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Lecture # 4: Physical Layer
Basic Elements
The physical layer has four important characteristics:
Mechanical: relates to the physical properties of the
interface to a transmission medium
Ex: specification is of a pluggable connector that joins one
or more signal conductors, called circuits
Electrical: relates to the representation of bits (e.g., in
terms of voltage levels) and the data transmission rate of bits
Ex: It defines the voltage, current, modulation, bit
synchronization, connection activation and deactivation, and
various electrical characteristics for the transmission media
(such as unshielded or shielded twisted-pair cabling, coaxial
cabling, and fiber-optic cabling)
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Basic Elements
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Transmission Medium
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Transmission Medium
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Transmission Medium: Guided Media
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Transmission Medium: Guided Media
Coaxial Cable:
Coaxial cable (or coax) carries signals of higher frequency
ranges than those in twisted-pair cable
Coax has a central core conductor of solid or stranded
wire (usually copper) enclosed in an insulating sheath,
which is, in turn, encased in an outer conductor of metal foil,
braid, or a combination of the two
The outer metallic wrapping serves both as a shield
against noise and as the second conductor, which completes
the circuit
This outer conductor is also enclosed in an insulating
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Transmission Medium: Guided Media
Coaxial Cable:
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Transmission Medium: Guided Media
Coaxial Cable:
Uses of Coaxial cable:
o wireless and cable access technologies
o to attach antennas to wireless devices (coaxial cable
carries radio frequency (RF) energy between the
antennas and the radio equipment)
o Traditional cable Television
o In the past, coax cable was used in Ethernet
installations. Today UTP offers lower costs and higher
bandwidth than coaxial and has replaced it as the
standard for all Ethernet installations
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Transmission Medium: Guided Media
Fiber Optics:
Fiber-optic cabling uses either glass or plastic fibers to
guide light impulses from source to destination
The bits are encoded on the fiber as light impulses
It is based on the principle of Total internal Reflection
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Transmission Medium: Guided Media
Fiber Optics:
Implementation issues include:
o More expensive (usually) than copper media over the
same distance (but for a higher capacity)
o Different skills and equipment required to terminate and
splice the cable infrastructure
o More careful handling than copper media
Propagation modes:
Current technology supports two modes:
o multimode
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Transmission Medium: Guided Media
Fiber Optics:
Examples of advantages over metallic cable (twisted- pair or
coaxial):
o Higher bandwidth: can support higher data rates
o Less signal attenuation: transmission distance is
significantly greater than that of other guided media. For
example, a signal can run for 50 km without requiring
regeneration. We need repeaters every 5 km for coaxial or
twisted-pair cable
o Immunity to electromagnetic interference
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Transmission Medium: Guided Media
Fiber Optics:
Examples of desadvantages:
o Installation and maintenance
o Unidirectional light propagation: Propagation of light
is unidirectional. If we need bidirectional
communication, two fibers are needed
o Cost: The cable and the interfaces are relatively more
expensive than those of other guided media.
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Transmission Medium: Wireless Media
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Transmission Medium: Unguided Media
Radio waves:
o refer to electromagnetic waves ranging in frequencies
between 3 kHz and 1 GHz
o Based on behavior of the waves, rather than the
frequencies, radio waves, for the most part, are
omnidirectional
o When an antenna transmits radio waves, they are
propagated in all directions
Applications:
o AM and FM radio, television, maritime radio, cordless
phones, and paging are examples of multicasting
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Transmission Medium: Unguided Media
Microwaves:
o Electromagnetic waves having frequencies between 1
and 300 GHz
o Microwaves are unidirectional. Use unidirectional
antenna
o Microwave propagation is line-of-sight
Repeaters are often needed for long- distance
communication
Applications
o used in cellular phones, satellite networks, and
wireless LANs
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Transmission Medium: Unguided Media
Infrared:
o frequencies from 300 GHz to 400 THz (wavelengths
from 1 mm to 770 nm)
o used for short-range communication, ex: remote
control
Applications
o used for communication between devices such as
keyboards, mice, PCs, and printers
o For example, wireless keyboard to communicate with a
PC (personal computer)
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Transmission Medium
Wired and wireless media used for long and short distance communication
Hub:
o used to connect network stations to form LANs
o10BaseT Ethernet networks:10 Mbps for Ethernet
• How hub works?:
o The hub receives signals from each station and repeats
the signals to all other stations connected to the hub
o In active hubs (which all of today’s hubs are), the
signal received from one port is regenerated (amplified)
and retransmitted to the other ports on the hub
o Since hubs perform the function of a repeater, they are
also called multiport repeaters.
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Examples of equipments:
Repeater:
o a network by boosting the signal so that it can travel
farther along the cabling
• How repeater works?:
o Digital signals traveling on cables weaken with
distance (a phenomenon known as attenuation)
o A repeater is a form of digital amplifier that
regenerates (amplifies) the signal so that it can travel
farther
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Examples of equipments:
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Data and signals:
Digital signal carrying analog & digital Data
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Data and signals:
Digital signal carrying analog & digital Data
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Transmission impairements:
Signal received may differ from signal transmitted
Analog signal: degradation of signal quality
Digital signal: bit errors
Caused by:
attenuation and attenuation distortion
delay distortion
noise: additional signals inserted between transmitter and
receiver: impulse noise, crosstalk, thermal (white) noise or
noise
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Transmission impairements:
Attenuation: Signal strength falls off with distance
In normal, received signal strength: must be enough to
be detected and must be sufficiently higher than noise to
be received without error
Attenuation distortion: attenuation is different for different
frequencies; an increasing function of frequency
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Data rate limits:
A very important consideration in data communications is how
fast we can send data, in bits per second, over a channel.
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Data rate limits:
Noiseless Channel: Nyquist Bit Rate
For a noiseless channel, the Nyquist bit rate formula defines the
theoretical maximum bit rate:
Example
Consider a noiseless channel with a bandwidth of 3000 Hz
transmitting a signal with two signal levels. The maximum bit
rate can be calculated as
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Data rate limits:
This means that the highest bit rate for a telephone line is 34.860
bps. If we want to send data faster than this, we can either increase
the bandwidth of the line or improve the SNR.
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Performance metrics
Bandwidth
• Bandwidth can be used in two different contexts with two
different measuring values:
Bandwidth in Hertz: is the range of frequencies
contained in a composite signal or the range of frequencies
a channel can pass.
Performance metrics:
Throughput
• Measures of how fast we can actually send data through
a network. For example, a link may have a bandwidth of B
bps, but we can only send T bps through this link with T
always less than B.
• In other words, the bandwidth is a potential measurement
of a link; the throughput is an actual measurement of how
fast we can send data.
• For example, we may have a link with a bandwidth of 1
Mbps, but the devices connected to the end of the link may
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Performance metrics:
Throughput
• Example
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?
Solution
We can calculate the throughput as
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Performance metrics:
Latency (Delay)
•The latency or delay defines how long it takes for an entire
message to completely arrive at the destination from the
time the first bit is sent out from the source.
• Latency is made of four components: propagation time,
transmission time, queuing time and processing delay.
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Performance metrics:
Latency (Delay)
Performance metrics:
Latency (Delay)
Propagation Time:
Example: 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.
Solution
We can calculate the propagation time as
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Performance metrics:
Latency (Delay)
Tranmission time
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Performance metrics:
Latency (Delay)
Tranmission time
Example: 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.
Solution
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Performance metrics:
Latency (Delay)
Queuing Time
•The time needed for each intermediate or end device to hold
the message before it can be processed.
• The queuing time is not a fixed factor; it changes with the load
imposed on the network.
• When there is heavy traffic on the network, the queuing time
increases.
• An intermediate device, such as a router, queues the arrived
messages and processes them one by one. If there are many
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