Assignment No.

03
Total Marks: 15
Semester: Spring 2018
Data Communication– CS601 Due Date: 03/08/2018
Objective:
 To understand the concept of Error Detection and Correction based on different Conversion
Techniques.

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Assignment is covered from Chapter no 4 to 5 complete (From Topic 124 to Topic 165 -
Lessons).

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Assignment Questions
Questions: Marks 15
Question. 1 (5 Marks)
Suppose a station (PC-1) wants to transmit a message to a station (PC-2) as a list of five 4-bit
numbers. In order to have an error-free transmission, PC-1 adds a 4-bit checksum at the end of this
message to enable error detection at the receiver end. If the set of data contained in the message is (5,
12, 15, 3, 10), calculate the 4-bit checksum needed to be appended with the data using the one’s
compliment arithmetic.

Question. 2 (5 Marks)
A station is transmitting data at a rate of 1.5Mbps over a channel which gets affected by an
instantaneous noise source for a short period of time. If the noise occurs for duration of 0.1 msec
(milliseconds), how many bits are going to be impacted by this burst error?

Question #3: (5 Marks)

In Block-coding, we divide our message into blocks, each of ‘k’ bits, called datawords and then add
‘r’ redundant bits to each block to make the length ‘n = k + r’. The resulting ‘n-bit’ blocks are called
codewords. Two station agree upon using an “odd parity” block coding scheme in which every
datawords is appended with one parity bit to make an odd parity codeword (Number of 1s in the
codeword should be odd). If they use dataword of length 3 (k=3), then draw the table for this coding
scheme representing each dataword with its corresponding codewords.

Best of Luck!