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Digital Communication Advantages-Disadvantages

The document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of digital communication. It lists reliable communication, easy multiplexing, integration of services, and signal regeneration as advantages. Increased bandwidth, need for precision timing, and analogue to digital conversions are presented as disadvantages. Types of digital communication systems including analog-analog, analog-digital, digital-analog, and digital-digital are also outlined.

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Digital Communication Advantages-Disadvantages

The document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of digital communication. It lists reliable communication, easy multiplexing, integration of services, and signal regeneration as advantages. Increased bandwidth, need for precision timing, and analogue to digital conversions are presented as disadvantages. Types of digital communication systems including analog-analog, analog-digital, digital-analog, and digital-digital are also outlined.

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Digital Communication advantages

zReliable communication; less sensitivity to changes in


environmental conditions (temperature, etc.)
zEasy multiplexing
zEasy signaling
„ Hook status, address digits, call progress information

zVoice and data integration


zEasy processing like encryption and compression
zEasy system performance monitoring
„ QOS monitoring

zIntegration of transmission and switching


zSignal regeneration, operation at low SNR, superior performance
zIntegration of services leading to ISDN

Jamadagni H S DC/V1/2004 3
Advantages of Digital
Communication
• More tolerant to channel noise.
– With amplitude shift keying: as long as the noise does not change the
amplitude from one level to another level, the original bits can be
inferred
– With QAM: as long as the received signal is more close to the original
symbol than its neighboring symbols
– Each repeater can regenerate the analog modulated signals from
demodulated bits (noise do not accumulate)
• Can insert parity bits before sending data to allow
detection/correction of errors
• Can apply digital compression techniques to reduce data rate
subject to distortion criterion
• Different signals can be multiplexed more easily
– Internet packets can contain any types of signals, cell phones can send
different types of data

©Yao Wang, 2006 EE3414: Digital Communications 26


Digital Communication System Disadvantages

zIncreased bandwidth
„ 64 KB for a 4 KHz channel, without compression (However,

less with compression)


zNeed for precision timing
„ Bit, character, frame synchronization needed

zAnalogue to Digital and Digital to Analogue conversions


„ Very often non-linear ADC and DAC used, some

performance degradation
zHigher complexity

Jamadagni H S DC/V1/2004 4
Types of Digital Communication Systems

Signal Type Transmission Example

Analog Analog Classical telephony

Analog Digital PCM TDM

Digital Analog Modems

Digital Digital ISDN, LANs

Jamadagni H S DC/V1/2004 5

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