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Basic Communication System Elements

This document provides an overview of the basic elements of a communication system, including the source, transmitter, channel, receiver, and destination. It describes each element in 3-4 sentences. The source originates the message, the transmitter modifies it for transmission through the channel. The receiver processes the received signal to recover the original input by reversing what the transmitter did. The destination is where the communicated message ends up.

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Basic Communication System Elements

This document provides an overview of the basic elements of a communication system, including the source, transmitter, channel, receiver, and destination. It describes each element in 3-4 sentences. The source originates the message, the transmitter modifies it for transmission through the channel. The receiver processes the received signal to recover the original input by reversing what the transmitter did. The destination is where the communicated message ends up.

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EEE 315

Communication Engineering I

Topic 2: Communication Systems


(Ref: Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems – B. P. Lathi
Chapter 1: Page 1-3)

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Overview of Communication System

Source Destination

Elements of a Basic
Communication System
✓ Input transducer Source:
✓ Transmitter The source originates a message such
✓ Channel as human voice, television picture,
✓ Receiver email message, data or image.
✓ Output transducer

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Elements of Communication System
Input Transducer:
▪ Converts the non-electric message to electrical signal (referred to as baseband signal).
▪ Example: Microphone, keyboard, camera etc.
▪ Bandwidth of the baseband signal – depends on the type of input message.

Transmitter:
▪ Modifies the baseband signal to a suitable form for efficient transmission through
a channel.
▪ Consists of several sub-systems: A/D converter, modulator, encoder etc.
▪ May include oscillators, amplifiers, tuned circuits, filters and other circuits.

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Elements of Communication System
Channel:
▪ Transmission medium that conveys the transmitted electrical signal to receiver.
▪ Channel types: wired or wireless .
▪ Wired: twisted copper wire (telephone, DSL), coaxial cable (television, internet),
optical fiber.
▪ Wireless: Microwave (Satellite and cellular), RF wave.

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Elements of Communication System
Receiver:
▪ Reprocesses the received signal from the channel by reversing the signal
modifications made at the transmitter and removing the distortions made by the
channel so that the input signal can be recovered.
▪ Consists of several reversed sub-systems of transmitter: D/A converter,
demodulator, decoder etc.
Output transducer:
▪ Converts the demodulated signal into its original form – the message.
▪ Headphone, television etc. are the output transducer.
Destination:
▪ The destination is the unit to which the message is communicated.

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