Course Code: A56027

R20

Anurag University
III- B Tech II-Semester End Examinations
Course: Digital Communication
(Only for ECE)

Time: 3 Hours Max Marks: 60

Section – A (Short Answer type questions)
● Answer all questions: (10 x 2 =20Marks)
Unit-I
1. List the advantages of digital communication system over analog communication
system.

2. What is the necessity of Non-uniform quantization in speech coding?

Unit-II
3. Draw the waveforms of ASK, FSK and PSK signals for the data sequence
101101.
4. Compare ASK, BFSK and BPSK modulation techniques with respect to
Bandwidth and Euclidean distance.
Unit-III
5. A source emits one of four symbols A,B,C and D with probabilities 1/3,1/6,1/4
and 1/4 respectively. The successive symbols emitted by the source are
independent. Calculate the entropy of the source.
6. State Shannon-Hartley law.
Unit-IV
7. Write the properties of cyclic codes.
8. Define the following parameters related to convolutional codes.
(a) Code rate (b) Constraint Length
Unit-V
9. List the applications of spread spectrum modulation.
10. Differentiate direct sequence and frequency hopping spread spectrum modulation
techniques.

Section—B (Essay Answer type questions)

● Answer all questions: (5 x 8 =40 Marks)
Unit-I

11. A) Draw the block diagram of digital communication system and explain about
each block.
OR
B) A television signal with a bandwidth of 4MHz is transmitted using binary
PCM.The number of quantization levels are 128.
Find (i) Code word length
(ii)Transmission Bandwidth
(iii) Signaling rate
(iv) o/p signal to quantization noise ratio.
Unit-II
12. A) Draw the block diagram of QPSK system and explain its working.
OR
B) Explain the operation of coherent and Non-coherent BFSK detectors with neat
diagram.
Unit-III

13. A) A DMS X has five symbols x1,x2,x3,x4 and x5 with

P(x1)=0.4,P(x2)=0.19,P(x3)=0.16,P(x4)=0.15 and P(x5)=0.1.
Construct a Shannon-Fano code for X, and calculate the efficiency of the code.
OR
B) State Shannon’s information capacity theorem and derive the expression for
limiting capacity of the channel.

Unit-IV

14. A) The generator matrix for a (6, 3) block code is given below. Find all the code
vectors of this code.

[ ]
1 0 0 0 1 1
G= 0 1 0 1 0 1
0 0 1 1 1 0

OR
B) For a (7, 4) cyclic code, the generator polynomial is G (p) =1+p+p3.Find the
systematic and Non-systematic code words for the message bits 1010 and 0101.
Unit-V
15. A) Illustrate the functionality of frequency hopping spread spectrum modulation
with a neat diagram.
OR
B) Explain the operation of PN Sequence generator with a neat diagram.
Also write the characteristics.