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Fifth Problem Assignment: EE603 - DSP and Its Applications

This document assigns a fifth problem set in digital signal processing (DSP) and applications. The problem set involves building a digital communication system simulator to calculate bit error rate (BER) under different noise levels. It consists of 10 subproblems: (1) characterizing a pulse shape, (2) calculating data rate, (3) determining minimum sampling frequency, (4) sampling the pulse, (5) analyzing aliasing of a filtered pulse, (6) generating a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) signal, (7) observing the effect of filtering, (8) adding noise, (9) constructing a matched filter, and (10) calculating BER for different noise levels. The assignment is due on November

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Fifth Problem Assignment: EE603 - DSP and Its Applications

This document assigns a fifth problem set in digital signal processing (DSP) and applications. The problem set involves building a digital communication system simulator to calculate bit error rate (BER) under different noise levels. It consists of 10 subproblems: (1) characterizing a pulse shape, (2) calculating data rate, (3) determining minimum sampling frequency, (4) sampling the pulse, (5) analyzing aliasing of a filtered pulse, (6) generating a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) signal, (7) observing the effect of filtering, (8) adding noise, (9) constructing a matched filter, and (10) calculating BER for different noise levels. The assignment is due on November

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Fifth Problem Assignment

EE603 - DSP and its applications

Assigned on: October 29, 2018 Due on: November 9, 2018


Notes:
(1) Copying will be dealt with strictly. Institute disciplinary procedures will be invoked if
any form of cheating is detected.
(2) The submissions must include the comments, plots AND the code in a SINGLE PDF.
Without the code, the submission will not be evaluated. If you submit a zip file containing
the code, plots etc., this PDF must STILL be included in the zip file.
(3) The computer assignments should be solved using GNU Octave or any other free/open
source software kit approved by the instructor. Solutions that work only on Matlab will
not be accepted.
PRᴏBᴌᴇᴍ 1
(10 points) In this problem, you will build a simulator that will find the bit error rate for a
communication system. Implement the following in Octave.
Sampling
+ and decision
Noise
premultiplication
factor

2
(a) Consider the pulse p(t) = e−πt . Find the width of this pulse, where the width is defined
to be the difference between the positive and negative values of t where the pulse ampli-
tude falls below 10−2 . We refer to the part of the pulse with the values above 10−2 as the
truncated pulse.
(b) If you now implement a communication system where you use the truncated pulse to
perform the communication, what will the data rate be?
(c) We now have to sample the pulse. Sampling will add amplitudes of the aliased spectrum.
We are able to tolerate a total amount of aliasing of 10−2 at the zero frequency. What
should the minimum sampling frequency? Repeat this for 10−3 and 10−4
Hint: Evaluate the contribution of the aliased spectrum components at f = 0, i.e. evaluate

Assigned: October 29, 2018 1 Due: November 9, 2018


Fifth Problem Assignment

k=∞

∑ X(f − kfs )
k=−∞,k≠0

and check for what value it is smaller than 10−2 .


(d) For the further simulations, we will use a sampling frequency of 10 Hz. Sample p(t) at
10 Hz to obtain p[n]. (Decide how many samples you need to retain based on when the
amplitude decays to a small value). Plot p[n].
(e) Now, the data signal passes through an RC filter, whose impulse response is ℎ(t) =
e−t/RC u(t), with RC = 0.5 seconds. Find the amount of aliasing and determine whether
10 Hz is a sufficient sampling frequency. Sample this impulse response and retain enough
samples at least till the amplitude remains above 10−3 .
(f) Now, you are going to build a 0.4 bits per second binary phase shift keying system. That
is, you are going to randomly generate symbols sk taking values 1 and −1, and send them
using the pulse p[n] as

∑ sk p[n − kN]
k

Generate 100,000 random sk values and create the above signal. What would be the value
of N?
(g) Pass the above signal through the filter ℎ[n]. What do you observe?
(h) Add noise with to each sample of the output of the previous stage using the randn function.
Premultiply the noise by the factor 0.5 before adding it. Observe the resulting signal.
(i) Finally, construct the matched filter m[n] by convolving p[n] and ℎ[n] and reversing it.
Sample the outputs at the appropriate peaks of the matched filter to obtain ŝk , as discussed
in class. What is the BER?
(j) Repeat the above for noise premultiplication factors of 0.1, 0.2, 0.8 and 1.0. What is the
observed BER for each case?

Assigned: October 29, 2018 2 Due: November 9, 2018

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