Faculty Of Computer Studies

T325
Technologies for Digital Media
Mock Final Exam

FALL – 2012/2013

Number of Exam Pages:

(5) Time Allowed: (3) Hours
(Including this cover sheet)

Instructions:

1. The use of calculators is allowed

2. Write the answers on the separate answer booklet
3. The exam consists of three parts:
A. Multiple choice part (10 marks): You should answer All 10 questions
B. Short questions part (40 marks): You should answer 10 questions out of 14
C. Long questions/Exercises part (50 marks): You should answer all five
questions

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Part I: Multiple Choice questions (10 marks)
This part consists of 10 questions carrying a WEIGHT OF 1 mark each. You must answer ALL of the
following Multiple-choice questions. You should dedicate up to 20 minutes for this part
1. __________ does not require a continual supply of power to maintain stored data
a. Non-Persistent memory
b. Disk memory
c. Volatile memory
d. Non-volatile memory
e. Persistent memory
2. If 3 bits are in error among 3000 bits transmitted, the bit error rate is:
a. 0.1
b. 0.01
c. 0.001
d. 0.03
e. 0.003
3. Liquid Crystal Displays belong to the
a. Emissive displays category
b. Transmissive displays category
c. Reflective displays category
d. Refractive displays category
e. None of the above
4. Which of the following standards is used in video CDs
a. MPEG-1
b. MPEG-2
c. MPEG-4
d. MPEG-7
e. MPEG-21
5. ____________ protects signs that can distinguish the goods and services of one trader from
those of another
a. Copyright
b. Trademarks
c. Patents
d. Designs
e. Inventions
6. The maximum theoretical capacity of a 10 MHz channel when the signal to noise ratio is 100 is
a. 6.65 Mbps
b. 66.65 Mbps
c. 10 Mbps
d. 1000 Mbps
e. None of the above
7. Which of the following is a requirement of a robust watermarking algorithm
a. Imperceptibility
b. High capacity should be high enough
c. Reliability
d. Tamper resistance
e. All of the above
8. Which of the following is an architectural division of a mobile network
a. User equipment
b. Access network
c. Core network

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 d. All of the above
e. None of the above
9. Which of the following is used to overcome radio propagation issues in mobile networks
a. Coding
b. Interleaving
c. Power control
d. Signal processing techniques
e. All of the above
10. Which of the following is an exclusive right for copyright owners in UK
a. Copy the work
b. Issue copies of the work to the public
c. Perform, show or play the work in public
d. Make an adaptation of the work
e. All of the above

Part II: Short essay/problem questions (40 marks)

This part consists of 14 questions carrying a WEIGHT OF 4 marks each. You must answer
ONLY 10 of these questions. You should dedicate up to 70 minutes for this part

11. Explain the concept of smart batteries

12. Explain what is meant by Quality of Service
13. What are the factors that determine the voltage of a battery cell? And when this voltage is
at the maximum?
14. Assuming you could process 10^12 key attempts per second, calculate how long it would
take to search the key-space of a 56-bit key.
15. Explain the principle of operation of Block ciphers
16. Consider that a user A has been assigned the following code chips (1, -1, 1, -1) and that
user B has been assigned the following code (1, 1, x, y) where x and y are two unknown
values to be determined given that the two codes are orthogonal. Find the relation between
x and y, and Propose a code for B that satisfies this relation
17. Explain the principle of Phase Shift Keying. Use a diagram to support your answer
18. Explain the principle of noise masking.
19. The 3G standards define three types of channels to describe the signaling flows between
the user equipment and the radio access network. What are these channels and what are the
layers in each channel?
20. A multi level flash cell has 8 different level of charge (0 charge, C/7, 2C/7, 3C/7 … 6C/7,
C). How many bits can be stored in one cell? What is the impact of this on the overall
memory capacity compared with one-bit cell memory? Explain your answer.
21. What is the difference between hard and soft decision in some error correction codes
22. One technique to protect digital content is to bind the content to the machine ID (MAC
address for example) of the user. What are the issues related to such type of protection
measure?
23. Can we consider digital rights management techniques as technical implementations of
copyright? Support your answer with two examples/counterexamples
24. Explain the mobility management function in mobile networks
Part III: Long essay/problems (50 marks)
This part consists of five questions. You must answer all of them. You should dedicate up to 90
minutes for this part

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 25. The following numbers are written on the cover of a battery:
• 1.2 V
• 2500 mAh
• 9 mL
• 30 g
a. Calculate the volumetric and gravimetric energy density of the battery in SI units
b. This battery delivers a 30 mA current when connected to a 35 Ohms external resistance.
i. Calculate the internet resistance of the battery
ii. How much time this battery can deliver such current
iii. Calculate the volumetric and gravimetric power density of the battery

26. A mobile device is being used by someone sitting on a high-speed train moving at 300
km/h and the carrier frequency is nominally 2142.5 MHz Calculate the Doppler shift in
frequency, both as a frequency shift, for the case where the mobile is moving directly
towards the base station from which it is receiving a signal.

27. Consider the following 4*4 block that constitutes the output of the requantisation and
Thresholding phase in the MPEG encoding process. What will be the final sequence of bits
that results from the zigzag scanning and run-length coding stages? Detail you answer
showing the output of each stage.
7 0 0 1
1 0 2 0
0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0

28. Find the codeword corresponding to the message 1001 using a (7,4) hamming code

29. In your country, you have the choice between two cellular operators (A and B). Given that you
don’t want to exceed 30US dollars per month for your phone bill, you searched for the
corresponding offers of each operator and you find the following.
• Operator A: With 30 US dollars you can have ALL the following services that you can use
within 30 days: Up to 1 GB of mobile broadband data download, Up to 200 minutes of phone
calls and Up to 200 short message service (SMS) text messages (maximum 160 characters per
message).
• Operator B: Up to 800 MB of mobile broadband data download, Up to 300 minutes of phone
calls and Up to 1000 short message service (SMS) text messages (maximum 160 characters per
message).

Which one of the two operators has the lowest cost per megabyte? Explain your answer

Notes:
• You should consider the worst case scenario for the operator, which is a customer using all the
services during the 30 days)
• For texting, take each character to be represented by 8 bits.
• For the phone calls, take the data rate to be 12.2 Kbit/s in each direction.
• Consider only the download part of the user activity in mobile broadband data
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