Department of Communications Engineering

Digital Signal Processing [COMM 602]

Prof. Ahmed El-Mahdy

Tutorial 2
Problem 1:

Compute the convolution of the following pairs of signals:

a) 𝑥[𝑛] = [1 2 3 4 5], 𝑣[𝑛] = [0 0 1]

b) 𝑥[𝑛] = [1 2 4], ℎ[𝑛] = [1 1 1 1]
c) 𝑥[𝑛] = [2 −1
⏟ 0 1 3], ℎ[𝑛] = [−1 ⏟
1 2]
1 𝑛 1
d) 𝑞1 [𝑛] = (2) 𝑢[𝑛], 𝑞2 [𝑛] = 𝛿[𝑛] + 2 𝛿[𝑛 − 1]
1 𝑛 1
e) 𝑞1 [𝑛] = (2) 𝑢[𝑛], 𝑞2 [𝑛] = 𝛿[𝑛] − 2 𝛿[𝑛 − 1]

Problem 2:

If 𝑦[𝑛] = 𝑥[𝑛] ∗ ℎ[𝑛], show that:

a) ∑∞ ∞ ∞
𝑛=−∞ 𝑦[𝑛] = (∑𝑛=−∞ 𝑥[𝑛]) ∙ (∑𝑛=−∞ ℎ[𝑛])

b) If 𝑥[𝑛] and ℎ[𝑛] have nonzero values only in the intervals 𝑛 ∈ [𝑎, 𝑏] and 𝑛 ∈ [𝑐, 𝑑] respectively,
then 𝑦[𝑛] has nonzero values only in the interval 𝑛 ∈ [𝑎 + 𝑐, 𝑏 + 𝑑].
Problem 3:

Consider the interconnection of the Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems shown in the figure:

a) Express the overall impulse response ℎ[𝑛] in terms of ℎ1 [𝑛] , ℎ2 [𝑛], ℎ3 [𝑛], and ℎ4 [𝑛].
b) Determine ℎ[𝑛] when: ℎ1 [𝑛] = [0.5 0.25 0.5], ℎ2 [𝑛] = ℎ3 [𝑛] = (𝑛 + 1)𝑢[𝑛], and ℎ4 [𝑛] =
𝛿[𝑛 − 2]
c) Determine the response of the system in the figure to the input 𝑥[𝑛] = 𝛿[𝑛 + 2] + 3𝛿[𝑛 − 1] −
4𝛿[𝑛 − 3]

Problem 4:

Determine the zero input response of the LTI system described by the following second–order difference
equation, given that 𝑦[−2] = 3.
𝑥[𝑛] − 3𝑦[𝑛 − 1] − 4𝑦[𝑛 − 2] = 0