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William Stallings

Data and Computer


Communications
7th Edition

Chapter
Synchronous and Asynchronous
Transmission

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Synchronous and
Asynchronous Transmission
• What is Synchronous Transmission?
• In Synchronous Transmission, data is sent
in the form of blocks or frames. This
transmission is the full-duplex type.
Between sender and receiver,
synchronization is compulsory.
• In Synchronous transmission, There is no
time gap present between data. It is more
efficient and more reliable than
asynchronous transmission to transfer a
large amount of data.
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Synchronous and
Asynchronous Transmission
• What is Synchronous Transmission?
• Both the sender and receiver are
synchronized with a common clock signal.
This means they operate at the same speed
and know exactly when to send and receive
data. Data is sent in a continuous stream,
with each byte or chunk of data following the
previous one without any gaps. It’s efficient
for sending large amounts of data quickly
because there’s less overhead (extra bits)
needed to start and stop the transmission.

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Synchronous and
Asynchronous Transmission
• What is Synchronous Transmission?

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Synchronous and
Asynchronous Transmission
• What is Asynchronous Transmission?
• In Asynchronous Transmission, data is
sent in form of byte or character. This
transmission is the half-duplex type
transmission. In this transmission start
bits and stop bits are added with data. It
does not require
synchronization. Asynchronous
transmission is like sending individual
text messages without knowing exactly
when the other person will read them.
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Synchronous and
Asynchronous Transmission
• What is Asynchronous Transmission?
• The sender and receiver do not share a
common clock signal. Instead, data is sent one
byte or character at a time, with start and stop
bits indicating the beginning and end of each
byte. Each piece of data is sent independently,
with gaps in between, allowing the receiver to
process each byte as it arrives. It’s flexible and
simpler to implement, especially useful for
communications where data is sent
intermittently.

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Synchronous and
Asynchronous Transmission
• What is Asynchronous Transmission?

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Synchronous and
Asynchronous Transmission
Synchronous Transmission Asynchronous Transmission

In Synchronous transmission, In Asynchronous transmission,


data is sent in form of blocks or data is sent in form of bytes or
frames. characters.

Synchronous transmission is Asynchronous transmission is


fast. slow.

Synchronous transmission is Asynchronous transmission is


costly. economical.

In Synchronous transmission, In Asynchronous transmission,


the time interval of transmission the time interval of transmission
is constant. is not constant, it is random.

In this transmission, users have Here, users do not have to wait


to wait till the transmission is for the completion of
complete before getting a transmission in order to get a
response back from the server. response from the server.

In Synchronous transmission, In Asynchronous transmission, 8


there is no gap present between there is a gap present between
Synchronous and
Asynchronous Transmission
Synchronous Transmission Asynchronous Transmission

While in Asynchronous
Efficient use of transmission lines
transmission, the transmission
is done in synchronous
line remains empty during a gap
transmission.
in character transmission.

The start and stop bits are used


The start and stop bits are not
in transmitting data that imposes
used in transmitting data.
extra overhead.

Asynchronous transmission does


Synchronous transmission needs not need synchronized clocks as
precisely synchronized clocks for parity bit is used in this
the information of new bytes. transmission for information of
new bytes.

Errors are detected and corrected Errors are detected and corrected
in real time. when the data is received.

High latency due to processing


Low latency due to real-time
time and waiting for data to 9
communication.
become available.

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