Communication Systems (Digital Communication)

Total No. of Questions: 8

Remembering (1)
1. The properties of line encoding are _______
a) Transmission bandwidth
b) Power efficiency
c) Error detection & correction capability
d) All of the above
Answer: d)
Understanding (1)
2. White noise has _______ power spectral density.
a) Constant
b) Variable
c) Constant & Variable
d) None of the mentioned
Answer: a)
Apply (1)
3. The bit rate of digital communication system is R kbit/s. The modulation used is 32-QAM. The
minimum bandwidth required for ISI free transmission is
(a) R/10 Hz
(b) R/10 KHz
(c) R/5 Hz
(d) R/5 KHz
Answer: (b)
Analyze (2)
4. In binary data transmission DPSK is preferred to PSK because
(a) a coherent carrier is not required to be generated at the receiver
(b) for a given energy per bit, the probability of error is less
(c) the 180o phase shifts of the carrier are unimportant
(d) more protection is provided against impulse noise
Answer: (a)
5. A source alphabet consists of N symbols with the probability of the first two symbols being the same.
A source encoder increases the probability of the first symbol by a small amount e. After encoding, the
entropy of the source
(a) Increases
(b) Remains the same
(c) Increases only if N = 2
(d) Decreases
Answer: (d)
Evaluate (1)
6. The capacity of a band-limited additive white Gaussian (AWGN) channel is given by

(
C=W log 2 1+
P
2
σ w )
bits per second (bps), where W is the channel bandwidth, P is the average power

received and σ2 is the one-sided power spectral density of the AWGN.

P
For a fixed 2
=1000, the channel capacity (in kbps) with infinite bandwidth (𝑊→∞) is approximately
σ
(a) 1.44
(b) 1.08
(c) 0.72
(d) 0.36
Answer: (a)
Create (1)
7. Let (√𝛾) be the BER of a BPSK system over an AWGN channel with two-sided noise power spectral
density 𝑁0/2. The parameter γ is a function of bit energy and noise power spectral density.
A system with two independent and identical AWGN channels with noise power spectral density 𝑁0/2 is
shown in the figure. The BPSK demodulator receives the sum of outputs of both the channels.

If the BER of this system is (𝑏√𝛾), then the value of b is________

a) √2
b) 3 √ 3
c) 2 √ 5
d) 2√ 2
Answer: (a)
Affective (1)
8. A sinusoidal signal with peak to peak amplitude of 1.536 V is quantized into 128 levels using a midrise
uniform quantizer. The quantization noise power is
a) 0.768 V
b) 48×10−6 𝑉2
c) 12×10−6 𝑉2
d) 3.072 V
Answer: c)