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Set 1 - Communication Systems (Digital Communication)

This document contains an 8 question quiz about digital communication systems. The questions cover topics such as line encoding properties, white noise power spectral density, minimum bandwidth requirements for intersymbol interference free transmission, advantages of differential phase shift keying over phase shift keying, effects of source encoding on entropy, calculating channel capacity for an additive white Gaussian noise channel, determining bit error rate for a binary phase shift keying system over an AWGN channel using two independent channels, and calculating quantization noise power for a sinusoidal signal quantized with a midrise uniform quantizer.

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Set 1 - Communication Systems (Digital Communication)

This document contains an 8 question quiz about digital communication systems. The questions cover topics such as line encoding properties, white noise power spectral density, minimum bandwidth requirements for intersymbol interference free transmission, advantages of differential phase shift keying over phase shift keying, effects of source encoding on entropy, calculating channel capacity for an additive white Gaussian noise channel, determining bit error rate for a binary phase shift keying system over an AWGN channel using two independent channels, and calculating quantization noise power for a sinusoidal signal quantized with a midrise uniform quantizer.

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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)

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