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Class: Third Year, B. Tech Semester: I Year: 2020-21

Course Title:Digital Communication Systems Course Code: 15A04502 Credits: 3

Program/Dept.: ECE Section: ECE-B Batch: 2018-2022

Regulation: R15 Faculty:A.VIDYULLATHA

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Unit -1
1. 1 1. 1List the advantages of digital communication. ( Dec2017) 1 1 2

2. 1 2. List various parts of digital communication systems 1 1 2

3. 1 3. What is meant by aliasing effect? How it would be overcome (Dec 1 1 2

2018)
4. 1 4. State sampling theorem. (June 2019) 1 1 2

5. 1 5. Define Nyquist rate. 1 1 2

6. 1 6. What is natural Sampling and Flat-top Sampling? 1 1 2

7. 1 7. What is meant by uniform and non-uniform quantization? (June 1 1 2

2019)
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to:
8. 1 8. Compare uniform and non uniform quantization (June 2018) 1 2 2

9. 1 9. What are the drawbacks of delta modulation? 1 1 2

10. 1 10. What is the need for non-uniform quantization in digital 1 1 2

communication?

11. 1 11. What is slope overload distortion?( Dec 2018) 1 1 2

12. 1 12. What is the condition for avoiding slope overload in Delta 1 1 2
modulation.

13. 1 13. What is compander?. 1 1 2

14. 1 14. If the Nyquist samples are quantized to L=65, 536 levels and then 1 3 2
binary coded, determine the number of bits required to encode a
sample

15. 1 15. What is adaptive delta modulation? 1 1 2

16. 1 16. List the merits of DPCM. 1 1 2

17. 1 17. What is criteria the signal to quantization noise ratio depends in a 1 1 2
PCM system?
18. 1 18. Discuss the advantages of DM over PCM (Dec 2017) 1 2 2

19. 1 19. What is the role of regenerative repeater in PCM ( June2018) 1 2 2

20. 1 20. A band limited signal has a bandwidth equal to 4 KHz. What is the 1 1 2
sampling rate should be used to guarantee a guard band of 1200Hz?
(Dec 2017)
21. 1 21. What is the relation between bits rate and bandwidth of PCM? 1 1 2

22. 1 22. How Granular noise does occurs? 1 1 2

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TLO. Unit Question
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No: No: No
On completion of the Lecture/ Tutorial/ Lab on a topic, students must be able
to:
23. 1 23. Explain the working of delta modulation and demodulation system 1 2 10
with block diagram (Dec 2017), ( June 2018), ( June 2019)
24. 1 24. Explain the PCM communication technique with block diagram 1 2 10
( June 2018)
25. 1 25. Explain operation of the Adaptive delta modulation that eliminates 1 2 10
the different noises that occurs in Delta modulation.
26. 1 26. Compare the ideal sampling, natural sampling and flat top sampling 1 3 10

27. 1 27. Derive expression for signal to quantization noise ratio in pulse code 1 2 10
modulation
28. 1 28. Explain the principle operation of TDM. (Dec2018), (Dec 2017) 1 2 10

29. 1 29. Construct the waveforms for different types of Line codes for data 1 3 10
pattern 1101001 and explain.
30. 1 30. Explain the different types of noise occurs in the delta 1 2 10
modulation( June 2018)
31. 1 31. Explain principle and operation of Differential Pulse Code 1 2 10
modulation with block diagram.

32. 1 32. Explain uniform and non-uniform quantization. ( June 2019) 1 2 10

33. 1 33. Explain the reconstruction of the signals form its samples by using sampling 1 2 10
theorem. (Dec2018)

34. 1 34. Compare the characteristics of PCM, DPCM,DM, and ADM (Dec 1 2 10
2017)
35. 2 35. What is inter symbol interference in baseband binary PAM systems? 2 1 2
36. 2 36. What is correlative coding? 2 1 2

37. 2 37.  Define Duobinary baseband PAM system. 2 1 2

38. 2 38. What is an eye pattern? ( Dec 2018) 2 1 2

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to:

39. 2 39. How pulse shaping reduces the ISI? 2 1 2

40. 2 40. What are the drawbacks of duo binary coding? 2 2 2

41. 2 41. What is raised cosine spectrum? 2 1 2

42. 2 42. What is Binary symmetric channel? 2 1 2

43. 2 43. What is an ISI? 2 1 2

44. 2 44. List the performance of data transmission system in eye pattern 2 1 2

45. 2 45. List the properties of matched filter.( Dec 2017) 2 1 2

46. 2 46. What is Nyquist Bandwidth? 2 1 2

47. 2 47. What is the condition for distortion less base band binary data 2 1 2
transmission system?
48. 2 48. List the drawbacks of binary PAM 2 1 2

49. 2 49. What is an effects of ISI? ( Dec 2018) 2 1 2

50. 2 50. What is ideal Nyquist channel for noise less transmission? 2 1 2

51. 2 51. Outline the duo binary transmitter and receiver model 2 2 2

52. 2 52. Draw the modified duo binary coding transmitter and receiver 2 1 2
model.

53. 2 53. Define matched filter for rectangular pulse 2 1 2

54. 2 54. Write the frequency response and impulse response of modified duo 2 1 2

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to:
binary coding transmitter

55. 2 55. What is baseband M-ary PAM transmission? 2 2 2

56. 2 56. Write the applications of Eye pattern (Dec 2017) 2 1 2

57. 2 57. Drive the expression for probability of error of matched filter 2 2 10
receiver. ( June 2019)
58. 2 58. Derive the expression for Nyquist criterion for distortion less base 2 2 10
band transmission for zero ISI ( Dec 2018), (June 2018)
59. 2 59. a) Explain the principle and operation of correlative coding. 2 2 10
b) Show the output of duo binary signal for input binary data
1011101
60. 2 60. State and prove the properties of matched filter ( Dec 2018) 2 2 10

61. 2 61. Explain the Eye pattern is used to study of the ISI ( June 2019), (Dec 2 2 10
2017)
62. 2 62. Explain raised cosine spectrum reduces ISI ( Dec 2017) 2 2 10

63. 2 63. Construct the duo binary system with and without precoder for the 2 3 10
binary data sequence 0011 01001 ( June 2019)
64. 64. How a Matched filter works as an ideal receiver? ( Dec 2017) 2 2 10

65. 2 65. Explain M-aray PAM transmission and eye diagrams.( Dec2017). 2 2 10
(June 2018)
66. 3 66. What is the need for geometric representation of the signal? 3 1 2

67. 3 67. What is the constellation diagram? 3 1 2

68. 3 68. What is baseband signal receiver? 3 1 2

69. 3 69. What is Correlative coding? 3 1 2

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TLO. Unit Question
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to:
70. 70. Draw the geometric representation of energy signals for a two 3 2 2
dimensional signal space with three signals, that is N= 2 and M=3
( June2018)

71. 3 71. What is Gram Schmidt orthogonalization procedure? 3 1 2

72. 3 72. What is coherent detection of signal in noise? 3 1 2

73. 3 73. What is correlation? 3 1 2

74. 3 74. What is meant by correlation receiver? 3 1 2

75. 3 75. What is probability of error of maximum likelihood receiver? 3 2 2

76. 3 76. 3 1 2
What is an AWGN channel?
77. 3 77. 3 1 2
What is the vector receiver part of the correlation
receiver( June2018)
78. 3 78. Write the statistical characterization of the correlator outputs. 3 1 2

79. 3 79. What is probability of error? (Dec 2017) 3 1 2

80. 3 80. Define the signal to noise ratio. 3 1 2

81. 3 81. Explain the signal space representation (Dec 2017) 3 1 2

82. 3 82. Write the equation for probability of error of matched filter? 3 2 2

83. 3 83. What is meant by geometric representation of signal? 3 1 2

84. 3 84. Show the vector representation of AWGN channel. 3 2 2

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No: No: No
On completion of the Lecture/ Tutorial/ Lab on a topic, students must be able
to:
85. 3 85. Explain probability of error using matched filter.(June 2019), (Dec 3 2 10
2017)
86. 3 86. Explain the correlation receiver with diagram ( Dec 2018), .(June 3 2 10
2019), (Dec 2017)

87. 3 87. Explain the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization procedure. 3 2 10

( June2018),(Dec 2017)
88. 3 88. Explain the maximum output signal to noise ratio of matched filter. 3 2 10

89. 3 89. Derive the expression of impulse response of matched filter 3 2 10

( June2018), ( Dec 2018)
90. 90. Explain the geometric representation of the signal( Dec 2018) 3 2 10

91. 3 91. Explain Maximum Likelihood receiver. (June 2019) 3 2 10

92. 3 92. Explain the Conversion of the Continuous AWGN channel into a 3 4 10
vector channel? (Dec 2017)
93. 4 93. List advantages of pass band transmission over baseband 4 1 2
transmission

94. 4 94. Write the expression for baud rate of BPSK system. 4 1 2

95. 4 95. List the advantages of coherent digital modulation schemes. 4 1 2

96. 4 96. Draw the block diagram of QPSK 4 1 2

97. 4 97. Sketch the wave form of the FSK signal for the input binary sequence 4 3 2
1100100010.

98. 3 98. Compare coherent and non coherent detection.( Dec2017) 3 2 2

99. 4 99. Define QPSK ( June2019) 4 1 2

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to:
100. 4 100. List the features of DPSK. ( June2019) 4 2 2

101. 4 101. Outline the signal space diagram of QAM signal for M=8 ( Dec 4 2 2
2018)

102. 4 102. Draw the block diagram of QPSK receiver ( June 2018) 4 2 2

103. 4 103. Show the BPSK signal for the given sequence “0010110010” ( June 4 2 2
2018)

104. 4 104. Write the error probability of DPSK ( Dec 2018) 4 3 2

105. 4 105. Compare the error probability for BPSK and QPSK. 4 2 2

106. 4 106. What is the need of optimum transmitting and receiving filter in 4 1 2
baseband data transmission?
107. 4 107. Define BFSK 4 1 2

108. 4 108. What is meant by DPSK? 4 1 2

109. 4 109. What is coherent detection? 4 1 2

110. 4 110. Compare PSK and FSK 4 2 2

111. 4 111. What is the advantage of coherent PSK over coherent ASK? 4 2 2

112. 4 112. What is correlator ? 4 1 2

113. 4 113. Compare coherent and non coherent binary modulation scheme. 4 2 2

114. 4 114. What is the expression for bit error rate for coherent binary FSK?. 4 1 2

115. 4 115. What is the error probability of coherent and non-coherent BFSK? 4 1 2

116. 4 116. Compare the power bandwidth of BFSK, BPSK, QPSK and DPSK. . 4 2 2
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No: No: No
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to:
( Dec2017)
117. 4 117. a.) Explain Pass band transmission model ( Dec 2018) 4 2 10
b) Write the probability error, bandwidth, power spectrum derivation
for QPSK signal ( Dec 2018)

118. 4 118. a) Explain coherent generation and detection of BPSK signals 4 2 10

b) Derive the expression for probability of error .( Dec2017),
( June 2018)
119. 4 119. Explain about the bit error probability and power spectrum of BPSK 4 2 10
signal ( Dec 2018)
120. 4 120. (a) Compare binary signaling scheme and M-ary signaling scheme. 4 2 10
(b) Explain about demodulation of QAM.
121. 4 121. Explain the generation and detection of DPSK.( Dec2017), ( June 4 2 10
2018)
122. 4 122. Derive the expression for probability error of coherent BFSK 4 2 10
( June2019)

123. 4 123. Explain M ary Digital modulation techniques ( June2019) 4 2 10

124. 4 124. Explain coherent generation and detection of BFSK signals and 4 2 10
derive the expression for probability of error .( Dec2017),
( June2019)
125. 5 125. When a set of code said to be a Linear block codes? ( Dec 2018) 5 1 2

126. 5 126. List the properties of cyclic codes. 5 1 2

127. 5 127. What is hamming distance?(July 2019) 5 1 2

128. 5 128. Define code efficiency. 5 1 2

129. 5 129. What is meant by systematic and non-systematic codes? 5 1 2

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TLO. Unit Question
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No: No: No
On completion of the Lecture/ Tutorial/ Lab on a topic, students must be able
to:
130. 5 130. What are the error detection and correction capabilities of hamming 5 1 2
codes?
131. 5 131. What is meant by cyclic codes? 5 1 2

132. 5 132. How syndrome is calculated in Hamming codes? 5 1 2

133. 5 133. Distinguish between the hamming distance and hamming weight. 5 4 2
( Dec 2018)
134. 5 134. Define constraint length in convolutional code 5 1 2

135. 5 135. Define free distance and coding gain. 5 1 2

136. 5 136. What is convolution code? 5 1 2

137. 5 137. What are the conditions to satisfy the hamming code? 5 2 2

138. 5 138. List the advantages of convolutional codes (July 2019) 5 1 2

139. 5 139. What is the difference between the convolution code and linear code? 5 1 2
(June 2018)
140. 5 140. Find the hamming distance between “101010” and “010101”, if the 5 1 2
minimum hamming distance of a (n,k) linear block code is 3. (June
2018)
141. 5 141. Define code rate of block code. 5 1 2

142. 5 142. Compare linear block codes, cyclic code and convolution code. ( Dec 5 2 10
2017)
143. 5 143. (a) Explain the matrix representation of block codes. 5 2 10
(b) With a neat sketch describe the operation of the ARQ system.
144. 5 144. Explain the principle operation of ARQ systems. 5 2 10

145. 5 145. Explain forward error correction systems. 5 2 10

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No: No: No
On completion of the Lecture/ Tutorial/ Lab on a topic, students must be able
to:
146. 5 146. Consider a (6,3) systematic linear block code, the three parity check 5 3 10
digits C4, C5, and C6 are C4 = d1+d2+d3, C5= d1+d2, C6= d1+d3.
Construct the appropriate generator matrix for this code and all
possible code words.
147. 5 147. Explain the following decoding algorithms for Convolution codes. a) 5 2 10
Viterbi decoding algorithm b) Sequential decoding algorithm ( Dec
2017)
148. 5 148. Convolution encoder has a single shift register with two stages three 5 2 10
modulo 2 adders and an output multiplexer. The following generator
sequences are combined by the multiplexer to produce the encoded
output.g1(1,0,1); g2(1,1,0); g3(1,1,1)
Draw the block diagram of the encoder.
Find the encoded sequence for the message sequence (10011) (June
2018), ( Dec 2017)
149. 5 149. Consider the generator matrix of (6,3) linear code 5 2 10
1 0 0 1 1 1
G= 0 1 0 1 1 0
0 0 1 0 1 1
Find the parity check matrix for the given G
Find the encoding table for a linear block code
Find the minimum distance of the code
Find the decoding table for the linear code
Find how many error can be detected and how many error can be
corrected. (June 2018)
150. 5 150. The generator polynomial of a (7,4) cyclic code is G(x)=x3+x+1. 5 3 10
Identify the syndrome for the received code 100 101
151. 151. Develop the convolution encoder, state diagram, trellis diagram for 5 3 10
the generator polynomial g1(x)=1+x+x2, g2(x)=1+x2 (July 2019)
152. 152. A generator matrix (6,3) linear code is given by 5 3 10
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No: No: No
On completion of the Lecture/ Tutorial/ Lab on a topic, students must be able
to:
1 0 0 1 1 1
G= 0 1 0 1 1 0
0 0 1 0 1 1
a) Examine all possible codes
b) Identify the Error detection and correcting capability
c) Identify the message bit sequence for received bit [1 0 1 1 0
1] ( Dec 2018)
153. 153. The generator polynomial of a (7,4) cyclic code is 5 3 10
G(x)=x3+x+1.Construct all the code vectors in non-systematic form.
( Dec 2018), (July 2019)

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