Assignment:
A microwave radio link operates over a bandwidth of 400 MHz at C band. The link carries a number of channels of data using FDMA. Each channel has an RF bandwidth of 36 MHz and 4 MHz guard bands are needed between channels.
a. What is the maximum number of channels that the link can carry?
b. If half rate error correction coding is applied to the 100 kbps bit stream in part (c) above before transmission over the microwave link, how many voice channels can be carried by one RF channel?
Provide complete and step by step solution for the question and show calculations and use formulas.