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Quiz VI
Instructor-in-Charge: B. Sainath, 2210-A, Electrical and Electronics Eng. Dept., BITS Pilani.
Course: Communication Systems (EEE F311) DATE: Nov. 11th Test duration: 20 Mins.
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Multiple choice questions [5 marks]

Note: Each question carries one mark. For each incorrect answer, you lose 0.25 mark. Overwriting is strictly NOT allowed.
In addition to right option, write down corresponding answer.
1. Suppose that m(t) = bt + c, where b and c are some real constants. The signal is applied to a delta modulator with
sampling period 0.09 seconds and step size . Slope overload distortion, and, granular noise occur if and, , respectively.
A. < 0.09b, = 0.09b B. = 0.09b, < 0.09b C. < 0.09b, > 0.09b D. None of the above
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2. Consider the transmission of binary PAM data over a baseband channel. The transmission bandwidth requirement is
72.0 KHz. Suppose that the transmitter uses raised cosine pulse shaping filter with roll-off factor . Furthermore, the Nyquist
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bandwidth is equal to 2Tb , where Tb denotes the bit duration. If the bit duration is 10 microsecond, will be equal to -
A. 0.22 B. 0.44 C. 0.88 D. None of the above
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3. Consider an FM transmitter and receiver. The power loss in the channel is 50 dB. Suppose that the receiver output SNR
is 40 dB. Message signal is band-limited to 15 KHz. If the two-sided power spectral density of white noise is 1010 W/Hz
and modulation index is 5, the transmit power in dB is approximately equal to -
A. 9 dB B. 19 dB C. 29 dB D. None of the above
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4. Suppose that a matched filter has input signal given by

et , 0 t 1,
(t) =
0, otherwise.
The matched filter output at t = 1 is equal to
A. 0.3679 B. 0.8626 C. 0.4323 D. None of the above
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5. Consider a PCM encoded data transmission system whose bit rate is equal to 56 Mbps. It uses an uniform quantizer
followed by a 7bit binary encoder. The maximum message bandwidth for which the system delivers satisfactory performance
is -
A. 4.0 MHz B. 8.0 MHz C. 7.0 MHz D. None of the above
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1. C. Discussion: Slope overload distortion occurs if
<  dm(t)
dt . On the other hand, if

>  dm(t)
dt , granular noise
   
Ts Ts

occurs.
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2. B. Discussion: Recall that BT = B0 (1 + ). Since B0 = 2Tb = 50 KHz, we have 72 = 50 (1 + ) = 0.44.
3. B. Discussion: Figure of merit of FM is given by
SNRO/P 3 75
FOM = = 2 = .
SNRI/P 2 2
N0 N0
Since SNRO/P = 104 (i.e. 40 dB), SNRI/P = 104 75
2 . Recall that input noise power is equal to 2 2W , where 2 denotes
PSD of white noise and W denotes the message bandwidth. Therefore, input signal power is 0.8 103 . Since channel causes
power loss of 105 (i.e. 50 dB), transmit power is equal to 80 watts or approximately 19 dB.
4. C. Discussion: The impulse response of the matched filter h(t) = e1t and its output is given by

y(t) = (t) ~ h(t),

= e1 sinh(t),

et et
where sinh(t) = 2 . Therefore, at t = 1, the output is equal to e1 sinh(t) = 0.4323.
fs
5. A. Discussion: Sampling frequency fs 8 MHz. For satisfactory performance, fmax 2 . Therefore, maximum message
bandwidth is equal to 4.0 MHz.