SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY (Established under Section of USG Act, 1956)

Past 3 years Semester Questions

Course & Branch: BE Computer Science Subject: Principles of Communication Part B Answer all the Questions May 07-2011

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1. Derive the mathematical expression for AM wave and draw the frequency spectrum. 2. Explain in detail with neat diagram the various blocks in superheterodyne receiver. 3. Explain Armstrong modulator with neat sketch and necessary phasors. 4. With neat diagram and phasors explain Foster seelay discriminator. 5. Explain the generation and demodulation of pulse amplitude modulation. 6. Explain frequency division multiplexing with neat diagram. 7. Explain amplitude shift keying and phase shift keying with neat diagram. 8. Explain coherent quadrature modulation technique with neat diagram. 9. With neat diagram explain block code and cyclic code. 10. Explain in detail frequency spread spectrum technique with neat diagram. May 05-2010 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Explain the operation of Superhetrodyne receiver with a neat diagram. Explain DSBSC and VSB modulation of AM wave. Explain the operation of varactor diode modulator and reactance tube modulator. How can the FM wave be demodulated using Foster Seeley Discriminator? Also draw the corresponding vector Diagram. Obtain an expression for Nyquist criterion for distortionless base band transmission for zero Inter symbol interference. Explain Pulse code modulation and explain about -law and A-law companding. How is the digital signals modulated using FSK? And also explain its demodulation using coherent and non-coherent FSK demodulator. What is M-ary modulation? Assume M=8 give its truth table, phasor diagram and constellation diagram. Also explain the transmitting and receiving section of 8-ary systems. Consider the sequence of letters in English alphabets with their probability of occurrence as given here.

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SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY (Established under Section of USG Act, 1956)

Past 3 years Semester Questions

Course & Branch: BE Computer Science Subject: Principles of Communication

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Letter: a t l m n o p y Probability: 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 Compute two different Huffman codes for this alphabet. Hence for each of two codes, find the average code word length and variance of the average code word length over ensemble of letters. 10. Explain Direct sequence spread spectrum and frequency hop spread spectrum Nov 14 -2010 1. Draw the block diagram for the generation and detection of a VSB signal and explain the principle of operation. 2. What are the advantages of Super heterodyne receiver over TRF receiver? With a neat block diagram explain the operation of AM Super heterodyne receiver. 3. Explain the method of generating FM wave and derive the expression for frequency spectrum. 4. With neat block diagram explain in detail about Foster Seeley discriminator. 5. (a) With supporting derivation prove that if a signal contains no frequencies higher than W Hz, it may be reconstructed from its samples at sequence of points spaced 1/2w seconds apart. (b) With neat diagram explain TDM. 6. With neat block diagram, explain in detail about PCM. 7. Draw the block diagram of correlation receiver for detecting transmitted signals with m possible signals and explain the decision rule used. 8. With necessary equations and signal space diagram, explain the QPSK system and obtain the probability of error for the same. 9. Draw the block diagram of DS-Spread Spectrum transmitter and receiver and explain the function performed by each block. 10. A discrete memory less channel has the following alphabet with the probability of occurrence Symbol S0 S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 Prob 0.125 0.0625 0.25 0.0625 0.125 0.125 0.25 Generate Shannon-Fano coding and find .

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SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY (Established under Section of USG Act, 1956)

Past 3 years Semester Questions

Course & Branch: BE Computer Science Subject: Principles of Communication May 5-2009

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1. (a) Derive a mathematical expression for an amplitude modulated wave? (b) Explain how a square law detector is used for AM detection. 2. With a neat block diagram, explain the functioning of various modules of super heterodynereceiver. Comment on its significance. 3. Explain any two method of generating FM wave with a neat sketch. 4. With a neat diagram, explain the working of a foster seeley discriminator. What is the underlying principle of it? 5. State sampling theorem and comment on over sampling and under sampling with required diagrams. 6. With a neat block diagram, explain the various building blocks of a DM System. 7. Derive the expression for probability of error for BFSK (coherent) system. Also explain the transmitter and receiver of the same. 8. Write a detailed note on the transmitter and receiver of a coherent QPSK system and deduce the expression for probability of error. 9. Write a detailed note on (a) Entropy of continuous channels. (b) Block codes. 10. With a block diagram explain the types of spread spectrum system in detail. Nov 10-2009 1. Explain in Detail about the generation of AM,DSBSC AM,SSBSC AM. 2. Explain in detail about Superhetrodyne Receiver, synchronous Detector. 3. Describe briefly about FM Transmitter and FM Receiver. 4. Derive the Mathematical representation of Angle Modulator. 5. Explain in detail about PCM Techniques. 6. Describe briefly about Time division, Frequency division and Quadrature Multiplexing. 7. Derive an expression of Probability of error for PSK Systems. 8. Derive an expression of Probability of error for FSK Systems. 9. Compute Huffman code and find efficiency and Redundancy for the symbol probabilities. [0.1 0.2 0.09 0.01 0.4 0.2] 10. Describe briefly about Direct sequence spread spectrum. **** All the Best ****

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