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BOOK REVIEW IN COMMUNICATIONS Electronic Communications System By Wayne Tomasi
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The authors would like to express their deepest gratitude to the following persons who helped
and made this wire communication design possible.
First of all, to the Almighty God who gave the authors the knowledge and strength to finish this
book review.
To their friends and classmates for the help and encouragement imparted to them.
To their adviser Engr. Jaime P. Licuanan who assisted and taught them the necessary
information in order to correctly summarize the Electronic Communications Systems by Wayne
Tomasi.
And to those whom they forgot to mention, their sincerest and deepest thanks to all of you.


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CHAPTER 1:
INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

TERMS DEFINITIONS
Electronic
Communication
System
The fundamental purpose of _______________ is to transfer
information from one place to another.

Electronic
Communication
It can be summarized as the transmission, reception, and processing
of information between two or more locations using electronic
circuits.

Analog signals
Are time-varying voltages or currents that are continuously
changing such as sine and cosine waves.

Digital signals
This are voltages or currents that change in discrete steps or levels

Electromagnetic
Induction
The process to transfer the information in the form of dots, dashes
and space between a simple transmitter and receiver using
transmission line consisting of a length of metallic wire.

Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson were the first to
successfully transfer human conversation over a crude metallic-
wire communications systems using this device.

Decibel ( dB )
Is a logarithmic unit that can be used to measure ratio.

dBm
Is a unit of measurement used to indicate the ratio of a power level
with respect to a fixed reference level (1mW).

Electronic Communications Time Line
1830
American scientist and professor Joseph Henry transmitted the first
practical electrical signal.

1837
Samuel Finley Breese Morse invented the telegraph.

1843
Alexander Bain invented the facsimile.

1861
Johann Phillip Reis completed the first nonworking telephone.

1864
James Clerk Maxwell released his paper Dynamic Theory of the
Electromagnetic Field in which concludes that light, electricity
and magnetism are related.


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1865
Dr. Mahlon Loomis became the first person to communicate
wireless through earths atmosphere.

1866
First transatlantic telegraph cable was installed.

1876:
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson Invented the
telephone.

1877
Thomas Alva Edison invents the phonograph.

1880 Heinrich Hertz discovers electromagnetic waves.
1887
Heinrich Hertz discovers radio waves.
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi demonstrates wireless radio wave
propagation.

1888
Heinrich Hertz detects and produces radio waves.
Heinrich Hertz conclusively proved Maxwells prediction that
electricity can travel in waves through earths atmosphere.

1894
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi builds his first radio equipment, a
device that rings a bell from 30 ft. away.

1895
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi discovered ground wave
propagation.

1898
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi established the first radio link
between England and France.

1900
American Scientist Reginald A. Fessenden the worlds first radio
broadcast using continous waves.

1901
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi transmits telegraphic radio messages
from Cornwall, to Newfoundland. Reginald A. Fessenden transmits
the Worlds first radio broadcast using continuous waves. First
successful transatlantic transmission of radio signal.

1903
Valdemar Poulsen patents an arc transmission that generates
continuous wave transmission 100-kHz signal that is receivable 150
miles away.

1904
First radio transmission of music at Graz, Austria.

1905
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi invents the directional radio antenna.

1906
Reginald A. Fessenden invents amplitude modulation (AM).First
radio program of voice and music broadcasted in the United States

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by Reginald Fessenden. Lee DeFrorest invents triode (three-
electrode) vacuum tube.

1907
Reginald Fessenden invents a high- frequency Electric generator
that produces radio waves with a frequency of 100 kHz

1908
General Electric develops a 100-kHz, 2-kW alternator for radio
communications.

1910
The Radio Act of 1910 is the first concurrence of government
regulation of radio technology and services.

1912
The Radio Act of 1912 in the United States brought order to the
radio bands by requiring station and operators licenses and
assigning blocks of the frequency spectrum to the existing users.

1913
The cascade-tuning radio receiver and the heterodyne receiver are
introduced.

1914
Major Edwin Armstrong develops the superheterodyne radio
receiver

1915
Vacuum-tube radio transmitters introduced.

1919 Shortwave radio is developed.
1920
Radio Station KDKA broadcasts the first regular licensed radio
transmission out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1921
Radio Corporation of America (RCA) begins operating Radio
Central on Long Island. The American Radio League establishes
contact via shortwave radio with Paul Godley in Scotland, proving
that shortwave radio can be used for long distance communications.

1923
Vladimir Zworykin invents and demonstrates television.

1927
A temporary five- member Federal Radio Commission agency was
created in the
United States.

1928
Radio station WRNY in New York City begins broadcasting
television shows

1931
Major Edwin Armstrong patents wideband frequency modulation
(FM).

1934
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created to regulate
telephone, radio, and television broadcasting.

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1935
Commercial FM radio broadcasting begins with monophonic
transmission.

1937
Alec H. Reeves invents binary coded pulse-code modulation.
(PCM)

1939
National Broadcasting Company (NBC) demonstrates television
broadcasting. First use of two-way radio communications using
walkie-talkies.

1941
Columbia University Radio Club opens the first regularly
scheduled FM radio station.

1945
Television is born. FM is moved from its original home of 42 MHz
to 50 MHZ to 88 MHz to 108 Mhz

1946
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)
inaugurated the first mobile telephone system for the public
called MTS

1948
John Von Neumann created the first store program electronic
digital computer. Bell Telephone Laboratories unveiled the
transistor, a joint venture of scientist William Shockley, John
Bardeen and Walter Brattain.

1951
First transcontinental microwave system began operation.

1952
Sony Corporation offers a miniature transistor radio, one of the first
massproduced consumer AM/FM radios.

1953
RCA and MBC broadcast first color television transmission.

1954
The number of radio stations in the world exceeds the number of
newspapers printed daily.Texas Instruments becomes the first
company to commercially produce silicon transistors.

1956
First transatlantic telephone cable systems began carrying calls.

1957
Russia launches the worlds first satellite. (Sputnik)

1958
Kilby and Noyce develop first integrated circuits.NASA launched
the United States first satellite

1961
FCC approves FM stereo broadcasting, which spurs the
development of FM. Citizens band (CB) radio first used.

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1962
U.S. radio stations begin broadcasting stereophonic sound.

1963
T1 (transmission 1) digital carrier systems introduced.

1965
First commercial communications satellite launched.

1970
High-definition television (HDTV) introduced in Japan.

1977
First commercial use of optical fiber cables.

1983
Cellular telephone networks introduced in the United States.

1999
HDTV standards implemented in the United States.

1999
Digital Television (DTV) transmission began in the United States.

Attenuation
A power loss is sometimes called.

Transmitter
A collection of one or more electronic devices or circuits that
converts the original source information to a form more suitable for
transmission over a particular transmission medium.

Transmission Medium
Provides a means of transporting signals between a transmitter and
a receiver.

System Noise
Is any unwanted electrical signals that interfere with the
information signal

Receiver
A collection of electronic devices and circuits that accepts the
transmitted signals fro the transmission medium and then converts
those signals back to their original form.

Carrier
Because it is often impractical to propagate information signals
over standard transmission media, it is often necessary to modulate
the source information onto a higher- frequency analog signal called
a ______.

Modulation
The process of changing one or more properties of the analog
carrier in proportion with the information signal.

Analog
Communication
System
A system in which energy is transmitted and received in analog
form (a continuously varying signals such as a sine wave).


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Digital
Communications
It is the term covers a broad range of communications technique,
including digital transmission and digital radio.

Digital Transmission
A true digital system where digital pulses (discrete levels such as
+5V and ground) are transferred between two or more points in a
communications system.

Digital radio
The transmittal of digitally modulated analog carriers between two
or more points in a communications system.

Amplitude Modulation
( AM )
A modulation technique where the information signal is analog and
the amplitude (V) of the carrier is varied proportional to the
information signal.

Frequency Modulation
( FM )
the frequency (f) of the carrier is varied proportional to the
information signal.

Phase Modulation
the phase (u) of the carrier is varied proportional to the information
signal.

Amplitude Shift
Keying
( ASK)
A modulation technique where the information signal is digital and
that amplitude (V) of the carrier is varied proportional to the
information signal.

Frequency Shift
Keying
( FSK )
the frequency (f) of the carrier is varied proportional to the
information signal.

Phase Shift Keying
( PSK)
the phase (u) of the carrier is varied proportional to the information
signal.

Quadrature Amplitude
Modulation
( QAM )
A modulation technique where both the amplitude and the phase of
the carrier are varied proportional to the information signal.
Modulator
Modulation is performed in a transmitter by a circuit called?

Demodulation
The reverse process of modulation and converts the modulated
carrier back to the original information.

Demodulator
Demodulation is performed in a receiver by a circuit called?

2 Reasons why modulation is necessary in electronic communications :

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1. It is extremely difficult to radiate low-frequency signals from an antenna in the form of
electromagnetic energy.
2. Information signals often occupy the same frequency band and, if signals from two or
more sources are transmitted at the same time, they would interfere with each other.

Channel
A specific band of frequencies allocated a particular service.

Frequency Translation
Process of converting a frequency or band of frequencies to another
location in the total frequency spectrum.

Stations
The purpose of an electronic communications system is to
communicate information between two or more locations
commonly called?

Frequency
The number of times a periodic motion, such as a sine wave of
voltage or current, occurs in a given period of time.

Cycle
Each complete alternation of the waveform.

Subsections or bands
Electromagnetic Frequency Spectrum is divided into
_____________ with each band having a different boundary.

International
Telecommunications
Union ( ITU )
Is an international agency in control of allocating frequencies and
services within the overall frequency spectrum.

Federal
Communications
Commission ( FCC )
In the United States, assigns frequencies and communications
services for free-space radio propagation.

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International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Designation
Band Number Frequency Range Designation
2 30 Hz - 300 Hz ELF (Extremely Low
Frequency)
3 0.3 KHz - 3 KHz VF (Voice Frequency)
4 3 KHz - 30 KHz VLF (Very Low Frequency)
5 30 KHz - 300 KHz LF (Low Frequency)
6 0.3 MHz - 3 MHz MF (Medium Frequency)
7 3 MHz - 30MHz HF (High Frequency)
8 30 MHz 300 MHz VHF (Very High Frequency)
9 300 MHz 3 GHz UHF (Ultra High Frequency)
10 3 GHz 30 GHz SHF (Super High Frequency)
11 30 GHz 300 GHz EHF (Extremely High
Frequency)
12 0.3 THz 3 THz Infrared Light
13 3 THz 30 THz Infrared Light
14 30 THz 300 THz Infrared Light
15 0.3 PHz 3 PHz Visible Light
16 3 PHz 30 PHz Ultraviolet Light
17 30 PHz 300 PHz X-Rays
18 0.3 EHz 3 EHz Gamma Rays
19 3 EHz 30 EHz Cosmic Rays
Extremely Low
Frequencies ( ELF )
Are signals in the 30Hz to 300Hz range and include ac power
distribution signals (60Hz) and low frequency telemetry signals.
Voice Frequencies
( VF )
Are signals in the 300Hz to 3000Hz range and include frequencies
generally associated with human speech.

Very Low Frequencies
( VLF )
Are signals in the 3kHz to 30kHz range which include the upper
end of the human hearing range.

Low Frequencies
( LF )
Are signals in the 30kHz to 300kHz range and are used primarily
for marine and aeronautical navigation.

Medium Frequencies
( MF )
Are signals in the 300kHz to 3MHz range and are used primarily
for commercial AM radio broadcasting (535kHz-1605kHz).

High Frequencies
( HF )
Are signals in the 3MHz to 30MHz range and are often referred to
as short waves. Used for most two-way radio communications.

Very High Frequencies
Are signals in the 30MHz to 300MHz range and are used for
mobile radio, marine and aeronautical communications,

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( VHF ) commercial FM broadcasting (88 to 108MHz) and commercial TV
broadcasting of Ch 2 to 13 (54MHz to 216MHz).

Ultrahigh Frequencies
( UHF )
Are signals in the 300MHz to 3GHz range and are used by
commercial television broadcasting of channels 14 to 83, land
mobile communications services, cellular telephones, certain radar
and navigation systems, and microwave and satellite radio systems.

Super High
Frequencies
( SHF )
Are signals in the 3GHz to 30GHz range and include the majority
of the frequencies used for microwave and satellite radio
communications systems.

Extremely High
Frequencies
( EHF )
Are signals in the 30GHz to 300GHz range and are seldom used for
radio communications except in very sophisticated, expensive, and
specialized applications.

Infrared
Are signals in the 0.3THz to 300THz range and are not generally
referred to as radio waves. Used in heat seeking guidance systems,
electronic photography, and astronomy.

Visible Light
Includes electromagnetic frequencies that fall within the visible
range of humans (0.3PHz to 3PHz).

Light-wave
Communications
Used for optical fiber systems.

Wavelength
The length that one cycle of an electromagnetic wave occupies in
space (i.e., the distance between similar points in a repetitive
wave).

Emission
Classifications
Radio transmitter classifications according to bandwidth,
modulation scheme, and type of information.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Emission Designation

- The first symbol is a letter that designates the type of modulation of the main carrier.
- The second symbol is a number that identifies the type of emission.
- The third symbol is another letter that describes the type of information being
transmitted.

SYMBOLS

LETTERS

TYPE OF MODULATION
First Unmodulated

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N Unmodulated Carrier
Amplitude
Modulation

A Double-Sideband Full Carrier (DSBFC)
B Independent Sideband Full Carrier (ISBFC)
C Vestigial Sideband Full Carrier (VSB)
H Single-Sideband Full Carrier (SSBFC)
J Single-Sideband Suppressed Carrier (SSBSC)
R Single-Sideband Reduced Carrier (SSBRC)
Angle Modulation
F Frequency Modulation (Direct FM)
G Phase Modulation ( Indirect Modulation)
D AM and FM Simultaneously or Sequenced
Phase Modulation
K Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM)
L Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
M Pulse Position Modulation (PPM)
P Unmodulated Pulses (Binary Data)
Q Angle Modulation During Pulses
V Any Combination of Pulse-Modulation Category
W Any Combination of two or more of the above
forms of modulation
X Cases Otherwise Covered
Second 0 No Modulating Signal
1 Digitally Keyed Carrier
2 Digitally Keyed Tone
3 Analog (sound or video)
7 Two or More Digital Channel
8 Two or More Analog Channel
9 Analog or Digital
Third A Telegraphy, Manual
B Telegraphy, Automatic (teletype)
C Facsimile
D Data, Telemetry
E Telephony (Sound Broadcasting)
F Television (Video Broadcasting)
N No Information Transmitted
W Any Combination of Second letter

Noise and Bandwidth
The two most significant limitations on the performance of a
communications system are?

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N

Bandwidth
It is the range of frequency over which the operation of a system is
guaranteed satisfactory.

Passband
The bandwidth of a communications channel is the difference
between the highest and lowest frequencies that the channel will
allow to pass through it.

Information Theory
A highly theoretical study of the efficient use of bandwidth to
propagate information through electronic communications systems.

Information Capacity
The measure of how much information can be propagated through a
communications system and is a function of bandwidth and
transmission time.

Binary Digit / Bit
The most basic digital symbol used to represent information.

Bit Rate
The number of bits transmitted during one second and is expressed
in bits per second (bps).

Hartleys Law

I B x t
In 1928, R. Hartley of Bell Telephone Laboratories developed a
useful relationship among bandwidth, transmission time, and
information capacity.

Shannon limit for
information capacity

or

I = Information
Capacity
B = Bandwidth

= signal to noise ratio

In 1948, mathematician Claude E. Shannon published a paper in the
Bell System Technical Journal relating the information capacity of
a communications channel to bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio.

Electrical Noise
Any undesirable electrical energy that falls within the passband of
the signal.

Uncorrelated Noise
Noise present regardless of whether there is a signal present or not.

External Noise
Noise that is generated outside the device or circuit.


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Atmospheric Noise

Noise that is naturally occurring electrical disturbances that
originate within Earths atmosphere.

Static Electricity
Atmospheric noise is commonly called?

Extraterrestrial Noise
Noise consists of electrical signals that originate from outside
Earths atmosphere.

Deep-Space Noise
Extraterrestrial noise is sometimes called?

Solar Noise
Noise generated directly from the suns heat.

Cosmic Noise
Noise sources that are continuously distributed throughout the
galaxies.

Black-body Noise
Cosmic Noise is often called?

Man-made Noise
Noise that is produced by mankind.

Industrial Noise
Man-made noise is most intense in the more densely populated
metropolitan and industrial areas and therefore it is sometimes
called?

Internal Noise
Electrical interference generated within a device or circuit.

Shot Noise
Noise caused by the random arrival of carriers (holes and electrons)
at the output element of an electronic device.

Transit-time Noise
Any modification to a stream of carriers as they pass from the input
to the output of a device produces irregular, random variations.

Thermal Noise
Associated with the rapid and random movement of electrons
within a conductor due to thermal agitation.

THERMAL AGITATION HAS SEVERAL NAMES, INCLUDING :

- Thermal Noise, because it is temperature dependent;
- Brownian Noise, after its discoverer;
- Johnson Noise, after the man who related Brownian particle movement of electron
movement;
- White Noise, because the random movement is at all frequencies;

White Noise Source
A thermal noise source is sometimes called?


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Electrical Noise Source Summary
Correlated Noise (Internal)
Nonlinear Distortion
Harmonic Distortion
Intermodulation Distortion
Uncorrelated Noise
External
Atmospheric
Extraterrestrial
Solar
Cosmic
Man-made
Impulse
Interference
Internal
Thermal
Shot
Transient Time
Noise Power

N = KTB
N = noise fact or
B = bandwidt h (Hz)
K = Bolt zmanns proport ionalit y
const ant
T = absolut e t emp.(Kelvin)

Johnson proved that thermal noise power is proportional to the
product of bandwidth and temperature.

Correlated Noise
A form of internal noise that is correlated (mutually related) to the
signal and cannot be present in a circuit unless there is a signal.
No signal, No noise!

Harmonic
Is an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency.

Harmonic Distortion
Occurs when unwanted harmonics of a signal are produced through
nonlinear amplification (nonlinear mixing).

Amplitude Distortion
Another name for harmonic distortion.

Inter-modulation
Distortion
The generation of unwanted sum and difference frequencies
produced when two or more signals mix in a nonlinear device.

First Harmonic
The original signal and also called the fundamental frequency.

Second Harmonic
A frequency two times the original signal frequency.


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Third Harmonic
A frequency three times the original signal frequency.

Impulse Noise
Characterized by high-amplitude peaks of short duration in the total
noise spectrum.

Interference
A form of external noise and as the name implies it means to
disturb or detract form.

Electrical interference
Noise produced when information signals from one source produce
frequencies that fall outside their allocated bandwidth and interfere
with information signals from another source.

Signal-to-Noise Power
Ratio ( S/N )

The ratio of the signal power level to the noise power level.

Noise Factor ( F )
and
Noise Figure ( NF )
Figures of merit used to indicate how much the signal- to-noise
ratio deteriorates as a signal passes through a circuit or series of
circuits

FORMULA OF NOISE FACTOR

FORMULA FOR NOISE FIGURE
NF (dB) = 10 log F
Friiss Formula

It is used to calculate the total noise factor of several cascaded
amplifiers.

Friiss Formula
F
T
F
1
2
F
1
A
1
A
1
A
2
F
3
1
A
1
A
2 A
n
F
n 1


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Note that to use the Friiss formula, the noise figure must be converted to noise factor. The total
noise figure is simply

F
T
N (dB)
F
T
10 log

Equivalent Noise
Temperature
( T
e
)

T
e
= T ( F 1 )
A convenient parameter often used rather than noise figure in low
noise, sophisticated VHF, UHF, microwave, and satellite radio
receivers. It indicates the reduction in the signal-to-noise ratio a
signal undergoes as it propagates through a receiver.

CHAPTER 2:
SIGNAL ANALYSIS AND MIXING

TERMS DEFINITIONS
Analog Signals

The amplitude changes continuously with respect to time with no
breaks and discontinuities.

Digital Signals

The amplitude maintains a constant level for a prescribed period of
time and then it changes to another level.

Quaternary Digital
Signals

A four-level digital signal.

Electrical Signals

Are voltage- or current-time variations that can be represented by a
series of sine or cosine waves.

Signal Analysis

Is the mathematical analysis of the frequency, bandwidth and voltage
level of a signal.

Periodic Wave

A wave that repeats at a uniform rate.

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Time Domain

Is a representation of signal with respect to time.

Signal Waveform

Is an amplitude-versus-time representation of the signal.

Frequency Domain

Is a description of signal with respect to its frequency.

Nonsinusoidal,
Complex Wave

Is any repetitive waveform that is comprised of more than one
harmonically related sine or cosine wave.

Fourier Series

Used to analyze a complex periodic wave, developed in 1826 by the
French physicist and mathematician Baron Jean Fourier.

Fourier Analysis

Is a mathematical tool that allows us to move back and forth between
the time and frequency domains.

Duty Cycle

Is the ratio of the active time pulse to the period of the waveform.

Harmonic

Is an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency.

Fundamental
Frequency
Is the first harmonic and equal to the frequency of the waveform.
Wave Symmetry

Describes the symmetry of the waveform in the time domain.

Even Symmetry

A symmetric periodic voltage waveform that is said to have axes or
mirrors.

Odd Symmetry

A symmetric periodic voltage waveform that is said to have point or
skrew.

Half-Wave Symmety

A symmetric periodic voltage waveform which has a first half cycle
that repeats itself except with the opposite sign for the second half
cycle.


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Frequency Spectrum

Consists of all the frequencies contained in the waveform and their
respective amplitudes plotted in the frequency domain.

Bandwidth

Is the range of frequencies contained in the spectrum.

Rectangular Pulses

Used to analyze electronics communications circuits.

Electrical Power

Is the rate at which energy is dissipated, delivered, or used and is a
function of the square of the voltage or current.

Bandlimiting

Changing the signals frequency content and, thus, the shape of its
waveform.

Mixing

Is the process of combining two or more signals and is an essential
process in electronic communications.

Linear Summing

Occurs when two or more signals combine in a linear device, such as
a passive network or a small-amplifier.

Nonlinear Mixing

Occurs when two or more signals are combined in a nonlinear device
such as diode or large-signal amplifier.

Harmonic Distortion

It is when the generation of harmonics is undesired in nonlinear
amplification of a single frequency.

Frequency
Multiplication

It is when the generation of harmonics is undesired in nonlinear
amplification of a single frequency.

Intermodulation
Distortion

It is when the produced cross-products are undesired when two or
more frequencies mix in a nonlinear device.

Modulation

It is when the produced cross-products are undesired when two or

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more frequencies mix in a nonlinear device.

Characteristics of a
Repititive
Rectangular Wave

- The dc component is equal to the pulse amplitude times the duty
cycle.
- There are 0-V components at frequency 1/ hertz and all integer
multiplies of that frequency providing T = n, where n = any odd
integer.
- The amplitude-versus- frequency time envelope of the spectrum
components take on the shape of a damped sine wave in which all
spectrum components in odd-numbered lobes are positive and all
spectrum components in even-numbered lobes are negative.

Single-Frequency
Voltage and Current
Waveform

v(t) = V sin(2 ft + ) or v(t) = V cos(2 ft + )
i(t) = I sin(2 ft + ) or i(t) = I cos(2 ft + )

Where:
v(t) = time-varying voltage sine wave
i(t) = time-varying current sine wave
V = peak voltage (Volts)
f = frequency (Hertz)
= phase shift (Radians)
I = peak current (Amperes)
2f = angular velocity (Radians per Second)

Fourier Series
Equation

f(t) = A
0
+ A
1
cos + A
2
cos 2 + A
3
cos 3 + . . . A
n
cos n
+ A
0
+ B
1
sin 1 + B
2
sin 2 + B
3
sin 3 + . . . B
n
sin n

Where:
=

Harmonic Equation

f(t) = dc + fundamental + 2
nd
harmonic + 3
rd
harmonic + . . . nth
harmonic

Even Symmetry
Functions

Even Functions : f(t) = f(-t)

Odd Symmetry
Functions

Odd Functions : f(t) = -f(-t)

Half-Wave Symmetry
Functions

Half-Wave Functions : f(t) = -f(T + t) / 2

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Duty Cycle

DC = ( / T)

Duty Cycle Percent

%DC = ( / T) x 100

Where:
DC = duty cycle as a decimal
%DC = duty cycle as a percent
= pulse width of the rectangle wave (seconds)
T = period of the rectangular wave (second)

Fourier Series for
Rectangular Voltage
Waveform

v(t) = (V
/ T) + (2V / T)[(sin x / x)(cos t) + (sin 2x / 2x)(cos 2t)

+ . . .
+(sin nx / nx)(cos nt)]

Where:
v(t) = time-varying voltage wave
= pulse width of the rectangular wave (seconds)
T = period of the rectangular wave (seconds)
x = ( / T)
n = nth harmonic and can be any positive integer value
V = peak pulse amplitude (volts)

Rectangular
Waveform with
0 Hz (dc) Component

V
0
= ( V )( / T)

V
0
= ( V )(DC)

Where:
V
0
= dc voltage (volts)
DC = duty cycle as a decimal
= pulse of the rectangular wave (seconds)

Amplitude of the nth
Harmonic

V
n
= (2V / T)(sin nx / nx)

V
n
= (2V / T)[(sin(n / T)) / (n / T)

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Where:
Vn = peak amplitude of the nth harmonic (volts)
n = nth harmonic (any positive integer)
= 3.14159 radians
V = peak amplitude of the rectangular wave (seconds)
= pulse width of the wave (seconds)

CHAPTER 3:
OSCILLATORS, PHASE-LOCKED LOOPS, AND FREQUENCY
SYNTHEZISERS

TERMS DEFINITIONS
Oscillate

Is to fluctuate between two states or conditions, to vibrate or change.

Oscillating

Is the act of fluctuating from one state to another state.

Oscillator

Is a device that produces electronic oscillations.

Electrical Oscillation

Is a repetitive change in a voltage or current waveform.

Self-sustaining
Oscillators

Also known as free-running oscillators, wherein the changes in
waveform are continuous and repetitive, in other words, they occur a
periodic wave.

Not Self-sustaining
Oscillators

Also known as triggered or one-shot oscillators, are those who
requires an external input signal or trigger to produce a change in the
output waveform.


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Feedback Oscillator

Is an amplifier with a feedback loop. It generates an ac output signal
of which a small portion is fed back to the input, where it is
amplified.

Barkhausen Criterion

States that, for a feedback circuit to sustain oscillations, the net
voltage gain around the feedback loop must be unity or greater, and
the net phase shift around the loop must be a positive integer
multiple of 360.

Four Requirements
for Feedback
Oscillator to Work

- Amplification an oscillator circuit must include at least on active
device and be capable of voltage amplification.

- Positive Feedback an oscillator circuit must have a complete path for
a portion of the output signal to be returned to the input.

- Frequency-determining components an oscillator circuit must have
frequency-determining components such as resistors, capacitors,
inductors, or crystal to all the frequency of operation to be set or
changed.

- Power Source an oscillator circuit must have a source of electrical
energy, such as a dc power supply.

Regenerative
Feedback

Also called as positive feedback, where its phase aids the oscillation
process.

Degenerative
Feedback

Also called as negative feedback and supplies a feedback signal that
inhibits oscillations from occurring.

Open-loop Voltage
Gain

Is the voltage gain of the amplifier with the feedback path open
circuited.

Closed-loop Voltage
Gain

Is the overall voltage gain of the complete circuit with the feedback
loop closed and is always less than the open-loop voltage gain.

Feedback Ratio

The transfer function of the feedback network. For a passive
feedback network, the feedback ratio is always less than 1.

Wien-bridge
Oscillator

Is an unturned RC phase shift oscillator that uses both positive and

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negative feedback. It is a relatively stable, low-frequency oscillator
circuit that is easily tuned and commonly used in signal generators to
produce frequencies between 5 Hz and 1 MHz.

Lead-lag Network

Is a reactive voltage divider in which the input voltage is divided
between Z1 (the series combination of R1 and C1) and Z2 (the
parallel combination of R2 and C2). A frequency selective network.

Automatic Gain
Control (AGC)

Is a network added in a circuit to compensate the imbalances in the
bridge (Wien) ajd variations in the component values due to heat.

LC Oscillator

Is an oscillator circuit that utilizes tuned LC tank circuits for the
frequency-determining components. Tank circuit operation involves
an exchange of energy between kinetic and potential.

Hartley Oscillator

Is an oscillator circuit comprising of two inductors connected in
series and capacitor that is connected in parallel with the two
inductors.

Colpitts Oscillator

Is an oscillator circuit comprising of two capacitors connected in
series and an inductor that is connected in parallel with the two
capacitors.

Clapp Oscillator

Is an identical circuit of Colpitts oscillator with the addition of a
small capacitor placed in series with the first inductor.

Frequency Stability

Is the ability to remain at a fixed frequency and is of primary
importance in the communications systems.

Short-term Stability

Affected predominantly by fluctuations in dc operating voltages.

Long-term Stability

Is a function of component aging and changes in the ambient
temperature and humidity.

Crystal Oscillators

Are feedback oscillator circuits in which the LC tank circuit is
replaced with a crystal for the frequency-determining component.

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Crystallography

Is the study of the form, structure, properties, and classification of
crystals.

Piezoelectric Effect

Occurs when oscillating mechanical stresses applied across a crystal
lattice structure generate electrical oscillations and vice versa.

Natural crystal
substances that
exhibits piezoelectric
properties

- Quartz
- Rochelle Salt
- Tourmaline

Positive Temperature
Coefficient

If the direction of the frequency change is the same as the
temperature change.

Negative
Temperature
Coefficient

If the change in frequency is in the direction opposite to the
temperature change.

Crystal Oscillator
Module

Consists of a crystal-controlled oscillator and a voltage-variable
component such as a varactor diode.

Voltage-controlled
Oscillator

Is a free-running oscillator with a stable frequency of oscillation that
depends on an external timing capacitance, timing resistance, and
control voltage.

Monolithic Voltage-
controlled Oscillators

Ex: XR-2207

An integrated circuit featuring excellent frequency stability and a
wide tuning range.

Monolithic Precision
Oscillators

Ex: XR-2209

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A monolithic variable-frequency oscillator circuit featuring
excellent temperature stability and a wide linear sweep range.

Phase-locked Loop

Is an extremely versatile circuit used extensively in modern
electronic communications systems for performing a wide variety of
functions, including modulation, demodulation, signal processing,
carrier and clock recovery, frequency generation, frequency
synthesis, and a wide variety of other electronic communications
applications.

Phase Comparator

Sometimes called a phase detector, is a nonlinear device with two
input signals: an external input frequency and the VCO input signal.

3 Operating States of
PLL

- Free running
- Capture
- Lock

Free Running State

Either there is no external input frequency or the feedback loop is
open.

Capture State

There must be an external input signal, and the feedback loop must
be complete.

Lock State

The VCO output frequency is locked onto (equal to) the frequency
of the external input signal.

Acquisition Time or
Pull-in Time

The time required to achieve lock.

Capture Range

Is defined as the band of frequencies centered around the VCO
natural frequency where the PLL can initially establish or acquire
frequency lock with an external input signal from an unlocked
condition.

Lock Range

Is defined as the band of frequencies centered on the VCOs natural
frequency over which a PLL can maintain frequency lock with an
external input signal. Also known as tracking range.

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Hold-in Range

Is the lock range expressed as a peak value.

Phase Detector

Sometimes called as a phase comparator, is a nonlinear device with
two input signals: an external input frequency and the VCO output
signal.

Loop Gain for PLL

Is simply the product of the individual gains or transfer functions
around the loop.

Digital PLL

Used to track digital pulses rather than analog signals, such as in
clock recovery circuits.

Synthesize

Means to form an entity by combining parts or elements.

Frequency
Synthesizer

Used to generate many output frequencies through addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division of a smaller number of fixed
frequency sources.

Multiple-crystal
Frequency Synthesis
Uses nonlinear mixing and filtering to produce 128 different
frequencies from 20 crystals and two oscillator modules.

Resolution

The minimum frequency separation between output frequencies for a
synthesizer.
Single-crystal
Frequency Synthesis

Uses frequency addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to
generate frequencies (in 1 Hz steps) from 1 Hz to 999,999 Hz.

Frequency of
Oscillation (f
O
) for
RC Oscillators

f
O
= 1 / 2RC

Where:
R = R
1
= R
2

C = C
1
= C
2

Frequency of
Oscillation (f
O
) for
Hartley Oscillators

f
O
= 1 / 2LC

Where:
L = L
1a
+ L
1b


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C = C
1

Frequency of
Oscillation (f
O
) for
Colpitts Oscillators

f
O
= 1 / 2LC

Where:
L = L
1

C = (C
1a
C
1b
) / (C
1a
+ C
1b
)

Change of Frequency
in Crystal

f = k (f
n
C)

Where:
f = change in frequency (Hertz)
k = temperature coeffiecient (Hz/MHz/C)
f
n
= natural crystal frequency (Megahertz)
C = change in temperature (degrees Celsius)

Frequency Operation
of Crystal

f
O
= f
n
+ f

Series Resonant
Frequency of Quartz
Crystal

f
1
= 1 / 2LC
1

Parallel Resonant
Frequency of Quartz
Crystal

f
1
= 1 / 2LC

Where:
C = the series combination of C
1
and C
2

Capacitance of
Varactor Diode

C
d
= C / (1 + 2 l V
r
l )

Where:
C = diode capacitance with 0 V reverse bias (Farads)
l V
r
l = magnitude of fiode reverse-bias voltage (Volts)
C
d
= reverse-biased diode capacitance (Farads)

Formula for
Determining Two

f
1
= 1 / R
1
C

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Frequencies of
Operation of a
Monolithic Function
Generator
f
2
= 1 / R
2
C

Where:
R
1
= resistor connected to pin 7
R
2
= resistor connected to pin 8

Frequency of
Oscillation Related to
VC

f = (1 / RC)(1 + (R / R
C
)([1 - V
C
] / 3)) (Hz)

Where:
V
C
= Control Voltage

Voltage-to-frequency
Conversion Gain K

K = (f / V
C
) = (-0.32 / R
C
C) (Hz / V)

Output Frequency of
VCO

f
O
= f
n
f

Where:
f
O
= VCO output frequency (Hertz)
f
n
= VCO natural frequency (Hertz)
f = f
1
f
n
(Hertz)
f
1
= external input frequency (Hertz)

Transfer Function of
VCO

K
o
= f / V

Where:
Ko = input-versus-output transfer function (Hertz per Volt)
V = change in the input control voltage (Volts)
f = change in the output frequency (Hertz)

Phase Difference or
Phase Error in Phase
Comparator

e = i o

Where:
e = phase error (radians)
i = phase of the VCO output signal voltage (radians)
o = phase of the external input signal voltage (radians)

Transfer Function for
a Square-wave Phase
Comparator for

K
d
= V
d
/ e = 2V
d
/


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Phase Errors between
0 to 180
Where:
K
d
= transfer function or gain (Volts per Radian)
V
d
= phase comparator output voltage (Volts)
e = phase error (i o) (radians)
= 3.14 radians

PLL Open-loop Gain

K
L
= K
d
K
f
K
a
K
o

Where:
K
L
= PLL open-loop gain (Hertz per radian)
K
d
= phase comparator gain (volts per radian)
K
f
= low-pass filter gain
K
a
= amplifier gain
K
o
= VCO gain (Hertz per volt)

Maximum Phase
Comparator Output
Voltage

V
d
(max) = [
e(max)
](K
d
)

= ( / 2)rad x (K
d
)

Where:

Vd(max)
= maximum peak change at the phase comparator output
voltage
K
d
= phase comparator transfer function

Maximum Change in
VCO Output
Frequency

fmax = ( / 2)rad x K
d
K
f
K
a
K
o

Capture Range

capture range = (2f
max
) / RC

Lock Range

lock range = 2f
max
= 2K
L

Where:
K
L
= K
d
K
f
K
o
for a simple loop with a PLF, phase comparator,
and VCO
= K
d
K
f
K
a
K
o
for a loop with an amplifier

VCO Running
Frequency

f
n
= f (1+ (0.6 / R
x
))
= (200 / C
o
)(1+(0.6 / R
x
))


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Where:
f
n
= VCO free-running frequency (Hertz)
f = VCO output frequency with pin 10 open circuited (Hertz)
R
x
= external resistance (kiloohms)
C
o
= external timing capacitor (microfarads)

VCO Transfer
Function

K
o
= (700 / C
o
R
o
) (rad/s) / V

Where:
K
o
= VCO conversion gain (radians per second per volt)
C
o
= capacitance (microfarads)
R
o
= resistance (kiloohms)
Voltage Gain of
Operational
Amplifier

A
v
= -R
f
/ (R
s
+ R
p
)

Where:
A
v
= voltage gain
R
f
= feedback resistor (ohms)
R
s
= external resistor connected to pin 1 (ohms)
R
p
= internal 6 k impedance at pin 1 (ohms)

Open-loop Gain for
the Frequency
Synthesizer

K
v
= (K
d
K
a
K
o
) / n

Where:
n = factor of open-loop gain reduced by frequency divider

CHAPTER 4:
AMPLITUDE MODULATION TRANSMISSION

TERMS DEFINITIONS
Modulation

The process of impressing low-frequency information signals onto a
high-frequency carrier signal.

Demodulation

The reverse process of modulation where the received signals are
transformed back to their original form.

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Amplitude
Modulation

The process of changing the amplitude of a relatively high frequency
carrier signal in proportion with the instantaneous value of the
modulating signal.

Radio Frequencies

Frequencies that is high enough to be efficiently radiated by the
antenna and propagated through free space.

AM Envelope

The modulated output waveform from an AM modulator is?

AM DSBFC

Sometimes called conventional AM or simply AM.

Lower Sideband

The band of frequencies between fc f
m(max)
and fc

Lower Side
Frequency

Any frequency within the lower sideband is called.

Upper Sideband

The band of frequencies between fc and
fc + f
m(max)

Upper Side
Frequency

Any frequency within the upper sideband is called?

Coefficient of
Modulation

The term used to describe the amount of amplitude change
(modulation) present in an AM waveform signal.

Percent Modulation The coefficient of modulation stated as a percentage.
100%

The maximum percent modulation that can be imposed without
causing excessive distortion.

Location

The _______ in a transmitter where modulation occurs determines
whether the circuit is a low or a high-level transmitter

Low-Level
Modulation

The modulation takes place prior to the output element of the final

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stage of the transmitter.

High-Level
Modulation

The modulation takes place in the final element of the final stage
where the carrier signal is at its maximum amplitude.

Emitter Modulation

The amplitude of the output signal depends on the amplitude of the
input carrier and the voltage gain of the amplifier.

Collector Modulator

A class C modulator capable of nonlinear mixing and the modulating
signal is applied directly to the collector.

Up-converter

Used to translate the low-frequency intelligence signals to radio-
frequency signals that can be efficiently radiated from an antenna
and propagated through free space.

Trapezoidal Pattern

Are used for observing the modulation characteristics of AM
transmitters.

Carrier Shift

A form of amplitude distortion introduced when the positive and
negative alternations in the AM modulated signal are not equal
(nonsymmetrical modulation).

Nonsinusoidal
Signals

Complex waveforms comprised of two or more frequencies.

Complex Repetitive
Waveforms

Are complex waves made up of two or more harmonically related
sine waves and include square, rectangular, and triangular waves.

Quadrature
Amplitude
Modulation
( QAM )

A form of AM where signals from two separate information sources
modulate the same carrier frequency at the same time without
interfering with each other. The information sources modulate the
same carrier after it has been separated into two carrier signals that
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CHAPTER 5:
AMPLITUDE MODULATION RECEPTION

TERMS DEFINITIONS

AM Demodulation
The reverse process of AM modulation.

RF Section
The first stage of the receiver of which primary functions are
detecting, band limiting, and amplifying the received.

Mixer /
Converter
This section down-converts the received RF frequencies to
intermediate frequencies (IFs).

IF Section
This section primary functions are amplification and selectivity.

AM Detector
This section demodulates the AM wave and converts it to the
original information signal.

Audio Section
This section amplifies the recovered information. Comprises several
cascaded audio amplifiers and one or more speakers.

Selectivity
A receiver parameter that is used to measure the ability of the
receiver to accept a given band of frequencies and reject all others.

Shape Factor
The ratio of the bandwidth 60dB below maximum signal level and
bandwidth 3dB below maximum signal level.

Thermal Noise

The most prevalent form of noise and is directly proportional to
bandwidth.
Bandwidth
Improvement
Noise reduction ratio achieved by reducing the Bandwidth.
Noise Figure
Improvement
The corresponding reduction in the noise figure due to the reduction
in bandwidth expressed mathematically in dB.

Sensitivity
The ________ of a receiver is the minimum RF signal level that can
be detected at the input to the receiver and still produce a usable
demodulated information signal.
Also known as receiver threshold.

Dynamic Range
Defined as the difference in decibels between the minimum input
level necessary to discern a signal and the input level that will
overdrive the receiver and produce distortion.

1-dB Compression
Point
Defined as the output power when the RF amplifier response is 1 dB
less than the ideal linear-gain response.

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Fidelity
A measure of the ability of a communication system to produce, at
the output of the receiver, an exact replica of the original source
information.

Distortion
Any frequency, phase, or amplitude variations that are present in the
demodulated waveform that were not in the original information
signal.

Absolute Phase Shift
The total phase shift encountered by a signal and can generally be
tolerated as long as all frequencies undergo the same amount of
phase delay.

Differential Phase
Shift
Occurs when different frequencies undergo different phase shifts and
ay have a detrimental effect on a complex waveform.

Insertion Loss
( IL )
Defined as the ratio of the power transferred to a load with a filter in
the circuit to the power transferred to a load without the filter.

Equivalent Noise
Temperature
A hypothetical value that cannot be directly measured. A parameter
that is used in low-noise, sophisticated radio receivers rather than
noise figure.
Coherent /
Synchronous
Receiver
The frequencies generated in the receiver and used for demodulation
are synchronized to oscillator frequencies generated in the
transmitter.

Noncoherent /
Asynchronous
Receiver
Either no frequencies are generated in the receiver or the frequencies
used for demodulation are completely independent from the
transmitters carrier frequency.

Tuned Radio
Frequency
One of the earliest types of AM receivers and are probably the
simplest designed radio receivers available today.

Skin Effect
A phenomenon at radio frequencies where current flow is limited to
the outermost area of a conductor.

Stagger Tuning
A technique where TRF receivers instability can be reduced
somewhat by tuning each amplifier to a slightly different frequency,
slightly above or below the desired center frequency.

Heterodyne
Means to mix two frequencies together in a nonlinear device or to
translate one frequency to another using nonlinear mixing.

Preselector
A broad tuned bandpass filter with an adjustable center frequency
that is tuned to desired carrier frequency.

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455 kHz
The most common intermediate frequency used in AM broadcast-
band receivers is ________.

IF Section
Consists of a series of IF amplifiers and bandpass filters and is often
called IF strip.

Intermediate
Frequency
Refer to frequencies that are used within a transmitter or receiver that
fall somewhere between the radio frequencies and the original source
information frequencies.

Gang Tuning
Means that the two adjustments are mechanically tied together so
that a single adjustment will change the center frequency of the
preselector and, at the same time, change the local oscillator
frequency.

High-side Injection /
High-beat Injection
When the local oscillator is tuned above
the RF it is?

Low-side Injection /
Low-beat Injection
When the local oscillator is tuned below the RF it is?

Sideband Inversion
The side frequencies undergo a sideband reversal during the
heterodyning process called?

Tracking
The ability of the local oscillator in a receiver to oscillate above or
below the selected radio frequency carrier by an amount equal to the
intermediate frequency throughout the entire radio frequency band.

Tracking Error The difference between the actual oscillator frequency and the
desired frequency.

Image Frequency
Any frequency other than the selected radio frequency carrier that, if
allowed to enter a receiver and mix with the local oscillator, will
produce a cross-product frequency that is equal to the intermediate
frequency.

Image-frequency
Rejection Ratio
A numerical measure of the ability of a preselector to reject the
image frequency.

Double Spotting
Occurs when a receiver picks up the same station at two nearby
points on the receiver tuning dial.

RF Amplifier
A high-gain, low-noise, tuned amplifier that, when used, is the first
active stage encountered by the received signal.

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Low-noise Amplifier
( LNA )
High-performance microwave receivers require a ________ as the
input stage of the RF section to optimize their noise figure.

MEsa Semiconductor
FET Semiconductor
FET
( MESFET )
A FET with a metal-semiconductor junction at the gate of the device,
called a Schottky barrier.
NE / SA5200 A wideband, unconditionally stable, low-power, dual-gain linear
integrated-circuit RF amplifier manufactured by Signetics
Corporation.

Mixer /
Converter Stage

This section purpose is to down-convert the incoming radio
frequencies to intermediate frequencies proportional to bandwidth.

Conversion Gain The difference between the level of the IF output with an RF input
signal to the level of the IF output with an IF input signal.

Self-excited Mixer A configuration where the mixer excites itself by feeding energy
back to the local oscillator tank circuit to sustain oscillations noise
figure.

NE / SA602A A low-power VHF monolithic double-balanced mixer with input
amplifier, on-board oscillator, and voltage regulator.

Intermediate
Frequency
( IF ) Amplifier
Are relatively high-gain amplifiers that are very similar to RF
amplifiers, except that IF amplifiers operate over a relatively narrow,
fixed frequency band.

Inductive or
Transformer
Coupling
The most common technique used for coupling where the voltage
that is applied to the primary windings of a transformer is transferred
to the secondary windings.

Inductance Ability of a coil to induce a voltage within its windings.

Mutual Inductance Ability of one coil to induce a voltage in another coil.

Coefficient of
Coupling
The ratio of the secondary flux to the primary flux.

Flux Linkage
The transfer of flux from the primary to the secondary windings and
is directly proportional to the coefficient of coupling.

The point where the reflected resistance is equal to the primary

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Critical Coupling resistance an d the Q of the primary tank circuit is halved and the
bandwidth doubled.

Double Peaking
Is caused by the reactive element of the reflected impedance being
significant enough to change the resonant frequency of the primary
tuned circuit.

Optimum Coupling
The coefficient of coupling approximately 50% greater than the
critical value yields a good compromise between flat response and
steep skirts.

IF Cans
IF transformers come as specially designed tuned circuits in
groundable metal packages
called _______.

CA3028A
A differential cascoded amplifier designed for use in
communications and industrial equipment as an IF or RF amplifier at
frequencies from dc to 120 MHz.

AM Detector
The function of this circuit is to demodulate the AM signal and
recover or reproduce the original source information.

Peak Detector
A simple noncoherent AM demodulator using a diode. Also called as
diode, shape, or envelope detector.

Rectifier Distortion
A distortion in the detection process where the RC time constant is
too short, the output waveform resembles a half-wave rectified
signal.

Diagonal Clipping
A distortion in the detection process where the RC time constant is
too long, the slope of the output waveform cannot follow the trailing
slope of the envelope.

Automatic Gain
Control
( AGC )
A circuit that compensates for minor variations in the received RF
signal.

Delayed AGC
It prevents the AGC feedback voltage from reaching the RF or IF
amplifiers until the RF level exceeds a predetermined magnitude.

Forward AGC
Is similar to conventional AGC except that the receive signal is
monitored closer to the front end of the receiver and the correction
voltage is fed forward to the IF amplifiers.

Squelch Circuit
Its purpose is to quiet a receiver in the absence of a received signal.


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Limiters /
Clippers
Are used to remove sporadic, high-amplitude noise transients of
short duration, such as impulse noise in the audio section of a
receiver.

Signal-to-Notched
Noise Ratio
A method of measuring signal strength relative to noise strength
where an RF carrier modulated 30% by a 1-kHz tone is applied to the
input of the receiver.

LM1820 A National Semiconductor Corporation linear integrated circuit AM
radio chip that has an onboard RF amplifier, mixer, local oscillator,
and IF amplifier stages. An LIC audio amplifier, such as the LM386,
and a speaker are necessary to complete a functional receiver.

PLL Receivers
This receiver would need only two external components: a volume
control and a station tuning control.

Net Receiver Gain
The ratio of the demodulated signal level at the output of the receiver
(audio) to the RF signal level at the input to the receiver, or the
difference between the audio signal level in dBm and the RF signal
level in dBm.

System Gain
Includes all the gains and losses incurred by a signal as it propagates
from the transmitter output stage to the output of the detector in the
receiver and includes antenna gain and transmission line and
propagation losses.

CHAPTER 6:
SINGLE SIDEBAND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

TERM DESCRIPTION
AM Single-sideband
Full Carrier
( SSBFC )
A form of amplitude modulation in which the carrier is transmitted at
full power but only one of the sidebands is transmitted.

AM Single-sideband
Suppressed Carrier
( SSBSC )
A form of amplitude modulation in which the carrier is totally
suppressed and one of the sidebands removed.

AM Single-sideband
Reduced Carrier
( SSBRC )
A form of amplitude modulation in which one sideband is totally removed
and the carrier voltage is reduced to approximately 10% of its unmodulated
amplitude. Sometimes called single-sideband reinserted carrier.
Pilot Carrier
It is the reinserted carrier in SSBRC for demodulation purposes.


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AM Independent
Sideband
( ISB )
A form of amplitude modulation in which a single carrier frequency is
independently modulated by two different modulating signals.

VSB System
________ is the picture portion of a commercial television broadcasting
signal.

Bandwidth
Conservation and
Power Efficiency
Are obvious advantages of single-sideband suppressed- and reduced-
carrier transmission over conventional double- sideband full-carrier
transmission.

Signal-to-Noise Ratio
Are obvious advantages of single-sideband suppressed- and reduced-
carrier transmission over conventional double- sideband full-carrier
transmission.

Selective Fading
With double-sideband transmission, the two sidebands and carrier may
propagate through the transmission media by different paths and therefore,
experience different transmission impairments. This condition is called?

Sideband Fading
A condition in double-sideband transmission where one sideband is
significantly attenuated.

Carrier-Amplitude
Fading
A form of selective fading where there is a reduction of the carrier
level of a 100%-modulated wave that will make the carrier voltage
less than the vector sum of the two sidebands.

Carrier or Sideband
Phase Shift
A condition where the relative positions of the carrier and sideband
vectors of the received signal change, causing a decided change in the
shape of the
envelope, causing a severely distorted demodulated signal.

AM Modulator
A product modulator where the output signal is the product of the
modulating signal and the carrier

DSBSC Modulators
Modulator circuits that inherently remove the carrier during the
modulation process.

Balanced Modulator
A circuit that produces a double-sideband suppressed-carrier signal.

Balanced Ring
Modulator
A balanced modulator that is constructed with diodes and transformers.
Sometimes called balanced lattice modulator.

Carrier Leak
The small carrier component that is always present in the output
signal of a balanced modulator.
Balanced Bridge
Modulator
The operation of this balanced modulator as the balanced ring
modulator is completely dependent on the switching action of diodes
D1 through D4 under the influence of the carrier and modulating
signal voltages.


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LM1497 / 1596
Balanced Modulator
IC
A double-balanced modulator/demodulator that produces an output
signal that is proportional to the product of its input signals.

Linear Summer
The circuit where the carrier is reinserted.

Filter, Phase-Shift,
and Third Method
Three methods for single-sideband generation.

Crystal Lattice,
Ceramic,
Mechanical,
Saw Filters
Types of single-sideband filters.
Mechanical Filter
A mechanically resonant transducer that receives electrical energy, converts
it to mechanical vibrations, and then converts the vibrations back to
electrical energy at its output.

Surface Acoustic
Wave Filters
Filters that use acoustic energy rather than electro-mechanical energy
to provide excellent performance for precise bandpass filtering.

Destructive
Interference
Reflected energy that cancels and attenuates the incident wave energy.

Constructive
Interference
Reflected energy that aids the incident wave energy.

Unidirectional
Transducer
A transducer which launches the acoustic wave in only one direction.

frequency offset error
Any difference between the transmit and receive local oscillator
frequencies produces a _______ in the demodulated information
signal.

tonal variation
Fifty hertz or more offset is distinguishable by a normal listener as a
_______.

Carrier Recovery
Circuit
A narrowband PLL that tracks the pilot carrier in the composite
SSBRC receiver signal and uses the recovered carrier to generate
coherent local oscillator frequencies in the synthesizer.

Multichannel Pilto
Carrier
An SSB receiver that uses a PLL carrier recovery circuit and a frequency
synthesizer to produce coherent local and beat frequency oscillator
frequencies.

Amplitude-
Compandoring
Single-Sideband
( ACSSB )
Systems that provide narrowband voice communications for land-
mobile services with nearly the quality achieved with FM systems and
do it using less than one-third the bandwidth.

Multiplexing
The process of combining transmissions from more than one source
and transmitting them over a common facility, such as metallic or
optical fiber cable or a radio-frequency channel.


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Single-Sideband
Suppressed-Carrier
Transmission
A transmission that can be used to combine hundreds or even
thousands of narrowband channels into single, composite wideband
channel without the channels interfering with each other.
Peak Envelope
Power
( PEP ) &
Peak Envelope
Voltage
( PEV )
Single-sideband transmitters are rated in _______ and ________.

CHAPTER 7:
ANGLE MODULATION TRANSMISSION

TERMS

DEFINITION
FM and PM
Two forms of angle modulation.

Angle modulation
It was first introduced in the year 1931 as an alternative to amplitude
modulation.

Major E. H.
Armstrong
He developed the first successful FM radio system in 1936, and in July
1939, the first regularly scheduled broad-casting of FM signals began in
Alphine, New Jersey. Also developed the superheterodyne receiver.

Angle Modulation
A modulation that results whenever the phase angle (u) of a sinusoidal
wave is varied with respect to time.

Angle Modulated wave is expressed mathematically as:

= angle modulated wave
= Peak carrier amplitude (volts)
= carrier radian f requency (angular velocity)
= instantaneous phase deviation (radian)

Direct Frequency
Modulation
( FM )
Varying the frequency of a constant-amplitude carrier directly
proportional to the amplitude of the modulating signal at a rate equal to
the frequency of the modulating signal.

Direct Phase
Modulation
( PM )
Varying the phase of a constant-amplitude carrier directly proportional
to the amplitude of the modulating signal at a rate equal to the
frequency of the modulating signal.

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Phase Deviation
(Au )
The relative angular displacement (shift) of the carrier phase in radians
in respect to the reference phase.

Frequency
Deviation
(AF )
The relative displacement of the carrier frequency in hertz in respect to
its unmodulated value.

Carrier Rests
Frequency
The original unmodulated carrier frequency in the resultant angle-modulated
waveform.

Instantaneous
Phase Deviation =
( rad)
The instantaneous change in the phase of the carrier at a given instant of
time and indicates how much the phase of the carrier is changing with
respect to its reference phase.

Instantaneous
Phase
= +
The precise phase of the carrier at a given instant of time.

Instantaneous
Frequency Deviation
= rad/sec
The instantaneous change in frequency of the carrier and is defined as
the first time derivative of the instantaneous phase deviation.

Instantaneous
Frequency
= rad/sec

The precise frequency of the carrier at a given instant of time and is
defined as the first time derivative of the instantaneous phase.

Phase Modulation
It is define as angle modulation in which the instantaneous deviation is
proportional to the amplitude of the modulating signal voltage and the
instantaneous frequency deviation is proportional to the slope or first
derivative of the modulating signal.

For a modulating signal the phase and frequency modulation are

Phase modulation = = K
Frequency modulation = rad/sec

Deviation
Sensitivities
Are the outputversus- input transfer functions for the modulators,
which give the relationship between what output parameter changes in
respect to specified changes in the input signal.

Peak Phase
Deviation
It is the radian for the phase modulated carrier.

Index of Modulation
Peak Phase Deviation is sometimes called?

Frequency Deviation
The change in frequency that occurs in the carrier when it is acted on by
a modulating-signal frequency.

Carrier Swing The peak-to-peak frequency deviation (2Af) is sometimes called?

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Percent Modulation
The ratio of the frequency deviation actually produced to the maximum
frequency deviation allowed by law stated in percent form.

Percent modulation is

modulation =

Phase Modulator
A circuit in which the carrier is varied in such a way that its
instantaneous phase is proportional to the modulating signal.

Rest Frequency
The unmodulated carrier is a single frequency sinusoidal and is commonly
called?

Frequency
Modulator
A circuit which the carrier is varied in such a way that its instantaneous
phase is proportional to the integral of the modulating signal.

Frequency deviator
Frequency modulator is often called?

Four commonly used equivalences are as follows:

PM modulator = differentiator followed by an FM modulator
PM demodulator = FM demodulator followed by an integrator
FM modulator = integrator followed by a PM modulator
FM demodulator = PM demodulator followed by a differentiator

Bessel Function
It is the first kind for several values of modulation index provides the
number of side frequency pairs and their corresponding magnitude.

First Carrier Null
The carrier component goes to zero is called?

Second Carrier Null
The carrier component once again disappears is called?

1%
A side frequency is not considered significant unless it has an amplitude
equal to or greater than ____ of the unmodulated carrier amplitude.

Low-index Case
The modulation index is less than 1.

Medium Index
Modulation indices greater than 1 and less than 10.

High-index Case
The modulation index is greater than 10.

Narrowband FM
Low-index FM systems are sometimes called?

Carsons Rule

B =2( )Hz

A rule which is an approximation and gives transmission bandwidths
that are slightly narrower than the bandwidths. It defines a bandwidth

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= modulating signal
=peak f requency
deviation

that includes approximately 98% of the total power in the modulated
wave.

Deviation Ratio
( DR )
The worst-case modulation index and is equal to the maximum peak
frequency deviation divided by the maximum modulating-signal
frequency.

Deviation Ratio

DR =
DR = Deviation Ratio (unit less)
= maximum peak f requency deviation (hertz)
= maximum modulating signal f requency (hertz)

20 MHz
The FCC has assigned the commercial FM broadcast service a _______
band of frequencies that extends from 88 MHz to 108 MHZ.

200 kHz
The 20MHz band is divided into 100, ________ wide channels beginning at
88.1 MHz.
75 kHz ;
15 kHz
To provide high-quality, reliable music, the maximum frequency
deviation allowed is _______ with a maximum modulating-signal
frequency of _______.
Adjacent Channel
Interference
The highest side frequencies from one channel are allowed to spill over into
adjacent channels, producing an interference known as?

200 kHz
It is the wide of the guard band is usually on either side of each
assigned channel.

The average power in the unmodulated carrier is

= carrier power (watts)
= peak unmodulated carrier voltage (volts)
R = load resistance (ohms)

FM Noise Triangle
The noise voltage at the output of an FM demodulator increases linearly with
frequency. This is called?

Pre-emphasis
The high-frequency modulating signals are emphasized or boosted in
amplitude in the transmitter prior to performing modulation.

De-emphasis
The reciprocal of pre-emphasis that restores the original amplitude-
versus-frequency characteristics to the information signals.

Pre-emphasis
Network
A circuit that provides a constant increase in the amplitude of the
modulating signal with an increase in frequency.

Break Frequency

It occurs at the frequency where and equal R.

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Direct FM
It is a angle modulation in which the frequency of the carrier is varied directly
by the modulating signal.

Direct FM
( Indirect PM )
When the frequency of the carrier is modulated by the information
signal, _______ results.

Direct PM
( Indirect FM )
When the phase of the carrier is modulated by the information signal,
_______ results.

Varactor Diode,
FM Reactance,
Linear IC
Modulations

Three common methods for producing direct frequency modulation.

Varactor Diode
It is used to transform changes in the modulating signal amplitude to
changes in the frequency.

Varactor Diode
Direct FM
Modulator
Direct frequency modulator used for low-index Applications, such as
two-way mobile radio.

FM Reactance
Modulator
A direct FM modulator using a JFET as the active device.

Linear IC VCO
and Function
Generators
Can generate a direct FM output waveform that is relatively stable,
accurate, and directly proportional to the input modulating signal.

Direct PM
Angle modulation in which the frequency of the carrier is deviated
indirectly by the modulating signal.

Varactor Diode
and Transistor
Direct PM
Modulator

Two common methods for producing direct phase modulation.

Frequency Up-
Conversion

The process of up-converting the frequency of the modulated carrier
after modulation has been performed.

Heterodyning and
Frequency
Multiplication

Two basic methods of performing frequency up-conversion.

Heterodyne
Method
An up-conversion method where a low-frequency modulated carrier can
either be up- or down- converted to a different location in the frequency
spectrum without changing its modulation properties.

Multiplication
Method
An up-conversion method where the modulation properties of a carrier
can be increased at the same time that the carrier frequency is up-
converted.

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Direct FM
Transmitters
Transmitters that produce an output waveform in which the frequency
deviation is directly proportional to the modulating signal.

Automatic
Frequency Control
( AFC )
A circuit that compares the frequency of he non crystal carrier oscillator
to a crystal reference oscillator and then produces a correction voltage
proportional to the difference between the frequencies.

Frequency
Discriminator
A frequency-selective device whose output voltage is proportional to
the difference between the input frequency and its resonant frequency.

Wipe Off
When you remove the modulation from the FM wave is called?

dc Correction
Voltage
A voltage added to the modulating signal to automatically adjust the
master oscillators center frequency to compensate for the low-
frequency drift.

Wideband FM
Transmitter
A transmitter that uses a phase-locked loop to achieve crystal stability from a
VCO master oscillator and at the same time, generate a high index, wideband
FM output signal.
FM Modulator
It is preceded by a differentiator generates a PM waveform.

Indirect FM
Transmitters
Transmitters that produce an output waveform in which phase deviation
is directly proportional to the modulating signal.

PM Modulator
It is preceded by a integrator produces an FM waveform.

Noise Immunity
Probably the most significant advantage of angle modulation over
amplitude modulation transmission.
Capture Effect
It allows a receiver to differentiate between two signal received with the
same frequency.

CHAPTER 8:
ANGLE MODULATION RECEPTION AND FM STEREO

TERMS DEFINITIONS
FM Receivers

In this receiver, the voltage at the output of the audio detector is
directly proportional to the frequency deviation at its input.


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PM Receivers

In this receiver, the voltage at the output of the audio detector is
directly proportional to the phase deviation at its input.

Angle Modulation

A modulation where the information is impressed onto the carrier in
the form of frequency or phase variations.

Limiting

A method used to remove amplitude variations caused by noise from
the composite waveform simply by clipping the peaks of the
envelope prior to detection.

Pre-selector

The section that rejects the image frequency in FM receivers.

RF Amplifier

The section that establishes the signal-to- noise ratio and noise figure
in FM receivers.

Mixer / Converter

The section that down-converts RF to IF.

IF Amplifiers

The section that provide most of the gain and selectivity.

Detector

The section that removes the information from the modulated wave.

Limiter,
Frequency
Discriminator and
De-emphasis Network

The envelope (peak) detector common to AM receivers is replaced
in FM receivers by a ________, ________, and ________.

Frequency
Discriminator

The circuit that extracts the information from the modulated wave.

FM Demodulators

Are frequency-dependent circuits designed to produce an output
voltage that is proportional to the instantaneous frequency at its
input.

Slope Detector,
Foster-Seely
Discriminator,

Circuits used for demodulating FM signals.


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Ratio Detector,
PLL Demodulator,
and
Quadrature Detector
Tuned-Circuit
Frequency
Discriminators

Circuits that convert FM to AM and then demodulate the AM
envelope with conventional peak detectors.

Slope Detector

A tuned-circuit frequency discriminator that has the most nonlinear
voltage-versus- frequency characteristics and, therefore, is seldom
used.

Balanced Slope
Detector

Is simply two single-ended slope detectors connected in parallel and
fed 180 out of phase.

Foster-Seeley
Discriminator

Sometimes called a phase shift discriminator that is a tuned-circuit
frequency discriminator whose operation is very similar to that of a
balanced slope detector.
S-curve

The typical voltage-versus-frequency response curve for a Foster-
Seeley discriminator.

Ratio Detector

An FM demodulator that is relatively immune to amplitude
variations in its input signal.

PLL FM
Demodulator

This FM demodulator requires no tuned circuits and automatically
compensates for changes in the carrier frequency due to instability in
the transmit oscillator.

Quadrature FM
Demodulator

Sometimes called a coincidence detector that extracts the original
information signal from the composite IF waveform by multiplying
two quadrature (90 out of phase) signals.

Limiters

A special circuit that removes the unwanted amplitude variations
since with FM, the information is contained in frequency variations.

Threshold,
Quieting, or
Capture Level

The limiter circuit produces a constant-amplitude output for all input
signals above a prescribed minimum input level, which is often

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called the ________.

FM Thresholding,
FM Quieting, or
FM Capture Effect

The improvement in the S/N ratio when the peaks of the signal have
the limiter so far into saturation that the weaker noise is totally
eliminated.

Capture Effect

The inherent ability of FM to diminish the effects of interfering
signals. Also, the ability to differentiate between two signals
received at the same frequency.

Capture Ratio of an
FM Receiver

Is the minimum dB difference in signal strength between two
received signals necessary for the capture effect to suppress the
weaker signal.

NE/SA614A

An improved monolithic low-power FM IF system manufactured by
Signetics Corporation. It is a high gain, high frequency device that
offers low-power consumption and excellent input sensitivity at 455
kHz.
Quadrature Detector

A multiplier cell similar to a mixer stage, but instead of mixing two
different frequencies, it mixes two signals with the same frequencies
but with different phases.

NE/SA616

A low-voltage, high-performance monolithic FM IF system similar
to the NE/SA614A except with the addition of a mixer/oscillator
circuit.

TDA7000

A monolithic integrated-circuit FM radio system manufactured by
Signetics Corporation for monolithic FM portable radios. A
complete FM radio receiver on a single integrated-circuit chip.

Frequency-Locked-
Loop

A circuit that is used to reduce the total harmonic distortion (THD)
by compressing the IF frequency swing (deviation).

Stereophonic
Transmission

With this transmission, the information signal is spatially divided
into two 50-Hz to 15-kHz audio channels (a left and a right).
Subsidiary

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Communications
Authorization
( SCA )
Used to broadcast uninterrupted music to private subscribers, such as
department stores, restaurants, and medical offices equipped with
special receivers; Sometimes cordially refer to as elevator music
Frequency Division
Multiplexing
( FDM )

The process of placing two or more independent channels next to
each other in the frequency domain (stacking the channels), and then
modulating a single high-frequency carrier with the combined signal.

60 kHz
To
74 kHz

The primary audio channel remained at 50 Hz to 15 kHz, while an
additional SCA channel is frequency translated to the _______
passband.

7 kHz

The SCA subcarrier may be AM single- or double- sideband
transmission or FM with a maximum modulating-signal frequency
of _______.

19 kHz

The frequency of the pilot carrier of FM stereo transmission.

Direct PM
( Indirect FM )

When the phase of the carrier is modulated by the information
signal, _______ results.

XR-1310

A monolithic FM stereo demodulator that uses PLL techniques to
derive the right and left audio channels from the composite stereo
signal.

Two-Way Mobile
Radio

Half-duplex, one-to-many radio communications with no dial tone.

Class D Citizens Band
( CB ) Radio

Provides 26.96 to 27.41 MHz public, non-commercial radio service
for either personal or business use utilizing push-to-talk AM DSBFC
and AM SSBFC.

Amateur ( HAM )
Radio

Cover a broad-frequency band from 1.8 MHz to above 300 MHz.
Designed for personal use without pecuniary interest.

Aeronautical
Broadcasting
Service

Provides 2.8 MHz to 457 MHz. ABS disseminates information for
the purposes of air navigation and air-to-ground communications

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( ABS ) utilizing conventional AM and various forms of AM SSB in the HF,
MF, and VHF frequency bands.

Mobile Telephone
Service

Full-duplex, on-to-one radio telephone communications.

Personal
Communications
Satellite Service
( PCSS )

Provides worldwide telecommunication service using handheld
telephones that communicate with each other through low earth-orbit
satellite repeaters incorporating QPSK modulation and both FDMA
and TDMA.

Two-Way FM Radio
Communications

Is used extensively for public safety mobile communications, such
as police and fire departments and emergency medical services.

5 kHz ;
3 kHz

The maximum frequency deviation for two-way FM transmitters is
typically ________, and the maximum modulating-signal frequency
is ________.

Push-To-Talk
( PTT )

Transmissions are initiated by closing a ________ switch, which
turns on the transmitter and shuts off the receiver.

Mobile Radio

It was used as early as 1921 when the Detroit Police Department
used a mobile radio system that operated at a frequency close to 2
MHz.
Electronic
Push-To-Talk

It was used rather than a simple mechanical switch to reduce the
static noise associated with contact bounce in mechanical switches.

Voice-Operated
Transmitter
( VOX )

Transmitters equipped with ________ are automatically keyed each
time the operator speaks into the microphone, regardless of whether
the PTT button is depressed.

CHAPTER 9:
DIGITAL MODULATION

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TERMS
DEFINITIONS
Electronic
Communication
Is the transmission, reception, and processing of information with the
use of electronic circuits.

Information

Is defined as knowledge or intelligence that is communicated
between two or more points.

Digital Modulation
Is the transmittal of digitally modulated analog signals (carriers)
between two or more points in a communication system.

System involving the transmission of digital pulses.

Amplitude Shift
Keying
( ASK )
The information signal is digital and the amplitude (V) of the carrier
is varied proportional to the information signal.

Frequency Shift
Keying
( FSK )
The information signal is digital and the frequency (f) of the carrier
is varied proportional to the information signal
Phase Shift Keying
( PSK )
The information signal is digital and the phase () of the carrier is
varied proportional to the information signal.

Quadrature
Amplitude
Modulation
( QAM )
A modulation where both the amplitude and the phase are varied
proportional to the information signal.

Pre-coder
Performs level conversion and then codes the incoming data into
groups of bits that modulate an analog carrier.

Information Theory
Is a highly theoretical study of the efficient use of bandwidth to
propagate information through electronic communications systems.

Information Capacity
Is a measure of how much information can be propagated through a
communications system and is a function of bandwidth and
transmission time.

Binary Digit /
Bit
The most basic digital symbol used to represent information.

R. Hartley
In 1928, _________ of Bell Telephone Laboratories developed a
useful relationship among bandwidth, transmission time, and
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Claude E. Shannon
In 1948, mathematician _________ (also of Bell Telephone
Laboratories) published a paper in the Bell System Technical Journal
relating the information capacity of a communications channel to
bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio.

M
Simply represents a digit that corresponds to the number of
conditions, levels, or combinations possible for a given number of
binary variables.

Bit Rate
Refers to the rate of change of a digital information signal, which is
usually binary.

Baud
Refers to the rate of change of a signal on a transmission medium
after encoding and modulation have occurred.

Signaling Element
Sometimes called a symbol and could be encoded as a change in the
amplitude, frequency, or phase.

Nyquist Bandwidth
The minimum theoretical bandwidth necessary to propagate a signal.

H. Nyquist
According to ________, binary digital signals can be propagated
through an ideal noiseless transmission medium at a rate equal to
two time the bandwidth of the medium.

On-Off Keying
The carrier is either on or off which is why amplitude- shift keying is
sometimes
referred to as ________.

Mark
A logic 1 frequency (f
m
) for FSK.

Space
A logic 0 frequency (fs) for FSK.

Peak Frequency
Deviation
(Af)
The mark and space frequencies are separated from the mark and space
frequencies are
separated from thecarrier frequency by the _________ and from each of by 2
Af.

Af
_______ is the peak frequency deviation of the carrier and is equal to
the difference between the carrier rest frequency and either the mark
or space frequency.

Noncoherent
Detection
A type of FSK detection wherein there is no frequencyinvolved in
the demodulation process that is synchronized either in phase,
frequency, or both with the incoming FSK signal.

A type of FSK detection wherein the incoming FSK signal is
multiplied by a recovered carrier signal that has exact same

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Coherent Detection frequency and phase as the transmitter reference.

Continuous-Phase
FSK
( CP-FSK )
Is binary FSK except the mark and space frequencies are
synchronized with the input binary bit rate.

Constellation
Diagram
A signal state-space diagram is similar to a phasor diagram except
that the entire phasor is not drawn. Only the relative positions of the
peaks of the phasors are shown.

Balanced Modulator
Is a product modulator; the output signal is the product of the two
input signals.

Coherent Carrier
Recovery Circuit
Detect and regenerates a carrier signal that is both frequency and
phase coherent with the original transmit carrier.

Quaternary PSK
( QPSK )
Also known as quadrature PSK that is another form of angle-
modulated, constant-amplitude digital modulation.

Dibit
A group of two bits.

I Bit
It modulates the carrier that is in phase with the reference oscillator.

Q Bit
It modulates the carrier that is 90 out of phase or in quadrature with reference
carrier.

QPSK Modulator
Is two BPSK modulators combined in parallel.

The highest fundamental frequency present at the data input to the I or the Q
balanced modulator is equal to _______ of the input data rate.

The fastest output rate of change (baud) is also equal to ________ of the input
bit rate.

Bit Combining
Circuit
The outputs of the product detectors are fed to the________, where
they are converted from parallel I and Q data channels to a single
binary output data stream.

Offset QPSK
( OQPSK )
Is a modified for of QPSK where the bit waveforms on the I and Q
channels are offset or shifted in phase from each other by one-half of
a bit time.

Limited Phase Shift
The advantage of OQPSK is the _________ that must be imparted
during modulation.

8 PSK
With ________, three bits are encoded, forming terabits and
producing eight different output phases.

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Tribit
Group of 3 bits.

Gray Code
Also known as maximum distance code used to reduce the number of
transmission
errors.

Parallel-to-Serial
Logic Circuit
Converts the I/C and Q/C bit pairs to serial, Q, and C output data
streams.

Quadbits
Group of 4 bits.

11.25
16-PSK can undergo only a _______ phase shift during transmission
and still retain its integrity.
.

8 QAM
Is an M-ary encoding technique where M=8. The output signal from
this modulator is not a constant-amplitude signal

Scrambling
The process of introducing transitions (pulses) into the binary signal
using a prescribed algorithm.

Descrambler
It uses the same algorithm for scrambling to remove the transitions.

Differential Phase-
Shift
Keying
( DPSK )
Is an alternative form of digital modulation where the binary input is
contained in the difference between two successive signalling
elements rather than the absolute phase.

Trellis Code
Modulation
( TCM )
Data transmission rates in excess of 56 kbps can be chieved, over
standard telephone circuits using an encoding technique called
________.

Dr. Ungerboeck
__________ at IBM Zuerich Research Laboratory developed TCM,
which involves using convolutional (tree codes, which combines
encoding and modulation to reduce the probability of error, thus
improving the bit error performance.

Trellis Coding
Defines the manner in which signal-state transitions are allowed to
occur, and transitions that do not follow this pattern are interpreted
in the receiver as
transmission errors

Euclidean Distance
The distance between symbols on the constellation of the TCM
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Carrier-To-Noise
Power Ratio
Is the ratio of the average carrier power (the combined power of the carrier
and its
Associated sidebands) to the thermal noise power.

Energy Per Bit
Is simply the energy of a single bit of information.

Antipodal Signaling
FCC approves FM stereo broadcasting, which spurs the development
of FM. Citizens band (CB) radio first used.

Noncoherent
( Asynchronous )
And
Coherant
( Synchonous )

U.S. radio stations begin broadcasting stereophonic sound.

Noncoherent FSK
T1 (transmission 1) digital carrier systems introduced.

Coherent FSK
First commercial communications satellite launched.

CHAPTER 10:
DIGITAL TRANSMISSION

TERMS DEFINITIONS

Is the transmittal of digital signals between two or more points in a
communications system.

AT&T

_________ developed the first digital transmission system for the
purpose of carrying digitally encoded analog signals, such as human
voice, over metallic wire cables between telephone offices.

Noise Immunity

The primary advantage of digital transmission over analog
transmission.

Multiplexing

Digital signals are also better suited than analog signals for
processing and combining using a technique called _____.

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Digital Signal
Processing
( DSP )

Is the processing of analog signals using digital methods and includes
bandlimiting the signal with filters, amplitude equalization, and
phase shifting.

Signal Regeneration

Digital transmission systems are more resistant to analog systems to additive
noise because they use ________ rather than signal amplification.

Pulse Modulation

Consist essentially of sampling analog information signals and then converting
those samples into discrete pulses and transporting the pulses from
a source to a destination over a physical transmission medium.

PWM, PPM, PAM
And
PCM

The four predominant methods of pulse modulation.

Pulse Width
Modulation
( PWM )

Sometimes called pulse duration modulation (PDM) or pulse length
modulation (PLM), as the width (active portion of the duty cycle) of a constant
amplitude pulse is varied proportional to the amplitude of the analog signal at
the time the signal is sampled.

Pulse Position
Modulation
( PPM )

The position of a constant-width pulse within a prescribed time slot
is varied according to the amplitude of the sample of the analog
signal.

Pulse Amplitude
Modulation

The amplitude of a constant-width, constant-position pulse is varied
according to the amplitude of the sample of the analog signal.

Pulse Code
Modulation
( PCM )
The analog signal is sampled and then converted to a serial n-bit
binary code for transmission.
Alex H. Reeves

__________ is credited with inventing PCM in 1937 while working for AT&T
at its Paris laboratories.

Sample-and-Hold
Circuit

A circuit that periodically samples the analog input signal and
converts those samples to a multilevel PAM signal.

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Repeaters

The transmission line ________ are placed at prescribed distances to
regenerate the digital pulses.

Codec
( Coder / Decoder )

An integrated circuit that performs the PCM encoding and decoding
functions.

Sampling Circuit

The function of a _________ in a PCM transmitter is to periodically
sample the continually changing analog input voltage and convert
those samples to a series of constant-amplitude pulses that can more
easily be converted to binary PCM code.

Aperture Error

The sampling process alters the frequency spectrum and introduces an
error called _________.

Storage Time

The ________ of the capacitor is called the A/D conversion time
because it is during this time that the
ADC converts the sample voltage to a PCM code.

Aperture Distortion

If the input to the ADC is changing while it is performing the
conversion, _______ results.
Nyquist Sampling

_________ theorem establishes the minimum sampling rate (f
s
) that
can be used for a given PCM system.

N-Bit Codes

The binary codes used for PCM are _________, where n may be any
positive integer greater than 1.

Most Significant Bit
( MSB )

The sign bit in a sign-magnitude code.

Quantization

Is the process of converting an infinite number of possibilities to a
finite number of conditions.
Is the process of rounding off the amplitudes of flat-top samples to a
manageable number of levels.

Folded Binary Code

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A type of code where the codes on the bottom half of the table are a
mirror image of the codes on the top half, except for the sign bit.

Quantization
Interval or Quantum

The magnitude difference between adjacent steps.

Overload Distortion

If the magnitude of the sample exceeds the highest quantization
interval, ________ (also called peak limiting) occurs.

Quantization Eror
(Q
e
)
Quantization Noise
(Q
n
)

Any round-off errors in the transmitted signal are reproduced when
the code is converted back to analog in the receiver.

Dynamic Ratio

Is the ratio of the largest possible magnitude to the smallest possible
magnitude (other than 0V) that can be decoded by the digital-to-
analog converter in the receiver.

Idle Channel Noise

During times when there is no analog input signal, the only input to
the PAM sampler is random, thermal noise also called as
__________, that is converted to a PAM sample just as if it were a
signal.

Midtread
Quantization

A way to reduce idle channel noise wherein the first quantization
interval is made larger in amplitude than the rest of the steps.

Companding

Is the process of compressing and then expanding.

-Law and A-law
Companding

Two methods of companding:

Digital Companding

Involves compression in the transmitter after the input sample has
been converted to a linear PCM code and then expansion in the
receiver prior to PCM decoding.

Vacoders

When digitizing speech signals only, special voice
encoders/decoders called _______ are often used


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Linear Predictive

A _________ coder extracts the most significant portions of speech
information directly from the time waveform rather than from the
frequency spectrum as with the channel and formant vocoders.

Delta

_________ modulation uses a single-bit PCM code toachieve digital
transmission of analog signals

Slope Overload and
Granular Sudivision

Two problems associated with delta modulations that do not occur
with conventional PCM.

Differential PCM
( DPCM )
With ________, the difference in the amplitude of two successive
samples is transmitted rather than the actual sample.
Ringing test

The secondary lobes are called __________.

Inter symbol
interference
( ISI )

_________ causes crosstalk between channels that occupy adjacent
time slots in a time-division- multiplexed carrier system.

Equalizers

Special filters called _________ are inserted in the transmission path
to equalize the distortion for all frequencies, creating uniform
transmission medium reducing transmission impairments.

Pulse Modulation
A ________ is simply the superposition of a series of harmonically
related sine waves with specific amplitude and phase relationships.

Crosshairs

The decision levels for the regenerator are represented by

Jitter

The _______ has an effect on the symbol timing (clock) recovery
circuit and, if excessive, may significantly degrade the performance
of cascaded regenerative sections.

CHAPTER 11:
DIGITAL T-CARRIERS AND MULTIPLEXING

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TERMS DEFINITION
Multiplexing
Transmission of information from one or more source to one or more
destination over the same transmission medium (facility).

Space-Division
Multiplexing
Unsophisticated form of multiplexing that simply constitutes
propagating signals from different sources of different cables that are
contained within the same trench.

Trench
Considered as transmission medium.

QPSK
Form of phase-division multiplexing (PDM) where to date channels (the I and
Q) modulate the same carrier frequency that has been shifted 90 in phase.

I Channel Bits
Modulates a sine wave carrier.

Q Channel Bits
Modulates a cosine wave carrier.

Three most predominant methods of multiplexing signals.

Time-Division Multiplexing
Frequency-Division Multiplexing
Wavelength-Division Multiplexing

Time-Division
Multiplexing
Transmissions from multiple sources occur on the same but not on the
same time.

PCM
Most prevalent encoding technique used for TDM digital signals.

DS-O Channel
Use an 8-kHz sample rate and an eight-bit PCM code, which produces a
64 kbps PCM line speed.

Multiplexer Simply an electronically controlled digital switch with two inputs and one
output.

TDM Frame
One eight-bit PCM code from each channel (16 total bits).

Frame Time Time it takes to transmit one TDM frame.
Digital Carrier
System
A communications system that uses digital pulses rather than analog signals to
encode information.

T1 or Transmission
One
Specifies a digital carrier system using PCM encoded analog signals.

T1 Lines Special conditioned cables.

Framing Bit
Used to maintain frame and sample synchronization between TDM transmitter
& receiver.


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Digital Channel
Banks
PCM encoders & decoders with a seven-bit magnitude.

Signaling Supervision between telephone offices, such as on hook, off hook, dial pulsing,
and so forth.
Signaling Frame Only seven-bit resolution.

Extended Super
Frame Format
Consist of 24 193 bit frames, totaling 4632 bits, of which 24 are framing bits.

CRC-6 ( Cyclic
Redundancy
Checking )

It is used for an error detection code.

Signaling Channels These signaling bits streams are sometimes called A, B, C and D.

Fractional T Carrier It emerged because standard T1 carriers provide a higher capacity than most
user require.

384 kbps The minimum data rate necessary to propagate video information?

Data Service Unit
/
Channel Service
Unit

Digital interface that provides the physical connection to a digital carrier
network.

Multiplexers /
Demultiplexers
Upgrade from one level in the hierarchy to the next higher level.

Digital Cross
Connect
Provides a convenient place to make patchable inter connects and perform
routine maintenance & trouble shooting.

Signal Processor
Provides frequency shifting for the master group signals and dc restoration for
the television signal.

Picturephone
It is a low quality video transmission for use between non-dedicated
subscribers.

Three-Bit Code
Identify when transitions occur in the data and whether that transition is from a
1 to a 0 or vice versa.

Three-Bit Code
1
st
bit = Address bit
2
nd
bit = the transition occurred during 1
st
half (0) or during the 2
nd
half (1)
3
rd
bit = indicates the sign or direction of the transition.

Digital Line
Encoding
Converting standard logic levels to a form more suitable to telephone line
transmission.

Six Primary Factors must be considered when selecting a line encoding format

Transmission voltages and DC component
Duty Cycle
Bandwidth considerations
Clock and Framing bit recovery
Error Detection

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Ease of detection and decoding

Transmission
voltages
It can be categories as being unipolar or bipolar.

Unipolar Involves the transmission of only a single nonzero voltage level .

Bipolar
Two nonzero voltages are involved (a positive voltage for a logic 1 and an
equal-magnitude negative voltage for a logic 0 or vice versa).
Duty Cycle It is a binary pulse can be used to categorize the type of transmission.

Nonreturn to Zero If the binary pulse is maintained the entire bit time, this is called?

Return to Zero If the active time of the binary pulse is less than 100% of the bit time, this is
called?

DC Wandering Produces a condition in which a receive may lose its amplitude reference for
optimum discrimination between received 1s & 0s.

Digital Biphase Popular type of line encoding that produces a strong timing component for
clock recovery and does not cause dc wandering.

Manchester Code or
Diphase
Digital Biphase is sometimes called?

Biphase
Uses one cycle of a square wave at 0 phase to represent logic 1 and one
cycle of a square wave at 180 phase to represent logic 0.

Biphase M Used for encoding SMPTE(Society of Motion Picture and Tele vision
Engineers) time-code data for recording on videotapes.

Biphase L Commonly called the Manchester Code and specified in IEEE standard 802.3
for Ethernet local area networks.

Miller Codes
Forms of delay-modulated codes where a logic 1 condition produces a
transition in the middle of the clock pulse, and a logic 0 produces no transition
at the end of the clock intervals unless followed by another logic 0.

T Carriers
Used for the transmission of PCM-encoded time-division multiplexed digital
signals.

Amplifier /
Equalizer
Filters and shapes the incoming digital signal and raise its power level so that
the regenerator circuit can make a pulse-no pulse decision.

Timing Clock
Recovery circuit reproduces the cocking information from the received
data and provides the proper timing information to the regenerator so
that samples can be made at the optimum time, minimizing the chance
of an error occurring.

Regenerative
Repeater

A threshold detector that compares the sampled voltage received to a
reference level and determines whether the bit is a logic 1 or a logic 0.

T1 Carrier Systems
This system is designed to combine PCM and TDM techniques for short -haul
transmission of 24 64-kbps channels with each capable of carrying digitally
encoded voice-band telephone signals or data.


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T1 Carrier It has a transmission bit rate of 1.544Mbps, including an 8-kbps framing bit.
And has a length of range from about 1 mile to over 5o miles.

Ones Density It ensured that sufficient transition occur in the data stream is sometimes
called?

A1
It is substituted into the second least significant bit, which introduces an
encoding error equal to twice the amplitude resolution.

Binary Eight Zero
Substitution (B8ZS)
It ensures that sufficient transitions occur in the data to maintain clock
synchronization.

T2 carrier system
The carrier time division multiplex 96 64 kbps voice or data channel into a
single 6.312 Mbps data signal for transmission over twisted- pair copper wire
up to 500 miles over a special LOCAP ( Low Capacitance ) metallic cable.

Binary Six Zero
Substitution (B6ZS)
T2 carrier system uses an alternative method of ensuring that amplitude
transition occurs in the data.

T3 carrier system
The carrier time division multiplex 96 64 kbps voice or data channel for
transmission over a single 3A-RDS coaxial cable and it has a bit rate of 44.736
Mbps.

Binary Three Zero
Substitution (B3ZS)
The coding technique use in T3 carrier system is called?

E-Lines
Different version of T carriers used in Europe.

Time Slot 0 Used for frame alignment pattern and for an alarm channel.

Digital carrier frame synchronization

Added-Digit Framing
Robbed-digit framing
Added-channel framing
Statistical framing
Unique-line code framing

Bit Interleaving &
Word Interleaving
The two methods of Interleaving PCM transmissions are?

Statistical Time-
Division
Multiplexing
Used more often for the transmission of data when they are called
asynchronous TDM, intelligent TDM, or simply stat muxs.

CODEC
Large-scale integration (LSI) chip designed for use in the
telecommunications industry for private branch exchanges.

Three functions of codec
Analog Sampling
Encoding / Decoding
Digital Companding


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Combo Chips
It can provide the anolog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversions and the
transmit and receive filtering necessary to interface a full-duplex voice
telephone circuit to the PCM highway of a TDM carrier system.

General Operations of Combo Chips

Bandpass filtering of the analog signals prior to encoding and after decoding
Encoding and decoding of voice and call progress signal
Encoding and decoding of signaling and supervision information
Digital companding

Time Slot Strobe
Buffer
Used to gate the PCM word onto the PCM highway when an external
buffer is used to drive the line.

Burst Mode Data are input and output for a single channel in a short burst.

Variable-Data-Rate
Mode
Allows for a flexible data input and output clock frequency.

Shift Register Mode
Data from the PCM highway are clock into the codec on the next eight
consecutive negative transitions of DCLKR.

Supervisory
Signaling
It can be used only in the fixed-data-rate mode.

Frequency Division
Multiplexing
Multiple sources that originally occupied the same frequency spectrum are
each converted to a different frequency.

Stacking The process which accomplished without synchronization between stations.

Short Haul;
Long Haul
AT&Ts communications network is subdivided into 2:

Message Channel Basic building block of the FDM Hierarchy.

Group
It is the next higher level in the FDM hierarchy above the basic message
channel and consequently, is the first multiplexing step for combining
messages channels.

Basic Supergroup
It is formed by frequency-di vision multiplexing five groups containing 12
channels each for a combined bandwidth of 240 kHz (5 groups x 48 kHz /
group or 5 groups x 12 channel groups x 4kHz/ channel).

Basic Mastergroup
It is formed by frequency-division multiplexing 10 supergroups together for a
combined capacity of 600 voice-band message channel occupying a
bandwidth of 2.4 MHz (600 channels x 4kHz/channel or 5 groups x 12
channels/groups x 10 groups/supergroups).

Larger Groupings
Basic Mastergroup can be further multiplexed in mastergroup banks to form
jumbogroup (3600 VB channels), multijumbogroup (7200 VB channels) and
superjumbo group (10800 VB channels).

Baseband It described the modulating signal in the communication system.

Composite Band It is the final output of the FDM multiplexer.


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Guard Band
These are necessary because the demultiplexing process is accomplished
through filtering and down converting.

Quality Factor The guard band reduces the _________ which is required to perform the
necessary filtering.

Radio Channel It comprises either a single L600 mastergroup or up to three U600
mastergroup (1800 voice-band channels)
.
Wavelength
Division
Multiplexing
Is a network mechanism for telecommunications routing, switching and
selection based on the wavelength begins a new era in optical
communications.

Demultiplexers /
Splitters
Separate signals with different wavelengths in a manner similar to the way
filter separate electrical signals of different frequencies.

Add / Drop
Multiplexers /
Demultiplexers
Similar to regular multiplexers and demultiplexers except they are
located at intermediate points in the system.

WDM Routers
Direct signals of a particular wavelength to a specific destination while not
separating all the wavelengths present on the cable.

WDM Couplers
Enable more efficient utilization of the transmission capabilities of optical fibers
by permitting different wavelengths to be combined and separated.

Three basic types of WDM couplers

Diffraction Grating
Prism
Dichroic Filter

Diffraction Gating
or Prism
The specific wavelength is separated from the other optical signal by reflecting
them at different angles.

Dichroic Filter
It is a mirror with a surface that has been coated with a material that permits
the lights of only one wavelength to pass through while reflecting all other
wavelengths.

Synchronous
Optical Network
Multiplexing system similar to conventional time division multiplexing.

STS-1
(Synchronous
Transport level 1)

Has a 51.84-Mbps synchronous frame structure.

OC-48
Second level of SONET multiplexing.


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CHAPTER 12:
METALLIC CABLE MEDIA TRANSMISSION

TERMS DEFINITIONS
Guided
Transmission Media

Provides a conduit in which electromagnetic signals are
contained.

Unguided
Transmission Media
Emitted then radiated through air or a vacuum.
Cable Transmission
Medium

Used to propagate electromagnetic signals between
two locations in a communications system.

Cable Transmission
Systems

Most common means of interconnecting devices in local
area networks.

Transmission line

Metallic conductor system used to transfer electrical
energy from one point to another using electrical current
flow.

longitudinal and
transverse
Two basic kinds of waves.
Frequency

The rate at which the periodic wave repeats.

Metallic circuit
currents

Currents that flow in opposite directions in a balanced
wire pair.

Longitudinal
currents
Currents that flow in the same direction.
Common mode
rejection

Cancellation of common mode signals.

Single-ended or
unbalanced

One wire is at the ground potential, whereas the other is
at signal potential.

balun

A circuit device used to connect a balanced

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transmission line to an unbalanced load.

Parallel-conductor
transmission lines
and coaxial
transmission lines.

Most common metallic cables used to interconnect data
communications systems and computer networks.

Twisted-pair

Formed by twisting two insulated conductors around
each other.

Unshielded twisted
pair and Shielded
twisted pair
Types of twisted pair.
Near-end crosstalk

Coupling that takes place when a transmitted signal is
coupled into the received signal at the same end of the
cable.

Pair 1: blue/white
stripe and blue
Pair 2:
orange/white
stripe and orange
Pair 3: green/white
strip[e and green
Pair 4: brown/white
stripe and brown
Standard color code specified by the EI A for CAT-5
cable.
Braid

Woven into a mesh.

Plenum

Name given to the area between the ceiling and the
root in a single-story building or between the ceiling and
the floor of the next higher level in a multi-story building.

Coaxial

Used for high dat a transmission rates to reduce losses
and isolate transmission path.

Shielding

Refers to the woven stranded mesh that surrounds some
types of coaxial cables.

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Dual shielded

One layer of foil insulation and one layer of braided
shielding.

Rigid air-filled; solid
flexible
Types of coaxial cables.
Distributed
parameters

Uniformly distributed throughout the length of the line.

Secondary
constants

Transmission characteristics of a transmission line.

Surge impedance

I mpedance seen looking into an infinitely long line.

Propagation
constants

Expressed the attenuation and the phase shift per unit
length of a transmission line.

Velocity factor.

Ratio of the actual velocity of propagation of an
electromagnetic wave through a given medium to the
velocity of propagation through a vacuum.

Dielectric constant

Relative permittivity of a material.

Conductor loss,
radiation loss,
dielectric heating
loss, coupling loss
and corona
Several ways in which signal power is lost.
Incident voltage

Voltage t hat propagates from the source toward the
load.

Reflected voltage

Voltage that propagates that propagates from the load
toward the source.

Flat or non

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resonant line Transmission line with no reflected power.

Reflection
coefficient

Vector quantity that represents the ratio of reflected
voltage to incident voltage or reflected current to
incident current.

Matched line

I ncident power is absorbed by the load.

Unmatched or
mismatched line

I ncident power returned (reflected) to the source.
Standing wave

Two travelling waves set up an interference pattern.

Standing-wave
ratio

Ratio of the maximum voltage to the minimum voltage or
the maximum current to the minimum current of a
standing wave on a transmission line.

Quarter-
wavelength
transformers

Used to matched transmission lines to purely resistive
loads whose resistance is not equal to the characteristic
impedance of the line.

Time domain
reflectometry (TDR)

A technique that can be used to locate an impairment
in a metallic cable

Echo

Return signal.

Microstrip

Simply a flat conductor separated from a ground plane
by an insulating di-electric material.

Stripline

Simply a flat conductor sandwiched between two
ground planes.


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CHAPTER 13:
OPTICAL FIBER TRANSMISSION MEDIA

TERMS DEFINITION
Fiber Optics A branch of optics that deals with communication by transmission of light
through ultrapure fibers of glass or plastic.

Fiber Optic System Is a communications system that carries information through a guided fiber
cable.

Optical Fiber Dielectric waveguide used for the propagation of electromagnetic energy at
optical frequencies.

Optical Fiber communication Link

input
analog or
digital
interface
voltage-to-
current
converter
light source
source-to-
fiber
interface
feber to ligh
detector
light
detector
current to
voltage
converter
analog or
digital
interface
repeater repeater
output
MODULATOR
DEMODULATOR
Glass or Plastic Optical Fiber

Analog / Digital
Interface
It matches impedance and limits input signal amplitude.
Voltage to Current
Converter
It serves as an electrical interface between input circuitry and light source.
Light Source IT either an LED (light Emitting Diode) or ILD (Injected Laser Diode); amount of
light emitted is proportional to the amount of drive current.

Source to Fiber
Interface
A mechanical interface; couples light into the optic fiber cable.
Fiber-to-Light
Detector
A mechanical coupler; couples as much light as possible from the fiber cable
into the light detector.

Light Detector Its either a PIN diode or an APD (Avalanche Photodiode); both convert light
energy to current.

Current to Voltage
Converter
It transforms changes in detector current to changes in output signal voltage.
Analog or digital
Interface
It is an electrical interface; matches impedance and signal levels to the output
circuitry.

Information-
Carrying Capacity
Electronic communications system is directly proportional to bandwidth.
Bandwidth It is common to express the bandwidth of an analog communications system

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Utilization Ratio as a percentage of its carrier frequency.

Photophone
Device constructed from mirrors and selenium detectors that transmitted sound
waves over a beam of light.

Alexander Graham
Bell
He experimented with an apparatus called photophone.

Flexible fiberscope Used extensively in medical field.

Laser (light
amplification by
stimulated emission
of radiation)
Invented in 1960, which relatively high output power, high frequency of
operation, and capability of carrying an extremely wide bandwidth signal make
it ideally suited for high-capacity communications system.

Karpon, Keck and
Maurer
In 1970, they developed an optical fiber with losses less than 2dB/km.

Three Regions of Optical Fiber

1. Core a transmission area of the fiber; typical diameters: 50 to 500 m.

2. Cladding surrounds the core, has a different index of refraction; defines the optical boundary
of the core and makes sure that the total internal reflection occurs at the core outer skin.

3. Coating specially formulated plastic coating that provides a first level shock and abrasion
resistance for the fiber; typical thickness is 250m to 1000m.

Types of Optical Fiber
1. Plastic Core and Cladding
Flexibility and ruggedness
Easy to install
Less Weight
More economical
Can withstand stress
High attenuation
Inefficient
Limited for short distance applications
2. Glass core with plastic cladding (PCS; Plastic Clad Silica)
Less affected by radiation
Attractive to military applications
3. Glass core and glass cladding (SCS fiber; Silica-Clad Silica
Susceptible to increase in attenuation when exposed to radiation
Least rugged
Easier to terminate

Advantages of Optical Fiber cables.

1. wider bandwidth and greater information capacity
2.immunity to crosstalk
3. immunity to statistic interference
4. environmental immunity
5. safety and convenience
6. lower transmission loss
7. security

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8. durability and reliability
9. economics

Disadvantages of Optical Fiber cables.
1. interfacing cost
2. strength
3. remote electrical power
4. optical fiber cables are more susceptible to losses introduced by bending the cable
5. specialized tools, equipment, and training

Stress corrosion Reduces the possibility of the occurrence of a detrimental phenomenon.

Buffer jacket
Protective coating and which provides the additional protection against
abrasion and shocks.

Strength member Increases the tensile strength of the overall cable assembly.

Planks Law
It described the photoelectric effect, which state, When visible lights or high
frequency electromagnetic radiation illuminates a metallic surface, electrons
are emitted.

mode (path) of
propagation
A stable propagation state in an optical fiber. The number of modes a fiber can
transmit depend on its numerical aperture as well as the wavelength.

Index Profile A graphical representation of the refractive index of the core.

Classifications of Optical Fibers
1. Single Mode (Monomode)
Only one path for light to take down the cable.
Core diameter of a single mode fiber is extremely small (2 to 4um diameter).
Extremely wide bandwidths and low losses. This gives the highest and longest
distances but it requires powerful and precisely aligned light sources.

2. Multimode Fibers
The light wave rays take many paths between the source and the far end of the fiber.
The fiber core diameter must be large enough to permit propagation in several modes.
Since some paths are longer than the others, the original sharp pulse at the source is spread
out in time at the receiver. This pulse spreading reduces the bandwidth and the maximum data
rate of the system.

Two Types:

a. Step Index
The core has a uniform index of refraction providing an abrupt change in refraction
index at the core-cladding interface.
These types of fibers have relatively high dispersion making it useful only at lower
rates and shorter distance.
cladding
core

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cladding
core

b. Graded Index
The core has index of refraction that changes continuously from the center to the
outside.
This core is made out of many thin layers, each with lower index of refraction than the
adjacent inner one. The effect of this grading is that light waves are propagated by
refraction so they are bent in a sinusoid like curve about the fiber.
core
cladding

Spontaneous decay
or spontaneous
emission

Process of decaying from one energy level to another energy level.

Absorption The process of moving from one energy to another energy level is called?

Photometry Science of measuring only light waves that are visible to human eye.

Light Intensity
It is a complex concept that can be expressed in either photometric or
radiometric terms.

Optical power Measures the rate at which electromagnetic waves transfer light energy.

Radian Flux
It is the equivalent to joule per second and is the power that is measured
electrically or thermally in watts.

Prismatic
Refraction
This phenomenon that cause rainbows, where water droplets in the
atmosphere act as a small prism that split the white sunlight into the various
wavelength, creating a visible spectrum of color.

Refractive index
Simply the ratio of velocity of propagation of a light ray in free space to the
velocity of propagation of a light ray in a given material.

The refractive index ()

v
c
= q

MEDIUM
Vacuum 1.0
Air 1.00029
Water 1.33
Ethyl Alcohol 1.36
Fused Quartz 1.46

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Glass Fiber 1.5 1.9
Diamond 2.0 2.42
Silicon 3.4

Snell's law
It explains how a light may react when it meets the interface of two
transmissive materials that have different indices of refraction using the law
which states that:

2 2 1 1
sin sin u q = u q

where: 1 = ref raction index of material 1
2 = ref raction index of material 2
u1 = angle of incidence
u2 = angle of ref raction

When a light travels from a less dense material into a more dense
material, the wave is refracted towards the normal.
When a light ray enters a less dense material, the ray bends away
from the normal.

Normal It is simply a line drawn perpendicular to the interface at the point where the
incident ray strikes the interface.

1
u
2
u
2
u
2
q
1
q
2 1
q < q
2 1
q = q
2 1
q > q
medium
medium
refracted ray;
toward normal
unrefracted ray
refracted ray;
away from normal
normal line

Angle of incidence Angle at which the propagating ray strikes the interface with respect to the
normal.

Angle of refraction Angle formed between the propagating ray and the normal after the ray has
entered the second medium.

Critical Angle
It is defined as the minimum angle of incidence at which a light ray may strike
the interface of the two media and result in a angle of refraction of 90 degrees
or greater.
1
2 1
c
sin
q
q
= u

where:
2
<
1


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Acceptance Angle
or Acceptance
Cone Half Angle
(u
in
)
Maximum angle in which external light rays may strike the air/fiber interface
and still propagate down fiber.
2
2
2
1
1
in
sin q q = u

Numerical aperture
A figure of merit used to measure the light gathering or light collecting ability of
the optical fiber.
in
sin NA u =

2
2
2
1
NA q q =

V Parameter (V)
It is a key parameter that describes the mode structure of a fiber.
A q
t
= 2
a 2
V
1
; multimode
g
2
1 405 . 2 V + = ; single-mode
where:
2
1
2
2
2
1
2q
q q
= A
; f ractional change in the index of ref raction of multimode-mode step index
1
2 1
q
q q
= A ; f ractional change in the index of ref raction of multimode-mode graded index
a = radius of the core of the f iber
= wavelength
1= index of ref raction of core
2 = index of ref raction of cladding
g = gradient of graded f iber
= 2; parabolic prof ile
= 1; triangular prof ile
= ; step index prof ile

Number of Modes
(N)
2
V
N
2
= ; V >> 2.405 (for multimode step index)
|
|
.
|
\
|
|
|
.
|
\
|
+
=
2
V
2 g
g
N
2
; for multimode graded index

Scattering Losses
This is due to imperfections in the fiber that are formed during manufacturing
process. Cooling process of glass irregularities, imperfections such as tiny
bubbles, and imperfections in the internal uniformity causing light rays to be
diffracted (dispersed) or to escape.

Linear scattering The power transferred from a wave is proportional to the power of the wave.

Rayleigh Scattering The light interacting with inhomogeneities in the medium that are much smaller
than the wavelength of the light.

Mie Scattering Inhomogeneities that is comparable in size to a wavelength.

Nonlinear
Scattering
Significant power to be scattered in the forward, backward, or sideways
directions, depending on the nature of the interaction.

Brillouin Scattering
Modulation of the light by the thermal energy in the material. The incident
photon of light undergoes the nonlinear interaction to produce vibrational
energy (phonons) in the glass as well as scattered light (as photons).

Raman Scattering The nonlinear interaction produces a high-frequency phonon and a scattered
photon.

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Types Of Absorption Loss

Ultraviolet Absorption light ionizes the valence electrons into conduction; ionization is
equivalent to a loss in the light field.

Infrared Absorption photons of light absorbed by atoms of the glass core are converted to
mechanical vibrations typical of heating.

Ion Resonance absorption caused by OH
-
ions from water molecules trapped in the glass
during manufacturing process.

Dispersion
Spreading of pulse out in the time domain, changing its shape so that it may
merge into the previous and succeeding pulses. The pulses maybe separated
by spacing them out at the transmitter but this means reducing the maximum
bit rate.

Types of Dispersion

Material or Chromatic or Wavelength Dispersion light sources emit light that contains a
combination of wavelengths. Therefore, different wavelengths do not arrive at the same.

Waveguide Dispersion attributed to the dependence of the phase and group velocities on
the geometric characteristic of the waveguide.

Modal Dispersion it is caused by the different path lengths associated with each of the
modes of a fiber. Caused by the difference in the propagation times of light rays that take
different path down a fiber; occur only in multimode fibers. A portion of the light energy
traveling in the cladding.

Coupling Losses

1. Lateral Misalignment

2. Gap Misalignment or Longitudinal Displacement

3. Angular Misalignment

4. Imperfect Surface Finish

Light Sources A light source is any material or device which gives off energy with a
wavelength from about 300 microns down to 0.5 microns.

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Their light must be as nearly monochromatic (single frequency) as possible.

Capable of being easily modulated; PCM for better noise immunity

High intensity light output so that sufficient energy is transmitted to overcome the losses
encountered during transmission down the fiber.

Devices should be small, compact, and easily couple to the fibers so that excessive coupling
losses do not occur.

Must be inexpensive to manufacture

Light Emitting
Diodes (LED)
Non-coherent injection light sources which are low-cost, low heat light
sources and are the most promising light sources for optical
transmission.
LEDS have the necessary reliability, life expectancy, and simplicity for
optical transmission purposes.
It emits light over a rather large angle thus coupling less power into the
fiber.
LEDS are able to couple about 100uW of power with a coupling
efficiency of 2%.

Injection Laser
Diodes (ILD)
ILDs make the most efficient use of electric energy. This coherent light source
can couple a few milliwatts of light power into a fiber since it has a more direct
radiation pattern.

Advantages of ILDs over LED
Reduced coupling losses
Greater radiant output power
Can be used at higher bit rates
Reduced wavelength dispersion; monochromatic

Disadvantages of ILDs
Expensive
Shorter lifetime
Temperature dependence
Requires automatic level control circuit to protect the device from power Supply transients:

Homojunction
LEDs
A p-n junction made from two different mixtures of the same types of atoms is
called?

Epitaxially grown Generally constructed of silicon-doped gallium-arsenide.

Planar diffused Homojunction LEDs output approximately 500 at a wavelength of 900 nm.

Heterojunction
LEDs
This are made from p-type semiconductor material of one set of atom and an
n-type semiconductor material from another set.

Edge Emitters The light emitted from the edge of the material is called?

Planar
Heterojunction LED
It is quite similar to the epitaxially grown LED except that the geometry is
designed such that the forward current is concentrated to a very small area of
the layer.


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Advantages of heterojunction devices over homojunction devices

Increase in current density generates a more brilliant light spot.

Smaller emitting area makes it easier to couple its emitted light into a fiber.

Small effective area has a smaller capacitance, which allows the planar heterojunction LED to
be used at a higher speed.

PIN diode Depletion-layer photo diode and is probably the most common device used as
a light detector in fiber optic communications system.

Light Detectors

PIN (Positive Intrinsic Negative) diodes - When photons are absorbed by intrinsic layers
electrons in the valence band, they add sufficient energy to generate carriers in the depletion
region and allow current to flow thru the device.

APD (Avalanche Photo Diode) - Light enters diode and is absorbed by the thin, heavily
doped n-layer causing a high electric field intensity to be across i -p-n junction thus ionization
occur and continues like avalanche.

Advantages of APD over PIN
APD's give better sensitivity over PIN
APD's provides larger amplification

Disadvantages of APD
High bias requirement
Temperature dependence
Long transit time

Characteristic of a light detector.
Responsivity
Dark currents
Transit time
Spectral response
light sensitivity

Laser Technology deals with the connection of light into a very small, powerful beam.

Types of Laser
Gas Laser use a mixture of helium and neon enclosed in a glass tube.

Liquid Laser use organic dyes enclosed in a glass tube for an active medium.

Solid Laser use a solid cylindrical crystal, such as ruby, for the an active medium.

Semiconductor Laser are made from semiconductor p-n junction and are commonly called
ILDs.

Optical Fiber System Link Budget

Cable Losses it depends on the cable length, material and material impurity.

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Connector Losses if mechanical connection is not perfect, light energy can escape,
resulting in a reduction of optical power.
Source to Cable Interface Loss the mechanical interface used to house the light source
and attach it to the cable is seldom perfect.
Cable to Light Detector Interface Loss - the mechanical interface used to house the light
source and attach it to the cable is also not perfect and therefore, prevent a small percentage
of power leaving the cable from the entering the light detector.
Splicing Loss if more than one continuous section of cable is required, cable section can be
fused together.
Cable Bend when an optical cable is bend at too large an angle, the characteristics of the
cable can change dramatically.

CHAPTER 14:
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION

Free-space
Propagation of electromagnetic waves often called radio-frequency
(RF) propagation or simply radio propagation.

Electromagnetic wave
Electrical energy that has escaped into free space.

Polarization
The orientation of the electric field vector in respect to the surface of
the Earth.

Linear Polarization
Polarization remains constant

Horizontal
Polarization and
Vertical Polarization

Forms of Linear polarization

Circular Polarization
Polarization vector rotates 360 as the wave moves one wave-length
through the space and the field strength is equal at all angles of
polarization.

Elliptical Polarization
Field strength varies with changes in polarization.

Rays
Used to show the relative direction of electromagnetic wave
propagation.

Wavefront
Formed when two points of equal phase on rays propagated from the
same source are joined together.

Point source
A single location from which rays propagate equally in all directions.

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current is flowing through.

Strength of a
magnetic field (H)
H

Electric fields
Invisible force fields produced by a difference in voltage potential between
two conductors.

Electric filed strength
(E)
2

Permittivity
Dielectric constant of the material separating the two conductors.

Permittivity of air or
free space

8.85 x 10
-12
F/m
Power density
The rate at which energy passes through a given surface area in free
space.

Field intensity
Intensity of the electric and magnetic fields of an electromagnetic
wave propagating in free space.

Power density

P = H W/m
2

Characteristic
Impedance
It is equal to the square root of the ratio of its magnetic permeability
to its electric permittivity.
Zs = (
o 0
)
1/2

Isotropic radiator
Point source that radiates power at a constant rate uniformly in all
directions.

Inverse Square Law
Power density is inversely proportional to the square of the distance
from the source.

Isotropic medium
Propagation medium.

Attenuation
Waves propagate through free space; they spread out, resulting in a
reduction in power density.

Absorption Loss
Reduction of Power.

Wave attenuation
Reduction in power density with distance is equivalent to a power
loss.

Space attenuation
Spherical spreading of the wave.

Homogeneous
medium
One with uniform properties throughout.

Inhomogeneous
medium
Absorption coefficient varies considerably with location, thus creating
a difficult problem for radio systems engineers.

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Refraction,
Reflection,
Diffraction and
Interference
Optical properties of Radio Waves.
Refraction
Bending of the radio wave path.

Refractive index; n =
(k)
Square root of the dielectric constant and is expressed in:

Equivalent dielectric
constant
Relative to free space (vacuum).
K = (1- 81N/f
2
)
1/2

Plane
Boundary between two media with different densities.

Normal
Imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the interface at the point of
incidence.

Angle of Incidence
Angle formed between the incident wave and the normal.

Angle of Refraction
Angle formed between the refracted wave and the normal.

Refractive Index
Ratio of velocity of propagation of a light ray in free space to the
velocity of propagation of a light ray in a given material.

Density gradient
Perpendicular to the direction of propagation (parallel to the
waveform)

Reflect
To cast or turn back.

Reflection Coefficient
Ratio of the reflected to the incident voltage intensities.

Power transmission
coefficient
Portion of the total incident power that is not reflected.

Absorption coefficient
Fraction of power that penetrates medium 2.

Diffuse reflection
Incident wave front strikes an irregular surface, it is randomly
scattered in many directions.

Specular (mirrorlike)
reflection
Reflection from a perfectly smooth surface.

Semirough surfaces
Surfaces that falls between smooth and irregular.

Rayleigh criterion
Cos
i
> /8d
Semirough surface will reflect as if it were a smooth surface whenever
the cosine of the angle of incidence is greater than /8d, where d is the
depth of the surface irregularity and is the wavelength of the
incident wave.

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Diffraction
Modulation or redistribution of energy within a wavefront when it
passes near the edge of an opaque object.

Shadow zone
Diffraction occurs around the edge of the obstacle, which allows
secondary waves to sneak around the corner of the obstacle.
Linear Superposition
States that the total voltage intensity at a given point in space is the
sum of the individual wave vectors.

Terrestial waves
Electromagnetic waves travelling within Earths atmosphere.

Terrestial radio
communications
Communications between two or more points on Earth.

Sky waves
Used for high-frequency applications.

Surface wave
Earth guided electromagnetic wave that travels over the surface of
earth.

Relative
Conductivity of
Earth Surfaces

Surface
Seawater
Flat, loamy soil
Large bodies of freshwater
Rocky terrain
Desert
Jungle

Relative Conductivity
Good
Fair
Fair
Poor
Poor
Unusable
Disadvantages of
surface waves.
1. Ground waves require a relatively transmission power.
2. Ground waves are limited to very low, low, and medium
frequencies.
3. Requiring large antennas.
4. Ground losses vary considerably with surface material and
composition.

Advantages of ground
wave propagation.
1. Given enough transmit power, ground waves can be used to
communicate between any two locations in the world.
2. Ground waves are relatively unaffected by changing atmospheric

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conditions.

Direct waves
Travel essentially in a straight line between the transmit and receive
antennas.

Line-of-Sight (LOS)
transmission
Space wave propagation with direct waves.

Radio Horizon
The curvature of Earth presents a horizon to space wave propagation.

Duct propagation
Occurs when the density of the lower atmosphere is such that
electromagnetic waves are trapped between it and Earths surface.

D Layer
Lowest layer of the ionosphere and is located approximately between
30 miles and 60 miles (50 km to 100 km) above Earths surface.

E Layer
Located approximately between 60 miles and 85 miles (100 km to 140
km) above Earths surface.

Sporadic E layer
The upper portion of the E layer.

F Layer
Made up of two layers, F 1 and F 2 layers.

Critical frequency
Highest frequency that can be propagated directly upward and still be
returned to Earth by the ionosphere.

Critical Angle
Maximum vertical angle at which it can be propagated and still be
refracted back by the ionosphere.

Ionospheric Sounding
A measurement technique used to determine the critical frequency.

Virtual Height
Height above the Earths surface from which a refracted wave appears
to have been reflected.

Maximum Usable
Frequency (MUF)
Highest frequency that can be used for sky wave propagation between
two specific points on Earths surface.

Secant law
MUF = critical frequency/cosi

Optimum Working
Frequency (OWF)
Operating at a frequency of 85% of the MUF provides more reliable
communications.

Skip distance
Minimum distance from a transmit antenna that a sky wave at a given
frequency will be returned to Earth.

Quiet, or skip, zone
The area between where the surface waves are completely dissipated
and the point where the first sky wave returns to Earth.

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Ceiling
Formed by the ionosphere is raised, allowing sky waves to travel
higher before being returned to Earth.

Free-space path loss
Define as the loss incurred by an electromagnetic waves as it
propagates in a straight line through a vacuum with no absorption or
reflection of energy from nearby objects.

Spreading loss
Occurs simply because of the inverse square law.

Fading
Variation in signal loss.

CHAPTER 15:
ANTENNAS AND WAVEGUIDES

TERMS DEFINITION
Antenna
A metallic conductor system capable of radiating and capturing
electromagnetic energy.

Transmission Lines
Couples energy from a transmitter to an antenna or from antenna to a
receiver.

Waveguide

A special type of transmission line that consists of a conducting metallic tube
through which high-frequency electromagnetic energy is propagated.

Radio Waves
Electrical energy that has escaped into free space in the form of transverse
electromagnetic waves

Wavefront
The plane parallel to the mutually perpendicular lines of the electric and
magnetic fields.

Radiation Efficiency
The ratio of radiated to reflected energy.

Quarter Wave
Antenna
Antenna wherein two conductors are spread out in a straight line to a total
length of one quarter wavelength.

Vertical Monopole or
Marconi
Another name for quarter wave antenna.

Hertz Antenna
A half-wave dipole.

Diplexer

A special coupling device that can be used to direct the transmit and receive signals
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Radiation Pattern

A polar diagram or graph representing field strengths or power densities at
various angular positions relative to an antenna.

Absolute Radiation
Pattern
Radiation pattern plotted in terms of electric field strength or power density.
Relative Radiation
Radiation pattern plots field strength or power density with respect to the
value at a reference

Major Lobes
The primary beam of an antenna.

Front Lobe
The major lobes that propagates and receive the most energy.

Side lobes
Lobes adjacent to the front lobe.

Minor Lobes
The secondary beam of an antenna.

Back Lobe
Lobes in a direction exactly opposite the front lobe

Front to Back Ratio
The ratio of the front lobe power to the back lobe power.

Front to Side Ratio
The ratio of the front lobe to a side lobe.

Line of Shoot or Point
of Shoot
The line bisecting the major lobe, or pointing from the center of the antenna
in the direction of maximum radiation.

Omni-directional
Antenna
Antenna that radiates energy equally in all directions.

Isotropic Radiator
Radiates power at a constant rate uniformly in all directions.

Maximum Radiation
The direction in which an antenna is always pointing.

EIRP
It is defined as an equivalent transmits power. It stands for Effective Isotropic
Radiated Power.

Effective
RadiatedPower (ERP)
or (EIRP)
The equivalent power that an isotropic antenna would have to radiate to
achieve the same power density in the chosen direction at a given point as
another antenna.

Captured Power
Density
The power density in space and the actual power that a receive antenna
produces at its output terminals.

Capture Area
It describe the reception properties of an antenna.

Effective Area
Another name for capture area.

Directly Proportional
The relationship of captured power to the received power density and the
effective capture area of the received antenna.

Polarization
It refers to the orientation of the electric field radiated from the antenna.

Antenna Bandwidth
The angular separation between the two half-power(-3dB) points on the
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Antenna Bandwidth
The frequency range over which antenna operation is satisfactory.

Feedpoint
Another name for antenna input terminal

Antenna Input
Impedance
The feedpoint presents an ac load to the transmission line.

Elementary Doublet
The simplest type of antenna.
Another names for elementary doublet
- Short Dipole,
- Elementary Dipole
- Hertzian Dipole

Electrically Short
Any dipole that is less than one-tenth wavelength.

Heinrich Hertz
Hertz antenna is name after him and he was the first to demonstrate the
existence of electromagnetic waves.

Marconi Antenna
A single pole antenna one quarter wavelength long, mounted vertically with
the lower end either connected directly to ground or grounded through the
antenna coupling network.

Must be close to the
Ground
Main disadvantage of Marconi Antenna.

Loading
A technique use to increase the electrical lengt h of an antenna.

Loading Coil
A coil added in series with a dipole antenna which effectively increases
antenna's electrical length.

5 Ohms
A loading coil approximately increases the radiation resistance of the
antenna.

Antenna Element
An individual radiator, such as a half or quarter wave dipole Two
types of antenna elements
- Driven
- Parasitic
Two Elements of a single antenna
- Two Wire
- Folded Dipole

Array
Its purpose is to increase the directivity and concentrate the radiated power
within a smaller geographic area.

Driven
Elements that are directly connected to the transmission line and receive
power from the source.

Parasitic
Elements are not connected to the transmission line; they receive energy
only through mutual induction with a driven element.

Director
A parasitic element that is shorter that its associated driven element.

Driven
Radiation pattern depends on the relative phase of feeds.

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Yagi Uda
A widely used antenna commonly uses a folded dipole as the driven element
and named after two Japanese scientists.

7 dB and 9 dB
Typical directivity of a yagi-uda antenna.

Turnstile Antenna
Formed by placing two dipoles at right angles to each other.

Log Periodic
A class of frequency-independent antennas.

Helical Antenna

A broadband VHF or UHF antenna that is ideally suited for applications for
which radiating circular rather than horizontal or vertical polarized
electromagnetic waves are required.
Modes of propagation:
- Normal
- Axial
-
Microwave Antenna
Antennas having half power beamwidths on the order of 1
o
or less.
Three important characteristics:
- Front-to Back Ratio,
- Side-toSide Coupling
- Back-to-Back Coupling

Parabolic Reflector
Antenna
Antenna that provides extremely high gain and directivity and are very
popular for microwave and satellite communications link.

Two main part
- Parabolic Reflector
- Feed Mechanism

Capture Area
The effective area in a receiving parabolic antenna and is always less than
the actual mouth area.

CHAPTER 16:
TELEPHONE INSTRUMENTS AND SIGNALS

TERMS DEFINITIONS
Communications Process of conveying information from one place to another
Telecommunications Is a long-distance communications
Telephone
One of the most remarkable devices ever invented.

Public Telephone
Network
Anyone who uses a telephone or a data modem on a telephone circuit is part
of a global communications network .

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Telco
The PTN is comprised of several very large corporations and hundreds of
smaller independent companies jointly.
Alexander Graham
Bell and Thomas A.
Watson
The telephone system as we know it today began as an unlikely collaboration
of two men with widely disparate personalities:
Plain Old Telephone
Service
The simplest and most straightforward form of telephone service.
Subscriber Loop or
Local Loop
Most fundamental component of a telephone circuit.
Local Loop
An unshielded trwisted-pair transmission line consisting of two insulated
conductors twisted together
Telephone
Comes from the Greek word "tele" meaning from afar and phone, meaning
sound, voice, or voiced sound.
Butterstamp
Telephone
The first telephone set that combined a transmitter and receiver into a single
handheld unit was introduced in 1878
Sidetone or
Talkback
Helps prevent the speaker from talking too loudly.
Local Loop The pair of wores connecting.
RJ or Registered
Jacks
A series of telephone connection interfaces that are registered with the U.S.
Federal Communications Commission.
RJ-11
The most common telephone jack in use today and can have up to six
conductors.
Telephone Set
An apparatus that creates an exact likeness of sound waves with an electric
current.
Ringer Circuit
Is originally an electromagnetic bell, placed directly across the tip of the ring of
the local loop.

Alert the destination
party of incoming
calls
Purpose of a Ringer.
On/Off Hook Circuit Sometimes called a Switch Hook.
Equalizers Helps solve an important transmission problem in telephone set design.
Microphone Is the transmitter of the telephone.
Microphone
Converts acoustical signals in the form of sound pressure waves from the
caller to electrical signals that are transmitted into the telephone network.
Dialing Circuit Enables the subscriber to output signals representing digits.
Alerting,
Supervising,
Controlling, and
Addressing
Signaling messages can be subdivided further into one or four categories:
Alerting Signals Indicate a request for service.
Supervising Signals Provide call status information.
Controlling Signals Provide information in the form of announcements.
Addressing Signals Provide the routing information..
DTMF
Is strictly for signaling between a subscriber's location and the nearest
telephone office or message switching center.
Multifrequency
Tones
Are used to transfer digits and control signals between switching machines.
MF Tones
Are combinations of two frequencies that fall within the normal speech
bandwidth so they can be propagated over the same circuits as voice.
Congestion Tone or
No-Circuit-Available
Occurs whenever the system is overloaded and more calls are being placed
than can be completed.
Blocking
Is sent from a central office to a subscriber whenever there is an incoming
call.

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Ringing signal
It is when the produced cross-products are undesired when two or more
frequencies mix in a nonlinear device.

CHAPTER 17:
TELEPHONE CIRCUIT

TERMS DEFINITIONS
Telephone Circuit

It comprised of two or more facilities, interconnected in tandem,
to provide a transmission path between a source and a destination.

Message

The information transferred in a telephone circuit
Message Circuit

The circuit used in transferring information in a telephone circuit.

4 kHz

The network bandwidth for a standard voice-band message channel.

Guard Bands

Unused frequency bands located between information signals.

300 Hz to 3000 Hz

Effective channel bandwidth for a voice-band message signal.

Local Subscriber
Loop

The only facility required by all voice-band circuits, as it is the means
by which subscriber locations are connected to the local telephone
company

Two components
found on local loops:

Loading Coils
Bridge Taps

The primary cause of attenuation and phase distortion on a telephone
circuit.

Feeder Cable (F1)

The largest cable used in a local loop, usually 3600 pair of copper wire

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placed underground or in conduit.

Serving Area
Interface

A cross-connect point used to distribute the larger feeder cable into
smaller distribution cables.

Distribution Cable

A smaller version of a feeder cable containing less wire pairs.

Subscriber or
Standard
Network Interface
(SNI)

A device that serves as the demarcation point between local telephone
company responsibility and subscriber responsibility for telephone
service.

Drop Wire

The final length of cable pair that terminates at the SNI.

Aerial

That portion of the local loop that is strung between poles.

Distribution Cable
and Drop
Wire Cross Connect
Point

The location where individual cable pairs within a distribution cable
are separated and extended to the subscriber's location on a drop wire.

Loading

Adding inductors periodically in series with the wire.
Loading Coil

The inductor in loading technique.

Bridge Tap

An irregularity frequently found in cables serving subscriber location.

Bridging Loss

A loss that allows signals to split and propagation down more than
one wire introduced by bridge taps.

C-Message
Weighting

Weighting network introduced by AT & T to accomplish equal
magnitude of noise signals.

1000 Hz

The most annoying frequency to human (i.e. the best frequency
response).

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Decibel (dB)

The basic yardstick used for making power measurements in
communications.

Transmission
Level Point
(TLP)

The optimum level of a test tone on a channel at some point in a
communications system. It is used for voice circuits.

Transmission Level
(TL)

The ratio in dB of the power of a signal at that point to the power the
same signal would be at 0 dBm transmission level point.

0 dBm

The reference for TLP.
Data Level Pint
(DLP)

A parameter equivalent to TLP except it is used as a reference for data
transmission.

dBmO

dBm reference to a zero transmission level point.
reference noise (rn)

dB reference value for noise reading.

dBrn

dB level of noise with respect to reference noise
(- 90 dBm).

dBrnc

Similar to dBrn except it is the dB value of noise with
respect to reference noise using C-message weighting
dBrn 3 kHz Flat

Noise readings taken with a filter that has a flat frequency response
from 30 Hz to 3 kHz

dBrncO

The amount of noise in dBrnc corrected to a 0 TLP
Interface
Parameters

Transmission parameters which include terminal impedance, in band
and out of band signal power, test signal power and ground isolation.

Facility Parameters

Transmission parameters which includes noise measurements,
frequency distortion, phase distortion, amplitude distortion and non

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linear distortion.

Attenuation
Distortion

The difference in circuit gain experienced at a particular frequency
with respect to the circuit gain of a reference frequency.

Another names attenuation distortion:
- Frequency Response,
- Differential Gain
- 1004-Hz Deviation

Envelope Delay
Distortion

An indirect method of evaluating the phase delay characteristics of a
circuit.

Basic Voice-Band
Channel

It satisfies the minimum line conditioning
requirements

Basic 3002 Channel

Another name for basic voice-band.

C-type Conditioning

Specifies the maximum limits for attenuation distortion and envelope
delay distortion.
Classifications of C-type:
- C1
- C2
- C3
- C4
- C5

C1 and C2

Classification of C-type conditioning pertains to two point and multi
point circuits.

C3

C-type conditioning used for access lines and trunk circuits associated
with private switched networks.

C4

C-type conditioning pertains to two point and multi point circuits with
a maximum of four stations

C5
C-type conditioning pertains to two point circuits only

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Private Branch
Exchange
(PBX)

A relatively low-capacity switching machine where the subscribers
are generally limited to stations within the same building or building
complex.

Attenuation
Distortion

The frequency response of a transmission medium referenced to 1004
Hz test tone.

Linear Phase vs.
Frequency

A requirement for error free data transmission.
Delay Distortion

The difference in phase shifts with respect to frequency that signals
experience as they propagate through a transmission medium.

Propagation Time

The time delay encountered by a signal as it propagates from source to
a destination.

Phase Delay

The delay measured in angular units.
Absolute Phase
Delay

The actual time required for a particular frequency to propagate from
a source to a destination through a communications channel.

Envelope Delay

The time required to propagate a change in an AM envelope through a
transmission medium.

Envelope Delay
Distortion

The phase difference at the different carrier frequencies.

D-Type Line
Conditioning

It sets the minimum requirements for signal to noise ratio and
nonlinear distortion.

9600 bps

The data transmission rate when D type conditioning is mandatory.

1004 Hz

Telephone industry standard test tone frequency

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C-message Noise
Measurement

Measurement that determine the average weighted
rms noise power.

Loaded

A communications term that indicates the presence of a signal power
comparable to the power of an actual message transmission.

Impulse Noise

Characterized by high amplitude peaks of short duration having an
approximate flat frequency spectrum

Gain Hit

A sudden, random change in the gain of a circuit resulting in a
temporary change in the signal level.

Dropout

A decrease in circuit gain of more than 12 dB lasting
longer than 4 ms.

Phase Hits (Slips)

A sudden, random change in the phase of a signal.

Phase Jitter

A form of incidental phase modulation - a continuous, uncontrolled
variation in the zero crossings of a signal.

Single Frequency
Interference

The presence of one or more continuous, unwanted tones within a
message channel.

Spurious Tones

Unwanted tones within a message channel.
Frequency Shift

The frequency of the signal changes during transmission.

Phase Intercept
Distortion

It occurs in coherent SSBSC systems when the received carrier is
not reinserted with the exact phase relationship to the received signal
as the transmit carrier possessed.

Phase Intercept
Distortion

It occurs in coherent SSBSC systems when the received carrier is not
reinserted with the exact phase relationship to the received signal as
the transmit carrier possessed.

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Hybrid Set

A four wire circuit an interface.

Terminating Set

Another name for hybrid set.
Crosstalk

Any disturbance created in a communications channel by signals in
other communications channels.

Intelligible crosstalk

Annoying and objectionable because the listener
senses a real or fancied loss of privacy

Unintelligible
crosstalk

It does not violate privacy, although it can still be annoying.

Nonlinear Crosstalk

A direct result of nonlinear amplification in analog communications
system.

Coupling Crosstalk
Electromagnetic coupling between two or more physically isolated
transmission media.
Transmittance
Crosstalk

Interference caused by inadequate control of the transfer
characteristics or transmittance of networks.

CHAPTER 18:
PUBLIC TELEPHONE NETWORK

TERMS DEFINITIONS
Public Telephone
Network (PTN)
It uses the largest computer network in the world to interconnect
millions of subscribers in such a way that the myriad of companies
function as a single entity.
Switching

Identifies and connects the subscribers to a suitable transmission
path.


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Signaling

Supply and interpret control and supervisory signals needed to
perform the operation.

Service Providers

The public telephone companies.

Common Usage
Equipment

Equipment and facilities that are available to
all public subscribers to the network.

Dial-Up Network

Another name for Public Switched Telephone
Network (PSTN).

Data Transmission

The transmittal of digital information between two pieces of digital
equipment.

Instrument

Any device used to originate and terminate calls and to transmit and
receive signals into and out of the telephone network.

Station Equipment

The instrument is often referred.
Station

The location of the equipment.

Subscriber

The operator or user of the instrument.
Local Loop

The dedicated cable facility used to connect an instrument at a
subscriber's station to the closest telephone office.

Trunk Circuits

Similar to local loop except trunk circuits are used to interconnect
two telephone offices.

Exchange

A central location where subscribers are interconnected, either
temporarily or on permanent basis.

Switching Machines

Programmable matrices that provide temporary signal paths between
two subscribers.

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Local Exchanges

Exchanges connected directly to local loops.
January 28, 1878

The first commercial telephone switchboard began operation New
Haven, Connecticut.

Switchboards

The first local telephone exchanges

Automated Switching
System

A system of sensors, switches, and other electrical and electronic
devices that allows subscribers to give instructions directly to the
switch without having to go through an operator.

Mechanical Dialer

Allowed subscribers to manually dial the telephone number of the
party they wished to call.

Strowger Switch

Commonly called for stepper or step-by-step (SXS).

Circuit

Simply the path over which voice, data, or video signals propagate.

Circuit Switch

A programmable matrix that allows circuits to be connected tom one
another.

Intraoffice Call

Telephone call completed within a single local
exchange.

Interoffice calls

Telephone calls placed between two stations that are connected to
different local exchanges.

Interswitch Calls

Another name for interoffice calls.

Trunks or Interoffice
Trunk

Telephone switching machines in local exchanges are connected to
other local exchange office.

Tandem Office

It is used to interconnect local offices that do not have interoffice
trunks directly between them. An exchange without any local loops
connected to it.

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Tandem

Switches that interconnect local offices only.

Tandem Trunk or
Intermediate Trunk

Trunk circuits that terminates in tandem switches.
Toll Office

Interstate long distance telephone calls require a special telephone
office.

North American
Telephone
Numbering Plan
(NANP)

Provides telephone numbering system for the United States, Mexico
and Canada.
Concentrator

It allows many subscribers to share a limited number of lines to a
central office switch.

Route

A path between two subscribers and is comprised of one or more
switches, two local loops; and possibly one or more trunk circuits.

Blocking

A call that calls cannot be completed because the necessary trunk
circuits or switching paths are not available, the calling party receives
an equipment busy signal.

Class 5 End
Switching
Office

A local exchange where subscriber loops terminated and received
dial tone.

Class 4P Switching
Office

Class 4 office having only outward and inward calling service.

Class 4C

Class 4 office provided human operators for both outward and
inward calling service.

Class 3 Primary
Center

Switching office that provides service to small groups of class 4
offices within a small area of a state.

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Class 2 Sectional

Sectional centers that could provide service to geographical regions
varying in size from part of a state to all of several states.

Class 1 Regional
Center

Regional centers were the highest ranking office in the DDD network
in terms of the size of the geographical are served and the trunking
options available.

Intermediate Links

Toll trunks in tandem, excluding the two terminating links at the ends
of the connection.

Common Channel
Signaling System No.
7 (SS7 or C7)

A global standard for telecommunications defined by the ITU.

Signaling

Refers to the exchange of information between call components required to
provide
and maintain service.

SS7

An architecture for performing out of band signaling in support of
common telephone system functions.

Point of Presence
(POP)

Long distance access is now accomplished through an access point.

POP

A telecommunications term that describes the legal boundaries for the
responsibility of
maintaining equipment and transmission lines.

Signaling Points

Provide access to the SS7 network, access to databases used by
switches inside and outside the network.

Point Codes

Codes that are carried in signaling messages exchanged between
signaling points to identify the source and destination of each
messages.

Service Switching

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Points

Local telephone switches equipped with SS7 compatible software
and terminating signal links.

Signal Transfer
Points

The packet switches of the SS7 network.

Service Control
Points

It serves as an interface to telephone company databases.

Signal Control Points

Another name for service control points.

Primitive

Provides access from one level of the protocol to another

CHAPTER 19:
CELLULAR TELEPHONE CONCEPTS

TERMS DEFINITIONS
Mobile Telephone
Manual System
(MTSs)

The term for mobile telephone services which began in 1940s and are
sometimes called Manual telephone systems.

35 MHz-45MHz

The frequency used by MTSs.

Push-to-Talk (PTT)

Switch that was used by MTS to activate the transceiver.

Improved Mobile
Telephone System
(IMTS)

It was introduced in 1964 which used several carrier frequencies and
could, therefore, handle several simultaneous mobile conversations at
the same time.

Mobile

The term suggested any radio transmitter, receiver, or transceiver that
could be moved while operation.

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Portable

The term that described a relatively small radio unit that was
handled, battery powered, and easily carried by a person moving at
walking speed.

Cellular Telephone

It is similar to two-way mobile radio in that most communications
occurs between base stations and mobile units.

Two-Way Radio

It operates on half duplex and use PTT transceivers.
examples of two-way radio:
- Citizens Band (CB)
- Public land mobile radio

Mobile Telephone

A one to one system that permits two-way simultaneous
transmissions and operates the same way as the standard wire line
telephone service.

E.K. Jett

Hinted of a cellular telephone scheme that he referred to as simply a
small-zone radio telephone system in the July 28, 1945.

AT&T and
Southwestern
Bell

On June 17, 1946, they introduced the first American commercial
mobile radio-telephone service to private customers.

Highway Service.

A radio telephone service introduced by AT&T in 1947.

Don Adams
Unveiled the most famous mobile telephone to date: the fully mobile
shoe phone in 1966 in a television show called Get Smart

1975

The year when FCC granted AT&T the first license to operate a
developmental cellular telephone service in Chicago.

Iridium

A satellite-based wireless personal communications satellite (PCSS)

Cellular Radio

Another term for cellular telephone.

Coverage zone
A large geographic market area.

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Frequency Reuse

It is employed to increase the capacity of a mobile telephone
channel.

Honeycomb

The shape that was used because it provides the most effective
transmission by approximating a circular pattern while eliminating
the gaps present between adjacent circles.

Macrocells

Large cells that typically has 1 mile and 15 miles radius with base
station transmit power 1W and 6 W.

Microcells

The smallest cells that typically has radius of 1500 feet or less with
base station transmit powers between 0.1 W and 1 W.

Frequency Reuse

The process, in which the same set of frequencies can be allocated to
more than one cell, provided the cells are separated by sufficient
distance.

cluster

A geographic cellular radio coverage area containing three groups of
cells.

Cluster size

Typically equal to 3, 7, or 12.
First Tier

The process of finding the tier with the nearest
co-channel cells

Co-channel cells

Two cells using the same set of frequencies.
Co-channel
Interference

The interference between the co-channels cells.

Adding radio channels to a system:
- Decreasing the transmit power per cell
- making cells smaller
- filling vacated coverage areas with new cells


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Adjacent Channel

Channel next to one another in the frequency domain.

Adjacent-Channel
Interference

It results from imperfect filters in receivers that allow nearby
frequencies to enter the receiver.

Near-Far Effect

Most prevalent when a mobile unit is receiving a weak signal from
the base station.

Cell Spliting

The area of a cell, or independent component coverage areas of
cellular system is further subdivided thus creating more areas.

Maximum Traffic
Load

Occurs when number of the number of subscriber wishing to place a
call at any given time equals the number of channels in the cell.

Blocking

A condition occurs when a new call is initiated in an area where all
the channels are in use.

Sectors

Smaller areas when a single omnidirectional antenna is replaced by
several directional antennas, each radiating within smaller area.

Sectoring

Using directional antennas.

Space Diversity

Placing two receive antennas one above the other.

Dualization

A means of avoiding full-cell splitting where the entire area would
otherwise need to be segmented into smaller cells.
Segmentation

A means of avoiding co-channel interference, although it lowers the
capacity of a cell by enabling reuse inside the reuse distance which is
normally prohibited.

Base Stations

The locations of radio-frequency transceivers. It serves are central
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Cell-Site Controller

It handles all cell-site control and switching functions.

Roaming

Occurs when a mobile unit moves from one cell to another
companys service.

Mobile Telephone
Switching Office
(MTSO)

It controls channel assignment, call processing, call setup and call
termination.
Different Names:
- Electric Mobile Exchange (EMX)- Bell Lab.
- AEX- Ericcson
- NEAX-NEC
- Switching Mobile Center (SMC)
- Master Mobile Center (MMC)-Novatel
- Mobile Switching Center- PCS netwroks

Handoff (Handover)

The transfer of a mobile unit from one base stations control to
another base stations control.

Four stages:
- Initiation
- Resource reservation
- execution
- completion

Hard Handoff

A connection that is momentarily broken during the cell-to-cell
transfer. It is a break before-make process.

Soft Handoff

A flawless hand off with no perceivable interruption of service.

Handoff Decision

It is used by computers that are based on variations in signal strength
and signal quality.

Initiation

Either the mobile unit or the network determines the need for a
handoff and initiates the necessary network procedures.

Resources
Reservation

Appropriate network procedures reserve the resources needed to

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support the handoff.

Execution

The actual transfer of control from one base station to another base
station takes place.

Completion

Execution Unnecessary network resources are relinquished and made
available to other mobile units.

Interoperator
Roaming

Roaming from one companys calling area into another companys
calling area.

EIA/TIA

Stands for Electronics Industries Association/Telecommunications
Industry Association, developed the IS-41 Protocol.

IS-41

It aligns with a sub protocol of the SS7 protocol stack that facilitates
communications among database other network entities.

CITA

Stands for Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association.

Autonomous
Registration

The process where a mobile unit notifies a serving MTSO of its
presence and location through a base station controller.

Components of Cellular Telephone System:
- Electronic switching center
- a Cell-site controller
- radio transceiver
- system interconnections
- mobile telephone units
- common communications protocol

Electronic Switching
Center

A digital telephone exchange located in the MTSO that is the heart of
a cellular telephone system.
X.25

A datalink protocol at a transmission rate of 9.6 kbps.

Base Station

Another name for cell-site controller.

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Controller

Cell-site Controller

It manages each of the radio channels at each site supervises calls,
turns the radio transmitter and receiver on and off, injects data onto
the control and voice channels, and performs diagnostic tests in the
cell-site equipment.

BTS

Stands for Base transceiver station.
Radio Transceiver

A part of base station subsystem that can be either narrowband FM
analog system or either PSK or QAM for digital systems with
effective audio frequency.

Receiver Diversity

The radio receiver that detects the strongest signal.
Communications
Protocol

It governs the way telephone calls are established and disconnected.

Examples of Protocol:
- IS-54
- IS-136.2
- IS-95

User Channel

The actual voice channel where mobile users communicate directly
with either mobile or wireline subscribers through a base station.

Control Channel

It is used for transferring control and diagnostic information between
mobile users and a central cellular telephone switch through a base
station.

Transmit on base station:
- forward control channel
- forward voice channel

Receive on base stations:

- reverse control channel
- reverse voice channel

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types of calls:
- Mobile to wireline
- mobile to mobile
- wireline to mobile

CHAPTER 20:
CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEM

TERMS
DEFINITIONS

CTS
Stands for Standard Cellular Telephone Service

PCS
An acronym for Personal Communications System.

PCSS
Stands for Personal Communications Satellite System.

AMPS
An acronym for Advanced Mobile Telephone System.

Bell Telephone
Laboratories
Proposed the cellular telephone concept in 1971.
AMPS
A standard cellular telephone service (CTS) initially placed into operation on
Oct. 13, 1983.

Narrowband
Frequency
Modulation
(NBFM)
It was used by AMPS cellular telephones with usable audio-frequency band
from 300 Hz to 3 KHz and a maximum frequency deviation of + 12 KHz for
100% modulation.

Carsons Rule
Correspond to an approximate bandwidth of 30 KHz.

Full Duplex
(FDX)or Duplexing
A transmission with simultaneous transmission in both direction.

Frequency-
division Duplexing
It is used in AMPS and occurs when two distinct frequency bands are provided
to each user.

Duplexer

A special device used in each mobile unit to allow simultaneous transmission
and reception on duplex channels.

Forward Links
Transmissions from base station to mobile units.

Reverse Links
Transmissions from mobile units to base stations.

Down Links
Another name for forward links.


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Uplink

Another term for reverse link.

Expanded
Spectrum

Additional frequencies of 10 MHz to the original40 MHz band which increased
the number of simplex channels by 166 for a total of 832 (416 Full duplex)

Cellular
Geographic
Serving Areas
(CGSA)

Specified frequencies in a small geographic area.
Standard
Metropolitan
Statistical Area
Defines geographic areas used by marketing agencies.
Frequency
Division
Multiple Access
A technique used by standard telephone subscriber to access the AMPS
system.

Mobile
Identification
Number (MIN)
A 34 bit binary code which in the U.S. represents the standard 10-digit
telephone number.
Electronic Serial
Number (ESN)

A 34 bit binary code permanently assigned to each mobile unit.
VIN
Stands for Vehicle Identification Number.

NIC
An acronym for Network Interface Card.

Station Class Mark
(SCM)
A four bit code which indicates whether the terminal has access to all 832 AMPS
channel or only 666.

System Identifier
(SID)
A 15 bit binary code used by FCC to an operating company when it
issues it a license to provide AMPS

Supervisory Audio
Tone(SAT)
It is one of the three analog frequencies (5970 Hz, 6000 Hz, or 6030 Hz) that helps
mobile system distinguish one base station from a neighboring base station.

Digital Color Code
(DCC)
One of four binary codes, also helps mobile system distinguish one base station
from a neighboring base station.

Control Channels
One set of channels dedicated for exchanging control information between
mobile units and base stations

User Channel
Also termed as Voice channel, used for propagating actual voice
conversations or subscriber data.

Setup or Paging
Channel
Another name of control channels.

Locked
Sometimes called as Camped.

Dotting Scheme Sometimes called as Camped.
Synchronization
Word
A unique sequence of 1s and 0s that enables the receiver to instantly acquire
synchronization.

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Mobile Station
Control Messages
It controls or command mobile units to do a particular task when the
mobile unit has not been assigned a voice channel.

Busy-idle Bits
It is used to indicate the current status of the reverse control channel.

Overhead
Message
It contains the following:
- System parameter overhead messages
- global action overhead messages
- control filter messages

Typical mobile-unit control messages:
- Initial voice channel designation messages
- directed retry messages
- alert messages
- change power messages

Control Data
Transmitted at a 10-kbps rate.
Control data includes:
- page responses
- access request
- registration requests
Blank
Transmission of voice.

Burst
Data transmission.

Intelligent Network
The entity of SS7 interoffice protocol that distinguishes thephysical
components of the switching network.
Switching Network:
- Signal Service Point
- Signal Control Point
- Signal Transfer Point

Personal
Communications
System (PCS)
A family of mobile or portable radio communications services which
provides services to the individuals and business and is integrated with a
variety of competing networks.
Differences in PCS and cellular telephonesystem:
- Smaller Size
- all digital
- additional features
-
PCN
Acronym for Personal Communications Network.

Personal
Telephone
Number
It is assigned to everyone which is stored the on the SS7 network.
Artificial
Intelligence
Network (AIN
It determines where and how the call should be directed.
Home Location
Register (HLR)
A database that stores information about the user, including home subscription
information
and what supplementary services the user is subscribed to.


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Equipment
Identification
Registry (EIR)
A database that stores information pertaining to the identification and type
of equipment that exists in the mobile unit.

Available Mode
It allows all calls to pass through the network to the subscriber except for a minimal
number
of telephone numbers that can be blocked.

Private Mode
All calls except those specified by the subscriber are automatically forwarded to a
forwarding destination without ringing the subscribers handset.

Unavailable Mode
No calls are allowed to pass through to the subscriber.

PCS 1900
PCS operating in the 1900 MHz range.

Interference (MRI)
Interference avoidance scheme which uses voice companding to provide synthetic voice
channel quieting.

N-AMPS
A narrowband AMPS system that increased the capacity of the AMPS system in large
cellular market.
United States
Digital Cellular
It is developed with the intent of supporting a higher user density within a
fixed bandwidth frequency spectrum.
Digital cellular
Cellular telephone systems that use digital modulation.

Time-division
Multiple
Accessing(TDMA)

Allows one mobile unit to use a channel at the same time by further dividing
transmissions within each cellular channel.

Visitor Location
Register(VLR)
A database that stores information about subscriber in a particular
MTSOserving area, such as whether the unit is on or off

Time-Sharing
Channels
Technique used that allows more mobile-unit subscribers to use a system at virtually the
same time within a given geographical area.

EIA/TIA
It stands for Electronics Industries Association and Telecommunications Industry
Association.

Dual Mode
It specifies that a mobile station complying with the IS-54 standard must be capable of
operating in either the analog AMPS or the digital (USDC) mode for voice transmissions.

IS-136.2
It is often called North American Time Division Multiple Accessing.

IS-54 Rev.C
It was introduced to provide PSK rather than FSK on dedicated USDC control channels
to
increase the control data rates and provide additional specialized services such as
paging
and short messaging between private mobile user groups.

Short Message
Service
Allows for brief paging-type messages and Short e-mail messages that can be read on
the mobile phones display and entered using the keypad.

IS-136
It was developed to provide a host of new features and services, positioning itself in a
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Random Access
Channel(RACH)
It is used by mobile units to request access to the cellular telephone system. It is a
unidirectional channel specified for transmissions from mobile-base units only.

SMS point-to-point
Paging and access
response Channel
(SPACH)
It is used to transmit information from base stations to specific mobile stations.
Paging Channel
(PCH)
It is dedicated to delivering pages and orders.
It transmit :
- paging messages
- message-waiting messages
- user alerting messages
- call history count updates
- shared secret data updates

Access Response
Channel(ARCH)
A logical subchannel of SPACH used to carry assignments to another resource
or other responses to the mobile stations access attempt.

SMS Channel
(SMSCH)
It is used to deliver short point-to-point messages to a specific mobile station.

Channel (BCCH)
It refers to: F-BCCH, E-BCCH and S-BCCH logical sub channels.

Fast Broadcasts
Control channel
(F-BBCH)
Broadcasts digital control channel structure parameters.
Extended
Broadcasts
Control Channel
(E-BBCH)
Carries less critical broadcast information than F-BCCH intended for mobile
units.
SMS Broadcasts
Control channel
(F-BBCH)
Individual mobile units. A logical channels used for sending short messages.
DSI
Stands for Digital speech interpolation.

Digital Traffic
Channel
(DTC)

Carries digital voice information and consists of RDTC and FDTC
Coded Digital
Verification
Color Code

It consists of an eight bit digital voice color code number between 1 and 255
appended with four
MAHO
Mobile-assisted handoff

Fast Associated
Control
Channel (FACCH)
A blank-and burst type of transmission that replaces digitized speech
information with control and supervision messages with in a subscribers time
slot.

Vector sum exciter
linear
predictive (VSLP)
A special speech coder.

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Digital Signal
Processor(DSP)
A special microprocessor that is implemented onthe telephone handset.
Shortened Burst
They are transmitted when a mobile unit begins operating in a larger diameter
cell.

FDMA

An access method used with standard analog AMPS which use frequency
channelization approach to frequency spectrum management.

Code Division
Multiple
Accessing (CDMA)
It allows users to differentiate from one another by a unique code rather than a
frequency or time assignment.

QCELP
Stands for Qualcom 9600bps Code-Excited Linear Predictive coder.

Frequency
Hopping
The concept is to break the message into fixed sized blocks of data with each
block transmitted in sequence except on a different carrier.

Direct-Sequence
high bit pseudorandom code is added to a low-bit rate information signal to
generate a high bit rate pseudorandom signal closely resembling noise that
contains both the original data signal and the pseudo random code must be
known.

Groupe Special
Mobile (GSM)
It is a study group which is sometimes referred to as Pan-European cellular
system. This is now known as the Global System for Mobile

Communications.
Classification of GSM telephone services:
- Bearer Services
- teleservices
- supplementary services

Three primary subsystem of GSM:
- Base Station Subsystem
- Network Switching Subsystem
- Operational Support Subsystem

Integrated
Services
Digital Network
(ISDN
All-digital data Network.
Base Station
Subsystem (BSS)
Sometimes known as radio subsystem, provides and manages radio frequency
transmission paths between mobile units and the mobile switching center
(MSC)

Network Switching
Subsystem (NSS)
It manages switching functions for the system and allows MSCs to communicate
with other telephone networks.

Absolute Radio-
Frequency
Channel Numbers
(ARFCN)
The available forward and reverse frequency bands are subdivided into 200
KHz wide voice channels.
Mobile Satellite
Systems
It provides the vehicle for a new generation of wireless telephone services
called Personal Communications Satellite System (PCSS)

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(MSS)
Personal
Communications
Satellite System
(PCSS)
It uses low earth-orbit (LEO) and medium earth orbit and MEO thar
communicates diretly with small, low-powered mobile telephone units.
key providers in PCSS market:
- American Mobile Satellite
Communications (AMSC)
- Celsat
- Comsat
- Constellation Communications (ARIES)
- Ellipsat (Ellipso)
- INMARSAT
- LEOSAT
- Loral/qualcomm (global star)
- TMI communications
- TWR (Odysse)
- Iridium LLC

Iridium LC

An international consortium owned by a host of prominent companies, agencies
and governments.

Iridium Project
The largest commercial venture undertaken in the history of the world.

Iridium

A satellite based wireless personal communications network designed to permit
a wide range of mobile telephone services, including voice, data, networking,
facsimile and paging.

October 14, 1994

FCC issued a report and order Dockett # 92-166 defining L band frequency
sharing for subscriber units in the 1616 MHZ to 1626.5 MHz band.

1.616 GHz to
1.6265 GHz
L-band subscriber-to-satellite voice links.

19.4 GHz to 19.6
GHz
Ka-band gateway downlinks.

29.1 GHz to 29.3
GHz
Ka-band gateway uplinks

CHAPTER 21:
INTRODUCTION TO DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING

Data

Information that is stored in digital form. Information that has been
processed organized and stored.

Information
Knowledge or intelligence.

Data Communications
The transmission, reception, and processing of digital information.

Data Communications It is to transfer digital information from one place to another.

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Circuit

Network
A set of devices interconnected by media links.

Data
Communications
Networks
Systems of interrelated computers and computer equipment and can be as
simple as a personal computer connected together through the PTN

ATM
Automatic teller machine

1753
One of the earliest means of communicating electrically coded information
occurred

Carl Friedrich
Gauss
In 1833, he developed an unusual system based on a five-by-fi ve matrix
representing 25 letters. The idea was to send message over a single wire.

Telegraph
The first successful data communications that was invented in 1832. Dots and
Dashes

Samuel F.B. Morse
He invented the first practical data communications code which is called Morse
Code.

1. Sir Charles
Wheatstone
2. Sir William
Cooke
Allegedly invented the first telegraph in England.
Emile Baudot
In 1874, he invented the telegraph multiplexerwhich Emile allowed up to six different
telegraph machines to be transmitted simultaneously over a single wire.

Telephone

It was invented in 1875 by Alexander Graham Bell
Guglielmo Marconi

He succeeded in sending radio telegraphmessages.

Telegraph

The only means of sending information across large spans of water until 1920.

Konrad Zuis

A German engineer, demonstrated a computing machine sometime in the late
1930s.

J. Presper Eckert
John Mauchley
Developed the ENIAC computer on Feb. 14, 1946
Batch Processing
A technique that process one job at a time.

UNIVAC Computer

Built in 1951 by Remington Rand Corp., was the
First mass-produced electronic computer.
Internet

A public data communications network used by millions of people all over t he world
to exchange business and personal information.

Intranet

Private data communications networks used by many companies to exchange
information among employees and resources.

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Data
Communications
Network

Any system of computers, computer terminals or computer peripheral equipment
used to transmit and receive information between two or more locations.

Network
Architecture
A set of equipment, transmission media and procedures that ensures that a
specific sequence of events occurs in a network in the proper order to
produce the intended results.

Broadcasting

Messages are intended for all subscribers on the network.

Multicasting
Messages are intended for a specific group of subscribers.

Protocols

Defines the procedures that the systems involved in the communications
process will use.

Data
Communications
Protocols

Sets of rules governing the orderly exchange of data within the
network or a portion of the network.
Protocol Stack

The list of the protocols used by a system.
Layered Network
Architecture
It consists of two or more independent levels.
Connection
Oriented
or Connectionless
A logical connection is established between the endpoints prior to the
transmission of data.

Connection-
Oriented
Protocol

They are designed to provide a high degree of reliability for data moving
through the network.
Handshake

A connection process that occurs between two stations before any data are
actually transmitted.
Another terms:
- Sessions
- Virtual circuits
- logical connections

Syntax

It refers to the structure or format of the data within the message,
which includes the sequence in which the data are sent.

Data
Communications
Standards

Guidelines that have been generally accepted by the data communications
industry.
Types of standards:
- Proprietary system -open
- open system

Proprietary
Generally controlled and manufactured by one company.


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Standard
International
Standards
Organization (ISO)
The international organization for standardization on a wide range of
subjects.

American National
Standard
Institute (ANSI)

The member of ISO from the United States.
International
Telecommunications
Union
It is formerly CCITT; one of four permanent parts is based in Geneva,
Switzerland.

V series
Modem interfaces and data transmission over the telephone lines.

X series
Data transmission over public digital Network, e-mail and directory services.

Institute of
Electrical &
IEEE)and
Electronics
Engineers

An international professional organization founded in the United States and
is comprised of electronics, computer and communications engineers.

Electronics Industry
Association (EIA)

A non-profit U.S. trade association that establishes and recommends
industrial standards.

Telecommunications
Industry Association

The leading trade association in the communications and information
technology industry.

Advanced Research
Projects Agency
(ARPA)
The research arm of the Department of Defense in 1957.

Internet
Engineering
Task Force (IETF)

A large international community of network designers, operators, vendors
and researches concerned with the evolution of the internet architecture and
the smooth operation of the internet.

Internet Research
Task
Force (IRTF)

It promotes research of importance to the evolution of the future Internet by
creating focused, long term and small research groups working on topics
related to internet protocols.

Protocol data Unit
(PDU)
A unit of data.
Encapsulation/
Decapsulation
The process of adding and removing the PDU information.

Encapsulate

It means to place in a capsule or other protected environment.

Decapsulate

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Service Access Point
(SAP)
Defines which entity the service is intended.
Open Systems
Interconnection
(OSI)

The name for the set of standards for communicatingamong computers

Seven OSI layers:
- application
- presentation
- session
- transport
- network
- data link
- physical

Physical Layer
Responsible for the actual propagation of unstructured data bits through a
transmission medium.

Data Link Layer
Responsible for providing error-free communications across the physical link
connecting primary and secondary stations within a network.

Network Layer
Provides details that enable data to be routed between devices in an
environment using multiple networks, sub network, or both.

Transport Layer
Controls and ensures the end-to-end integrity of the data message
propagated through the network between two devices, which provides
reliable, transparent transfer of data between two endpoints.

Session Layer
Responsible for network availability.

Presentation Layer
Provides independence to the application processes by addressing any
code or syntax conversion necessary to present the data to the network in a
common communications format.

Application Layer
It provides distributed information services and controls the sequence of
activities within an application.

Station
An endpoint where subscribers gain access to the circuit.

Node

Another term of station which is the location of computers, computer
terminals, workstations and other digital computing equipment.

Facilities

Interconnects digital computer equipment.
Source

Provides means to enter data from humans.
Transmitter

Encodes a wireless radio system without being converted to analog first .

Transmission
Medium
Carries the encoded signals from the transmitter to the receiver.

Receiver
Converts the encoded signals received from the transmission medium back
to their original form.

Destination
It could be a mainframe computer, personal computer workstation or virtually
any piece of digital equipment

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Parallel by Bit or
Serial by Character

A type of transmission where all four bits can be transmitted simultaneously
during the time of a single clock pulse.

Serial by Bit

Transmission where four clock pulses are required to transmit the entire
four-bit code.

Two-Point
Configuration
It involves only two locations or stations
Multi-point
Configuration
It involves three or more stations.

Simplex

Data transmission is unidirectional where information can be sent in only
one direction.
Simplex Lines

Also called Receive-Only, Transmit Only or One-way-only Lines

Half Duplex

Data transmission is possible in both directions but not at the same time.
Another term:
- two way alternate lines
- either way lines

Full Duplex

Transmissions are possible in both directions two stations. simultaneously ,
but they must be between
same
Another terms;
- Two-way simultaneous
- duplex
- both-way lines

Full/Full Duplex

Transmission is possible in both directions at the same time but not between
the same two stations. It is possible only on multipoint circuits.

Networking

The process of sharing resources between computers over a data communications
network.

Sneaker Net
The manual technique of moving data on disks.

Servers
Computers that hold shared files, programs and the network operating
system.

Client

Computers that access and use the network and shared network resources.

Transmission Media

The facilities used to interconnect computers in a net work.
Shared Data

Data that file servers provide to clients.
Shared Printers and
other
peripherals
Hardware resources provided to the users of the network by servers.


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Network Interface
Card
(NIC)

An expansion card and prepares and sends data, receives data and controls
data flow between the computer and the network.

Local Operating
System
(LOS)
Allows personal computers to access files, print to a local printer and have
and use one or more disk and CD drives that are located on the computer.

Network Operating
System (NOS)

A program that runs on computers and servers that allows the computers to
communicate over a network.

Peer - to - Peer
Client/
Server Network
One in which all computers share their resources.

Dedicated
Client/Server
Network
One computer is designated the server and the rest of the computers are
clients.

Network Topology

Describes the layout or appearance of a network.
Physical Topology
Describes how the network is actually laid out

Logical Topology

Describes how data actually flow through the network
Star Topology

A multipoint data communications network where remote stations are
connected by cable segments directly to a central located computer.

Bus Topology
A multipoint data communications circuit that makes it rel atively simple to
control data flow between and among the computers.

Ring Topology
A multipoint data communications network where all stations are
interconnected in tandem to form a closed loop or circle.

Mesh Topology

Every station has a direct two-point communications link to every other
station on the circuit.

Hybrid Topology

Combining two or more of the traditional topologies to form a larger, more
complex topology.

Local Area
Networks
(LANs)

Privately own networks in which 10 to 40 compute share data resources with
one or more file server.

Metropolitan Area
Networks (MANs)

A high-speed network similar to a LAN except the are designed to
encompass larger areas, usually that of an entire city.

Wide Area Network
WAN)

Provides low-speed, long distance transmission of data voice, and video
information over large and widely dispersed geographical areas such as
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1.5 Mbps-2.4 Gbps
Bit rate of WANs.

Global Area
Network
(GANs)
Provides connects between countries around the entire globe.

Building Backbone

A network connection that normally carries traffic between departmental
LANs within a single company.

Campus Backbone

A network connection used to carry traffic to and from LANs located in
various buildings on campus.

TCP/IP Protocol
Suite

Developed by Department of Defense, comprise of several interactive
modules that provide specific functionality.

Internet layer/
Internet work Layer
The network layer of TCP/IP.

Transmission
Control
(UDP)
User datagram
Protocol
Protocol (TCP)

Transport layer of TCP/IP.
Network Access
Layer
Provides a means of physically delivering data packets using frames or
cells.

Internet Layer

Contains information that pertains to how data can be routed through the
network.

Host-to-Host Layer
Services the process and internet layers to handle the reliability and session
aspects of data transmission.

Process Layer
Provides applications support.

Cisco Three-Layer
Model

Defines a three layer logical hierarchy that specifies where things belong,
how they fit together and what functions go where.

Three layers:
- Core layer
- Distribution layer
- access layer

Core Layer
The core of the network as it resides at the top of the hierarchy and is
responsible for transporting large amounts of data traffic reliably and quickly.

Distribution Layer

The communications point between the access and the core layers that
provide routing, filtering, WAN access and how data packets are allowed to
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Workgroup Layer
Another term for Distribution layer

Access Layer

Controls workgroup and individual user access to internetworking resources.

Desktop Layer
Another term for Access layer.

CHAPTER 22:
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF DATA COMMUNICATIONS

TERMS DEFINITIONS
Data
Communications
Codes

Often used to represent characters and symbols such as letters, digits
and punctuation marks.
Another terms:
- character codes
- character sets
- symbol codes
- character languages

Baudot Code

Sometimes called the Telex Code was the first fixed length character
developed for machines rather than for people.

Thomas Murray

A French postal engineer who developed the baudot code in 1875 and
named after Emile Baudot, an early pioneer in telegraph printing.

Fixed Length Block
Code

Fixed-length source code.

USASCII

Stands for United States of America Standard Code for Information
Exchange, better known as ASCII-63.

ASCII

The standard character set for source coding the alphanumeric
character set that humans understand but computers do not
(computers only understand 1s and 0s).
It is a seven bit fixed-length character set.

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Fixed Length
Block Code

Fixed-length source code.
EBCDIC

Extended binary coded decimal interchange-code, an eight bit fixed
length character developed in 1962 by International Business
Machines Corporation.

Bar Codes
Omnipresent block and white striped stickers that seem to appear or
virtually every consumer item in the US and most of the rest of the
world.

Discrete Code

It has spaces or gaps between characters. Each character is
independent of every other character.

Continuous Code

It does not include spaces between characters. An example is
Universal Product Code.

2D code

It stores data in two dimensions in contrasts with conventional linear
bar codes which stores data along only one axis.

Code-39

It uses an alphanumeric code similar to ASCII code. It contains 9
vertical elements (5 bars & 4 spaces). It consists of 36 unique codes
representing the 10 digits and 26 uppercase letters.

Other Names:
- Code 3 of 9
- 3 of 9 code

Universal Product
Code

A continuous code since there are no interchangeable spaces. Each
UPC label contains a 12-digit number.

Start & Stop Guard
Pattern

It consists of a 101 (bar-soace-bar) sequence, which is used to frame
the 12 digit UPC number.

Center Guard Frame

It separates the left and right halves of the label and consists of two

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long bars in the center of the label.

Transmission Errors

Caused by electrical interference from natural sources

Classification of Data Com Errors:
- single bit
- multiple bit
- burst

Categories of Error Control :
- Error Detection
- Error Correction

Single Bit Errors

Errors with only one bit within a given a given string is in error.

Multiple-bit error

Errors with two or more non-consecutive bits within a message.

Burst Error

Errors when to or more consecutive bits within a given data string are
in error. It can affect one or more characters within a message.

Probability of Error

The theoretical (Mathematical) expectation of the rate at which errors
will occur.

Bit-Error Rate

The actual historical record of a systems error performance.

Error Detection

The process of monitoring data transmission and deter mining when
errors have occurred. It neither corrects errors nor identifies which
bits are in error-they only indicate when an error has occurred.

Redundancy
Checking

Adding of bits for the sole purpose of detecting errors
Types of redundancy checks:
- vertical redundancy checking,
- checksum,
- longitudinal redundancy checking
- cyclic redundancy checking


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Redundancy

A form of error detection by duplicating each data unit for the
purpose of detecting errors.

Parity

An error detection bit.

Vertical Redundancy
Checking (VRC)

The simplest error-detection scheme and is generally referred to as
character parity.

Parity Bit

An error detection bit in each character.

Marking Parity

The parity bit which is always a 1.

Ignored Parity

The parity bit which is not sent or checked
Checksum

Form of redundancy error checking where each character has a
numerical value assigned to it.

Longitudinal
Redundancy
Checking
(LRC)

A redundancy error detection scheme that uses parity to determine if
a transmission error has occurred with n a message.

Message Parity

An error occurred within a message.

Block or Frame of Data

The group of characters that comprise a message

Block Check
Sequence (BCS) or
Frame Check
Sequence (FCS)

The bit sequence for the LRC.
Cyclic Redundancy
Checking
A convolution coding scheme that is most reliable redundancy
checking technique for error detection. Almost 99.999% of all
transmission errors are detected
Types of Error Messages.

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Lost Message
Damaged Message

Lost message

One that never arrives at the destination or one that is damaged to the
extent that it is unrecognizable.

Damaged Message

One that is recognized at the destination but contains one or more
transmission errors.

Error-Detecting
Codes

It includes enough redundant information with each transmitted
message to enable the receiver to determine when an error has
occurred.

Examples:
- Parity bits
- block and frame check characters
- cyclic redundancy characters

Error-correcting
Codes

It includes sufficient extraneous information along with each
message to enable the receiver to determine when an error has
occurred and which bits is in error.

Two primary methods for error correction:
- Retransmission
- Forward Error Correction

Retransmission

When a receive station requests the transmit station to resend a
message when the message is received in error.

Automatic Repeat
Request (ARQ) or
Automatic
Retransmission
Request

A two-way radio term which automatically a retransmission f the
entire message.
Types of ARQ:

- Discrete
- Continuous


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Acknowledgement

The recipient of data sends a short message back to the sender
acknowledging receipt of the last transmission.

Types of acknowledgements:
- Positive
- Negative

Line Turnarounds
A receive station becomes the transmit station such as when
acknowledgments are sent or when retransmission are sent in
response to a negative acknowledgment.
Discrete ARQ

It uses acknowledgments to indicate the successful or unsuccessful
reception of data.

Continuous ARQ

It can be used when messages are divided into smaller lock or frames
that are sequentially numbered and transmitted in succession, without
waiting for acknowledgments between blocks.

Retransmission
Time-Out

The sending station does not receive an acknowledgment after a
predetermined length of time.

Selective Repeat

The destination station asynchronously requests the retransmission of
specific frame of data and still be able to reconstruct the entire
message once all frames have been successfully transported through
the system.

Forward Error
Correction
(FEC)

The error-correction scheme that detects and corrects transmission
errors when they are received without requiring a retransmission.

Richard W. Hamming

A mathematician, who was an early pioneer in the development of
error-detection and correction procedures, developed the Hamming
Code while working at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hamming Code

An error-correcting code used for correcting transmission errors in
synchronous data streams. It requires the addition of overhead to the
message, consequently increasing the length of a transmission.


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Hamming Bits

Inserted into a character at random locations.
Hamming Code

The combination of the data bits and the hamming bits.

Synchronize

It means to harmonize, coincide, or agree in time.
Character
Synchronization

Involves identifying the beginning and end of a character with in a
message.

Asynchronous

Its literal meaning is without synchronism.
In Data Com, it means without a specific time reference

Start-stop Transmission
Asynchronous communications is called as such because each data
character is framed between start and stop bits.

Clock Slippage

A condition when the transmit and receive clocks are substantially
different

Under slipping

It occurs when the transmit clock is substantially lower than the
receive clock.

Overslipping

Occurs when the transmit clock is substantially higher than the
receiver clock.

Synchronous Data

It involves transporting serial data at relatively high speeds in groups
pf characters.

POTS

Plain old Telephone system
Data
Communications
System

It is comprised of three basic elements:
transmitter (source)
- transmission path (data channel)
- receiver (destination)


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3 fundamental components of endpoints:
- data terminal equipment
- data communications equipment
- serial interface

Data Terminal
Equipment (DTE)

It can be virtually any binary digital device that generates transmits,
receives, or interprets data messages. It is where information
originates or terminates.

Terminal

Devices used to input, output and display information such as
keyboards, printers and monitors

Client

Basically a modern-day terminal with enhance
computing capabilities

Hosts

High-powered, high capacity mainframe computers that support
terminals.

Servers

It functions as modern-day host.
Equipment (DCE)
Data Communications

A general term use to describe equipment that interfaces data
terminal equipment to a transmission channel, such as a digital T1
carrier or an analog telephone circuit. It is a signal conversion device,
as it converts signals from a DTE to a form more suitable to be
transported over transmission channel.

Types of DCE:

- channel service units (CSUs)
- Digital service units (DSUs)
- data modems

Data Circuit-
Terminating Equipment
(DCTE)

Another term for DCE.
Data Modem

A DCE used to interface a DTE to an analog telephone circuit

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commonly called POTS.

Cluster Controller

It controls data flow between several terminal devices and the data
communications channel.

Station Controllers
(STACOs)

Line control units at secondary stations.
UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver/transmitter it is designed for
asynchronous data transmission.

Asynchronous
Communications
Interface Adapter
(ACIA)

A special purpose UART chip manufactured by
Motorola.

Asynchronous Data
Transmission

It means that an asynchronous data format is used and no clocking
information transferred between the DTE and the DCE.

Status Word

An n-bit data register that keeps track of the status of the UARTs
transmits and receive buffer registers.

Transmit Buffer Empty
(TBMT)

Transmit shift register has completed transmission of data character.

Receive Parity Error
(RPE)

Set when a received character has a parity error in it.

Receive Framing
Error
(RFE)

Set when a character is received without any or with improper
number of stop bits.
Receiver Overrun
(ROR)

Set when a character in the receive buffer register is written over by
another receive character.

Receive Data
Available

A data character has been received and loaded into the receive data
register.

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(RDA)

Detection Error

The difference in time between the beginning of a start bit and when
it is detected.
Universal Synchronous
Receiver/transmitter
(USRT)

It is used for synchronous transmission of data between a DTE and a
DCE.
Functions of USRT:
- Serial to parallel and parallel to serial data conversions
- Error detection by inserting parity bits in the
transmitter and checking parity bits in the receiver.
- Insert and detect unique data synchronization (SYN)
characters
- Formatting data in the transmitter and receiver.
- Provide transmit and receive status information to the
CPU.
- Voltage-level conversion between the DTE and the
serial interface and vice versa.
- Provide a means of achieving bit and character
synchronization.

Serial Interface

It should provide the ff:
- A specific range of voltages for transmit and receive
signal levels
- Limitations for the electrical parameters of the
transmission line.
- Standard cable and cable connectors
- Functional description of each signal on the interface.
-

Electronics Industries
Association (EIA)

In 1962, standardized the interface equipment between data terminal
equipment and data communications equipment.

RS

It means Recommended Standards

Interface Between
Data Terminal
Equipment and
Data Communications
Equipment Employing
Data Communications
The official name of the RS-232 interface

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Equipment Employing
Serial Binary
Interchange

RS-232C

In, 1969, the third revision which was published and remained the
industrial standard until 1987.

RS-232D

Sometimes referred to as the EIZ-232 standard Versions D and E of
the RS-232 standard changed some of the pin designations.

RS-232 Cable

It is a sheath containing 25 wires with a
DB25P-compatible male connector (plug) on one end and a DB25S-
compatible female connector (receptacle) on the other end.

Two full-duplex channels:
- Primary data-actual information
- secondary data-diagnostic information and
handshaking signals

9-pin Version of RS-232

It is designed for transporting asynchronous data between a DTE and
a DCE or between DTEs .

25 pin Version

It is designed for transporting either synchronous or asynchronous
data between a DTE and a DCE.

EIA-561

It is designed exclusively for dial-up telephone.
It is used for transporting asynchronous data between a DTE and a
DCE when the DCE is connected directly to a standard two-wire
telephone line attached to the public switched telephone network.

Voltage-Leveling
Circuits

It converts the internal voltage levels from the DTE and DCE to RS-
232 values.

Driver

A voltage leveler wherein its output signals onto the cable.

Terminator

It accepts signals from the cable.

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FUNCTIONS OF
RS-232 PINS
Pin 1

Protective ground, frame ground, or chassis ground.

Pin 2

Transmit data or send data.

Pin 3

Receive data (RD or RxD)

Pin 4

Request to send (RS or RTS)

Pin 5

Clear to send.(CS or CTS)

Pin 6

Data set ready or modem ready.(DSR or MR)

Pin 7

Signal ground or reference ground.

Pin 8

Unassigned and non-EIA specified often held at +12V
Pin 9

Receive line signal detect, carrier detect or data carrier detect (RLSD,
CD or DCD)

Pin 10

Unassigned and often held at -12 Vdc for test purposes

Pin 12

Secondary receive line signal detect, secondary carrier detect or
secondary data carrier detect (SRLSD, SCD, or SDCD)

Pin 13

Secondary clear to send.

Pin 14

Secondary transmit data or secondary send data
Pin 15

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Pin 16

Secondary received data

Pin 17

Receiver signal element timing or serial clock receive

Pin 18

Unassigned is used for local loopback signal

Pin 19

Secondary request to send

Pin 20

Data terminal ready.

Pin 21

Signal quality detector.

Pin 22

Ring indicator (RI)

Pin 23

Data signal rate selector (DSRS)
Pin 24

Transmit signal element timing or serial clock
transmit-DTE

Pin 25

Unassigned. It is sometimes used as a control signal from the DCE to
the DTE to indicate that the DCE is in either the remote or local loop
back mode.
RS-449 Serial Interface

It specifies a 37-pin primary connector DB37 and a 9 pin secondary
connector DB9 for a total of 46 pins which provides more functions,
faster data transmission rates and spans greater distances than the RS-
232.

Primary goals of RS-449:
- Compatibility with the RS-232 interface standard
- Replace the set of circuit names and mnemonics

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- Provide separate cables and connectors
- Reduce crosstalks
- offer higher data transmission
- longer distances over twisted pair cables
- loopback capable
- improve performance and reliability
specify a standard connector

Two categories:
- Category I
- Category II

10 CIRCUITS IN RS-449

1.Local Loopback

Used by the DTE to request a local loopback from the DCE.

2.Remote Loopback

Used by the DTE to request a remote loopback from the distant DCE.

3. Select frequency

Allows the DTE to select the DCEs transmit and receive
frequencies.

4.Test Mode

Used by DTE to signal the DCE that a test is in progress.

5. Receive Common

Common return wire for unbalanced signals
propagating from the DCE to the DTE

6. Terminal in Service

Used by the DTE to signal the DCE whether it is operational
7. Select Standby

Used by the DTE to request that the DCE switched to standby
equipment.

8. New Signal

Used with a modem at the primary location of a multipoint data
circuit.

RS-530 Serial Interface

It was intended to operate at data rates between 20 kbps and 2 Mbps
using the same DB25 connector

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Data Communications
Modem

It is used to interface computers, computer networks
to analog transmission media
Alternate names:
- datasets
- dataphones
- modems
Modem

A contraction derived from the words Modulator and Demodulator.

Primary Block of a Modem:
- Serial interface Circuit
- Modulator Circuit
- Bandpass filter and equalizer circuit
- telco interface circuit
- demodulator circuit
- carrier and clock generation circuit

Voice-band Modem

Data communications modems designed to operate over the limited
bandwidth of the PSTN.

Broadband Modem

It is able of transporting higher bit rates.

DAC

Digital to analog converter.

ADC

Analog to digital converter.
Baud

It is a rate of change of signals on the transmission medium after
encoding and modulation have occurred

Bit Rate

Refers to the rate of change of a digital information signal.

Asynchronous
Modems

It is classified as low-speed voice-band modems


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Isochronous
Transmission

Synchronous data transported by asynchronous modems.

Synchronous Modems

It uses PSK or quadrature amplitude modulation to transport data.

Training Sequence

A special, internally generated bit pattern in transmit modem.

Compromise
Equalizers

Located in the transmit section of a modem and provide pre-
equalization

Adaptive Equalizer

Located in the receiver section of a modem where they provide post-
equalization to the received signals

ITU-T V.29

The first internationally accepted standard for 9600bps data
transmission rate.
V.29 Standard

It is intended to provide synchronous data transmission over four-
wire leased lines.

Quin bits

Five bits.
Echo Cancellation

A technique for full-duplex operation over two wire switched
telephone lines.

V.32 Specification

It addresses asynchronous-to synchronous transmission conversions
and error control that includes both detection and correction. It
specifies a new protocol called Link Access Procedures for Modems.

V.fast

It is the next generation data transmission with data rates of 28.8
Kbps without compression possible using V.34.

V.34 Innovations:
- Nonlinear coding
- multidimensional coding and constellation shaping
- Reduced complexity
- precoding of data
- line probing

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V.34+

An enhanced standard adopted by ITU in 1996.
It adds 31.2 kbps and 33.6 kbps to the V.34 specification.

V.90
Recommendation

Developed by ITU-T in February 1998 during a meeting in Geneva,
Switzerland. It defines an asymmetrical data transmission technology
where the upstream 33.6kbps and downstream of 56kbps.

V.92
Recommendation

A new modem standard in 2000 which offers 3 improvements over
V.90 that can be achieved only if both the transmit and receive
modems and the internet Service Provider (ISP) are compliant.

It offers:
- upstream transmission rate of 48 kbps
- faster call setup capabilities
- incorporation of a hold option

CHAPTER 23:
DATA-LINK PROTOCOLS AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

TERMS

DEFINITIONS
Network
Architecture
The primary goal of __________ is to give users of a network the tools
necessary for setting up the network and performing data flow control.

Data-Link Protocol
A set of rules implementing and governing an orderly exchange of data
between two layer devices.

Master Station
The transmitting station in a data link protocol.

Slave Station
The receiving station in a data link protocol.

Peer-to Peer
Network
Data link network wherein all stations have equal access to the network.

Functions of Data-
link Protocol
Discipline, Flow Control and Error Control.

Line Discipline
Coordinates hop-to-hop data delivery where a hop may be a computer, a
network controller, or some type of network-connecting device

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Line Discipline
Determines which device is transmitting and which is receiving at any point
in time.

Flow Control
Coordinates the rate which data are transported over a link and generally
provides an acknowledgement mechanism.

Error Control
Specifies means of detecting and correcting transmission errors.

Enquiry/Acknowled
gement(ENQ/ACK)
and Poll/Select
Two fundamental ways that line discipline is accomplished in a data
communications network.

ENQ/ACK
It determines which device on the network can initiate a transmission and
whether the intended receiver is available and ready to receive a message.

Enquiry(ENQ)
The initiating station begins a session by transmitting a frame, block, or
packet of data called _________, which identifies the receiving station.

Positive
Acknowledgement
(ACK)
The response of the destination station when it is ready to receive.

Negative
Acknowledgement
(NAK)
The response of the destination station when it is not ready to receive.

Centrally Controlled
Data Network
The best application of the poll/select line discipline.

Poll
A solicitation sent from the primary to a secondary to determine if the
secondary has data to transmit

Flow Control
A set of procedures that tells the transmitting station how much data it can
send before it must stop transmitting and wait for an acknowledgment from
the destination station

Stop-and Wait Flow
Control
The transmitting station sends one message frame and then waits for an
acknowledgement before sending the next message frame.
Sliding Window
Flow Control
A source station can transmit several frames in succession before receiving
an acknowledgement.

Sliding Window
It refers to imaginary receptacles at the source and destination stations with
the capacity of holding several frames of data.

Network Utilization
Primary advantage of sliding window control.

Complexity and
Hardware Capacity
Primary disadvantages of sliding window flow control.

Character Oriented
Protocols
Interpret a frame of data as a group of successive bits combined into
predefined patterns of fixed length, usually eight bits each.

Byte-oriented
Protocols
Another name for character oriented protocols.

Bit Oriented
A discipline for serial by bit information transfer over a data communications
channel.

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Protocol

Asynchronous Data
link Protocols
A character-oriented protocols generally used on two point networks using
asynchronous data and asynchronous modems.

Ward Christiansen
Developed the first file transfer protocol designed to facilitate transferring
data between two personal computers in 1979.

XMODEM
Cristiansen's protocol which is relatively simple data link protocol intended
for low-speed applications.

Synchronous Data-
Link Protocols
Remote stations can have more than one PC or printer.

Cluster
A group of computers, printers, and other digital devices.

Binary Synchronous
Communications
(BSC)
A synchronous character-oriented data link protocol developed by IBM.

Bisync
Another name for BSC.

Format or line turn
around
Another name for enquiry (ENQ) character.

Block Check
Character (BCC)
The __________ uses longitudinal redundancy checking (LRC) with ASCII-
coded messages and cyclic redundancy checking.

Synchronous Data-
Link Control
(SDLC)
A synchronous bit oriented protocol developed in the 1970's by IBM for use
in system network architecture environment.

Transient, Idle and
Active
Three transmission states.

SDLC Frame Fields
Flag Fields, Address Field, Control Field, Information and Frame Check
Sequence Field are __________.

Flags
It is used for the delimiting sequence for the frame and to achieve frame and
character synchronization.

Control Field
It is used for polling, confirming previously received frames, and several
other data link management functions

Information,
Supervisory and
Unnumbered
Three frame formats with SDLC.

Unnumbered
Information (UI)
A command or a response that is used to send unnumbered information.

Set Initialization
Mode
A command that places a secondary station into the initialization mode.

Request
Initialization Mode
(RIM)
A response sent by a secondary station to request the primary to send a
SIM command.

Set Normal
Response Mode
A command that places a secondary into the normal response mode.


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(SNRM)
Disconnect Mode
(DM)
A response transmitted from a secondary station if the primary attempts to
send numbered information frames to it when the secondary is in the normal
disconnect mode.

Request Disconnect
(RD)
A response sent by a secondary when it wants the primary to place it in the
disconnect mode.

Unnumbered
Acknowledgement
An affirmative response that indicates compliance to SIM, SNRM or DISC
commands

TEST
An exchange of frames between the primary station and a secondary
station.

Turnaround
Sequence
A flag followed by eight consecutive logic 0's.

Clear
A SDLC subcommand causes all previously set functions to be cleared by
the secondary.

Beacon Test
A SLDC subcommand causes the secondary receiving it to turn on or turn
off its carrier.

Monitor Mode
A SDLC command causes the addressed secondary station to pace itself
into the monitor mode.

Wrap
A SDLC command causes a secondary station to loop its transmission
directly to its receiver input.

Self-Test
A SDLC command causes the addressed secondary to initiate a series of
internal diagnostic tests.

Zero Bit Insertion or
Zero Stuffing
The transparency mechanism used with SDLC.

Message Abort
It is used prematurely terminate an SDLC frame.

Invert-On-Zero
Coding
The encoding scheme used in SDLC.

ISO 3309
Standard that defines the frame structure, delimiting sequence, transparency
mechanism and error detection method used with HDLC.

Normal Response
Mode (NRM)
Operational Mode of SDLC.

Asynchronous
Balanced Mode
A mode of operation logically equivalent to a two point private line circuit
where each station has equal data link responsibilities.

Public Switched
Data Network
(PDN)
A switched data communications network similar to the public telephone
network except a PDN is designed for transferring data only.

Circuit Switching
It is used when making a standard telephone call on the public telephone
network.

Message Switching
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Hold and Forward
Network
Another name for packet switching.

X.25
A user interface as the international standard for packet network access.

Permanent Virtual
Circuit (PVC)
SA logically equivalent to a two point dedicated private line circuit except
slower.

Virtual Call
A logically equivalent to making a telephone call through the DDD network
except no direct end to end connection is made.

Format Identifier
Identifies whether the packet is a new call request or a previously
established call.

Logical Channel
Identifier
A 12 bit binary number that identifies the source and destination users for a
given virtual call.

Calling Address
Field
This four bit gives the number of digits that appear in the calling address
filed.

Called Address
Length
This field is the same as the calling address field except that it identifies the
number of digits that appear in the called address field

Called Address
This field contains the destination address.

Calling Address
This field is the same as the called address field except that it contains up to
15 BCD.

Facilities Length
Field
This field identifies the number of eight bit octets present in the facilities
field.

Protocol Identifier
This 32 bit field is reserved for the subscriber to insert user level protocol.

Integrated Services
Digital Network
(ISDN)
A proposed network designed by the major telephone companies in
conjunction with the ITU-T.

Digital Pipe
Customers gain access to the ISDN system through a local interface
connected to a digital transmission medium.

System
Standardization
ISDN objectives that ensure universal access to the network.

Achieving
Transparency
Said objectives that allow customers to use a variety of protocols and
applications

Separating
Functions
ISDN should not provide services that preclude competitiveness

Variety of
Configurations
Provide private-line and switched services refer what objectives of ISDN.

Addressing Cost-
Related Tariffs
ISDN services should not be directly related to cost and independent of the
nature of the data.
Migration
Provide a smooth transition while evolving.

Multiplexed Support
Provide service to low capacity personal subscribers as well as to large

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companies.

Terminal Adapter
Translation between non-ISDN data protocol and ISDN is performed in this
device.

Network
Termination 1
A boundary to the network and may be controlled by the ISDN provider.

U-Reference Point
Refers to interfaces between the common carrier subscriber loop and the
central office switch

U Loop
The media interface point between an NT1 and the central office.

Broadband ISDN
It is defined by ITU-T as a service that provides transmission channels
capable of supporting transmission rates greater than the primary data rate.

Distribution
Services
Information transfer is primarily from service provider to subscriber

Broadband Node
Codes the data information into smaller packets used by the BISDN network

Virtual Channel
A connection between a source and a destination, which may entail several
ATM links.

Cells
Once data have entered the ATM network, they transferred into fixed time
slots called ________.

Generic Flow
Control Field (GFC)
Controls the flow of traffic across the user network interface (UNI) and into
the network.

Payload Type
Identifier
The first three bits of the second half of byte 4 specify the type of message
in cell.

Constant Bit Rate
Information fields that are designed to accommodate PCM-TDM traffic,
which allows the ATM, network to emulate voice or DSN services.

Public ATM
Switches
A portion of a public service provider's switching system where the service
provider could be a local telephone company or a long-distance carrier.

Local Area
Networks (LAN)
Provides the most effective and economical means of handling local data
communications field.

E-Mails
A communications system that allows users to send messages to each other
through their computers.

Star, Bus and Ring
Topology
LAN Topologies.

Network Access
Methodologies
It describes how users access the communications channel in a LAN.

CDMA/CD
Access method used primarily in bus topology.

Collision
It two stations transmit at the same time, ________ occurs.

Propagation Delay
The time it takes a signal to travel from a source to a destination.

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Ethernet
A base band transmission system designed in 1972 by Robert Metcalfe and
David Boggs.

Preamble
Its purpose is to establish clock synchronization.

Start Frame
Delimiter
It is simply a series of two logic 1's appended to the end of the preamble.

Source Address
Consists of six bytes the corresponds to the address of the stati on sending
the frame.

CHAPTER 24:
MICROWAVE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS AND SYSTEM GAIN

Microwaves

Electromagnetic waves with frequencies that range from approximately 500
MHz to 300 GHz or more.

1 cm and 60 cm
slightly longer
The wavelengths for microwave frequencies, which is t han infrared energy.

Microwave
waves

The name given to microwave signals, because of their inherently high
frequencies, has short wavelengths.

Full-Duplex
(Two-way)

Each frequency is divided in half with the lower half identified as the low
band and the upper half as narrow band.

Short Haul

Communications system used to carry information for relatively short
distances such as between cities with the same state.

Long Haul

Microwave systems that is used to carry information for relatively long
distances, such as interstate and backbone route applications.

Microwave
Radios

It propagate signals through Earths atmosphere between transmitters and
receivers often located on top of tower spaced about 15 miles to 30 miles
apart.

Advantages of Microwave Radio:
- Radio systems do not require a right-of way acquisition
between stations.
- Each station requires the purchase or lease of only a small
area of land.
- Because of their high operating frequencies, microwave
radio systems can carry large quantities of information.
- High frequencies mean short wavelengths, which require

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relatively small antennas.
- Radio signals are more easily propagated around physical
obstacles such as water and high mountains
- Fewer repeaters are necessary for amplification.
- Distances between switching centers are less.
- Underground facilities are minimized.
- Minimum delays are introduced.
- Minimal crosstalk exists between voice channels.
- Increased reliability and less maintenance are important
factors.

Disadvantages of Microwave Radio:
- It is more difficult to analyze and design circuits at
microwave frequencies.
- Measuring techniques are more difficult to perfect
and implement at microwave frequencies.
- It is difficult to implement conventional circuit components at
- Transient time is more critical at microwave frequencies.
- It is often necessary to use specialized components for
- Microwave frequencies propagate in a straight line, which
limits their use to line-of-sight applications.
Satellite Systems

Propagates signals outside the Earths atmosphere and are capable of
carrying signals much farther while utilizing fewer transmitters and receivers.

Frequency
Modulation

t is used in microwave radio systems rather than amplitude modulation
because AM signals are more sensitive to amplitude nonlinearities inherent
in wide-band microwave amplifiers.

Intermodulation
Noise

Major factor when designing FM Radio systems. It is caused by repeater
amplitude nonlinearity in AM, while in FM, it is caused by transmission gain
and delay distortion.

Baseband

The composite signal that modulates the FM carrier
and may comprise one or more of the following:

- Frequency-division multiplexed voice-band channels
- Time-division-multiplexed voice-band channels
- Broadcast-quality composite video or picture phone
- Wideband data

Preemphasis Network

It provides an artificial boost in amplitude to the higher baseband
frequencies.

Low-Index

Frequency modulation index used in the FM deviator. Typically, modulation
indices are kept between 0.5 and 1.

Narrowband FM

FM signal that is produces at the output of the deviator with a low-index
frequency modulation.

Microwave
Repeaters
A receiver and a transmitter placed back to back or in tandem with the
system.

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Repeater Station
It receives a signal, amplifies and reshapes it, and then retransmit the signal
to the next repeater or terminal station down line from it.
Types of Microwave repeaters:
- IF
- Baseband
- RF

IF Repeater

The received RF carrier is down-converted to an IF frequency, amplified,
reshaped, up-converted to an RF frequency, and then retransmitted.

Baseband
Frequencies
Generally less than 9 MHz
IF frequencies

The range id 60 MHz to 80MHz.
Shift Oscillator

Another name for a Local oscillator is considerably lower in frequency than
either the received or the transmitted radio frequencies.

Line-of Site
Transmission
Transmission used by microwave systems wherein a direct signal path must
exist between the transmitter receiver .

Radio Fade

A temporary reduction in signal strength which last in milliseconds for
several hours or even days.
Diversity

It suggests that there is more than one transmission path or method of
transmission available a transmitter and a receiver.

Frequency Diversity

It is simply modulating two different RF carrier frequencies with the same IF
intelligence, then transmitting both RF signals to a given destination.

Space Diversity

The output of a transmitter is fed to two or more antennas that are physically
separated by an appreciable number of wavelengths.

Polarization
Diversity

A single RF carrier is propagated with two different electromagnetic
polarizations. It is generally used in conjunction with space diversity.

Receiver
Diversity

It is more than one receiver for a single radio-frequency channel. With
frequency diversity, it is necessary to also use receiver diversity because
each transmitted frequency requires its own receiver

Quad Diversity
Another form of Hybrid diversity and undoubtly provides the most reliable
transmission but most expensive. It combines frequency, space, and
polarization and receiver diversity into one system.

Hybrid Diversity

A specialized form of diversity that consist of a standard frequency diversity
path where the two transmitter/ receiver pairs at one end of the path are
separated from each other and connected to different antennas that are
vertically separated as in space diversity.

Protection Switching
Arrangement

Alternate facilities temporarily made to avoid a service interruption during
periods of deep fades or equipment failures.

types of protection switching arrangements:
- hotstandby

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- diversity

Hot Standby
Protection
Each working radio channel has a dedicated backup or spare channel.

Diversity
Protection
A single backup channel is made available to as many as 11 working
channels.

Head-End
Bridge

In hotstandby protection, it splits the signal power and directs it to the
working and the spare (standby) microwave channels simultaneously.

Diversity Protection

It has two working channels, one spare channel, and an auxiliary channel.

Auxilliary
Channel

A low-capacity low-power microwave radio that is designed to be used for a
maintenance channel only.

Reliability
Objectives
of the Systems
It is where the number of repeater stations between protection switches
depends.

Terminal Stations
Points in the system where baseband signals either originate or terminate.
four major sections:
- baseband
- wireline entrance link (WLEL)
- FM-IF
- RF sections

Repeater
Stations

Points in a system where baseband signals may be reconfigured or where
RF carriers are simply repeated or amplified.
WLEL

Stands for WireLine Entrance Link, it serves as the interface between t he
multiplex terminal equipment and the FM_IF equipment.
Transmod

A balanced modulator that, when used in conjunction with a microwave
generator, power amplifier, and band-pass filter, up-converts the IF carrier to
an RF carrier and amplifies the RF to the desired output power.

Power
Amplifiers

It must be capable of amplifying very high frequencies and passing very
wide bandwidth signals for microwave radios.

devices used in microwaveamplifiers:
- Klystron Tubes
- Traveling-wave tubes (TWTs)
- IMPATT (Impact avalanche and transit time)

Microwave
Generator

It provides the RF carrier input to the up-converter. It is called as microwave
generator rather than an oscillator because it is difficult to construct a stable
circuit that will oscillate in the gigahertz range.

Crystal-
controlled
Oscillator

It operates in the range 5 MHz to 25 MHz, used to provide a base frequency
that is multiplied up to the desired RF carrier frequency.


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Isolator

A unidirectional device often made from ferrite material. It used in
conjunction with a channel-combining network to prevent the output of one
transmitter from interfering with the output of another transmitter.

AGC

Stands for Automatic Gain Control, is a circuit in an IF amplifier.

Multi-hop
Interference
It occurs only when three stations are placed in a geographical straight line
in the system.

High/Low-
Frequency
Scheme

It prevents the power that leaks out the back and sides of a transmit
antenna from interfering with the
signal entering the input of a nearby receive antenna.

Ring around

The signal entering the input of a nearby receive antenna.

V Channels

It means that this channel is propagated with vertical polarization.

Free-Space Path

The line-of-sight directly between the transmit and receive ant enna. Also
called as the Direct Wave.

Surface Wave

It consists of the electric and magnetic fields associated with the currents
induced in earths surface.

Ground-
Reflected Wave
The portion of the transmit signal that is reflected off Earths surface and
captured by the receive antenna.

Sky Wave

The portion of the transmit signal that is returned back to Earths surface by
the ionized layers of earths atmosphere.

Free-Space Path
Loss

The loss incurred by an electromagnetic wave as it propagates in a straight
line through a vacuum with no absorption or reflection of energy from nearby
objects.
Spreading Loss

A phenomenon wherein electromagnetic energy is spread out as it
propagates away from the source resulting in lower relative power densities.
Fading

The reduction in signal strength at the input to a receiver.

System Gain

The difference between the nominal output power of a transmitter and the
minimum input power to a receiver necessary to achieve satisfactory
performance.

Fade Margin

Sometimes called as Link Margin, is essentially a fudge Factor included in
system gain equations that considers the non ideal and less predictable
characteristics of radio wave propagation and terrain sensitivity.

W.T. Barnett

He described ways of calculating outage time due to fading on a non
diversity path as a function of terrain, climate, path length, and fade margin,
in April 1969.

Arvids Vignant

From Bell Laboratories, he derived formulas for calculating the effective
improvement achievable by vertical space diversity as a function of the
spacing distance, path length, and frequency in June 1970.


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Carrier-to-Noise
Ratio (C/N)
The ratio of the wideband carrier to the wideband noise power.

Receiver
Threshold

Also called Receiver Sensitivity, is the minimum wide band carrier power at
the input to a receiver that will provide a usable baseband output.

Pre-detection Signal
to-Noise Ratio
The carrier-to-noise ratio before the FM demodulator.

Postdetection
Signal-
to-Noise Ratio
The carrier-to-noise ratio after the FM demodulator.
Noise Factor (F)

A ratio of input signal-to-noise ratio to output signal to noise ratio.

Noise Figure

The noise factor stated in dB and is a parameter commonly used to indicate
the quality of a receiver.

CHAPTER 25:
SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS

TERMS DEFINITION
Satellite A celestial body that orbits around a planet.

Communications
Satellites
Man-made satellites that orbit earth, providing a multitude of communication
functions to a wide variety of consumers, including military, governmental,
private and commercial subscriber.

Transponder A satellite radio repeater is called?

Satellite System
It consists of one or more satellite space vehicles, a ground-based station to
control the operation of the system, and a user network of earth stations that
provides the interface facilities for the transmission and reception of terrestrial
communications traffic through the satellite system.

Bus It includes control mechanism that supports the payload operation.

Payload The actual user information conveyed through the system.

Passive Reflector A type of satellite wherein it simply bounces signals from one place to
another.

Moon A natural satellite of Earth, visible by reflection of sunlight having a slightly
elliptical orbit.

Radio Beacon
Transmitters
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Sputnik I
Launched by Russia, the first active earth satellite in 1957. It transmitted
telemetry for 21 days.

Active Satellite
A type of satellite capable of receiving, amplifying, reshaping, regenerating and
retransmitting information.

Explorer I
Satellite launched by U.S., it transmitted telemetry information for nearly five
months.

Score
Satellite launched by NASA in 1958, a 150-pound conical-shaped satellite. It
was the first artificial satellite used for relaying terrestrial communications.

Delayed Repeater
Satellite
The score is type of satellite were in the received transmission from earth
station, stored them on a magnetic tape, and then rebroadcast them later to
ground station farther along in its orbit.

Echo
Launched by the NASA in junction with Bell Telephone Laboratories and the
jet Propolusion Laboratory. It is passively reflected radio signal it received from
large earth station antennas and it was simple and reliable radio signal but
required extremely high power transmitter at the earth station.

Courier
In 1960 the Department of Defense launched a satellite which was the first
transponder type satellite and has transmitted 3W of power and lasted only 17
days.

Telstar I The first active satellite to simultaneously receive and transmit radio signals.

Telstar II
Launched in 1963, and was used for telephone, television, facsimile and data
transmission and accomplished the first successful transatlantic video
transmission.

Syncom I
Launched in February 1963, was the first attempt to place a geosynchronous
satellite into orbit.

Syncom III The satellite used to broadcast the 1964 Olympic Games from Tokyo Japan.

Syncom The satellite that demonstrate the feasibility of using geosynchronous satellite.

Intelsat I
It was the first commercial telecommunications satellite. It launched from Cape
Kennedy in 1965 and used two transponders. Also call ed as Early Birds. It
stands for International Telecommunications Satellite.

Molniya Domestic satellite launched by former Soviet Union in 1966. It means
lighting.

Johannes Kepler A German astronomer who discovered the laws that governs satellite motion.

Keplers Law

The planets move in ellipses with the sun at one focus.
The line joining the sun and the planet sweeps out equal intervals of time.
The square of the time of revolution of a planet divided by the cube of its mean distance fromthe sun gives a
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Keplers Second
Law
Enunciated with the first law in 1609, is known as law of area, this law states
that for equal intervals of time a satellite will sweep out equal area in the orbital
plane, focused at the barycenter.

Perigee The point in an orbit closest to earth.

Apogee The point in an orbit farthest from the earth.

Harmonic Law or
Keplers Third Law
a = AP
2/3

a = semimajor axis
P = mean solar earth
station
A = constant
It states that the square of the periodic time of orbit is proportional to the cube
of the mean distance between the primary and the satellite.

Geosynchronous
Satellite
High-altitude earth-orbit satellites operating primarily in the 2-GHz to 18 GHz
frequency spectrum with orbits Satellite 22,300 miles above earths surface.

Advantages of Geosynchronous Satellite:

It remain almost stationary in respect to a given earth station.
Available to earth within their shadows 100% of the time.
No need to switch from one geosynchronous satellite to another as they orbit overhead
The effects of Doppler shift are negligible

Disadvantages of geosynchronous Satellite:

It requires sophisticated and heavy propulsion device onboard to keep them in a fixed orbit
Much longer propagation delays
Requires higher transmit power and more sensitive receivers because of the longer distances
and greater path loss.
High precision spacemanship is required.

Nonsynchronous Satellite that rotates around the earth in an elliptical or circular patterns.

Progeade or
Posigrade
If the satellite is orbiting in the same direction as earths rotation and at the
angular velocity greater than the earth that orbit is called?

Retrograde If the satellite is orbiting in the same direction as earths rotation and at the
angular velocity less than the earth that orbit is called?

Low Earth Orbit
(LEO)
The satellite operates in the 1.0GHz to 2.5GHz frequency range and utilizing a
66-satelite constellation orbiting approximately 48 miles above the earths
surface.

Medium Earth Orbit
(MEO)
The satellite operates in the 1.2GHz to 1.66GHz frequency band and orbit
between 6000 miles and 12000 miles above the earth.

Geosynchronous
Earth Orbit (GEO)
The satellite are high altitude earth orbit satellite operating primary in the 2GHz
to 18 GHz frequency spectrum with orbits 22,300 miles above the earths
surface.

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Near-Synchronous It is slightly lower than 22,300 miles above earth, the satellite orbit time is
lower than earths rotational period.

Major Axis The line joining the perigee and apogee through the center of the earth and
sometimes called line of apsides.

Minor Axis The line perpendicular to the major axis and halfway between the perigee and
apogee it is sometimes called semiminor axis.

Geocenter
All satellite rotate around the earth in an orbit that from a plane that passes
through the center of the gravity of earth is called?

Inclined Orbits
Are virtually all orbits except those that travel directly above the equator or
directly over the north and south poles?

Angle of Inclination
The angle between the earths equatorial plane and the orbital plane of a
satellite measured counter clockwise at the point in the orbit where it crosses
the equatorial plane traveling from south to north called the ascending node.

Descending Node
The point where a polar or inclined orbit crosses the equatorial plane traveling
from north to south is called?

Line of Nodes The line joining the ascending and descending nodes through the center of the
earth is called?

Equatorial Orbit
When the satellite rotates in an orbits directly above the equator, usually in a
circular path.

Polar Orbit
When the satellite rotates in a path that takes it over the north and south poles
in an orbit perpendicular to the equatorial plane.

Station Keeping The process of maneuvering a satellite within a preassigned window is called?

Arthur C. Clarke He first suggested its existence in 1945 and proposed its use for
communication satellite.

Antenna Look
Angles
Azimuth angle and elevation angle are jointly referred to as the?

Subsatellite Point
The location that is identified by a point on the surface of the earth, it has no
latitude and longitude is called?

Angle of Elevation
It is the vertical angle formed between the direction of travel of an
electromagnetic wave radiated from the earth station antenna pointing directly
toward a satellite and the horizontal plane.

Azimuth
It is the horizontal angular distance from a reference direction, either the
southern or northernmost point of the horizon.

Azimuth Angle Is defined as the horizontal pointing angle of an earth station antenna.

Limit of Visibility
Which determine the fastest satellite away that can be seen looking east or
west of the earth station longitude?

Spinner
It uses the angular momentum of its spinning body to provide roll and yaw
stabilization.

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Three-axis
Stabilizer
The body remains fixed relative to earths surface, while an internal subsystem
provides roll and yaw stabilization.

The required spatial separation is dependent on the following variables:

Beamwidths and side lobe radiation of both earth station and satellite antenna.
RF carrier frequency
Encoding or modulating technique used
Acceptance limits of interference
Transmit carrier power

Footprint The geographic representation of a satellite antennas radiation pattern is
called?

Effective Isotropic
Radiated Power
(EIRP)

The effective power transmitted is called?

Spot beam
They concentrate their power to very small geographic areas and therefore
typically have proportionately higher ERIP than those targeting much larger
area because a given output power can be more concentrated.

Hemispherical
Downlink
An antenna typically target up to 20% of the earths surface and therefore,
have EIRP that are 3dB or 50% lower than those transmitted by spot beams
that typically cover only 10% of the earths surface.

Frequency Reuse The different beams of the same frequency can be directed to different
geographical area of the earth.

Dual Polarization
The different information signals can be transmitted to different earth station
receivers using the same band of frequency simply by orienting their
electromagnetic polarizations in an orthogonal manner.

High-Power
Amplifiers
It is used in earth station transmitters and the traveling-wave tubes typically
used in satellite transponders.

Back-off loss The amount the output level is backed off from rated level is equivalent to a
loss and is appropriately called?

Saturated output
power
The output power of a typical satellite earth station transmitter is much higher
than the output power from terrestrial microwave power amplifiers.

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SATELLITE MULTIPLE ACCESSING ARRANGEMENTS

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TERMS DEFINITIONS
Multiple Accessing

Also called as Multiple Destination, It implies that more than one
user has access to one or more radio channels within a satellite
communications channel.

Multiple Accessing Arrangement:
- Frequency-division multiple accessing (FDMA)
- Time-division multiple accessing (TDMA)
- Code-division multiple accessing (CDMA)

Pre-
assignment(dedicated)

A given number of the available voice-band channels from each
earth station are assigned a dedicated destination.

Demand Assignment

Voice channels are assigned on an as-needed basis.
Frequency Reuse

The method of assigning adjacent channels different
electromagnetic polarizations and is possible by using orthogonal
polarization and spacing adjacent channels 20 MHz apart.

Anik

Eskimo word meaning little brother.

Anik-E
communications
Satellite

Domestic Satellites operated by Telsat Canada.
FDMA

A method of multiple accessing where a given RF bandwidth is
divided into smaller frequency bands.

Fixed-Assignment,
Multiple
Access (FAMA)

Multiple channels per carrier formats assigned and remain fixed
for a long Period of time.

Demand-Assignment
Multiple Access

Assigning carrier frequency on temporary basis using a statistical
assignment process.

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SPADE

An acronym for Single-channel-per-carrier PCM multiple Access
Demand-assignment Equipment.

SCPC

Stands for Single-Carrier-Per-Channel.

Common Signaling
Channel
(CSC)

A time division-multiplexed transmission that is frequency
division multiplexed.

TDMA

The predominant Multiple-access method of time-division
multiplexing digitally modulated carriers between participating
earth stations within a satellite network through a common satellite
transponder.

Transponder

An RF-to-RF repeater that simply receives the earth station
transmissions, amplifies them, and then re-transmits them in a
downlink beam that is received by all other participating station.

Reference Burst

It is where transmissions from all earth stations are synchronized.

Carrier Recovery
Sequence
(CRS)

It is where all receiving stations recover a frequency and phase
coherent carrier for PSK demodulation

CEPT

An acronym for Conference of European Postal and
Telecommunications Administrations, is commonly used TDMA
frame format for digital satellite system

Code-Division Multiple
Access (CDMA)

Sometimes referred to as Spread-Spectrum Multiple entire
allocated bandwidth Access, the transmissions can spread
throughout

Chip Code

A unique binary word that each earth stations transmissions are
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Correlator

It compares two signals and recovers the original data.

Digital non interpolated
Interface

It assigns an individual terrestrial channel (TC) to a particular
satellite channel (SC) for the duration of the call.

Digital Speech
Interpolated Interface

It assigns a terrestrial channel to a satellite channel only when
speech energy is present on the TC.

Time-Assignment
Speech Interpolation
(TASI)

A form of analog channel compression that has been used for sub
oceanic cables for many years.

Navigation

The art or science of plotting, ascertaining or directing the course
of movements, in other words, knowing where you are and being
able to find your way around.

Wandering

It is the most ancient and rudimentary method of navigation and
simply continuing to travel about until you reach your destination,
assuming of course that you have one.

Celestial Navigation

Earliest effective means of navigation wherein direction and
distance are determined from precisely timed sightings of celestial
bodies, including the stars and moon.

Piloting

Method of navigation by means of fixing a position and direction
with respect to familiar, significant landmarks such as railroad
tracks, water towers, barns, mountains and bodies of water.

Dead Reckoning

A navigation technique that determines position by extrapolating a
series of measured velocity increments.

Dead

The term derived from the word deduced and not necessarily
from the fate of the people who used the technique.

Charles Lindbergh

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He used dead reckoning successfully in 1927 during his historic
33-hour transatlantic journey.

Amelia Earhart

She attempted to make the first around-the-world in 1937 using the
dead reckoning technique.

Radio Navigation

Navigation technique wherein the position is deter-mined by
measuring the travel time of an electromagnetic wave as it moves
from a transmitter to a receiver.

Decca

A radio Navigation system for terrestrial surface broadcast.

Omega

Radio Navigation system that provides global coverage and
terrestrial surface broadcast.

LORAN

Also a terrestrial surface broadcast.

Navy Transit GPS

Low-orbit satellite broadcast provides global coverage.

Navstar GPS

Medium-orbit satellite broadcast also provides global coverage.
LORAN

Means of radio navigation in which receivers acquire coded
signals from two pairs of high-powered, land based transmitters
whose locations are precisely known.

Navstar

An acronym for Navigation System with Time and Ranging.
GPS

An abbreviation for Global Positioning System.
Two levels of service or accuracy:
- Standard Positioning Service
- Precise Positioning Service

Navstar GPS

A satellite-based open navigation system which simply means that
it is available to anyone equipped with a GPS receiver.

Consists of three segments:

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- a space segment
- a ground control segment
- user segment

April 27, 1995

It is when the Navstar was declared as fully operational by the U.S.
Air Force Space Command.
Navstar Satellite
System

It was completed in 1994 and is maintained by the United States
Air Force.

Standard Positioning
Service

A positioning and timing service that is available to all GPS users
on a continuous, worldwide basis with no direct change.

Satellite Segment

Sometimes called Space Segment, consists of 24operational
satellites revolving around Earth in six orbital planes
approximately 60 apart with four satellites in each plane.

Cesium Atomic Clock

It produces highly accurate timing signals for satellites.

Pseudorandom Noise
(PRN) Code Number

A unique integer number that is used to encrypt the signal from
that satellite.
Ephemeris

A term associated with a table showing the position of a heavenly
body on a number dates in a regular sequence, in essence, an
astronomical almanac.

Clock Bias Error

Error in the receivers clock which affects the accuracy of the
time-difference measurement.

Operational Control
System

The Navstar control segment.
It consists of :
- Fixed-location ground based monitor stations
- Master Control Station
- uplink transmitter

Differential GPS
It makes standard GPS more accurate. It works by canceling out
most of the natural and man-made errors that creep into normal
GPS measurements.

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