Introduction to Data Communications (S1, 2013)

Data Transmission

Lecture Notes

• Presentation: PDF
• Example of signals: equation, time domain plot and frequency domain plot.
• Example calculations of data rate, Nyquist and Shannon capacity
• Example showing impact of noise on different signals, as well as an explanation of how the example signals are generated using sox and Audacity.

Readings

• Stallings: chapter 3
• Forouzan: chapter 3
• Kurose: none

Links

• List of important points in this topic from Forouzan textbook
• Signal animations from Forouzan textbook: Sine wave | Signal equations | Varying frequency and amplitude
• Claude Shannon's biography

Videos

• This year: CS6, IT6, CS7, IT7, CS8, IT8
• Last year: CS1, CS2, CS3, CS4, IT1, IT2, IT3, IT4

Notes

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