VIVEKANANDHA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING FOR WOMEN DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING DIGITAL COMMUNICATION MODEL EXAM SEMESTER:

VI YEAR : III TIME:3 Hrs MAX.MARKS : 100

PART-A (20 X 2=40) Answer all question 1. What are the two limitations of delta modulation? 2. What is meant by aliasing? 3. What is the SNR of PCM system if number of quantisation levels is 2^8? 4. A bandpass signal has the spectral range that extends from 20Khz to 82KHz. Find the acceptable range of sampling frequency Fs. 5. How is eye pattern obtainded on CRO. 6. A TDM signal with bit time of 0.5 s is to be transmitted using the channel with raised cosine roll off factor of 0.5.What is the bandwidth required? 7. Why intersymbol interference takes place in channel? 8. What is an ideal nyquist channel? 9. Why do you need adaptive equalisation in switched telephone networks? 10.Write the expression for bit error rate for coherent binary FSK. 11.What is the major difference between QPSK and MSK signal? 12.What is the error probability of MSK and DPSK. 13.What is meant by syndrome of linear block code? 14.What is convolutional code?

15.What is the difference between block codes and convolutional codes?

16. What

is meant by processing gain of DS Spread spectrum system?

17.What is the period of maximal length sequence generated using 3 bit shift register? 18.What are the application of spread spectrum modulation?
19. Define 20. What

frequency hopping .

is anti jam. PART-B (5 X 12=60) (Answer any Five)

21.Explain in detail about spread spectrum technique.(FH- SS & SH -SS) 22.(i) A sinusoidal signal is transmitted using PCM. An output SNR of 55.8db is required. Find the number of representation levels required to achieve this performance. (ii) Consider an audio signal comprised of sinusoidal term s(t)=3cos(500t) a)Find the signal to quatisation noise ratio when this is quantised using 10 bit PCM. b)How many bits of quantisation are needed to achieve a signal to quantisation ratio of atleast 40db.
23. (i)

What is meant by the ideal nyquist channel ? What are its merits and

demerits ? (ii) Draw the block diagram of duobinary signalling scheme and derive the overall frequency response of this scheme.
24. Write

breifly about eye pattern and adaptive equalisation .

25.Explain in detail about QPSK.

26. The

parity check matrix of (7,4) linear block code is given by H=

Find the generated matrix and parity check matrix. 27.Explain viterbi decoding algorithm in detail with example. 28.A rate 1/2 k=3, binary convolutional encoder is shown in the figure. a) Draw the tree diagram ,trellis diagram and the state diagram for above encoder.
b)

If the received signal at the decoder for eight message bits is y=(0001100000001001) Trace the decision on a trellis (or) code tree diagram and find out message bit sequence.