COMMUNICATION THEORY

Introduction To Signals:
1) What is communication theory [lecture] 2) Describe the classification of different types of signals [lathi-20] 3) What is the difference between energy & power signal [lecture] 4) Determine if the following signals are energy signals, power signals or neither and evaluate E & P for each signal.[example from lecture] 5) Describe some useful signal operation / or signal properties. [shifting, scaling & inversion in lathi-24] 6) Lathi-Ex:2.3 [p-26] 7) Lathi-Ex:2.4 [p-27] 8) What is unit impulse function. Mention some properties of unit impulse function [sampling, scaling in lathi-28] 9) What is unit step function [lathi-29] 10) What is linear system? What are the properties of linear system [lecture] 11) Explain compact triangular Fourier series [lathi-45] 12) What are the conditions for the existence of Fourier series [lathi-49] 13) Lathi-Ex:2.7 [p-46] 14) Lathi-Ex:2.9 [p-52] 15) What is the difference between trigonometric & exponential form of Fourier series 16) What do you mean by Fourier Transform (FT).Explain the properties of FT [lecture] 17) Distinguish between periodic signal FT & aperiodic signal FT [lecture] 18) Find the Fourier Transform of a) unit gate function b)Sinc(X) function [lecture] 19) Lathi-Ex:3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8, 3.12

20) Find the FT of unit impulse function [lathi-82] 21) What is convolution? Show the relation between time & frequency convolution [lathi90]

Auto- Correlation:
(i)Random Variables & Process:1) What is random variable? What do you mean by cumulative distribution function & probability density function [lecture] 2) Show the relation between probability & probability density [lecture-26/9/11] 3) Explain the Gaussian probability density [lecture] 4) What is error function. Derive the equation for cumulative distribution ,F(x), in terms of error function & complementary error function [lec-17/10/11 ,sheet-78] 5) Write short note on Central-limit-theorem [sheet-87] (ii)Linear System:1) What is distortionless transmission. What is the transfer function required for Distortionless transmission [lathi-102] 2) Lathi-Ex: 3.16[p-104] 3) Write short note on ideal & practical filter [lathi-110] 4) What are the conditions for distortionless transmission in linear system [lecture+lathi-110] 5) What are the difference between the distortion of linear & nonlinear channel [lecture-4/7/11] 6) Define signal energy Eg. Derive the equation for signal energy. Or, Derive the Perseavals Theorem for signal energy [lathi-115] 7) What do you mean by Energy spectral density(ESD) [lathi-116] 8) Derive the equation of ESD of modulated signal.

Or, Show that ESD of modulated signal shifts by (+/-Wo) from the baseband signal g(t) [lathi-120] 9) Show that, Auto-correlation function is an even function of (taow). [eq-3.72 ,p121] 10) Show that,1st line of page122 11) What is the relation between Auto-correlation & convolution[lathi-122] 12) Define signal power, Pg and power spectral density, Sg(w) [lathi-123] 13) Show that PSD is the time average of ESD [eq-3.79 , p-124] 14) What is time Auto-correlation function. Show that it is an even function of (taow) [eq-3.83 ,p-125] 15) Explain why the ideal filter is physically un-realizable [lecture-3/7/11] 16) Explain the distortion caused by multipath effects [lathi-114]

Principle Of Digital data transmission:

1) What is line coding .Explain different forms of line coding [lecture-23/7/11 , Lathi-295] 2) Derive the general equation for PSD of line code [lathi-302, eq-7.10c] 3) Derive the expression for PSD and mention advantage & disadvantage fori) polar signal [lathi-302] ii) on-off signal [lathi-304] iii) bipolar or AMI signal [lathi-306] 4) What is Intersymbol Interferrence(ISI). How can it be resolved. [lathi-310] 5) Explain the Nyquist criterion for zero ISI [lecture-31/7/11] 6) What do you know by pulse shaping ?Explain the different types of pulse shaping filter [lecture-1/8/11] 7) What is scrambler ? EX-7.2 [lathi-319] 8) What is regenerative repeater ? What are the functions performed by it [lathi-322]

9) What is equalizer ? Explain zero forcing equalizer [lathi-323] 10) Find the average error probability for 331] a)polar signal b)on-off signal [lathi-

11) Write a short note on M-ary communication [lathi-334] 12) What is baseband signal? Explain the different modulation scheme [lathi-337] 13) Draw the PSD of ASK,PSK,FSK [lathi-339]

Noise Analysis:
1) Define : Noise, Ensemble, Sample function, Stationary random process, Ergodic [sheet-95] 2) Derive PSD of noise spectrum and then total power in frequency domain representation of noise [sheet-317] 3) Explain on the spectral components of noise [sheet-321] 4) Explain the effect of filter on PSD of noise if the noise is passed by the filter [sheet-324] 5) What do you mean by noise figure ? [lecture-17/10/11]

Behavior Of Analog System In The Presence Of Noise :

1) Find out the o/p SNR and power for baseband system [lathi-533 , eq12.3,12.4] 2) Derive the eq of o/p SNR for DSB-SC system [lathi535 ,eq-12.8] 3) Show that , for a fixed transmitter power the SNR at the demodulator o/p is Same for both baseband and DSB-SC system[lathi-535] 4) Show that, baseband ,DSB-SC and SSB-SC systems yield the same o/p SNR For a given transmitted power & transmission bandwidth [lathi-536]

5) Write a short note on angle- modulated system [lathi-541] 6) Find out the o/p SNR for phase & frequency modulation and explain which one is superior [lathi-543+545] 7) What is pulse modulated system? Derive the o/p SNR for PCM [lathi-557 , eq12.63] 8) Define- pre amphasis & de amphasis [lathi-567] 9) Using the concept of preamphasis & deamphasis in baseband system ,derive the o/p SNR & show how the noise is reduced [lathi-567,568,569]

Behavior Of Digital Communication System In The Presence Of Noise:

1) For optical threshold detection derive the equation for matched filter [lathi579, eq-13.8] 2 ) Show that , at the decision making instant signal amplitude and R.M.S noise Amplitude depends on the waveform p(t) only through its energy Ep [lathi581 , eq-13.9] 3) What is optimum binary receiver For this receiver find out the bit error probability & optimum threshold [lathi584 ,eq-13.18,13.19] 4) Find out the bit error rate Pb for a)polar signal b)on-off signal c)orthogonal signaling d)bipolar signaling and then compare their performance. [lathi-586] 5) Show that , on-off signaling requires twice as much energy per bit than polar signaling to achieve the same performance(i.e. same Pb) [lathi-588] 6) Show that orthogonal signaling is inferior to that of polar signaling by 3DB but is identical to that of on-off signaling [p-588] 7) Write a short note on correlation receiver detector [p-581] 8) What is meant by coherent detection of digital modulated signal .

For coherent detection get the bit error rate Pb for ASK, FSK, PSK [p590] 9) Find out the bit error rate for PSK & ASK and from this show that in coherent detection PSK is always preferable to ASK [p-591] 10) Discuss on the optimum detection of DS/SS PSK [p-602] 11) Analyze the multiple access performance of DS/SS [p-603] 12) Write a short note on multipath propagation [p-605] 13) What is meant by M-ary communication .Derive the bit error rate for this [p609] 14) Write a short note on multiphase signaling [p-611] 15) lathi-Ex: 13.1[p-620] ***** 16) What is meant by Synchronization. How many methods are used for carrier synchronization?[ p-622] 17) Compare behavior of analog & digital communication.