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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
BE - SEMESTER–VI (OLD) - EXAMINATION – SUMMER 2018
Subject Code:161001 Date:05/05/2018
Subject Name:Digital Communication
Time:10:30 AM to 01:00 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q.1 (a) Define following: (1) Code efficiency (2) Systematic Code (3) Binary Symmetrical 07
Channel (4) Channel capacity (5) Encoding (6) Entropy (7)
Redundancy.
(b) Define Delta Modulation? Draw the neat diagram of Delta modulator and explain 07
the operation with waveforms.
Q.2 (a) What is cumulative Distribution Function (CDF)? Enlist the important properties of 07
CDF? Prove any two of them.
(b) Explain in details the Frequency shift keying (FSK). 07
OR
(b) In a random experiment, a trial consists of 4 successive tosses of a coin. If we design 07
a random variable ‘x’ as the no. of heads appearing in a trial, determine
P (x=xi) and CDF Fx(x).
Q.3 (a) What is AWGN channel and redundancy? Also, briefly explain significance of the 07
Shannon’s equation for error free communication,
[ C = B log2 ( 1+ S/N ) ----- (1) ].
(b) Explain in detail about Channel capacity of discrete memory less channel. 07
OR
Q.3 (a) A source emits seven messages with probabilities 1/3, 1/3, 1/9, 1/9, 1/27, 1/27, 1/27 07
respectively. Obtain the 3-ary compact code. Find the Length of this code (L),
entropy of source (H), Code efficiency and redundancy.
(b) A memory less source emits messages m1 to m6 with probabilities 0.30, 0.25, 0.15, 07
0.12, 0.10, 0.08 respectively. Find the length of this code (L), entropy of source (H),
code efficiency and redundancy for quaternary huffman code.
Q.4 (a) Explain in detail about the components of digital communication system. 07
(b) Define the compandor? Explain in detail the non uniform quantization with neat 07
diagram (both A & µ law).
OR
Q.4 (a) Describe the base band system model in presence of noise. 07
(b) Write a short note on spread spectrum based communication. 07
Q.5 (a) Construct the systematic (7, 4) cyclic code using g(x) = x 3+x2+1 for the data vector 07
1010, 1111, 0001, 1000.
(b) A (6, 3) code is generated according to the below given generator matrix G. The 07
receiver receives r = 100011. Determine the corresponding data word if the channel
is a BSC and maximum likelihood decision is used.

1 0 0 1 0 1
G = 0 1 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1 1 0

OR
3 2
Q.5 (a) The generator matrix g(x) = x +x +1 is given for a (7, 4) cyclic code. Find the code 07
vector for following dada vector: 1010, 1110.

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(b) Explain briefly BPSK modulation with neat sketch. 07

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