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- From: gsulliva@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Glenn A Sullivan)
- Subject: Re: What is the limit of a MODEM?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.023029.7670@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Summary: What said about bit rate lmits thru a channel
- Keywords: Tools of AI.
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:30:29 GMT
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- lo@pi.uleth.ca (Zachary Lo) writes:..........
- > I wonder any of you can send information about the transmit speed limit
- > of a electronic modem which is used in a computer.
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- Claude Shannon first showed that relay logic could implement Boolean logic
- operations. This was important since we thus were assured that anything
- mathematics indicated was computable, was computable by physical objects.
- (They may make me retake my CS PhD quals after that statement!)
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- He also invented information theory. As part of that, we can compute the
- maximum bit-rate for a limited-bandwidth channel with finite signal/noise
- ratio. (Note the MAXIMUM, LIMITED, FINITE)
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- MAximum bit-rate = 2 * (channel bandwidth) * LOGbase2(1 +SNR)
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- So if the noise power is 127th of the signal power, and the channel bandwidth
- is 3000 cycles/sec [I used to own an RCA #80 vacuum tube], we compute the
- bit-rate limit as
- 2 * 3000 * log2(1 + 128) = 6000 * 7 = 42,000 bits per second.
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- Sounds kind of high.
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- Probably just (channel bandwidth) * LOGbase2(1 + SNR)
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- Allen SUllivan
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