Register No.

R.M.K. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

(An Autonomous Institution)
RSM Nagar, Puduvoyal – 601 206

QP CODE: F22502
B.E. / B.Tech.– End Semester Theory Examinations –Nov/Dec 2022
Fifth Semester
Electronics and Communication Engineering
EC8501 – Digital Communication
Regulation 2017
COs Course Outcome : The students, after the completion of the course, are expected to ….
CO1 Demonstrate the concepts of information theory and coding
CO2 Compare the various waveform coding techniques
CO3 Experiment the baseband transmission and reception schemes
CO4 Illustrate the different digital modulation schemes and equalization techniques
CO5 Examine the PSD and BER of various digital modulation schemes
CO6 Implement different error control codes
Time : 3 Hours Answer ALL Questions Max. Marks : 100
Part-A (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)
1. Explain the concepts of mutual Information
2. A source generates messages with probabilities 0.2,0.1, 0.1,0.4 and 0.2. Calculate source
entropy.
3. What are the two types of quantization errors that occur in delta modulation?
4. State any 4 properties of a line code.
5. What are the essential requirements of an equalizer?
6. What is correlative coding?
7. What are the drawbacks of binary PSK system?
8. For bit stream of 010010111 plot QPSK waveform
9. What is the need of channel coding?
10. The generator polynomial G(D) for a (7,4) cyclic code is G(D) =1+D2+D3 Find the code
vector for the data vector [1 0 1 0]
Part – B ( 5 x 13 = 65 Marks)
11.a. (i) Define Entropy. Derive the Entropy properties and its relation (6)
(ii) A discrete memoryless source emits 5 symbols with probabilities 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2.
Construct codes using Shannon Fano and calculate efficiency and redundancy (7)
Or
11.b. (i) What is Mutual Information? State and prove its properties (7)
 (ii) A discrete memoryless source emits 4 symbols with probabilities 0.25, 0.25, 0.25, 0.25.
Construct codes using Huffman coding and calculate efficiency η (6)

12.a. What is DM? Explain the transmitter and receiver of DM system. (13)
Or
12.b. Briefly explain about the adaptive quantization and adaptive prediction in ADPCM. (13)

13.a. Describe the Nyquist criteria for distortion less baseband transmission and discuss about
Raised cosine spectrum (13)
Or
13.b. Define the term equalization. Briefly discuss about Adaptive equalization (13)

14.a. Describe the generation and detection of coherent binary PSK signals, also derive the
expression for the probability of error. (13)
Or
14.b. Outline the generation and detection of a QPSK signal and derive the probability of error
calculations(13)

15.a. Consider a (7,4) linear block code with the parity check matrix H is given by

(i) Construct code words for this (7,4) code

(ii) Show that this code is Hamming code
(iii) Decode the received word 0101100. (13)
Or
15.b. Construct an encoder for the two outputs
X1 = M  M1 M2
X2 = M  M2
Also construct the code tree, code trellis and state diagram for the given encoder. (13)
Part – C ( 1 x 15 = 15 Marks)
16.a. (i) Encode the following binary data stream into Polar Return to Zero (RZ), Polar Non-Return
to Zero (NRZ), Bipolar NRZ and Manchester codes
Data Stream : 11011010
Data Stream : 1100110 (8)
(ii) Derive the PSD of a Unipolar NRZ line code (7)
Or
16.b. (i) A delta modulator with a fixed step size of 0.75V 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. (8)

(ii) A 1 KHz signal of voice is sampled at 10 KHz using 8-bit PCM and a DM system. Find in
each case (i) Signaling rate (ii) Bandwidth required. (7)
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