Assignment No.

03 Total Marks: 15
Semester: Spring 2019
CS601: Data Communication Due Date: 29 July 2019

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Objectives:

The objective of this assignment is to enhance the knowledge about “Error Detection and Correction Techniques”.

Assignment
Q No.1
(Part a)

Mention the Hamming distance associated with each Pair of Words as given in the following table. 5 Marks

Pair of Words Hamming Distance

d (10100, 00010)
d (1101, 10101)
d (10111,1100)
d (010,10000)
d (1110,0111)

(Part b)

Suppose a Block code has a Hamming Distance of 6. You are required to mention the number of corrupted /
altered bits that the Block code will guarantee to detect. Write all necessary formulas and calculations steps to
give your answer. 5 Marks

Q No.2

Suppose a sender wants to send “10111011010010111011010101110100” data bits to a destination. By writing

all necessary calculation steps, you are required to compute the 8-bit Checksum that the sender will send to
destination along with original data bits: 5 Marks

Best of Luck!