NSCET QUESTION BANK

NADAR SARASWATHI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Vadapudupatti, Theni-625531

Question Bank for the Units – I to V

5th Semester – B.E.

Electronics & Communication Engineering

EC6501 – DIGITAL COMMUNICATION

Part-A (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)

1. Define Companding ? Sketch the input-output characteristics of a compressor & an expander

1. State sampling theorem for band- limited signals and the filter to avoid aliasing.

1. What is natural sampling?

1. Define TDM? Draw TDM diagram

1. What is different between natural and flat top sampling?

2. What is meant by aliasing effect

2. What the two fold effects of Quantization process?

2. Define non-uniform Quatization

2. Define pulse code modulation

2. Compare unifom and non uniform quantization.

3. What is the need of prediction filtering

3. What are the advantage of delta modulation

3. Define APF, APB and AQF, AQB

3. What is the temporal wave form coding?

3. What is the spectral wave form coding?

3. Define delta modulation?

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4. How to overcome slop overlap

4. What is linear predictor? On what basis are the predictor coefficients determined

4. List any four speech encoding method

4. Define the operation of a Harmonic Mean Filter?

4. Define signal to noise ratio.

5. Define Correlative level coding

5. What are line codes? Name some popular line codes.

5. Constrained and Reconstrained Restoration?

5. What is convolational code?how is it different from block codes?

5. What is Manchester code? Draw the Manchester format for the data stream 10110.

6. For the binary data 01101001 draw the unipolar & RZ signal

6. What is ISI and causes of ISI

6. Compare M-ary PSK and M-ary QAM?

6. What is the uses of eye pattern?

6. State nyquist criterion for pulse shaping?

7. Distinguish coherent & non coherent modulaton techniques?

7. Draw the block diagram of coherent BFSK receiver.

7. What is signal constellation diagram

7. Define bit error rate for BPSK.

7. Define QAM.

8. What are the advantages of QPSK over PSK?

8. What is QPSK ? Write the expression for the signal set of QPSK.

8. Distinguish BPSK and QPSK techniques?

8. Write the disadvandages of DPSK.

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8. Define synchronization.

9. What is meant by block codes?

9. Generate cyclic code for (n.k) syndrome calculation

9. What is linear code?

9. State channel coding theorem?

9. What are the requirement of line codes?

10. Define Channel coding theorem

10. What is meant by constraint length of convolutional encoder?

10. List the properties of cyclic codes?

10. What is the syndrome in linear block codes? Mention the properties of syndrome.

10. What is need for error control code?

Part – B ( 5 x 13 = 65 Marks)

11.a. Describe the process of sampling and how the message signal is reconstructed from it’s sample
also illustrate the effect of aliasing with neat sketch?

11.a. Illustrate and describe the type of quantizer?describe the midread and midrise type charactertics of
uniform quantizer with suitable diagram?

11.a. Explain the alising effect and the method to overcome it.

11.a. Explain what is natural sampling and flat top sampling.

11.a. Explain impulse sampling process and explain how to reconstruct the signal

11.b. Describe PCM waveform coder and decoder with neat sketch and list the merits compared with
analog coders?

11.b. Draw and explain the TDM with it applications.

11.b. Write neat black diagram explain pulse code modulation and demodulation system.

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11.b. (i)Explain Nyquist sampling theorem and how the message can be reconstructed from its simples
with an example
(ii)Explain the practical limitations in sampling and reconstruction.

11.b. Explain the process of quantization and obtain an expression for signal to quantization ratio in the
case of a uniform quantizer.

12.a. Describe and illustrate delta modulation and its quantization error?

12.a. Describe delta modulation system in detail with a neat block diagram also.illustrate the two forms
of quantization error in delta modulation.

12.a. What is DM ? Explain the transmitter & receiver of DM

12.a. What is low bit rate speech coding? Draw the block diagram of adaptive sub-band coding scheme
for speech signal & explain.

12.a. Discuss about the structure of linear predictor. Also explain the process of prediction error

12.a With necessary diagram explain ADPCM systems

12.b. Explain the principal of LPC model with diagrams.

12.b. Describe the adaptive delta modulation with neat sketch.

12.b. Explain the noise in delta modulation systems.How to overcome this effect in delta modulation.

12.b. Explain a DPCM system .Derive the expression for slope overload noise of the system .Show SNR
of DPCM is better than that of PCM.

12.b. Compare
(i)PCM & DPCM
(ii) DM & ADM

13.a. (i)Describe modified duobinary coding technique and its performances by illustrating it’s
frequency and impulses responses.
(ii)Determine the power spectral density for NRZ bipolar and unipolar data formats .Assume that
1’s and 0’s in the input binary data occur with equal probability.

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13.a. Explain how nyquist’s criterians eliminates interference in the absences of noise of distortion-less
base band binary transmission.

13.a. Explain about power spectra of PAM signals

13.a. Differentiate binary & M-ary systems

13.a. Derive the expression for power spectral density of unipolar NRZ line code.Hence discuss its
characteristics.

13.b. (i)Describe how eye pattern illustrates the performance of a data transmission system with respect
to inter symbol interference with neat sketch.
(ii)Illustrate the modes of operation of an adaptive equalizer with neat block diagram.

13.b. Describe how eye pattern is helpful to obtained the performance of the system in detail with neat
sketch.

13.b. (i)Describe any one method for ISI control

(ii)list the interferences made from the eye pattern.

13.b. Explain about binary data formats

13.b. Derive and draw the power spectra of a NRZ

(i)Polar coded waveform.
(ii)Bipolar coded waveform

14.a. Illustrate the transmitter ,receiver and signal space diagram of Quadrature Phase Shift Keying and
describe how it reproduces the original sequence with the minimum probability of symbol error
with neat sketch?

14.a. (i)Describe the generation and detection of coherent binary PSK signals.
(ii)Illustrae the power spectra of binary PSK signals.

14.a. Explain about carrier synchronization

14.a. With neet block diagram explain coherent binary FSK transmitter & receiver

14.a. Explain BASK signal transmission with suitable diagram

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14.b. Illustrate the transmitter and receiver and the generation of the non-coherent version of PSK with
neat sketch.

14.b. (i)Describe the generation and detection of coherent QPSK signals.

(ii)Illustrate the power spectra of QPSK signals

14.b. (i)Draw the functional block diagram of modulator for QAM and explain its operation.
(ii)Derive the expression for error-probability of QAM system.

14.b. Compare BER of coherent PSK, QPSK & FSK

14.b. Explain about Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

15.a. For a (6,3) systematic linear block code, the three parity check digits.
P1,P2,P3 are given by P=[110, 101,011]
(i)construct generated matrix.
(ii)construct code generated by the matrix
(iii)determine error correcting capacity
(iv)If the received sequence is 100010 cakculate the syndrome & decode the received sequence

15.a. Consider a (6,3) linear block code defined by the generator matrix
G=100110
010011
001101
1. Determine if the code is a Hamming code. Find the parity check matrix H of the code in
systematic form.
2. Find the encoding table for the linear block code.
3. What is the minimum distance d of the code. How many errors can the code detect. How
many errors can the code correct.
4. Draw the hardware encoder diagram.
5. Find the decoding table for the linear block code.
6. Draw the hardware syndrome generator diagram.
7. Suppose c = [1 1 1 0 0 0] is sent and r = [1 1 1 0 0 1] is received. Show how the code can
correct this error.

15.a. Find the generator polynomial for (7,4) cyclic code & hence find the code word for [1000]

15.a. (i)Explain the error detecting and correcting capability of linear block code.
(ii)Consider a (7 4) linear block code whose parity check matrix is given by
1110100
H= 1 1 0 1 0 1 0
1011001

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(1) Find the generator matrix.

(2) How many errors this code can detect
(3) How many errors can this code be correct
(4) Draw circuit for encoder and syndrome computation.

15.a. (i)Explain the generation of (n,k) block codes and how block codes can be used for error control.
(ii)consider a (6,3) block code and explain how error syndrome helps in correcting a single error for
a data 110.

15.b. A convoluation code is described g1=[1 0 0]; g2=[1 0 1];g3=[1 1 1 ]

(i)draw the encoder corresponding to this code.
(ii)draw the state transition diagram for this code.
(iii)draw the trellis diagram.
(iv)find the transfer function.

15.b. (i)Design a block code for a message block of the size eight that can correct for signal errors.
(ii)Design a convolution coder of constraint lenth 6 and rate efficiency ½ .draw its tree diagram and
trellis diagram.

15.b. Explain the viterbi decoder method in details.

15.b. For the convolutional coder in figure.

Draw the state diagram & trellis diagram.
The input sequence is 11010100

15.b. Describe how convolution codes can be generated with an example ,draw and explain the tree
diagram and trellis diagram representation of convolutional codes.

Part – C ( 1 x 15 = 15 Marks)

16.a. Model & Types of Communication System

16.a. Explain about Linear Predictor Vocoder

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16.a. Explain Detailed about Line coding & its property

16.a. Different Types of shift keying method used in digital modulation techniques

16.a. Property of Linear Prediction

16.b. Channels for Digital Communication

16.b. Rationale for coding & its types and Errors

16.b. Explain Detailed about Modulation in Baseband Transmission

16.b. Explain binary data format in Line coding

16.b. Explain about channel coding theorem

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