EEE 309
Communication Theory
Instructor: Tishna Sabrina
Summer 2016
Lecture 17
Transmission BW & Output SNR
Maximum Information Rate
Recall that, .
Many signals such as speech have a non uniform distribution.
So, a unit bandwidth (1 Hz) can transmit a maximum of two pieces of
information per second.
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Transmission Bandwidth
For a binary PCM, a distinct group of n binary digits (bits)
are assigned to each of the L quantization levels.
Because a sequence of n bits can be arranged in 2n
distinct patterns,
each quantized sample is thus encoded into n bits.
Because a signal m(t) band-limited to B Hz requires a
minimum of 2B samples/sec, a total of 2nB bits/sec is
required.
In other words, 2nB pieces of information/sec.
So, a minimum channel of BW BT Hz is required, where
This is the theoretical minimum transmission BW required
to transmit the PCM signal.
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Example 6.2
Solution:
The Nyquist sampling rate,
The actual sampling rate,
For binary coding,
L must be a power of 2. So the next higher value of L that is apower of 2 is L=
256. Number of bits needed per samples ,
It is required to transmit a total of
Transmission BW,
The multiplexed signal has a total of
which
requires a minimum of
of transmission BW.
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Output SNR
As
,
The output SNR can be expressed as,
where,
In the decibel scale,
, where
If we increase n from 8 to 9, the SNR quadruples, but the
transmission BW increases only from 32 kHz to 36 kHz (an
increase of only 12.5%).
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Example 6.3
Solution:
For
For
Now the SNR,
and transmission BW is
Hence,
and transmission BW is 32 kHz.
The difference between 2 SNRs is 12 dB, which is a ratio of 16.
The BW requirement increases about 33% as compared to the
previous one.
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Assignment 3
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Submit by 17th of August
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