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Purpose of Line

Line coding serves two main purposes: 1) to make the signal spectrum suitable for the communication medium by removing DC content that does not transmit information, and 2) to help synchronize the receiver by transmitting synchronization information without additional clock signals. Line coding is used in baseband transmission systems and can also be used to increase data rate by encoding multiple data bits into symbol pulses, reducing the required bandwidth. Gray coding, where neighboring symbols differ by one bit, is commonly used as it helps ensure only one bit is in error when a symbol is received incorrectly.

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Purpose of Line

Line coding serves two main purposes: 1) to make the signal spectrum suitable for the communication medium by removing DC content that does not transmit information, and 2) to help synchronize the receiver by transmitting synchronization information without additional clock signals. Line coding is used in baseband transmission systems and can also be used to increase data rate by encoding multiple data bits into symbol pulses, reducing the required bandwidth. Gray coding, where neighboring symbols differ by one bit, is commonly used as it helps ensure only one bit is in error when a symbol is received incorrectly.

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Purpose of Line Coding

One purpose of line coding is to make the form of the spectrum of a digital
signal suitable for a certain communication media. The line codes usually
have no dc content (direct current, frequency component at 0 Hz). We want
to get rid of the dc that does not transmit any information but wastes power.
Another reason for line encoding is to help to synchronize the receiver.
In digital transmissions the receiver must be synchronized with the transmitter
in order to receive the information when each new symbol arrives. For
this the data should be transmitted in a form that contains synchronization
information so that there is no need to transmit additional clock or timing
signals.
The systems that use only line coding, but not modulation, are called
baseband transmission systems. The spectrum of the line signal is still in the
frequency range of the original messages baseband. In radio systems both
coding and modulation are used.
Line coding can be used to increase the data rate as shown in, for example,
Figure 4.17, where each sequence of 2 data bits is encoded into four-level
pulses for transmission. At the receiving end decoding is carried out and the
original bits, 2 for each received symbol, are regenerated. Note that the symbol
rate on the line is half of the bit rate seen by the data source and the destination
and thus the required bandwidth of the channel is reduced to half
compared to binary transmission. The line code in Figure 4.17 also cancels
dc and similar code is used in ISDN subscriber lines. Note that Gray coding,
in which neighbor symbols differ by only one bit, is used in Figure 4.17. The
symbol in error is typically a neighboring symbol of the transmitted symbol
and with the help of Gray coding only one information data bit in error is
generated.

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