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Introduction
Module 1
 1.0 Technology Revolution

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• 18th Century Mechanical systems
• 19th Century Steam Engine
• 20th Century Information
- gathering
- distribution
- processing
- creating
• 21st Century Networks
Human-to-Human, Machine-to-Machine
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 What is a Computer Network

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of communication elements connected by
◆ A set
communication links
router
workstation
➭ Communication elements
server
●Computers, printers, mobile phones, … mobile
●Routers, switches, ... local ISP
➭ Communication links
●optic fiber
●coaxial cable regional ISP
●twisted pair
●wireless (radio, microwave, satellite)
➭ Topologies
●Ring, Star, Bus, Tree, Mesh

company
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◆ A software/hardware infrastructure
➭ Share resources
●data, files, computing power, video,…

➭ Information highway
●communication between geographically dispersed users
➭ Electronic Society
●Cyberspace
●Virtual global nation

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⚫ Computer Network
– an interconnected collection of autonomous computers
Internet: “network of networks”
– loosely hierarchical
– public Internet versus private intranet
WWW a distributed systems run on the top of Internet
⚫ Distributed System
– High degree of cohesiveness and transparency
– A software system built on top of a network

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1.1 Uses of Computer Networks

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• Business Applications
• Home Applications
• Mobile Users
• Social Issues

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Business Applications of Networks

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a. Resource sharing (hardware, software, information, …)
b. Providing communication medium (e-mail, videoconferenceing)
c. Doing business electronically (B2B, B2C, e-commerce)

A network with two clients and one server.

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Goals of Networks for Companies

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⚫ Resource sharing: equipment, programs, data
⚫ high reliability
– replicated data
– hardware
⚫ Saving money
– mainframe: 10 times faster, but 1000 times more
expensive than PC
– client-server model
⚫ Scalability
– mainframe: replace a larger one
– client-server model: add more servers
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a. Two processes are involved
b. A communication network is needed

The client-server model involves requests and replies.

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Home Network Applications

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• Access to remote information
• Person-to-person communication
• Interactive entertainment
• Electronic commerce

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⚫ Networks for People
– Access to remote information
• e.g.: financial, shopping, customized newspapers,
on-line digital library, WWW
– Person-to-person communication
• email, video conference, newsgroup
– Interactive entertainment
• VOD, interactive movies or TVs, game playing

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 Home Network Applications (2)

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In peer-to-peer system there are no fixed clients and servers.
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Home Network Applications (3)

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Music sharing

Some forms of e-commerce.

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 Network Hardware

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• Personal area networks
• Local area networks
• Metropolitan area networks
• Wide are networks
• The internet

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 Network Hardware

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Types of transmission technology
• Broadcast links
• Point-to-point links

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 Network Hardware

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– Broadcast networks
• single communication channel shared by all
machines
• broadcasting or multicasting (via packets)
– broadcasting: a special code in address field
– multicasting: reserve one bit to indicate multicasting, the
remaining n-1address bits can hold a group number. Each
machine can subscribe to any groups
• used by localized networks (or satellites)
– point-to-point networks
• many hops
• routing algorithms: multiple routes are possible
• used by large networks 18
 Network Hardware

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Classification of interconnected processors by scale.
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Personal Area Network

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Bluetooth PAN configuration
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 Local Area Networks

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Wireless and wired LANs. (a) 802.11. (b) Switched Ethernet.
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Local Area Networks (LANs)

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· Characterics of LANs: (a) privated-owned, (b) small size,
(c) transmission technology, (d) topology
· Ethernets are most popular (up to 10 Gb/s)

Four broadcast networks

(a) Bus 802.3
(b) Ring 802.5
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(d) Wireless LAN 802.11
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⚫ Characteristics
– small size
– transmission technology
• single cable (single channel)
• 10Mbps ~ 10Gb/s
• 10Gb/s : 10,000,000.000 bps
– topology:
• bus
– Ethernet (IEEE 802.3): 10 or 100 Mbps (10Gb/s)
• ring
– IBM token ring (IEEE 802.5): 4 or 16 Mbps
• Wireless broadcast
⚫ Channel allocation of broadcast networks
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Metropolitan Area Networks

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A metropolitan area network based on cable TV.
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 Wide Area Networks (WANs)

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·WANs are point-to-point networks
·WANs consist of two distinct components:
transmission lines (copper, fiber, microwave) and switches (electronics, optics)
 Store-and-forward or packet-switched subnet

Relation between hosts on LANs and the subnet. 25

 Wide Area Networks

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WAN that connects three branch offices in Australia
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 Wide Area Networks

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WAN using a virtual private network.
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 Wide Area Networks

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WAN using an ISP network.
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Network Topology
 Subnet (WANs)

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Subnet (WANs) is consists of two components:
– transmission lines (circuits, channels, trunks)
• move bits between machines
– switching elements
• connect transmission lines
• Router: also called packet switching nodes,
intermediate systems, and data switching exchanges
• Operate in store-and-forward, or packet-switched
mode.

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 Wide Area Networks (2)

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⚫ Routing decisions are made locally·
⚫ How A makes that decision is called the routing algorithm.
 Will be studied in detail in Chapter 6.

A stream of packets from sender to receiver. (virtual- circuit)

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 Network Software

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• Protocol Hierarchies (Layer structure)
• Design Issues for the Layers
• Connection-Oriented and Connectionless Services
• Service Primitives
• The Relationship of Services to Protocols

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 Network Software

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Protocol Hierarchies
– a series of layers (levels)
– lower layer provides service to higher layers
– protocol:
• an agreement between the communication parties on how
communication is to proceed
– Peers:
• the corresponding layers on different machines.
– Network architecture: a set of layers and protocols
– Protocol stack:
• a list of protocols used by a certain system, one protocol per
layer
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 Network Software
Virtual

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Protocol Hierarchies Communication

→ Peer

Physical
Communication

Layers, protocols, and interfaces.

Network Architecture: A set of layers and protocols 34
Protocol Stack: A list of protocols used by a certain system, one protocol per layer.
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◆ Layering
➭ To make things simple: modularization container
➭ Different layer has different functions
➭ Create layer boundary such that
●description of services can be small
●number of interactions across boundary are minimized
●potential for interface standardized

➭ Different level of abstraction in the handling of data (e.g.,

syntax, semantics)
➭ Provide appropriate services to upper layer
➭ Use service primitives of lower layer

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 Protocol Hierarchies

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The philosopher-translator-secretary architecture.
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 Protocol Hierarchies

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Message segmentation Encapsulation

Example information flow supporting virtual communication

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in layer 5.
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• Addressing (telephone number, e-mail address, IP
address,…)
• Error Control (error correction codes, ARQ,
HARQ,…)
• Flow Control (feedback-based, rate-based)
• Multiplexing (gathering several small messages
with the same destination into a single large
message or vice versa → Demultiplexing)
• Routing (directing traffic to the destination)

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 Design Issues for Layers

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⚫ Identify senders and receivers
– multiple computers and processes: addressing
⚫ Data transfer
– simplex, half-duplex, full-duplex communication
– # of logical channels per connections, priorities
⚫ Error control
– error detection
– error correction
⚫ Sequencing of pieces

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 Design Issues for Layers

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⚫ Flow control
– feedback from the receiver
– agreed upon transmission rate
⚫ Length of messages
– long messages: disassemble, transmit, and reassmeble
messages
– short messages: gather several small messages
⚫ Multiplexing and Demultiplexing
– when expensive to set up a separate connection
– needed in physical layer
⚫ Routing: split over two or more layers
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Connection-Oriented and Connectionless

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Services

Movie download

Voice over IP

Text messaging

Six different types of service.

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Service Primitives (operations) (1)

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ACCEPT Accept an incoming connection from a peer

Six service primitives that provide a simple

connection-oriented service
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 Service Primitives (2)

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If the protocol stack is located in the operating system,
the primitives are normally system calls.

Packets sent in a simple client-server interaction on a

connection-oriented network.
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 Services to Protocols Relationship

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·The service defines what operations the layer is prepared to perform on behalf of its users

·A service is a set of primitives that a layer provides to the layer above it.
·A protocol is a set of rules governing the format and meaning of the packets which are
exchanged by the peer entities in the same layer.
Services related to the interfaces between layers;
 Protocols related to the packets sent between peer entities on different machine.
Service Users

Service Providers

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The relationship between a service and a protocol.
 Reference Models

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• OSI reference model
• TCP/IP reference model Model
• used for this text Comparison of
• OSI and TCP/IP
• Critique of OSI model and protocols
• Critique of the TCP/IP model

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 The design principle of the OSI
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• A layer should be created where a different
abstraction is needed
• Each layer should perform a well defined function
• The function of each layer can be chosen as an
international standard
• The layer boundaries should be chosen to minimize
the information flow across the interfaces
• The number of layers should be not too large or not
too small (optimum)

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 Reference Models

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The OSI
reference
model.

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 The functions of the seven layers

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• The physical layer is concerned with transmitting raw bits over a
communication channel
• The data link layer performs flow control and also transforms a raw
transmission facility into a line that appears error free (ARQ)
• The network layer controls the operation of the subnet, e.g. routing,
flow control, internetworking,…
• The transport layer performs assembling and disassembling,
isolates the upper layers from the changes in the network hardware,
and determines the type of services
• The session layer establishes sessions (dialog control, …)
• The presentation layer is concerned with the syntax and semantics
• The application layer contains a variety of commonly used
protocols (e.g. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol for WWW, file
transfer, e-mail, network news,…)
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The TCP/IP Reference Models Layers

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• Link layer
• Internet layer
• Transport layer
• Application layer

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The TCP/IP Reference Model (1)

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The TCP/IP reference model

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 The TCP/IP Reference Model (2)

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The TCP/IP reference model with some protocols we will study

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 The Model Used in this Book

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The reference model used in this book.

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Comparing OSI and TCP/IP Models

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Concepts central to the OSI model
• Services: defines layer’s semantics
• Interfaces: tells the processes above it
how to access it.
• Protocols
Probably the biggest contribution of the OSI model is to make the
distinction between these three concepts explicit.

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A Critique of the OSI Model and Protocols

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Why OSI did not take over the world
• Bad timing
• Bad technology
• Bad implementations
• Bad politics

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 Bad Timing

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investment
opportunity

right time
new
to make
discovery

The apocalypse of the two elephants.

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 Bad Technology

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• The choice of seven layers was political
- session and presentation layers are nearly empty
- Data and network layers are overfull
• The OSI model is extraordinarily complex
• Some functions e.g. addressing, flow control,
error control reappear again and again

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 Bad Implementations

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• Huge, Unwieldy, and Slow

Bad Politics
• Bureaucrats involved too much (European
telecommunication ministries, community, us
government)

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 A Critique of the TCP/IP Reference Model

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Problems:
• Service, interface, and protocol not distinguished
• Not a general model
• Host-to-network “layer” not really a layer (is an interface)
• No mention of physical and data link layers
• Minor protocols deeply entrenched, hard to replace
(The virtual terminal protocol, TELNET, was designed
for mechanical teletype terminal)

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THE PHYSICAL LAYER
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Transmission medium and physical layer
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Transmission medium and physical layer

• the transmission medium is the physical path between transmitter and

receiver.
• In One type of transmission medium , transmission occurs through a
solid
• medium, such as copper twisted pair, copper coaxial cable, and
optical fiber
• For second type of transmission medium , transmission occurs
wireless through the atmosphere, outer space, or water.
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Transmission medium and physical layer

• Bandwidth: the greater the bandwidth of a signal, the higher the data
rate that can be achieved.
• Transmission impairments: Impairments, such as Attenuation,
Noise and Distortion.
• Interference: Interference from competing signals in overlapping
frequency bands can distort or wipe out a signal.
• Number of receivers: A guided medium can be used to construct a
point-to-point link or a shared link with multiple attachments.
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Classes of transmission media
GUIDED TRANSMISSION MEDIA / GUIDED

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MEDIA
• Guided media, which are those that provide a conduit from one device
to another, include twisted-pair cable, coaxial cable, and fiber-optic
cable.
• For Guided Media electromagnetic waves are guided along a solid
medium, such as copper twisted pair, copper coaxial cable, and
optical fiber

1. Twisted-Pair Cable
2. Coaxial Cable
3. Fiber-Optic Cable
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1. Twisted-Pair Cable
Twisted-pair cable- Least-expensive and most widely used
Physical description
• Consists of two insulated copper wires arranged in a regular spiral pattern

• A number of these pairs are bundled together into a cable

• Twisting tends to decrease the crosstalk interference between adjacent pairs

in a cable

• Neighboring pairs in a bundle typically have different twist lengths to reduce

the crosstalk interference
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1. Twisted-Pair Cable
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1. Twisted-Pair Cable
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1. Twisted-Pair Cable
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1. Twisted-Pair Cable
Applications
• Telephone network: subscriber loops
• Digital PBX within a building.
• Local area networks
• Long distance applications.
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2. Coaxial Cable
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2. Coaxial Cable
Applications
– television distribution
• cable TV system can carry dozens or even hundreds of TV
channels at ranges up to a few tens of miles
– long-distance telephone transmission
• using frequency-division multiplexing (FDM), a coaxial cable
can carry over 10000 voice channels simultaneously
– local area networks
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3. Fiber-Optic Cable
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3. Fiber-Optic Cable
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3. Fiber-Optic Cable
Total Internal Reflection
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3. Fiber-Optic Cable - Modes
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3. Fiber-Optic Cable - Modes
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3. Fiber-Optic Cable - Types
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3. Fiber-Optic Cable - Fiber-optic cable connectors
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3. Fiber-Optic Cable - Fiber-optic cable connectors
Advantages
• Higher bandwidth
• Less Signal Attenuation
• Immunity to electromagnetic interference
• Resistance to corrosive materials
• Light Weight
• Greater Immunity to Tapping
Disadvantages
• Installation and maintenance
• Unidirectional Light Propogation
• Cost
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3. Fiber-Optic Cable - Attenuation ISSUE
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3. Fiber-Optic Cable - Fiber-optic cable connectors
Light sources
– Light-emitting Diode (LED)
• less costly
• operates over a greater temperature range
• longer operational life
– Injection Laser Diode (ILD)
• more efficient
• can sustain greater data rates
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UNGUIDED MEDIA: WIRELESS

• Unguided media transport electromagnetic waves without using a

physical conductor. This type of communication is often referred to as
wireless communication.

Types:
• Radio Waves
• Microwaves
• Infrared
UNGUIDED MEDIA:

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Electromagnetic spectrum for wireless communication
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UNGUIDED MEDIA: WIRELESS

30MHz to 1GHz (Radio Frequency)

Omnidirectional, Broadcast radio

2GHz to 40GHz (Microwave Frequency)

• Highly directional
• Point to point devices
• Microwave communications

2.4GHz, 5GHz, 24Ghz, 60GHz, 80GHz (Local Frequency)

• For Local applications, local point-to-point and
• multipoint applications within confined areas,
• such as a single room
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UNGUIDED MEDIA: WIRELESS
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UNGUIDED MEDIA: WIRELESS

Antennas
Electrical conductor used to radiate or collect electromagnetic energy
1)transmission antenna

2)reception antenna

NOTE: in two way communication same antenna is often used for both purposes
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Antenna might radiate power in all direction Not same performance in
all directions
How can we determine the performance of an antenna?
Solution is “Radiation Pattern”
Graphical representation of the radiated power

Isotropic antenna is an ideal antenna

Radiates Equal Energy in all directions.
Use as a reference to characterize the power
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An Electromagnetic wave
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An Electromagnetic wave
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Radiation Pattern - Isotropic Radiation Pattern

The radiation pattern of a simple omnidirectional antenna , a vertical half-wave dipole antenna. In this graph
the antenna is at the center of the "donut," or torus.
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Radiation Pattern - Isotropic Radiation Pattern

The radiation pattern of a simple omnidirectional antenna , a vertical half-wave dipole antenna. In this graph
the antenna is at the center of the "donut," or torus.
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Radiation Pattern - Isotropic Radiation Pattern
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Radiation Pattern - Isotropic Radiation Pattern
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Antenna Gain
• Measure of directionality of antenna
• Power output in particular direction compared with that
produced by isotropic antenna
• Measured in decibels (dB)- (7 to 12)dB

70 -120 dB can cause immediate harm to your ears.

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Antennas Types
1)Omnidirectional Antenna
2)Unidirectional Antenna or Directional Antenna
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Omnidirectional Antenna
• Omnidirectional Antennas Radiate Signals in all
directions.
• Omnidirectional antennas are widely used for radio
broadcasting antennas, and in mobile devices that
use radio such as cell phones, FM radios, walkie-
talkies, wireless computer networks, cordless
phones, GPS
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Omnidirectional Antenna
• Omnidirectional Antennas Radiate Signals in all
directions.
• Omnidirectional antennas are widely used for radio
broadcasting antennas, and in mobile devices that
use radio such as cell phones, FM radios, walkie-
talkies, wireless computer networks, cordless
phones, GPS
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Omnidirectional Antenna
• Omnidirectional Antennas Radiate Signals in all
directions.
• Omnidirectional antennas are widely used for radio
broadcasting antennas, and in mobile devices that
use radio such as cell phones, FM radios, walkie-
talkies, wireless computer networks, cordless
phones, GPS
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UniDirectional Antenna
Uninidirectional Antennas or Directional antennas
Or Parabolic Antennas Radiate Signals in a
particular direction.

in applications such as microwave relay links that

carry telephone and television signals between
nearby cities, wireless WAN/LAN links for data
communications, satellite communications and
spacecraft communication antennas. The other
large use of parabolic antennas is for radar
antennas,
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UniDirectional Antenna
Uninidirectional Antennas or Directional antennas
Or Parabolic Antennas Radiate Signals in a
particular direction.

in applications such as microwave relay links that

carry telephone and television signals between
nearby cities, wireless WAN/LAN links for data
communications, satellite communications and
spacecraft communication antennas. The other
large use of parabolic antennas is for radar
antennas,
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UniDirectional Antenna
Uninidirectional Antennas or Directional antennas
Or Parabolic Antennas Radiate Signals in a
particular direction.

in applications such as microwave relay links that

carry telephone and television signals between
nearby cities, wireless WAN/LAN links for data
communications, satellite communications and
spacecraft communication antennas. The other
large use of parabolic antennas is for radar
antennas,
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UniDirectional Antenna
Uninidirectional Antennas or Directional antennas
Or Parabolic Antennas Radiate Signals in a
particular direction.

in applications such as microwave relay links that

carry telephone and television signals between
nearby cities, wireless WAN/LAN links for data
communications, satellite communications and
spacecraft communication antennas. The other
large use of parabolic antennas is for radar
antennas,
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UniDirectional Antenna
Uninidirectional Antennas or Directional antennas
Or Parabolic Antennas Radiate Signals in a
particular direction.

in applications such as microwave relay links that

carry telephone and television signals between
nearby cities, wireless WAN/LAN links for data
communications, satellite communications and
spacecraft communication antennas. The other
large use of parabolic antennas is for radar
antennas,
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Ground Wave
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Wireless Propagation Sky Wave

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Wireless Propagation Sky Wave

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Wireless Propagation Line of Sight

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MICROWAVE - 2GHz to 40GHz

1. TERRESTRIAL MIRCHOWAVE
2. SATELLITE MICROWAVE
Microwaves are used for unicast communication such as cellular
telephones, satellite networks, and wireless LANs.
Higher frequency ranges cannot penetrate walls.
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Terrestrial Microwave
• used for long distance telecommunications and short point-to-
point links,
• use a parabolic dish to focus a narrow beam onto a receiver
antenna
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SATELLITE Microwave
• satellite is relay station receives on one frequency, repeats
signal and transmits on another frequency
• Separate frequencies are assigned for upward transmission
(uplink) downward transmission(downlink)
• eg. uplink 5.925-6.425 GHz & downlink 3.7-4.2 GHz

• typically requires geo-stationary orbit height of 35,784km

• spaced at least 3-4° apart
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Radio Waves - radio is 3kHz to 300GHz

use broadcast radio, 30MHz - 1GHz, for: • FM radio • UHF and VHF
television

• is omnidirectional, Sky wave propagation

• They can penetrate through walls but line of sight can give better
results.
• suffers from multipath interference reflections from land, water,
other objects
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Infrared
• Infrared communications is achieved using transmitters/receivers
(transceivers) that modulate infrared light.

• Transceivers must be within the line of sight of each other either

directly or via reflection from a light-colored surface such as the
• ceiling of a room.

• infrared does not penetrate walls.