Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Communication Theory (21ET44) Module 4 & 5: Sampling and Quantization
1. List the advantages of Digital communication systems over Analog systems
2. Why to digitize the analog sources? 3. State the differences between Analog and Digital Systems. 4. What is sampling theorem? Explain the same with spectrum and equations? 5. Define the following with equations i. Nyquist Rate ii. Nyquist Interval iii. Aliasing Effect 6. What is Under sampling and Over sampling? Mention the conditions under which it occurs? 7. An Analog Signal 𝑥(𝑡) = 10 cos(100𝜋𝑡) +5sin(200𝜋𝑡) + cos(300𝜋𝑡), is to be sampled. Calculate Nyquist rate and Nyquist Interval. 8. What is aliasing effect? Explain the measures to avoid the aliasing? 9. A TV signal has a bandwidth 4.5MHz. The signal is sampled, quantised and binary coded to obtain PCM signal a. Determine the sampling rate if the signal is to be sampled at the rate of 25% above the Nyquist rate b. If the samples are quantised into 1024 levels, determine the number of bits required to encode each codeword 10. Explain the generation and recovery of PAM (Flat-Top Signal) with necessary equations and spectrum diagram 11. Illustrate the concept of Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) system, with its functional components. 12. Discuss the generation of Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) with a neat block diagram and waveforms. 13. Discuss the Detection of PPM waves 14. Describe the process of quantization and differentiate between midtread and midrise quantization. 15. Derive the expression for the signal to quantization noise ratio 16. Elaborate the Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) system with transmitter, transmission path and receiver components 17. A TV signal with a Bandwidth of 6 MHz is transmitted using binary PCM. The number of representation levels is 512. Calculate: i. Codeword length ii. Final Bit rate iii. Transmission Bandwidth 18. A CD records audio signals digitally using PCM. Assume the audio signal bandwidth to be 30 KHz, Calculate: i. Nyquist rate ii. If L=512, determine the number of bits in each code iii. Assuming the signal is sinusoidal with maximum amplitude 1V, determine the quantization step and signal to Quantization Ratio 19. What are the desirable properties of digital waveforms? 20. Consider a bit sequence 10011011, draw the resulting waveforms using -Unipolar NRZ, Polar NRZ, Unipolar RZ, Bipolar RZ, Manchester Encoding 21. A signal 𝑚(𝑡) of bandwidth 4KHz is transmitted using a binary PCM with no. of quantization levels as 64. Calculate Transmission bandwidth and output SNR. 22. Determine the Nyquist rate and Nyquist Interval for the signals: i. 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐 2 (100𝜋𝑡) ii. 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐(50𝜋𝑡)𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐(100𝜋𝑡) iii. 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐(100𝜋𝑡) + 3𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐 2 (60𝜋𝑡) iv. 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐(100𝜋𝑡) 23. Consider a bit sequence 101011100, draw the resulting waveforms using -Unipolar NRZ, Polar NRZ, Unipolar RZ, Bipolar RZ, Manchester Encoding 24. A signal 𝑚(𝑡) of bandwidth 4KHz is transmitted using a binary PCM with no. of quantization levels as 256. Calculate Transmission bandwidth and output SNR. 25. Describe Delta modulation system with analog to digital encoder and digital to analog decoder components. 26. Draw and explain the Slope overloading error and granular noise in Delta modulation. Explain the technique to avoid both of them. 27. Explain the Delta-Sigma Modulation 28. Discuss following applications with block diagram: i. Video and MPEG ii. Vocoders 29. Explain differential encoding of the sequence 10101011 using: i. Reference bit ‘0’ ii. Reference bit ‘1’ 30. Explain the regeneration circuit used in the transmission path of a PCM system 31. An analog signal is sampled at the Nyquist rate fs = 20K and quantized into L=1024 levels. Find Bitrate and the time duration Tb of one bit of the binary encoded signal. Assume Mid-rise type, n = log2L = 10 Bitrate = nfs = 200K bits/sec Bit duration Tb = 1/ nfs = 5μsec. 32. A PCM system uses a uniform quantizer followed by a 7-bit binary encoder. The bit rate of the system is 50 Mega bits/sec. Find the output signal-to-quantization noise ratio when a sinusoidal wave of 1MHz frequency is applied to the input. Given n = 7 and bit rate nfs = 56 Mega bits per second. Sampling frequency = fs = 8MHz Message bandwidth = 4MHz. For Mid-rise type (SNR)0 = (6n + 1.8) dB= 6 x 7+1.8 = 43.9 dB
32. State sampling theorem in time domain? Draw the spectrum showing aliasing and guard band. 33. Draw and explain DM with waveforms. 34. What is non-uniform quantization? Describe A-law and μ-law companding.
Central College of Engineering & Management Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Course:-B.E. (6 Sem.) Subject: Communication System-Ii