Wired/Wireless Communications

Guru: John Hart
e-mail: ajhart@mit.edu

1. MAS.863 Lecture 12 Slides - Matt Reynolds, Dec/01

2. Tutorial on RF Communication Using Linx Transmitter/Receiver Modules - John Hart, Dec/01

Communications Meta-topics:

• Analog and Digital Systems
  
• Messages, Signals, and Noise
  
• Bandwidth, Modulation, Baud, and Bit Rate
  
• The Shannon Capacity Theorem
  
• How to Share A Channel: PDMA, TDMA, FDMA, CDMA
  
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Systems
  

  Wire-Line Communications Systems:

• The POTS Jack, and 56K modems
  
• RS-232 and RS-422 Signal Specifications
  
• X10 and CAN
  
• SPI
  
• The Universal Serial Bus (USB)
  
• Firewire
  
• Ethernet Physical Layer (and devices)
  
• ISDN, ADSL, FDDI, and SONET
  

• T1/T3/Gigabit

  Wireless Communications Systems:

• AM/FM Radio
  
• AMPS, CDPD
  
• GSM- The General System for Mobile Telecommunications
  
• Spread Spectrum Systems, CDMA, and FHSS
  
• Bluetooth and HomeRF
  
• Satellite Systems: Orbcomm and Iridium, DBS, and INMARSAT
  

• GPS