than two levels. In this case, we can send more than 1 bit for each level.

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Digital Signal

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Bit Rate & Bit Interval (contd.)

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Bit Interval and Bit Rate

Solution
The bit interval is the inverse of the bit rate. Bit interval = 1/ 2000 s = 0.000500 s = 0.000500 x 106 ms = 500 ms
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The bit rate and the bandwidth are proportional to each other.

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Base Band Transmission

Broadband Transmission

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Low Pass & Band Pass

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Transmission Impairments

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Transmission Imapairments

Signals travel through transmission media, which are not perfect. The imperfection causes signal impairment. This means that the signal at the beginning of the medium is not the same as the signal at the end of the medium. What is sent is not what is received. Three causes of impairment are attenuation, distortion, and noise.

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Transmission Impairments

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Transmission Impairments
attenuation

distortion

noise

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Example 3.26
Suppose a signal travels through a transmission medium and its power is reduced to one-half. This means that P2 is (1/2)P1. In this case, the attenuation (loss of power) can be calculated as

A loss of 3 dB (3 dB) is equivalent to losing one-half the power.

Example 3.29
Sometimes the decibel is used to measure signal power in milliwatts. In this case, it is referred to as dBm and is calculated as dBm = 10 log10 Pm , where Pm is the power in milliwatts. Calculate the power of a signal with dBm = 30. Solution We can calculate the power in the signal as

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Data Rate Limits

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Data Rate Limits

A very important consideration in data communications is how fast we can send data, in bits per second, over a channel. Data rate depends on three factors: 1. The bandwidth available 2. The level of the signals we use 3. The quality of the channel (the level of noise)

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Noiseless Channel: Nyquist Bit Rate

Defines theoretical maximum bit rate for Noiseless Channel: Bit Rate=2 X Bandwidth X log2L

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Increasing the levels of a signal may reduce the reliability of the system.

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Example
Consider a noiseless channel with a bandwidth of 3000 Hz transmitting a signal with two signal levels. The maximum bit rate can be calculated as

Bit Rate = 2 3000 log2 2 = 6000 bps

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Example 8
Consider the same noiseless channel, transmitting a signal with four signal levels (for each level, we send two bits). The maximum bit rate can be calculated as:

Bit Rate = 2 x 3000 x log2 4 = 12,000 bps

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Noisy Channel: Shannon Capacity

Defines theoretical maximum bit rate for Noisy Channel: Capacity=Bandwidth X log2(1+SNR)

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Example
Consider an extremely noisy channel in which the value of the signal-to-noise ratio is almost zero. In other words, the noise is so strong that the signal is faint. For this channel the capacity is calculated as C = B log2 (1 + SNR) = B log2 (1 + 0)

= B log2 (1) = B 0 = 0
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Example
We can calculate the theoretical highest bit rate of a regular telephone line. A telephone line normally has a bandwidth of 4KHz. The signal-to-noise ratio is usually 3162. For this channel the capacity is calculated as

C = B log2 (1 + SNR) = 3000 log2 (1 + 3162) = 3000 log2 (3163) C = 3000 11.62 = 34,860 bps
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Example
We have a channel with a 1 MHz bandwidth. The SNR for this channel is 63; what is the appropriate bit rate and signal level?

Solution
First, we use the Shannon formula to find our upper limit.
C = B log2 (1 + SNR) = 106 log2 (1 + 63) = 106 log2 (64) = 6 Mbps

Then we use the Nyquist formula to find the number of signal levels.
6 Mbps = 2 1 MHz log2 L L = 8
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The Shannon capacity gives us the upper limit; the Nyquist formula tells us how many signal levels we need.

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Performance

One important issue in networking is the performance of the networkhow good is it? We discuss quality of service, an overall measurement of network performance, in greater detail in Chapter 24. In this section, we introduce terms that we need for future chapters.

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Performance

Bandwidth Throughput Latency (Delay) Bandwidth-Delay Product

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Throughput

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Propagation Time

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The bandwidth-delay product defines the number of bits that can fill the link.

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Bandwidth Delay Product

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