Assume that an analogue musical signal has amplitude varying between -4 V and
4 V and average signal power 8 W. It is sampled at rate 44.1 kHz, quantised into
65536 levels, modulated by PCM and transmitted in real time through an optical
fibre of channel bandwidth 16 kHz.
a) What is the transmission rate? How many Megabytes of data can be
transmitted in 5 minutes?
b)Assume that the channel contains additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN)
only. What is the maximum allowable single-sided power spectral density
(N0) of the AWGN to achieve reliable communication through the channel?