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EC8501 / Digital Communication

(III ECE) PART-C (1*14=14)

DATE: 15.09.2021 (AN) Time 1.30hrs Max. Marks: 50 8. A discrete memoryless source emits 5 symbols whose probabilities
(Answer All the Questions) are 0.4, 0.19, 0.16, 0.15, 0.1 . Construct Shannon Fanon Coding
PART-A (5 *2=10)
and find Efficiency.
1. Define Entropy and Information Rate.
2. Define Discrete Memoryless Source
3. State Shannon-Hartley Theorem.
4. An event has a six possible outcomes with probabilities 1/2, 1/4,
1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/32. Find the entropy of the system.
5. Write the expression for code efficiency in terms of entropy.
PART-B (2*13=26)
6. a) Derive the Channel Capacity of a continuous band limited white
Guassian noise channel
Or
b) i) Explain the need for source coding and channel coding.
ii) Derive the mutual information I(X;Y) for BSC, when the
probability of source is equally likely and the probability of
channel p=0.5

7. a) A discrete memoryless source emits 7 symbols whose probabilities

are 0.37, 0.33, 0.16, 0.07, 0.04, 0.02, 0.01 . Construct Huffman
Coding and find Efficiency and Redundancy
Or
b) (i)Write short notes on Mutual Information
(ii)Find the capacity of a telephone channel with BW 3000 Hz
and SNR 39 db.