Bahria University, Islamabad Campus

Department of Computer Science

Introduction to Information & Communication Technologies
Assignment-2
Class: BSCS-1B
Time: Marks-10

Name: M.Ahmed Shahid Enrollment:01-134202-035

Question: Write five advantages and five disadvantages of each:

Simplex (advantages & disadvantages)

Advantages of Simplex Mode:

The full capacity of the transmission medium is used by the sender.

It is a very simple way of transmission.
It has no traffic issues.
In simplex mode, the station can utilize the entire bandwidth of the communication
channel, so that more data can be transmitted at a time.

Disadvantages of Simplex Mode

There is only one way of transmission

Bidirectional communication is not possible.
Two devices cannot communicate in simplex mode.
In simplex mode, Sender can send the data, but that sender cannot receive the
data.
The simplex mode provides less performance than half duplex and full duplex.
 Half duplex (advantages & disadvantages)

Advantages of Half-Duplex Mode

Speed is a big advantage of a full-duplex.

We can make use of only one antenna which can be used as both the receiver
and the sender.
Troubleshooting is very easy
Whole bandwidth can be utilised as at a time only one signal transmits.
It provides bidirectional communication.

Disadvantages of Half Duplex mode

In a half-duplex mode data cannot be transmitted on both sides at the

same time.
When one device sending data, the device on the other hand only receive
data.
It is slow in data transmission.
Delay in data transmission.
It has less performance as compared to full duplex.

Full duplex (advantages & disadvantages)

Advantages of Full-duplex Mode

Performance of full-duplex mode is much better than half and simplex

mode.
The speed of full-duplex mode is high than simplex and half-duplex
mode.
Data can be sent and receive on both sides, which increases the
performance of the network.
No delay in communication because both devices send and receive
data at the same time.
 Disadvantages of Full-duplex Mode

1. No proper bandwidth utilization as the same line is used for

sending and receiving data at the same time.
2. It is more complex than a simplex and half-duplex mode