Nalanda Open University Course Name: BCA Part II Paper-X (Computer Networking) Coordinator: A. N. Pandey E-mail ID :
[email protected] E-CONTENT Topic- DATA ENCODING AND COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE (Unit-3) 3.1 INTRODUCTION We knew that how data is transmitted through a channel (wired or wireless) in the form of an Analog or Digital signal. Now we will elaborate on the technique to produce these types of signals from analog to digital data. It is required that information must be encoded into signals before it can be transported across communication media. In more precise words we may say that the waveform pattern of voltage or current used to represent the 1s and 0s of a digital signal on a transmission link is called digital to digital line encoding. There are different encoding schemes (figure 1) available: Figure 1: Encoding Conversion Technique • Analog data as an analog signal: Analog data in electrical form can be transmitted as baseband signals easily and cheaply. This is done with voice transmission over voice-grade lines. One common use of modulation is to shift the bandwidth of a baseband signal to another portion of the spectrum. In this way multiple signals, each at a different position on the spectrum, can share the same transmission medium. This is known as frequency division multiplexing. • Analog data as a digital signal : Conversion of analog data to digital form permits the use of modern digital transmission and switching equipment. The advantages of the digital approach. • Digital data as an analog signal: Some transmission media, such as optical fiber and unguided media, will only propagate analog signals.