Assignment – 1Difference between wire line and wirelesscommunications
Communication involves a network for its realization. A network inElectronics Communication is a group of interconnected computers,communications stations, or other facilities, often organized for simultaneousoperation and data transfer.A network can operate in two ways- it may be a wire line network or awireless network. These are defined as under:
Wire line:-
A type of network in which
one or more wires or cables aredeployed for conducting currents for communication, control, or measuringpurposes.
Wireless:-
A type of network pertaining to data communications and controlsystems that operate without wires (e.g. Bluetooth link between a notebookand a desktop computer). The above two types of networks are different from each other not only interms of the use or disuse of cables but also in terms of nature and scope of their respective operation, bandwidth , type of device, protocol, time varyingquality of the two-way physical links, type of services and consumerexpectations.
The Distinction between Wire line and Wireless Communications
Some basic aspects which distinguish wire line from wireless communications are as follows.
Limited Spectrum
The radio spectrum, and therefore the capacity available for wireless access service, is generallylimited by regulation. Thus, unlike wire line communications wherein an increasing user population can easily be served by deploying additional wire (or fiber) facilities to connect thoseusers to the network (thereby increasing the total capacity available to serve that increasing population), the available radio spectrum cannot arbitrarily be expanded. The cellular approachresolves this dilemma by dividing the service area into radio cells, each equipped with a basestation, and reusing the allocated spectrum as often as possible among the radio cells, subject toconstraints imposed by co-channel interference among the cells. Then, as the user populationgrows, or users individually demand greater capacity, the cells must be divided such that agreater number of geographically smaller cells are available to serve the demand; again,frequency reuse among the greater number of smaller cells is mandatory. Limited spectrum alsodrives the need for spectrally efficient modulation and source compression coding to removesignal information redundancy.
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