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First Semester M.Tech. Degree Examination, June 2009

Branch : Electronics and Communication (2008 Scheme)
Stream Microwave and TV Engineering
TMC 1002 : ADVANCED DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 100
Answer any five questions : (520=100 Marks)
1. For a two user synchronous CDMA system, received signal is given by
) t ( n ) t ( g b E ) t ( g b E ) t ( r
2 2 2 1 1 1
+ + =
for T t o and (b
1
, b
2
) = ( 1, 1),
g
1
(t) and g
2
(t) are signature waveforms. The noise process n(t) is zero mean Gaussian
and white with spectral density
2
No
.
a) If each user employs multiuser MMSE detector, find the linear transformation
matrix A for two users.
b) Show that MMSE detector approaches decorrelating detector as N
0

0. 20
2. a) Explain with block diagram a system for acquisition of a frequency hopped
spread spectrum signal. 10
b) A CDMA system is designed based on DS spread spectrum with a processing
gain of 1000 and binary PSK modulation. Determine the number of users, if
each user has equal power and desired level of performance is
dB 5 . 10
J
E
0
b
=
. 10
3. In line of sight microwave radio transmission, the signal arrives at the receiver via
two propagation paths, Received signal is
r(t) = S(t) +

S(t T) +n(t)
Where s(t) is the transmitted signal,

is the attenuation (

<1)and n(t) is AWGN.

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a) Determine output of demodulator at t = T and t = 2T that employs a filter
matched to s(t). 10
b) Determine probability of error for a symbol by symbol detector if the transmitted
signal is binary antipodal and the detector ignores the ISI. 10
4. For a set of M orthogonal signal waveforms Sm(t), 1

M, 0

T all of which
have same energy E.
Determine a new set of M waveforms as

=
=

M
1 k
k
) t ( S
M
1
) t ( Sm ) t ( m S
for 1

M, 0

T. Show that the M signal waveforms { } ) t ( S

m
have equal
energy given by
M
E
) 1 M ( E =

and are equally correlated with correlation

coefficient.
1 M
1
dt ) t ( S ) t ( S
E
1
S
n
T
0
m mn

=

20
5. Compare FDMA, TDMA and CDMA in terms of information rate that each method
achieves in an ideal AWGN channel of bandwidth W for K users. 20
6. A multipath fading channel has a multipath spread of T
m
= 1 sec. and a doppler
spread Hz 01 . 0 B =

. The total channel bandwidth at bandpass available for signal

transmission is w = 5 Hz. The signal designer selects a pulse duration T = 10 Sec.
a) Determine coherence bandwidth and coherence time.
b) Is the channel frequency selective. Explain.
c) If a wideband signal is used for transmission and a RAKE receiver for
demodulation, how many taps would you use in RAKE receiver. 20