17EC3502 VR17 Reg.

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VELAGAPUDI RAMAKRISHNA
y1 y2 y3 SIDDHARTHA ENGINEERING COLLEGE
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III/IV B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER, 2019
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PX, Y   Fifth Semester
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  ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
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17EC3502 DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
Calculate all entropies and mutual information. 9M
Time: 3hours Max. Marks: 70
(or)
Part-A is compulsory
9. a. Explain the encoding of a message word using linear block Answer One Question from each Unit of Part-B
codes with relevant expressions. 6M Answer to any single question or its part shall be written at one place only
b. The generator polynomial of a (7, 4) cyclic encoder is
g(x) = 1 + X + X2. Find all possible code words of this code. PART-A
9M 10 x 1 = 10M
1. a. What are the two limitations of delta modulation?
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b. How Granular noise does occur?
c. Define the term ISI.
d. Explain coherent detection.
e. For the binary data 101010101 draw the polar and RZ signal.
f. State Nyquist criterion for zero ISI.
g. What is correlative coding?
h. Give the expression for average probability of symbol error for
BPSK.
i. Define entropy.
j. What is meant by cyclic codes?
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PART-B b. Explain about minimum energy signals and union bound on
4 x 15 = 60M probability of error. 7M

UNIT-I UNIT-III

2. a. Draw the block diagram of a delta modulation system and 6. a. Illustrate the merits of DPSK over BPSK. 5M
explain each block in detail. 10M
b. Derive the expression for the probability of error in Coherent PSK
b. The signal m(t) band limited to 4KHz, is sampled at twice system. 10M
the Nyquist rate and the samples are transmitted by PCM. An
output SNR of 47dB required. Find the number of bits required (or)
per sample. 5M
7. a. Compare different types of digital modulation schemes. 5M
(or)
b. Derive the expression for the probability of error in QPSK system.
3. a. What is the difference between baseband transmission and 10M
bandpass transmission? Distinguish both features. 6M
UNIT-IV
b. Draw the block diagram of duo binary signaling scheme without
and with precoder and explain. 9M 8. a. A discrete memory less source emits messages from the set of
size M = 4 at the rate of r = 2000 symbols/sec. The symbol
UNIT-II probabilities are 1/2 , 1/4, 1/8, 1/8. Estimate 6M
i) The information contained in each message
4. a. Explain Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization procedure. 9M
ii) Average information per symbol
b. Explain the principle of working of correlation receiver with the
iii) Information rate
help of a diagram. 6M
b. A transmitter has an alphabet of four letters[x 1 x 2 x 3 x 4] and the
(or) receiver has an alphabet of three letters [y1 y2 y3]. The joint
probability matrix is
5. a. Explain how the conversion of continuous AWGN channel to a
vector channel? 8M
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