Geethanjali college of Engineering and Technology

Department of ECE
Digital Communications
UNIT 1
Assignment questions

SET1:
1. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of digital communication system.
2. State and prove sampling theorem in time domain.
3. A black and white picture consists of about 2*10 6 picture elements with 16 different
brightness levels, with equal probabilities. If pictures are repeated at the rate of 32 per
second, calculate average rate of information conveyed by this TV picture source. If SNR
is 30 dB, what is the maximum bandwidth required to support the transmission of the
resultant video signal.
4. A system is having a bandwidth of 3 KHz at a SNR of 29 dB. Find
i)
The information carrying capacity.
ii)
Capacity of the channel if its bandwidth is doubled while the transmitted signal
power remains constant?

SET 2:
1. What is natural sampling? Explain it with sketches.
2.

Specify the Nyquist rate and Nyquist intervals for each of the following signals
i) x(t) = Sinc200t ii) x(t) = Sinc2200t iii) x(t) = Sinc200t+ Sinc2200t.

3. Calculate the bandwidth limits of Shannon-Hartley theorem.

4. For an AWGN channel with 4.0 KHz bandwidth, the noise spectral density /2 is 1.0 pico
watts/Hz and the signal power at the receiver is 0.1 mW. Determine the maximum
capacity, and also the actual capacity for the above AWGN channel.

SET3:
1. State and discuss the Hartley-Shannon law

2. A band limited signal x(t) is sampled by a train of rectangular pulses of width and

period T.
i) Find an expression for the sampled signal.
ii) Determine the spectrum of the sampled signal and sketch it .
3. A 2 KHz channel has signal to noise ratio of 24 dB.

i)
ii)

Calculate maximum capacity of this channel.

Assuming constant transmitting power calculate maximum capacity when channel
bandwidth is : a) halved and b) reduced to quarter of its original value.
4. Find the Nyquist rate for the given signal:
m(t) = 3 cos (50 t) + 10 sin (300 t) - cos(100 t)

SET4:
1. What is Nyquist rate and Nyquist interval? What is aliasing and how it is reduced?
2. Calculate the bandwidth limits of Shannon-Hartley theorem.
3. A voice grade telephone channel has a bandwidth of 3400 Hz. If the signal to noise ratio (SNR)
on the channel is 30 dB, determine the capacity of the channel. If the above channel is to be used
to transmit 4.8 kbps of data, determine the minimum SNR required on the channel.

4. A signal m(t) = 4 cos (60 t) + 2 cos (160 t) + cos(280 t) is sampled at :

i)

150 Hz

ii)

75 Hz

iii)

300 Hz
Find the frequency components of the signal that appear at the output of an ideal
low pass filter with cut-off at 290 Hz, in each case. What is the Nyquist rate of
sampling and Nyquist interval for m(t)?