COMM002 REVIEWER Quiz 1 Midterms

1. _________________represents one type of signal processing to improve error

performance
2. _________________is the transmittal of digital pulses between two points in a
communications system
3. _________________refers to the techniques, or rules, which allows more than one
transceiver pair to
share a common communications medium
4. _________________shapes, or otherwise filters, the resulting pulses to restrict their
bandwidth, and
shifts the entire transmission to convenient, allowed frequency
band
5. _________________What type of information is fed to the input of a modem on the TX
side?
6. _________________On the TX, what is the output of a modem?
7. _________________In the RX, it corrects signal distortion which may have occurred
during transmission
8. _________________process where the baseband signal is used to modify some
parameters of a higher
frequency carrier signal
9. _________________means to accommodate several simultaneous transmissions (TDM)
over the same
physical channel
10._________________reduction of binary digits
11._________________Provides discrete voltage samples taken, at a regular time interval
from the analog
signal
12._________________ converts the demodulated binary signal into a binary symbol
stream
13._________________Addition of extra digits to the source coded, encrypted PCM signal;
In some way
opposite to source coding, which adds redundancy to the bit
stream
14._________________Receives binary voltage pulses
15._________________Encryption of source coded digits using a cipher
16._________________In this type of multiplexing, there is an increase in bandwidth
requirement since the
signal now comprises shorter duration pulses which have wider
spectral response
17._________________ Approximates these voltages by the nearest level from an allowed
set of voltage
levels
18._________________ Converts analog to digital
19._________________ Condition binary pulse streams so that the information they
contain can be
transmitted over a given physical medium, at a given rate with
an acceptable
degree of distortion, in a specified or allocated frequency band
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20._________________Represents a varying physical quantity such as voltage, voice,

temperature,
pressure or video intensity
21._________________ Converts each quantized level to a binary code word
22._________________
Yielding of Security
23._________________
24._________________ used to modify some parameters of a higher frequency carrier
signal in modulation
25._________________ it may change the voltage levels representing individual, or
groups of binary digits
26._________________ characteristic of Digital Transmission that enables it to cover
Longer distances over
lower quality lines
27._________________ converts the binary voltage pulses to quantized voltage levels
28._________________ characteristic of Digital Transmission for its Encryption
29._________________
30._________________
considerations in developing Communications System
31._________________
32._________________ characteristic of Digital Transmission for its High bandwidth links
economical and
High degree of multiplexing easier with digital techniques
33._________________ characteristic of Digital Transmission that enables it to treat
analog and digital data
similarly
34._________________represent information, irrespective of its type or origin, by a
discrete set of allowed
symbols
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38._________________
advantages of Digital Transmission
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40._________________
41._________________It covers both digital transmission and digital radio
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44._________________
WHY DIGITAL MODULATION?
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49._________________
50._________________
Disadvantages of Digital Transmission
51._________________
52._________________
53._________________
54._________________
Two values of discrete levels of digital signals
55._________________
56._________________
57._________________
represents discrete values of digital signals
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58._________________
59._________________Uses distinct, discrete signal values to represent the information it
is trying to
convey
60._________________ carry information using combinations of ON-OFF electrical signals
that are usually
in the form of codes that represent the information
61._________________
Two Major Categories of Information Signals
62._________________
63._________________Transmittal of digitally modulated analog carrier between two
points in a
communications system
64._________________characteristic of Digital Transmission making the signal less
susceptible to undesired
amplitude, frequency, and phase variations.
65._________________
Sinks of information
66.
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67._________________True or False? Baseband signals produced by various information
sources are
always suitable for direct transmission over a given channel.
68._________________ True or False? The original source information may already be in
digital form or it
may be analog signals that must be converted to digital pulses
prior to transmission and converted back to analog form at the
receive end.
69._________________ In what category of sinks of information does speech belong?
70._________________ Telephone Bandwidth
71._________________ Television Bandwidth
72._________________ Image Frequency : Analog :: ___________ :Digital
73._________________
74._________________
Inventor of the Telephone
75._________________
76._________________
77._________________
78._________________
79._________________
OSI 7 layer reference model
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ANALOG or DIGITAL?
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_____________vary continuously,
_____________Allowed at any instant of time, you have only one value from a set of
previously defined
specific values
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_____________output of the quantization circuit
_____________output of the PCM Encoder
_____________Does not impose a set of allowed values within the range
_____________typed text
_____________output of the sampling circuit
_____________Uses distinct, discrete signal values to represent the information it is
trying to convey
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_____________Represents a varying physical quantity such as voltage, voice,
temperature, pressure or
video intensity

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PMR
VOIP
SS7
ARQ
PCM
BBC
LAN
WAN
MAN
PAN
GSM
MPEG
ISDN
ISO
FDMA
GPS
OSI
CCITT
HDTV
SONET
SDH
TDMA
ETSI
PCN
CDMA
ADSL
IMT
UMTS
VDTV
VCR
DAC
ADC
TDM
FDM
GMDSS

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_________________________________ ITU

HISTORY
Year

Event
Line telegraphy perfected
Telephone invented
Wireless telegraphy
Automatic exchange step by
step switch
Wireless telephony
demonstrated
First regular radio broadcasts
Superheterodyne radio
receiver invented
First use of land based PMR
All television demonstrated
Telegraphy signal
transmission theory
Information transmission
Teletype
FM demonstrated
Radar demonstrated
PCM proposed
Voice coder
First Commercial TV
broadcasting
Spread spectrum proposed
Matched filtering proposed
Geostationary satellite
proposed
ARQ systems developed
Mathematical theory of
communications
Terrestrial microwave relay
First laser demonstrated
Satellite communications
implemented
Geostationary satellite
communications
Optical fibres proposed
Packet switching
Medium scale data networks
LANs, WANs and MANs
Term ISDM is coined
Internet concept
Cellular FDMA radio

Originator

Information

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Navstar GPS launched

OSI 7 layer reference model
adopted
HDTV demonstrated
ISDN basic rate access in UK
SONET/SDH introduced
GSM TDMA cellular system
MPEG video standards
ETSI formed
PCN concept launched
IS-95 CDMA specification
ADSL transmission
Wideband 3G CDMA
IMT 2000/UMTS

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