DIGITAL DATA

COMMUNICATION
TECHNIQUES
DATA RATE LIMITS

 Data rate depends on three factors:

1. Available bandwidth
2. Number of signal levels
3. Channel quality
FORMULAS TO CALCULATE DATA RATE

 Nyquist Bit Rate: BitRate = 2 * bandwidth * log2 L

 Increasing the levels of a signal may reduce the
reliability of the system.
 Example:
 Consider the noiseless channel with bandwidth of
3000Hz transmitting a signal with four signal levels.
The maximum bit rate can be calculated as:
 Noisy Channel: Shannon Capacity
Capacity = bandwidth * log2 (1 + SNR)
 Data rate cannot be achieved higher than channel
capacity
 Formula defines characteristic of channel not the
method of transmission
 Example: Channel with SNR almost zero, the channel

capacity will be:

 For practical purposes, when the SNR is very high, we
can assume that SNR + 1 is almost the same as SNR. In
these cases, the theoretical channel capacity can be
simplified to

 Example: We have a channel with a 1-MHz bandwidth.

The SNR for this channel is 63. What are the
appropriate bit rate and signal level?
 The Shannon capacity gives us the upper limit; the
Nyquist formula tells us how many signal levels we
need.
PARAMETERS TO MEASURE
PERFORMANCE
 Bandwidth :
1. Bandwidth in Hertz: Range of frequency a channel can
pass
2. Bandwidth in Bits per Seconds: Number of bits per
second a channel can transmit
 Throughput: Measure of how fast we can actually
transmit data through network
 A network with bandwidth of 10 Mbps can pass only
an average of 12,000 frames per minute with each
frame carrying an average of 10,000 bits. What is the
throughput of this network?
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 Latency (Delay) : Time taken by the entire message to completely reach at the
destination from the time the first bit is sent from the source
 Latency= propagation time + transmission time+ queuing time + processing
delay
1. Propagation time: time required for a bit to travel from source to destination
What is the propagation time if the distance between the two points is
12,000 km? Assume the propagation speed to be 2.4 × 108 m/s in cable.
2. Transmissions time: Time required for the transmission of a message. It
depends upon message size and bandwidth of channel. What are the
propagation time and the transmission time for a 2.5-kbyte message (an e-
mail) if the bandwidth of the network is 1 Gbps? Assume that the distance
between the sender and the receiver is 12,000 km and that light travels at
2.4 × 108 m/s.
3. Queuing time: Time required by each of the intermediate device or the end
device to hold the message before it is processed.
 Bandwidth-Delay Product: Number of bits that can
fill the link.

 Jitter: Different packets encounter different delay