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P1100

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DIGITAL COMMUNICATION (Sem. - I ) (2008 Pattern)
Time :3 Hours] [Max. Marks :100 Instructions to the candidates:1) Answer 3 questions from section - I and 3 questions from Section - II. 2) Neat diagrams must be drawn wherever necessary. 3) Figures to the right indicate full marks. 4) Assume suitable data, if necessary.

SECTION - I Q1) a) What is a digital baseband system? Explain how a textual data is encoded using ASCII and Baudot codes with suitable examples. [8] b) The spectrum of the signal g (t) is shown in Fig. 1. below. This signal is naturally sampled with periodic team of rectangular pulses of duration

50 m secs. Plot the spectrum of sampled signal for frequencies upto 3 100 Hz for the following two conditions. [10]
i) ii) fs = Nyquist Rate fs = 20 samples/sec.

OR Q2) a) What are the advantages of DM over PCM in Terms of signalling rate and bandwidth requirement. Derive the output S/N ratio of delta modulator. Brief the condition to avoid slope overload error. [8] P.T.O

b) Consider an audio signal with spectral components limited to the frequency band of 500 Hz to 3kHz. A PCM signal is generated with sampling rate of 8000 samples/sec. The required output signal to quantisation noise ratio is 40 dB. i) How many number of levels and no of bits/level are needed for uniform quantisation. ii) Calculate the bandwidth requirement of the above system. iii) If A-law compander is used, what will be the changes in the number of levels, no. of bits / sample and bandwidth? [10] Q3) a) What are line codes and its characteristics? Compare the power spectral density of Unipolar NR2 and R2 formats by deriving suitable expressions. [8] b) Why synchronization is necessary in digital communication? Explain bit and frame synchronization using suitable sketch. [8] OR Q4) a) Consider the sequence of 1s nad 0s i) An alternate sequence of 1s and 0s ii) A continuous sequence of five 1s followed by five 0s. iii) A sequence of two 1s followed by ten 0s sketch the Manchester format representation for the above sequence and comment on the error detection capability. [8] b) What is intersymbol interference? Explain its causes and remedies to avoid it. [8] Q5) a) Explain in detail about stationary, non stationary, wide sense stationary and ergodic processes with suitable mathematical expressions and examples. [8] b) Consider a random process s(t) = cos (w0 t + ) where is a random variable with probability density

i) ii)

1 2 = 0 elsewhere Show that the first and second moments of s(t) are independent of time. If the random variable is fixed as 0, will the ensemble mean of s(t) be time independent? [8] OR
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Q6) a) Define the power spectral density and auto-correlation function of periodic signals. Show that both are related in frequency domain. [8] b) A random process g(t) has power spectral density G(f) = /2 for < f < . The random process is passed through a low pass filter with transfer function H(f) = 2 for fm < f < fm. and H(f) = 0 otherwise. Find the psd of the waveform at the output of filter. [8] SECTION - II Q7) a) Explain M-ary PSK transmitter and receiver with suitable block diagram and waveforms. What are the advantages of M-ary PSK over M-ary FSK? [8] b) Derive and draw the spectrum of BPSK, QPSK and BFSK signal and compare their bandwidths. [8] OR Q8) a) Explain the performance of MSK with suitable block schematic and also explain how phase continuity is maintained in this system? [8] b) Explain BFSK transmitter and receiver with a proper sketch. What are the salient features of BFSK signal? [8] Q9) a) Derive the expressions for signal to noise ratio and error probability of a matched filter in the presence of white gaussian noise. [8] b) A received signal of either +2V or 2V held for a duration T is corrupted by white gaussian noise of power spectral density 104 volts2 /Hz. If the signal is processed by integrate and dump receiver, what is the maximum duration T during which the signal must be sustained if the probability of error is not to exceed 104? [8] OR [8] Q10) a) Derive the relation between bit error rate and Symbol error rate. b) Calculate the error probability in the detection of BPSK, QPSK and BFSK signals using signal space representation and compare their performance with respect to this criteria. [8] Q11) a) Explain DS - SS BPSK transmitter and receiver with suitable block diagram and derive the power spectral density of the same. [8] -10 b) A DS - SS BPSK system has fb = 3kbps, No = 10 w/Hz and is receiving signals with Pe 10-7 in the presence of single tone jammer whose received power is ten times larges than original signal. Calculate the jamming margin and draw the antijam characteristics. [10] [4163]-272 3

OR Q12) Write short notes on any three : a) TDMA and CDMA services. b) Satellite Transponder. c) Noise temperature and G/T ratio. d) Diversity Techniques. [18]

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