THE ARAB AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

Principle of Telecommunication (110714170)

Final Exam – 2/2/2025

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Instructions:
 Turn off your mobile phone
 Time: 12:30-13:30 PM
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 Use the space provided. In case you need more space, you could use the back
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 Answer all questions.

Total Number of Questions (3)

Best of Luck
Dr. Amjad Abu Jazar
Dr. Naser Hamad

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 Answer the following Questions:

1. My birthday is (15/8/1967)

Let A the day, B the month, and C the year

In example above A = 15, B = 8, C = 1967

What is yours:
A=
B=
C=

2. My AAUP ID student number (202104360)

Let D = The last 3 numbers
In example: D = 360

What is yours:
D=

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FACULTY OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
QUESTION NO. 1:
(16 MARKS)

a) Select the correct answer of the following:

1- A Rayleigh fading noise is considered as a channel impairiments which is:
a) Additive noise
b) Multiplicative noise
c) Multipath noise
d) Indoor shadowing noise
2- Adding a check parity bit to the transmission codeword is employed as:
a) Source coding
b) Pulse coding
c) Channel coding
d) Encryption
3- In uniform amplitude quantizer, the range of quantization error is:
a) 0 to 
b) - to +
c) -/2 to +/2
d) -/4 to +/4
4- The maximum licensed power for AM radio station is:
a) 10 KW
b) 12 KW
c) 15 KW
d) 20 KW
5- In AM modulation, the transmitted modulated signal is:
a) Time-shifted version of the original signal
b) Frequency-shifted version of the original signal
c) Time and frequency-shifted version of the original signal
d) Non of the above
6- A bandpass signal is a signal in which the frequency contents is in the neirghbourhood of
a) f =0
b) f =fc (carrier frequency)
c) f =2 fc (double carrier frequency)
d) irrelevant to carrier frequency .
7- In FM modulation, signal to moise ratio (SNR) can be improved by
a) Increasing the signal power
b) Decreasing the noise power
c) Increasing the carrier amplitude
d) Increasing the transmission banwidth
8- The satellite TV broadcasting is considered as
a) Simplex transmission
b) Half duplex transmission
c) Full duplex transmission
d) None of the above
9- The signal
x ( ω )=F ( ω−ω c ) + F ( ω+ ωc ) ,
is considered as
a) base band signal
b) Pandpass signal
c) AM SSB signal

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d) FM modulated signal

10- Analog data with the highest harmonic at 40 kHz generated by a sensor has been digitized using 6
level PCM. The rate at which digital signal generated is
a) 120 Kbps
b) 160 kbps
c) 240 kbps
d) 320 kbps

[10 Marks]

b) A local radio station is planning to start broadcasting using amplitude modulation (AM). Given that the
local radio station licensed frequency of 105 Hz with amplitude, A c=C volt . Given that, for example, the
voice signal can be represented as

v ( t )=B cos ( A 000 πt ) volts .

Write an expression for the Double Sideband Large Carrier (DSB-LC) transmitted signal.
1. Find the required bandwidth to transmit the DSB-LC modulated signal.
2. What is the carrier power, and the double sidebands power.
[6 Marks]

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QUESTION NO. 2:
(10 MARKS)

a) Given a signal
m ( t ) =Bcos ( 2 π 4 × 103 t )

As the message signal and a frequency deviation constant gain kf of 10 KHz/V. Compute the peak
frequency deviation (f) and modulation index (FM). Estimate whether this type of FM is NBFM or
WBFM?
[5 Marks]

b) An FM modulated signal given by

( )
t
V FM ( t )=Ccos 2 π ×106.2 MHz t+ 10 kHz ∫ 1Vsin (2 π × 5 kHz t)dt
0

1. Find the Bandwidth using Carsons Rule.

2. Find the power of the FM signal given that the feeder resistance is normalized to D .
[5 Marks]

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QUESTION NO. 3:
(10 MARKS)

a) Given a voice signal of frequency 8 KHz, it is required to sample at 1.5 of Nyquist rate and transmit the
voice signal digitally using PCM technique via a binary channel with bit rate Rb = 200 kbps. Find the
following:
1. The codeword length (the required binary digits n)
2. The quantization level L
[5 Marks]

b) A 5-bit uniform Digital-to-Analog (DAC) converter has a current output. For a digital input of 10100, an
output voltage of 10 mv is produced. What will vout be for a digital input of 11101?
[5 Marks]

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