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A wireless digital transmission scheme is using $16$-QAM over an additive white Gaussian noise channel and a maximum-likelihood receiver. Consider the information bit rat...

A QPSK modulated signal from an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel is received with an $E_{b} / N_{o}=8.4 \mathrm{~dB}$ at the input of a coherent QPSK demodula...

Let the relevant bandwidth $(B)$ of a digital communication system be $1 ~\text{MHz}$ and $k T=-174 \mathrm{~dBm} / \mathrm{Hz}$, where $k$ is Boltzmann's constant and '$...

The average bit error rate at the input of a $(7,4,1)$ Hamming decoder is $0.10$. The probability that the decoder will fail to decode a received word correctly is $\_\_\...

A source transmits symbol $S$ that takes values uniformly at random from the set $\{-2,0,2\}$. The receiver obtains $Y=S+N$, where $N$ is a zero-mean Gaussian random vari...

A digital communication system transmits through a noiseless bandlimited channel $[-W W]$. The received signal $z(t)$ at the output of the receiving filter is given by $z...

​​​​​The information bit sequence $\{111010101\}$ is to be transmitted by encoding with Cyclic Redundancy Check $4$ (CRC-$4$) code, for which the generator polynomial is ...

Consider the two quadrature amplitude modulation $\text{(QAM)}$ constellations below. Suppose that the channel has additive white Gaussian noise channel and no intersymbo...

Consider two communication systems $C_{1}$ and $C_{2}$ that use pulse amplitude modulation $\text{(PAM)}$, $P A M_{1}$ and $P A M_{2}$. Let the distance between any two p...

Statement for Linked Answer Questions 83a and 83bAsymmetric three-level midtread quantizer is to be designed assuming equiprobable occurence of all quantization levels.Th...

The line code that has zero $\text{dc}$ component for pulse transmission of random binary data isNon-return to zero $\text{(NRZ)}$Retrun to zero $\text{(RZ)}$Alternate Ma...

In a digital communication system employing Frequency Shift Keying $\text{(FSK)}$, the $0$ and $1$ bit are represented by sine waves of $10 \; \mathrm{kHz}$ and $25 \; \m...

The peak-to-peak input to an $8$-bit $\text{PCM}$ coder is $2$ volts. The signal power-to-quantization noise power ratio (in $d\text{B}$) for an input of $0.5 \cos \left(...

Input to a linear delta modulator is a sinusoidal signal whose frequency can vary from $200 \mathrm{~Hz}$ to $4000 \mathrm{~Hz}$. The input is sampled at eight times the ...

During transmission over a communication channel, bit errors occur independently with probability p. If a block of $n$ bits is transmitted, the probability of at most one...

For a bit-rate of $8 \; \mathrm{kbps}$, the best possible values of the transmitted frequencies in a coherent binary FSK system are$16 \; \mathrm{kHz}$ and $20 \; \mathrm...

A discrete memoryless source generates either $0$ or $1$ at a rate of $160 \; \mathrm{Kbps}; 0$ is generated three times more frequently than $1.$ A coherent binary PSK m...

For a given data rate, the bandwidth $\mathrm{B}_{p}$ of a $\text{BPSK}$ signal and the bandwidth $\text{B}_{0}$ of the $\mathrm{OOK}$ signal are related as$\mathrm{B}_{p...

At a given probability of error, binary coherent $\text{FSK}$ is inferior to binary coherent $\text{PSK}$ by$6 \mathrm{~dB}$$3 \mathrm{~dB}$$2 \mathrm{~dB}$$0 \mathrm{~dB...

Choose the correct one from among the alternative $\text{A, B, C. D}$ after matching an item in Group $1$ with the most appropriate item in Group $2.$$\begin{array}{ll}\q...

If $E_{b^{\prime}}$ the energy per bit of a binary digital signal, is $10^{-6}$ watt-sec and the one-sided power spectral density of the white noise, $\mathrm{N}_{0}=10^{...

The input to a linear delta modulator having a step-size $\Delta=0.628$ is a sine wave with frequency $f m$ and peak amplitude $E_{m}$. If the sampling frequency $f_{s}=4...

If $\text{S}$ represents the carrier synchronization at the receiver and $\rho$ represents the bandwidth efficiency, then the correct statement for the coherent binary $\...

A signal is sampled at $8 \; \mathrm{kHz}$ and is quantized using $8$-bit uniform quantizer. Assuming $\mathrm{SNR}_q$ for a sinusoidal signal, the correct statement for ...

In a $\text{PCM}$ system, if the code word length is increased from $6$ to $8$ bits, the signal to quantization noise ratio improves by the factor$8 / 6$$12$$16$$8$

Consider a binary digital communication system with equally likely $0$'s and $1$'s. When binary 0 is transmitted the voltage at the detector input can lie between the lev...

Choose the correct one from among the alternatives $\mathrm{A}, \mathrm{B}, \mathrm{C}, \mathrm{D}$ after matching an item from Group $1$ with the most appropriate item i...

A source produces binary data at the rate of $\text{10 kbps.}$ The binary symbols are represented as shown in the figure given below.The source output is transmitted usin...

The signal to quantisation noise ratio in an $n$-bit $\text{PCM}$ systemdepends upon the sampling frequency employedis independent of the value of ' $n$ 'increases with i...

(A) $\text{AM}$ system(B) SSB system(C) PCM ( $n$ bit) system$2 B$ (Band width of the modulating signal)$2 \mathrm{~B}$Between $\text{B}$ and $\text{2B}$$2 n \mathrm{~B}$...