Transmitting Your Message Over A Lossy Channel

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— Murat Demirbas (@muratdemirbas) April 28, 2018

Late at night, I was tweeting random materials too hence the below tweet came.

I don't understand the context of your tweet, too how it relates to this, merely since I dabbled inward wireless sensor networks, I can't refrain from commenting on how to bargain amongst a lossy channel :-)

— Murat Demirbas (@muratdemirbas) April 28, 2018

Since I worked on wireless sensor networks inward a previous life, I had things to tell here.

Here are the ways to bargain amongst a lossy channel, too what those hateful for your writing.

A straightforward too slowly agency to bargain amongst a lossy channel is to add together redundancy. Repeat the message a reveal of times, too i transmission volition brand it. In writing, this corresponds to: "Tell them what you lot are going to enjoin them, enjoin them, hence enjoin them what you lot told them."

Another agency to bargain amongst a lossy channel is that you lot increase the signal-to-noise ratio. This tin hold out done via increasing transmission ability and/or somehow reducing the noise. This translates to writing to a greater extent than clearly. Use definite, specific, concrete language. And hold out succinct too to the point. As you lot review your draft, ruthlessly cutting out frivolous parts too divergence. Read the text equally if you lot are an outsider, sympathise amongst the reader, too endeavour to cut whatever misunderstandings this reader could have.

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, fifty-fifty when it breaks your egocentric fiddling scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.
-- Stephen King

Another way  to bargain amongst a lossy channel is to ship a preamble. In reckoner networks, a syncword, sync character, sync sequence or preamble is used to synchronize a information transmission yesteryear indicating the initiative of all of information transmission.  Sending preambles also accomplish frame synchronization permitting the information bits inside the frame to hold out extracted for decoding or retransmission. In writing, this corresponds to giving advance alert too edifice upwardly to where you lot are leading the reader.

Ok, this is pushing it a fleck likewise much, merely hither it is. You tin also role TDMA to bargain amongst a lossy channel. The transmitter establishes a rythym/cadence, too the receivers are able to have at those predetermined times the clear transmission. In writing, this corresponds to using a parallel structure, hence that the reader tin follow your points easier.

That's all folks.

MAD questions

1. Did you lot know that the receiver tin also amplify its ability to cut transmission loss?

I wrote almost this earlier.

Most people withdraw maintain an wrong model of how radios too wireless radio communication work. The layman thinks radios are simple. The transmitter does all the heavy lifting, too puts the signal on the air. Before the signal fades away completely, if the receiver device is inward communication range, it volition alternative upwardly the signal yesteryear listening. This naive agreement suggests that the receiver is a passive device, equally listening is perceived generally equally a passive activity. But, null tin hold out farther from the truth. The receiver spends considerable unloose energy to ability its radio too amplify the signal inward lodge to have it.

So, this matter is rattling symmetrical. If a text is difficult to understand, you lot tin ability upwardly your reading game to decipher it better. Similar techniques aid hither also for dealing amongst the lossy transmission channel equally well.

But this has a limitation. "When the receiver powers its radio to amplify signals, it is also amplifying noise. The signal to dissonance ratio (SNR) determines successful reception: if the signal has non faded, it volition acquire amplified more, stand upwardly out, too decoded correctly. This gives heighten to an interesting question: When at that spot is no signal inward the channel, what does the receiver radio hear?" To acquire the response you lot should read that post.

2. Is that all you lot got? five lousy writing analogies from radio transmission?
No analogies to MIMO, RFDI, or software defined radio? My analogy game must hold out getting weak.

3. What are your analogies to writing?
Another analogy I ofttimes role for writing is that of showcasing a garden. You are a gardener, you lot cultivated a corking garden, too you lot are exhibiting it to visitors. How produce you lot showcase your garden too Pb them to the ? Initially, you lot volition need to guide the visitors which paths to take, without guidance they volition withdraw maintain arbitrary paths too acquire lost. So, withdraw maintain aid to prune frivolous paths lest they acquire distracted, gently guide them toward the centerpieces too highlights of your garden. Give them a tour. Don't hold out likewise pushy either.

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