PRIST UNIVERSITY

(Estd. u/s 3 of UGC Act, 1956)

Vallam, Thanjavur -613403

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B.Tech Electronics and communication engineering

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Course Details
Course Code & Title
Regulations

: UEEC62- DIGITAL COMMUNICATION

: 2008 Regulation
(For Students admitted from June 2008 to June 2010)

Nature of the Course

: HARDCORE

Semester

: 6th semester

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DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
UNIT - I DIGITAL COMMUNICATION INTRODUCTION AND PULSE MODULATION
(9)
Block Diagram of digital communication systems Advantages,
Disadvantages, Sampling, Aliasing, Pulse Amplitude Modulation, Pulse
Duration and Pulse position Modulation, Pulse Coded Modulation, Delta
Modulation, TDM.
UNIT - II BASEBAND PULSE TRANSMISSION
(9)
Matched Filters , ,Intersymbol Interference , Nyquist Pulse Shaping, M-ary
PAM Transmission Linear Equalizers , Adaptive Equalizers.
UNIT - III DIGITAL BAND PASS TRANSMISSION
(9)
Representations of Bandpass Signals and Systems Correlation, Signal-space
representations ,Detection of Known Signals in AWGN , Generation
,detection, spectra, applications, signal space diagram of FSK, PSK, MSK.
UNIT - IV SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATIONS
(9)
Advantages, characteristic of Spread Spectrum Communication. Direct
Sequence spreqad spectrum systems, Frequency Hopping spread spectrum
communication, Psedu Noise sequences: Types and Characteristics, codedivision multiplexing (CDM). Application to CDMA wireless
communication systems.
UNIT - V ERROR CONTROL CODING
Linear block codes, convolutional codes, Hamming codes.

(9)

TEXTBOOK:
1. S. Haykin, Communication Systems, Fourth Edition, Wiley, 2001.
TK5101.H37 2000
REFERENCE:
1. L.W. Couch II, Digital and Analog Communication Systems, Sixth Edition,
Prentice-Hall,2001.
2. B.P. Lathi, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, Oxford
University Press, 1998. TK5101.L333
3. John Proakis "Digital Communications" , McGraw-Hill
Science/Engineering/Math; 4 edition 2000

UNIT-I
2- Marks
1. State Sampling theorem for low pass signals.
2. Define pulse amplitude modulation.
3. Define Quantization error.
4. What are the drawbacks of Delta modulation?
5. What are the two types of quantization occur in delta modulation?
6. Draw the block diagram of the transmitter and receiver section of DPCM.
7. State the advantages of Adaptive delta modulation over delta modulation.
8. What is meant by adaptive delta modulation?
9. Compare PCM and DPCM.
10. Compare DM and PCM.
11. It is required to transmit speech over PCM channel with 8-bit accuracy.
Assume the speech is band limited to 3.6 KHz. Determine the bit rate?
16- Marks
1. With neat diagram and necessary equations, explain the concept of sampling
and reconstruction of signals.
(8)
2. A PCM system uses a uniform quantizer followed by a 7-bit binary encoder.
The bit rate of the system is 50*10^6 bps.
(a). What is the maximum bandwidth for which the system operates
satisfactorily?
(b). Determine the output signal to quantization noise ratio when a full Load
sinusoidal modulating wave of frequency 1MHz is applied to the output. (8)
3. With a neat diagram, explain PCM encoder and also derive the SNR at the output of
PCM receiver . (12)
4. With a neat diagram explain the principle of TDMA.
(4)
5. Explain the working of differential PCM.
(16)
6. Explain Aperture effect distortion in sampling.
(4)
7. Describe the DPCM transmitter and receiver scheme in detail
(8)
8. Explain the working of Delta modulation.
(8)
9. What is the need for companding in PCM? Draw the transfer characteristics
of a companding system.
(4)
10. Explain the non-uniform quantization.
(4)
11. Explain the operation of PCM and delta modulation systems.
(12)
12. Discuss the principle of Adaptive Delta modulation in detail.
(10)
13. A television signal with a band width of 4.2 MHz is transmitted using binary
PCM. The number of quantization level is 512. Calculate
a. Code word length.
b. Transmission band width.
c. Final bit rate.

d. output signal to quantization noise ratio.

(16)

UNIT-II
2- Marks
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

What is meant by matched filter?

How do we get eye pattern? What do you infer from this?
What is the use of eye pattern?
What is meant by intersymbol interference?
What is meant by correlative level coding?
Define error probability.
What is meant by preset threshold valve in M-ary baseband PAM baseband
system?
8. How are bandwidth and signaling rate are interrelated in baseband binary
PAM?
9. What is the value of signal to noise ratio in matched filter when it becomes
maximum?
10. On what factor the error probability of matched filter depends?
11. Give the special features of matched filters.

16- Marks
1. What is known as ISI? Discuss the cause for ISI and also explain Nyquist
criteria
for distortion less transmission.
(10)
2. Write a note on M-ary PAM transmission.

(10)

3. Describe baseband transmission system with a neat block diagram.

(16)

4 . Explain about eye pattern and adaptive equalization for data transmission.
(16)
5. (i) Write a note on eye patterns.

(6)

(ii) Obtain the expression for Nyquist criteria for distortion less baseband
transmission for zero ISI. (10)
6. What is matched filter? Derive the expression for impulse response and
minimum probability error? (16)
7. (i) Explain about matched filter. Show that maximum signal to noise ratio of
the matched filter is 2E/No.(10)

(ii) Explain about adaptive equalization.

(6)

UNIT-III
2- Marks
1. Draw the functional model of pass band data transmission.
2. Distinguish between coherent and non coherent receivers.
3. Compare BPSK and QPSK in terms of their bandwidth and error
performance.
4. Define QPSK.
5. Compare the probability of error of PSK with that of FSK.
6. Draw the signal space diagram for MSK system.
7. Differentiate baseband transmission from passband transmission.
8. Define MSK.
9. What is staggered QPSK?
10. What are the advantages of BPSK?
11. What are antipodal signals?
12. Why MSK is called as shaped QPSK?

16- Marks
1. Explain the generation, detection, signal space diagram, bit error probability and
power spectra of QPSK. (16)
2. Compare the digital modulation techniques in terms of bit error rate and
bandwidth efficiency. (6)
3. Explain in detail about minimum shift keying.
(16)
4. Draw the block diagram of QPSK transmitter and receiver scheme and
explain its working. (8)
5. With necessary equations and signal space diagram obtain the probability of
error for coherent binary PSK systems
(8)
6. Discuss about minimum shift keying for a CPFSK signal.

(8)

7. Explain carrier and symbol synchronization.

(10)

8. Explain the working of DPSK scheme with the help of suitable circuit (6)
9. Derive the expression for probability of error of BPSK and QPSK system.(16)
10. Explain the generation, detection, signal space diagram, bit error probability
and power Spectra of BFSK. (16)
11. Explain M-ary PSK system with the help of transmitter and the

receiver,What is the bandwidth requirement of M-ary PSK?

(10)

UNIT-IV
2- Marks
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

What is pseudo noise sequence?

Define processing gain?
What are applications of spread spectrum modulation?
Define spread spectrum modulation.
Draw the block diagram of feedback shift register, which is used to generate
the PN sequence.
6. Define jamming margin.
7. How the bandwidth is altered during transmission and reception of spread
spectrum system?
8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of direct sequence spread
spectrum?
9. What are the advantages and disadvantages of frequency hop spread
spectrum?
10. Write the expression for probability of error of DS-BPSK system.
16- Marks
1. (i)Explain Direct sequence spread spectrum with coherent binary phase shift
keying (10)
(ii)Explain how CDMA system based on FH-SS can be used for mobile users (6)
2. Explain frequency hop spread spectrum.
(10)
3. A Pseudo noise sequence is generated using a feedback shift register of
length m=4. The chip rate is 10^7 chips per second.
Find i) PN sequence length.
ii) Chip duration of PN sequence
iii) PN sequence period
(6)
4. Explain the generation of pseudo noise sequences and discuss its properties (12)
5. Explain how direct sequence spread spectrum system help in resolving the
problem of Jamming (4)
6. Explain the properties of PN sequence.
(6)
7. Derive the expression for probability of error for direct sequence spread
BPSK system and jamming margin.
(16)
8. Derive the expression for the gain in SNR obtained by using spread
spectrum starting from the set of orthonormal basis function (12)

UNIT-V
2- Marks
1. Define Hamming weight and Minimum Hamming distance.
2. What are the error detection and error correction capabilities of hamming
code?
3. List the differences between block codes and convolutional codes.
4. What is hamming distance?
5. Define code efficiency.
6. What is meant by linear code?
7. What is meant by cyclic code?
8. How syndrome is calculated in hamming codes and cyclic codes?
9. Define constraint length in convolutional codes.
1.

2.
3.
4.
5.

16- Marks
The parity check matrix of a particular (7,4) linear block code is given by H
1 1 1 0
H=
1 1 0 1
1 0 1 1
Find the generator matrix
(6)
Explain in detail the coding and decoding of linear block codes
(10)
Draw a convolutional encoder of rate with a constraint length of 3 and
obtain the trellis and state diagram of the encoder
(8)
Demonstrate vitterbi decoding algorithm with a received (8 bits) sequence.
(8)
The parity check matrix of a particular (7,4) linear block code is given by H
1 1 0 1 0 0 0
H = 0 1 1 0 1 0 0
1 1 1 0 0 1 0
1 0 1 0 0 0 1
i). Find the generator matrix (G)
ii). List all the code vectors
iii). What is the minimum distance between code vector?
iv). How many errors can be detected?
(16)

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