Reg. No.: [ Question Paper Code : 71452 B.EJB.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL/MAY 2015. Fifth Semester Electronies and Communication Engineering EC 2301/EC 51 - DIGITAL COMMUNICATION (Regulation 2008) (Common to PTEC 2301 ~ Digital Communieation for B.E. (Part ~ Time) Fourth ‘Semester — Electronics and Communication Engineering — Regulation 2009) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks oo pw ONT oT eco ne iL. Answer ALL questions. PART A — (10 x 2 = 20 marks) State four advantages of digital communication system. What is the major disadvantage of a digital communication system? State sampling theorem. Define non-uniform quantization. ‘Define Hamming distance and Hamming weight. Define constraint length of a convolutional coder. Define false alarm and false dismissal errors. “Give four applications of eye pattern. What are coherent and non coherent receivers? What is memory-less modulation? Give examples of two such methods. PART B x 16 = 80 marks) (a) (Briefly write on various analog pulse commuriication systems. (10) (i) Explain the channel classification. . © Or (b) @ Briefly explain on geometric representation of signals. CS) (ii) Explain the mathematical models of communication channel. (8)12. 38. 14. 15. @ ) @ ) @ ) @ o Explain temporal waveform encoding and spectral waveform encoding. Or @ Explain model based encoding. ® Gi) Compare the performance of various speech encoding methods. (8) Explain Viterbi algorithm to decode a convolutional coded message with a suitable example. Or Derive and explain the power spectral density of (@) ON-OFF code : 8 Gi) Polar code. @®) Derive the bit error probability of a matched filter. Or Explain the Nyquist first criterion for ISI elimination. Derive the bit error probability of coherent ASK, FSK, PSK receivers. Or Derive the bit error probability of QPSK Receiver. 2 71452Reg. No.: Alvi {51 [Sit lolélolqis Question Paper Code : 27199 B.E/B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015. Fifth Semester Electronics and Communication Engineering EC 6501 — DIGITAL COMMUNICATION (Regulations 2013) Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SHR rA area ww 11. Answer ALL questions. PART A — (10 x 2 = 20 marks) State sampling theorem for band-limited signals and the filter to avoid alaising. Write the two fold effects of Quantization Process. Define APF and APB. Write the limitations of delta modulation. List the properties of syndrome. Compare M-ary PSK and M-ary QAM Draw a block diagram of a coherent BFSK receiver. Distinguish BPSK and QPSK techniques. State channel coding theorem. List the properties of cyclic codes. PART B — (5 x 16 = 80 marks) (a) Describe the process of sampling and how the message signal is reconstructed from it’s samples. Also illustrate the effect of aliasing with neat sketch. (16) Or " (b) Describe PCM waveform coder and decoder with neat sketch and list the merits compared with analog coders. (16)12. 13. 14. 15. @ (a) (b) (a) b) (a) ) (b) ) Describe and illustrate Delta modulation and its quantization error. ® (i) Explain how Adaptive delta modulation performs better and gains more SNR than Delta modulation. @) Or Illustrate how the adaptive time domain coder codes the speech at low bit rate and compare it with the frequency domain coder. (16) (@ Describe modified duobinary coding technique and its performance by illustrating it’s frequency and impulse responses. (10) (i) Determine the power spectral density for NRZ bipolar and unipolar data formats. Assume that 1s and 0s in the input binary data occur with equal probability. € Or () Describe how eye pattern illustrates the performance of a data transmission system with respect to inter symbol interference with neat sketch. (10) (ii) Illustrate the modes of operation of an adaptive equalizer with neat block diagram. 6 Illustrate the transmitter, receiver and signal space diagram of Quadrature Phase Shift Keying and describe how it reproduces the original sequence with the minimum probability of symbol error with neat sketch. (a6) Or Illustrate the transmitter, receiver and the generation of the non coherent version of PSK with neat sketch. (16) For a systematic linear block code, the three parity check digits 101 Pi, Pz, Ps are given by Pk,» = uy 110 O11 @ Construct generated matrix (i) Construct code generated by the matrix (ii) Determine error correcting capacity (iv) Decode the received words with an example. (6) Or A convolution code is described by g1 = [1 0 0]; g2= [101]; g3=[111] () Draw the encoder corresponding to this code. (i) Draw the state transition diagram for this code (ai) Draw the Trellis diagram : (iv) Find the transfer function. (16) 2 27199—_—-— Question Paper Code : 57291 B.E/B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY/JUNE 2016 Fifth Semester Electronics and Communication Engineering EC 6501 — Digital Communication (Regulations 2013) Time : Three Hours 5 Maximum : 100 Marks Answer ALL questions. PART ~A (10 x2= 20 Marks) 1. Whatis aliasing ? 2. What is companding ? Sketch the input-output characteristics of a compressor and an expander. 3. What are the advantages of delta modulator ? 4. What is a linear predictor ? On what basis are the predictor coefficients determined ? 5. Whatare line codes ? Name some popular line codes. 6. — What is [SI and what are the causes of ISI? 7. _ Distinguish between coherent and non-coherent reception. 8. What is QPSK ? Write the expression for the signal set of QPSK. 9. What is a linear code ? 10. What is meant by constraint length of a convolutional encoder ? 1 57291(a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b) PART — B (5 x 16 = 80 Marks) ~(i) State the low pass sampling theorem and explain reconstruction of the signal from its samples. O) (ii) The signal x(t) = 4 cos400 mt + 12 cos360 xt is ideally sampled at a frequency of 300 samples per second. The sampled signal is passed through a unit gain low pass filter with a cut off frequency of 220 Hz. List the frequency components present at the output of the low pass filter ? (7) OR (i) Explain pulse code modulation system with neat block diagram. (10) (ii) What is TDM ? Explain the difference between analog TDM and digital TDM. © (i) Draw the block diagram of ADPCM system and explain its function. (10) (ii) A delta modulator with a fixed step size of 0.75 V, is given a sinusoidal message signal. If the sampling frequency is 30 times the Nyquist rate, determine the maximum permissible amplitude of the message signal if slope overload is to be avoided. 6 OR (i) Draw the block diagram of an adaptive delta modulator with continuously variable step size and explain. (10) (ii) Compare PCM system with delta modulation system. © (i) Sketch the power spectra of (a) Polar NRZ and (b) bipolar RZ signals. (8) (ii) Compare the various line coding techniques and list their merits and demerits. (8) OR (i) Draw the block diagram of duo binary signaling scheme without and with precoder and explain. () (ii) Explain the adaptive equalization with block diagram. mM Explain the generation and detection of a coherent binary PSK signal and derive the power spectral density of binary PSK signal and plot it. ne) OR S Explain the non-coherent detection of FSK signal and derive the expression for probability of error. (16) 2 57291 i ‘ :15. (a) Consider a linear block code with generator matrix (+3+6+4) wi (ii) Gi) (iv) ) Gi) qi) LF 0-2-0320" 0 o1rodo10d 1, 8060 21-0 OF Oe020 51 Determine the parity check matrix. Determine the error detecting and capability of the code. Draw the encoder and syndrome calculation circuits. Calculate the syndrome for the received vector r= [1 1 0 10 1 0]. OR The generator polynomial of a (7, 4) cyclic code is 1 + X + X3. Develop encoder and syndrome calculator for this code. 8) Explain Viterbi decoding algorithm for convolutional code. 8) 3 5729157291Reg. No.:| a]) |4 |S] ruts l|el4lr |e}2 B.E/B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2016. Fifth Semester Electronics and Communication Engineering EC 6501 — DIGITAL COMMUNICATION (Regulations 2013) Time : Three hours. Maximum : 100 marks "2105 11. Answer ALL questions. PART A— (10 x 2= 20 marks) Define companding. What is meant by aliasing? What is the need of prediction filtering? How to overcome the slope overlap? Define correlative level coding. For the binary data 01101001 draw the unipolar and RZ signal. Distinguish coherent vs non coherent digital modulation techniques. Draw a block diagram of a coherent BFSK receiver. Generate the cyclic code for (n, k) syndrome calculator. Define channel coding theorem. PART B — (5 x 16 = 80 marks) (a) Mlustrate and describe the types of quantizer? Describe the midtread and midrise type characteristics of uniform quantizer with a suitable diagram. (16) Or (b) Draw and explain the TDM with its applications. (16) ba12. 13. 14. 15. (b) (a) b) (a) (b) ) Describe delta modulation system in detail with a neat block diagram. Also, Illustrate the two forms of quantization error in delta modulation. (16) Or Describe Adaptive Delta Modulation with neat sketch and compare it with Delta Modulation of ADPCM. (16) Explain how Nyquist’s Criterion eliminates interference in the absence of noise for distortion-less baseband binary transmission. (16) Or * Describe how eye pattern is helpful to obtain the performance of the system in detail with a neat sketch. (ae) @) Describe the generation and detection of Coherent binary PSK Signals. (10) (i) Tlustrate the power spectra of binary PSK signal. 6) Or (i) Describe the generation and detection of Coherent QPSK Signals. a2) (ii) - Illustrate the power spectra of QPSK signal. (4) (i) Describe the cyclic codes with the linear and cyclic property. Also represent the cyclic property of a code word in polynomial notation. (42) Gi) List the different types of errors detected by CRC code. (4) Or () Describe how the errors are corrected using Hamming code with an example. (2) (ii) The code vector [1110010] is sent, the received vector is [1100010]. Calculate the syndrome. @) 2 80342