Wireless Communication: Spread Spectrum Transmission, Radio System Components, and Advanced Technologies

This article discusses the advantages of spread spectrum transmission, the components of a radio system, and the types of mixers used in wireless communication. It also covers recent advanced wireless technologies like RFID, NFC, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi direct, and their technological details. The article concludes with a discussion on the possible dominant technology in the future.

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Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

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Answer to the Question no 1.
1.1The reason of using Spread Spectrum Transmission:
There are several attributes of the spread spectrum that makes desirable transmission
technique. Spread spectrum has a wide bandwidth range which enables the user to choose among
the bandwidth. The main advantage of the spread spectrum is that is can resists interface so that
use of spread spectrum can eliminate cross talk (Bi, Zen & Zhang, 2016). Moreover this
technique is cost effective way of transmission. In case of spread spectrum the power of the
signal is very high. In case of spread spectrum, the bandwidth of signal spectrum can be used by
the various users. Moreover it provides better security and reduces the multipath fading.
1.2 Contrast and comparison between the two methods of the transmission of the
spectrum:
The two major types of spread spectrum transmission are- Frequency Hopped Spread
Spectrum Transmission and Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum `Transmission.
Differences between these two transmission techniques:
Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum
Transmission
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
Transmission
Frequency the user is using is hard to find out at
one instance of time
The frequency, the user is using remains the same
after the allocation.
Frequency can be reused in this method. Frequency cannot be reused in this method.

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The strength of signal used in this method is high. The strength of signal used in this method is low.
In this method, the signal is not affected by the
interface.
In this method the signal is sensitive to the
interface.
Use of this kind of transmission technique is cheap. Use of this kind of transmission technique is
expensive.
Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum Transmission
is a commonly used technique for the transmission.
It is not a commonly used technique.
In this technique multiple frequencies can be used. Use of single frequency is permitted.
Comparison between these two frequency techniques:
 In case of both frequencies the security concerns are same.
 Both Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum and Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum belong
to the same spread spectrum group.
Answer to the Question no 2.
2.1 Components of the radio system:
The components of the radio system can be categorized into two different categories:
Radio transmitter and Radio Receiver.
Under these two categories there are components of the radio system.
Amplifier, Antenna, Power supply and the modulator come under the radio transmitter
section. These components help to transmit the radio signal.

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Under the category of radio receiver there are radio frequency amplifier, audio amplifier,
tuner and antenna. These components help to receive the radio signal.
2.2 Mixers of different kind:
Active mixer and passive mixer are the two types of mixer in radio frequency (Kaplun et
al.,2017). According to the configuration, mixer can be classified into three categories-
 Single Balanced
 Double Balanced
 Unbalanced
2.3 Active Radio Frequency Mixer:
Amplifiers are used in active mixer in order to increase the strength of the signal. The
isolation between two ports is improved using this signal, although power consumption is high in
active radio frequency mixer. This type frequency mixer is used in implementation of RFIC as it
maintains low power for driving the LO port along with good conversion gain and good isolation
between ports.

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Figure 1: Active Mixer
(Source: Seo, Lee & Yun,2015).
Passive Radio Frequency Mixer:
Diode is used in passive radio frequency mixer. Between the current procedure and the
voltage there exists a non-linear relation which produces signal of lower power.
Passive radio frequency mixer is widely used due to its simplicity, better performance of
inter-module distortion and wide range of bandwidth.

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Figure 2: Passive Mixer
(Source: Atalla et al.,2017)
Generally there are two switches in both active and passive mixers; they are- ON and
OFF. When the ON signal is triggered, all the signals can pass through the mixer and in case of
OFF signal all the signals are restricted (Zou et al., 2015). In case of passive mixer no
propagation of signal happens in the OFF state.
Unbalanced Mixer: Non-linear single diode is used in this type of mixer. Here, both the
input singles are used to generate the output signal.
Single balanced Mixer: Single balanced mixer provides isolation between LO and RF
inputs and it uses two diodes. Here, in the balanced circuit one of the input signal is applied
which leads to the suppression of single input or the local oscillator at the output.

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Double Balanced Mixer: Star mixer and ring mixer are two types of double balanced
mixer. In this case, both input signals are applied to the differential circuit. It requires more
complex circuit and higher level logic for double balanced mixer.
Double balanced mixer has both advantages and disadvantages. It provides strong
isolation between all the ports. All also increased linearity and provides better suppression.
The main disadvantage of the double balanced mixer is that it is not cost effective.
Single balanced, double balanced and unbalanced are the types of passive mixers.

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Answer to the Question no 3.
3.1 Recent Advanced Wireless Technologies:
Speaker Note:
Some of the recent advanced wireless technologies are-
RDIF (Radio Frequency Identification)
NFC (Near Field Communication)
Bluetooth

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Wi-Fi direct
3.2 Technological Details:

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Speaker’s Note :
RFID:
In case of RFID the transfer of data is very fast and doest not require any contact between the
reader and the scanner (Condoluci et al.,2015). The cost of using this technology is very low and
the unique identification and strong backend integration is applicable in wide range of
application. Other form of using RFID are bar code verification, OCR. In RFID there are two
tags- active tag and passive tags.
NFC (Near filed communication)
NFC is a short rang and high frequency wireless communication technology, which is used to
connect two devices over about a 10 cm distance (Trivedi, 2015). It is a type of RFID signal
which is easy to use in the mobile devices. It enables the contactless payments which is
beneficial for some organization. However, there are some security problems using this
technology.

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Speaker Note:
Bluetooth:
• It is a wireless technology that enables of exchanging the data between the two devices in
a short distance (Mandal, Bhattacharyya & Kim,2014).
• Bluetooth is managed by Bluetooth Special Interest Group.
• The IEEE standardization of the Bluetooth is IEEE 802.15.1, but it no longer maintains
the standard.
• It uses frequency hopping spread spectrum.
• It follows a packed based protocol using master/slave architecture.
Wi-Fi direct:

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• It is a Wi-Fi standard that enables the connection of two devices without any wireless
access point.
• It is a single hop radio communication.
• One advantage of the Wi-Fi direct is that it can make the connection between two devices
even they are made by the different manufactures.
3.3 Possible dominant technology in the future:
Speaker Note:
Possible dominant technologies in the future:

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It can be assumed from the discussion that all the technologies can become useful technology
for the future but on the implementation of a certain technology must be dependent on the
requirements of the organization (Jiang et al.,2015).
In an organization, which is run by the local engineers, the use of Wi-Fi direct can be useful as ,
the workings in the organization requires more frequent data exchange between various devices.
Those devices can be made of different manufactures and as per advantage of the Wi-Fi direct
the, the data communication between two devices from the different manufactures can be done
without any local wireless access point (Fiore et al.,2015). This kind of implementation can lead
the advancement of the communication system which eventually helps in the organizational
growth.

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