The following topics are elements of communication protocols.
They are organized roughly as in Figure 8-2 in the text.
Square brackets indicate the corresponding network layers from Ch. 9.
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Bit Encoding [Physical]
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Bit Transmission (tranmission media) [Physical]
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Analogue (broadband)
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Modulation (amplitude, frequency, phase)
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Modems
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Bandwidth and channel capacity
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Digital (baseband)
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Clock Synchronization [Physical, Data Link]
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Synchronous Communication
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Asynchronous Communication
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Channel Organization [Data Link]
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Media Access
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Broadcast
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Point-to-point
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Simplex
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Half-Duplex
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Full-Duplex
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Width
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Channel Sharing (multiplexing)
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Time Division
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Frequency Division
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Error Checking and Correction [Various layers]
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Parity Check
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Block Parity Check
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Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC)
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Data Content [Application]
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Command Content [Application]