Data Communication Lecture 1

Introduction to Data Communication
Course Code: COE 3201 Course Title: Data Communication
Dept. of Computer Engineering

Faculty of Engineering
Lecture No: 1 Week No: 1 Semester:

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Lecture Outline
1. Characteristics of Data Communication

2. Key Elements of Data Communication
3. A Data Communications Model
4. Data Representation
5. Data Transmission
6. Mode of Serial transmission
7. Bit Rate
8. Types of Networks
Characteristics of Data Communication
Data communications are the exchange of data between two devices via some form of
transmission medium such as a wire cable.
For data communications to occur, the communicating devices must be part of a
communication system made up of a combination of hardware (physical equipment) and
software (programs).
The effectiveness of a data communications system depends on four fundamental
characteristics:
1. delivery
2. accuracy
3. timeliness and
4. jitter
Jitter is the variation in time delay between when a signal is transmitted and when it's
received over a network connection, measuring the variability in ping.
Key Elements of Data Communication
Source: Generates (binary) data to be transmitted. examples are

telephones and personal computers.
Transmitter: Converts data into transmittable electromagnetic signals. For
example, a modem takes a digital bit stream from an attached device such
as a personal computer and transforms that bit stream into an analog
signal that can be handled by the telephone network.
Transmission system: This can be a single transmission line or a complex
network connecting source and destination.
Receiver: Converts received signal into data. For example, a modem will
accept an analog signal coming from a network or transmission line and
convert it into a digital bit stream.
Destination: Takes incoming data from the receiver.
Figure: Key Elements of Data Communication
A Data Communications Model
Suppose that the input device and transmitter are components of a personal
computer. The user of the PC wishes to send a message m to another user.
1. The user activates the electronic mail package on the PC and enters the
message via the keyboard (input device).
2. The character string is briefly buffered in main memory, which can be view as
a sequence of bits (g) in memory.
3. The personal computer is connected to some transmission medium, such as a
local network or a telephone line, by an I/O device (transmitter), such as a
local network transceiver or a modem.
4. The input data are transferred to the transmitter as a sequence of voltage
shifts [g(t)].
5. The transmitter is connected directly to the medium and converts the
incoming stream [g(t)] into a signal [s(t)] suitable for transmission.
6. The transmitted signal s(t) presented to the medium is subject to a number of
impairments, before it reaches the receiver.
7. Thus, the received signal r(t) may differ from s(t).
8. The receiver will attempt to estimate the original s(t), based on r(t) and its knowledge
of the medium, producing a sequence of bits g’(t).
9. These bits are sent to the output personal computer (as a block of bits)
10. The destination system will attempt to determine if an error has occurred and, if so,
cooperate with the source system to eventually obtain a complete, error-free block of
data.
11. These data are then presented to the user via an output device, such as a printer or
screen. The message (m’) as viewed by the user will usually be an exact copy of the
original message (m)
Figure: A Data Communications Model
Data Representation
A binary digit or bit has only two states, “0" and "I" and can represent only two
symbols, but even the simplest form of communication between computers
requires a much larger set of symbols, e.g.
1. 52 capital and small letters,

2. 10 numerals from 0 to 9
3. punctuation marks and other special symbols, and
4. terminal control characters-Carriage Return (CR), Lane Feed (Lr).
 Therefore, a group of bits is used as a code to represent a symbol. The
code is usually 5 to 8 bits long. . 5-bit code can have combinations and
can, therefore, represent 32 symbols.
 Similarly an 8-bit code can represent symbols.
 A code set is the set of these codes representing the symbols.
 There are several code sets, some arc used for specific applications while
others are the proprietary code sets of computer manufacturers. The
following two code sets arc very common:
I. ANSI's 7-bit American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
2. IBM's 8-bit Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC).

 American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
 ASCII is the most common code set and is used worldwide.
 It is, 7 bit code and all the possible 128 codes have defined
meaning. The code set consists of following symbols:
1. 96 graphic symbols (columns 2 to 7), comprising 94 printable

characters, SPACE. And Delete characters
2. 32 control symbols (columns 0 and I).

Data Transmission
Bytes: Byte is a group or bits which is considered as a single unit during
processing. It is usually eight bits long though its length may be different . A
character code, e.g., 1001011 of ASCII, is a byte having a defined meaning "K",
but it should be noted that there may be bytes which are not elements of any
standard code set.
There is always need to exchange data, commands and other control information
between a computer and its terminals or between two computers. This
information is in the form of bits.
Data transmission refers to movement of the bits over some physical medium
connecting two or more digital devices. There are two options of transmitting the
bits, namely,
1. Parallel transmission
2. Serial transmission.
 parallel transmission: Here all the bits of a byte are
transmitted simultaneously on separate wires and
multiple circuits interconnecting the two devices are,
therefore, required. It is practical only if the two
devices, e.g., a computer and its associated printer are
close to each other.
 Serial transmission: Here bits are transmitted serially
one after the other . The least significant bit (LSB) is
usually transmitted first. Note that as compared to
parallel transmission, serial transmission requires
only one circuit interconnecting the two devices.
Therefore. Serial transmission is suitable for
transmission over long distance.
 The binary representation of a particular character can
be easily determined from its hexadecimal coordinate.
For example, the coordinate of character "K" are (4, B)
and, therefore, it’s binary code is 100 1011.
 EXAMPLE 1:
Represent the message “3P.bat" in ASCII code. The eighth

bit may be kept as “0''.
Solution:
 Serial Transmission Example- Write the bit
transmission sequence of the message “3p.bat”.
 Solution:
3 p . b a t
11001100 00001010 01110100 01000110 10000110 00101110
 Bipolar Signal - Bits are transmitted as electrical signals over the
interconnecting wires. The two binary states “1” and “0” are
represented by two voltage levels. If one of these states is assigned 0
volt level, the transmission is termed unipolar and if we choose to
represent a binary "1" by , say, a positive voltage +V volts and a
binary “0'' by a negative voltage -V volts, the transmission is said to
be bipolar.
 The following figure shows the bipolar waveform of the character
"K". Bipolar transmission is preferred because the signal does not
have any DC component. The transmission media usually do not
allow the DC signals to pass through.
Mode of Serial transmission
Serial transmission can be two types:

1. Synchronous Transmission
2. Asynchronous Transmission
 In synchronous transmission, bits are sent one after
another without start or stop bits or gaps. It is the
responsibility of the receiver to group the bits.
Sender Direction of data flow Receiver
00010000 11110111 11110110 11111011 1 1011
Figure: Synchronous transmission

 In Asynchronous transmission, one start bit (0) at the
beginning, followed by a byte and one or two stop bits (1)
at the end of each byte. There may be a gap between
each byte. This is also known as framing.
1. Generally use in low speed data transmission.
2. Send one start bit (0) at beginning of the byte and one or
two stop bits (1) at end of each byte.
3. There are variable–length gaps between each byte.

Figure: Asynchronous transmission
Figure: Asynchronous Transmission Details
Bit Rate
Bit rate is simply the number of bits which can be transmitted in a

second. If is the duration of a bit, the bit rate R will be 1/ . It must
be noted that bit duration is not necessarily the pulse duration. For
example, the first pulse is of two-bit duration . Later, we will come
across signal format in which the pulse duration is only half the bit
duration.
Types of Networks
Books
1. Forouzan, B. A. "Data Communication and Networking. Tata McGraw." (2005).

2. Prakash C. Gupta, “Data communications”, Prentice Hall India Pvt.
References
1. Prakash C. Gupta, “Data communications”, Prentice Hall India Pvt.

2. William Stallings, "Data and Computer Communications”, Pearson
3. Forouzan, B. A. "Data Communication and Networking. Tata McGraw." (2005).

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Introduction to Data Communication

Course Code: COE 3201 Course Title: Data Communication

Dept. of Computer Engineering

Lecture No: 1 Week No: 1 Semester:

1. Characteristics of Data Communication

Source: Generates (binary) data to be transmitted. examples are

7. Thus, the received signal r(t) may differ from s(t).

1. 52 capital and small letters,

 Similarly an 8-bit code can represent symbols.

 A code set is the set of these codes representing the symbols.

I. ANSI's 7-bit American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)

2. IBM's 8-bit Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC).

 ASCII is the most common code set and is used worldwide.

1. 96 graphic symbols (columns 2 to 7), comprising 94 printable

2. 32 control symbols (columns 0 and I).

Represent the message “3P.bat" in ASCII code. The eighth

Serial transmission can be two types:

Sender Direction of data flow Receiver

00010000 11110111 11110110 11111011 1 1011

Figure: Synchronous transmission

1. Generally use in low speed data transmission.

3. There are variable–length gaps between each byte.

Bit rate is simply the number of bits which can be transmitted in a

1. Forouzan, B. A. "Data Communication and Networking. Tata McGraw." (2005).

1. Prakash C. Gupta, “Data communications”, Prentice Hall India Pvt.

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