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ISSC640 Week 2 Homework Assignment

Instructions: Please answer the following End of Chapter Exercises from Chapters 5-8 of your text.

Chapter 5 - Overview of Data Communications

5.1 What three disciplines are involved in data communications?

5.3 What are the conceptual pieces of a data communications system?

Chapter 6- Information Sources and Signals

6.3 Why are sine waves fundamental to data communications?

6.12 What is the definition of baud?

Chapter 7 - Transmission Media

7.1 What is the difference between guided and unguided transmission?

7.4 What three types of wiring are used to reduce interference from noise?

Chapter 8 - Reliability and Channel Coding

8.1 List and explain the three main sources of transmission errors.

8.7 Define the concept of Hamming distance.