SKR ENGINEERING COLLEGE, Chennai 600123 MODEL EXAM

Branch Subject Code Subject Name : ECE : EC 2301 : Digital Communication Semester : V Date Timings : 10.10.2011 : 3 hours

PART A

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Answer ALL Questions

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1. Define PAM and draw the PAM waveform. 2. Define null to null bandwidth and half power bandwidth. 3. What is companding? What are the types of companding? 4. What is aliasing or fold over distortion? How to eliminate that one? 5. Define mutual information and write the expression for mutual information. 6. Draw NRZ and RZ waveform for the data sequence 10010. 7. What is carrier recovery and clock recovery in digital communication? 8. What is jitter error in digital communication? 9. Compare coherent and noncoherent detection. 10. What is M-ary Ask? Draw the Binary ASK waveform for 11010. PART B :: Answer ALL Questions :: (5 X 16 = 80 Marks) 12 4

11. a.i) Draw a neat block diagram of a typical digital communication system and explain each key processing block. ii) What are the performance measures of digital communication system?
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b) i) What are orthonormal basis functions? Explain how Gram Schmidt orthoganalisation Procedure (GSOP) is used to generate orthonormal basis function. ii) How to classify the channels based on wired or wireless, bit rate/Bandwidth, repeater station distance and their application.
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12. a.i) State Nyquist sampling theorem and explain natural sampling with spectrum and derivation. ii) What is model based encoding? Explain Linear Predictive Coding in detail. (or) b.i) What is Delta modulation? What are its disadvantages and how to overcome them? Explain delta modulation modulator in detail. ii) Compare all speech coding techniques. 13. a.i) A 1/3 rate convolution code has the following generators: g1 = [110] , g2 = [101], g3 = [111] i) Draw the encoder circuit corresponding to this code. ii) Draw the state diagram iii) Draw the code tree 2 marks 2 marks 2 marks

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iv) Find the coded sequence for 110100

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ii) What is line coding? Explain the desirable characteristics of line codes.
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b.i) Explain how Viterbi algorithm is used to decode the received sequence with an example. ii) Define Hamming distance and Hamming weight. Explain about linear block codes in which each block of k message bits encoded into block of n>k bits with an example. 14. a.i) What is matched filter? Explain how a matched filter can increase SNR for a given transmitted symbol. ii) Write short notes on a) Eye pattern b) Carrier synchronization c) Symbol synchronization
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b.i) What is ISI? Explain how raised cosine filter combats ISI? ii) Write short notes on Maximum Likelihood Detector. 15.a.i) Explain non-coherent detection methods of binary frequency shift keying scheme. ii) Define QAM. Draw the constellation diagram of QAM.
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b.i) Explain Binary PSK and QPSK with corresponding equations and constellation diagrams. 8 ii) Obtain the probability of bit error for coherently detected BPSK and compare its probability of bit error performance with QPSK scheme.

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