Data Communication Technology Contents
Data Communication Technology Contents
Data Communication Technology Contents
Basic communication model; Data transmission modes and schemes; Information theory and coding;
Concepts of Information theory, maximization of entropy, information rates, channel capacity; Data
transmission: baseband pulse transmission, carrier borne transmission, intersymbol interference, error
control, conversions; Optical fibre transmission: principle of operation, terms, devices, limitations,
advantages; Data transmission media and their characteristics; Guided transmission media, wireless
transmission, transmission impairments, modulation techniques; Data transmission schemes; Data
encoding; Data signals: data signalling, types of signalling, multiplexing methods; Digital data to
analogue signals, digital data to digital data. Multiplexing; FDM, TDM, WDM, Spread spectrum
techniques, xDSL, ISDN; Error detection and control; Error detection codes. Switching; Digital switching:
circuit switching, packet switching, network control facilities; Modems and Standard interfaces; Pulse
code modulation: sampling, quantization, coding and decoding methods, differential PCM and delta
modulation; OSI model; OSI layer; Data networks: topology, point to point communications, typical
networks, LAN and WAN, Protocols, devices, applications; Internetworking devices; TCP/IP and the
internet; Transmission of position control signals: AC and DC synchro-elements, encoding techniques,
ambiguity problems, electromechanical and optical, methods, practical. Industrial networks: PLCs,
robots, field buses.