The most important application of FDM (frequency division multiplexing) is broadcasting, telephone communications. In this article, you will find a lot of pros and cons of FDM to better understand this topic.
Advantages of FDM:
Advantages of FDM:
- It does not need synchronization between its transmitter as well as receiver
- FDM is simpler and easy demodulation
- Less expensive
- FDM system does not need synchronization but TDM needs synchronization. It is an advantage of FDM over TDM
- FDM provides more latency than TDM
- Using FDM system multimedia data can be transferred with very high efficiency and low noise and distortion
- FDM system has high reliability
- It is used for analogue signals
- In this system due to slow narrowband fading, only one channel gets affected
- A large number of the signal can be transmitted simultaneously
Disadvantages of FDM:
- It is suffering the problem of cross talk
- FDM is only used only when a few low-speed channels are desired
- Intermodulation distortion takes place
- The circuitry for FDM is complex than TDM
- FDM requires more hardware than TDM
- FDM system extremely expensive
- FDM provides less throughput
- FDM has not dynamic coordination
- The full bandwidth of the channel cannot be used on the FDM system
- The communication must have very large bandwidth
- A large number of modulator and filter required
- FDM channel can get affected wideband fading
- FDM system needs a carrier wave or carrier signal but TDM does not need carrier signal
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