VIVA QUESTIONS

ADVANCED COMMUNICATION LAB

1.

Define Dirac comb or ideal sampling function.

2.

State sampling theorem.

3.

What is aliasing or fold over?

4.

What is meant by PCM?

5.

Define quantizing process.

6.

What is meant by idle channel noise?

7.

Define delta modulation

8.

Name the types of uniform quantizer.

9.

What is the need for speech coding at low bit rates?

10. What is PAM?

11. Define modulation rate.
12. State NRZ unipolar format
13. State Manchester format.
14. What is Inter symbol interference?
15.

Which criterion makes ISI Zero?

16. What is matched filter receiver?

17. What is maximum likelihood detector?

18. Define antipodal signals.

19. Give the two basic operation of DPSK transmitter
20. Define deviation ratio in MSK
21. What are the three broad types of synchronization?
22. What are the disadvantages of closed loop bit synchronization?
23. Define code efficiency
24. Define pseudo-noise (PN) sequence.
25. What does the term catastrophic cyclic code represent?
26. Define a random binary sequence.
27. Give the correlation property of random binary sequence.
28. What is called processing gain?
29. What is called jamming effect?
30. What is Anti jamming?
31. What are the three codes used for the anti jamming application?
32. What is called frequency hop spread spectrum?
33. What are the two function of fast frequency hopping?
34. What are the features of code Division multiple Accesses?
35. What is called multipath Interference?
36. What is the advantage of a spread spectrum technique?

37. What is called frequency hop spread spectrum?

38. BPFSK is more efficient than BFSK in presence of noise. Why?

39. What is inter symbol interference?
40. What is raised cosine pulse?
41. Compare the bandwidth efficiency of the M-ary FSK and M-ary PSK modulation
schemes

42. . If x(t) = cos (2pt / T) sin (4 pt / T) is to be sampled, what is the maximum sampling
interval?

43. A PCM system uses a uniform Quantizer followed by a 7-bit encoder. The rate of
system is 50Mbits\second. Determine message bandwidth for system to operate
satisfactorily
44.

Which modulation technique has best utilization of bandwidth?

45. In which modulation scheme probability is maximum

46. In which modulation scheme probability is minimum
47. What is Nyquist rate?
48. What is advantage of digital communication over analog communication?
49. Which are the channels used for digital communication?

50. Which kind of multiplexing used in digital communication?

51. Define Aperture effect. How it can be avoided
52. Why is Sample & Hold circuit used?
53. An Analog signal is given as
X(t) = 3cos 50t + 10 sin 300 t + cos 100t
Calculate Nyquist rate
54. The spectrum of a signal g(t) has bandwidth 0.8KHZ and centered around

KHZ. Find Nyquist Rate

55. What is requirement for Transmission Bandwidth?
56. Difference between Coherent and Non-coherent detection
57. Signal constellation diagram of all modulation schemes
58. A PCM system uses a uniform quantizer followed by a 7 bit encoder, with bit rate
50Mbps.What is the message bandwidth for system to operate satisfactorily?
59. Properties of Matched filter?
60. Difference between CDMA & TDMA
61. What is Pulse code modulation (PCM)?
62. How the performance of a PCM is corrupted?
63. What are the two types of Spread spectrum technique?

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64. We need to send 3 bits at a time at a bit rate of 3Mbps.The carrier frequency is
10MHz.Calculate No of levels and Bandwidth
65. What is a Constellation Diagram?
66. Which modulation is a combination of other 2 schemes?
67. Name two principles by which spread spectrum achieves its goal
68. Which of the 3 multiplexing techniques is common for fiber optic links
69. What is the minimum number of bits in a PN sequence if we use FHSS with a channel
bandwidth of 5kHz and Bss=120kHz?
70. Which theorem gives Maximum Data Rate of the channel?