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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 $z(t) = \sum\limits_{n} b[n]x(t-nT)$ where $b[n]$ are the symbols and $x(t)$ is the overall system response to a single symbol. The received signal is sampled at $t = mT$. The Fourier transform of $x(t)$ is $X(f)$. The Nyquist condition that $X(f)$ must satisfy for zero intersymbol interference at the receiver is ______.

GATE ECE 2024
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Let H(X) denote the entropy of a discrete random variable X taking K possible distinct real values. Which of the following statements is/are necessarily true?

GATE ECE 2022
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A symbol stream contains alternate QPSK and 16-QAM symbols. If symbols from this stream are transmitted at the rate of 1 mega-symbols per second, the raw (uncoded) data rate is _________ mega-bits per second (rounded off to one decimal place).

GATE ECE 2022
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In a digital communication system, the overall pulse shape p(t) at the receiver before the sampler has the Fourier transform P(f). If the symbols are transmitted at the rate of 2000 symbols per second, for which of the following cases is inter symbol interference zero?
GATE ECE 2017 Set 1
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Which one of the following statements about differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) is true?
GATE ECE 2017 Set 1
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Consider binary data transmission at a rate of 56 kbps using baseband binary pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) that is designed to have a raised-cosine spectrum. The transmission bandwidth (in kHz) required for a roll-off factor of 0.25 is ______.
GATE ECE 2016 Set 1
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A speech signal is sampled at 8 kHz and encoded into PCM format using 8 bits/sample. The PCM data is transmitted through a baseband channel via 4-level PAM. The minimum bandwidth (in kHz) required for transmission is _________.
GATE ECE 2016 Set 2
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The modulation scheme commonly used for transmission from GSM mobile terminals is
GATE ECE 2015 Set 3
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In a code - division multiple access (CDMA) system with N = 8 chips, the maximum number of users who can be assigned mutually orthogonal signature sequences is _______.
GATE ECE 2014 Set 1
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The bit rate of a digital communication system is R kbits/s. The modulation used is 32-QAM. The minimum bandwidth required for ISI free transmission is
GATE ECE 2013
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In a PCM system, if the code word length is increased from 6 to 8 bits, the signal to quantization noise ratio improves by the factor
GATE ECE 2004
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In the output of a DM speech encoder, the consecutive pulses are of opposite polarity during time interval t1 $$ \le $$ t $$ \le $$ t2. This indicates that during this interval
GATE ECE 2004
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For a bit-rate of 8 kbps, the best possible values of the transmitted frequencies in a coherent binary FSK system are
GATE ECE 2002
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A band limited signal is sampled at the Nyquist rate. The signal can be recovered by passing the samples through
GATE ECE 2001
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Quadrature multiplexing is
GATE ECE 1998
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Compression in PCM refers to relative compression of
GATE ECE 1998
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For a given data rate, the bandwidth Bp of a BPSK signal and the band width B0 of the OOK signal are related as
GATE ECE 1998
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In a PCM system with uniform quantization, increasing the number of bits from 8 to 9 will reduce the quantization noise power by a factor of
GATE ECE 1998
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A deterministic signal has the power spectrum given in figure. The minimum sampling rate needed to completely represent this signal is GATE ECE 1997 Communications - Digital Communication Systems Question 59 English
GATE ECE 1997
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The line code that has zero dc component for pulse transmission of random binary data is
GATE ECE 1997
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If the number of bits per sample in a PCM system is increased from n to n+1, the improvement in signal-to-quantization noise ratio will be
GATE ECE 1995
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The signal to quantization noise ratio in an n-bit PCM system
GATE ECE 1995
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The bandwidth required for the transmission of a PCM signal increases by a factor of ________ when the number of quantization levels is increased from 4 to 64.
GATE ECE 1994

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The information bit sequence {1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1} is to be transmitted by encoding with Cyclic Redundancy Check 4 (CRC-4) code, for which the generator polynomial is $C(x) = x^4 + x + 1$. The encoded sequence of bits is ____.

GATE ECE 2024
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Consider a channel over which either symbol xA or symbol xB is transmitted. Let the output of the channel Y be the input to a maximum likelihood (ML) detector at the receiver. The conditional probability density functions for y given xA and xB are :

$${f_{\left. Y \right|{x_A}}}(y) = {e^{ - (y + 1)}}u(y + 1)$$,

$${f_{\left. Y \right|{x_B}}}(y) = {e^{(y - 1)}}(1 - u(y - 1))$$,

where, u( . ) is the standard unit step function. The probability of symbol error for this system is _________ (rounded off to two decimal places).

GATE ECE 2022
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In binary frequency shift keying (FSK), the given signal wave forms are
$$\,{u_o}(t) = 5\,\cos \,(20000\,\pi \,t);\,0 \le \,\,t\, \le \,T,$$ and
$${u_o}(t) = 5\,\cos \,(22000\,\pi \,t);\,0 \le \,\,t\, \le \,T,$$

where T is the bit-duration interval and t is in seconds. Both $${u_o}(t)$$ and $${u_1}(t)$$ are zero output the interval $$0 \le \,\,t\, \le \,T$$. With a matched filter (correlator ) based receiver, the smallest positive value of T (in milliseconds) required to have $${u_o}(t)$$ and $${u_1}(t)$$ uncorrelated is

GATE ECE 2017 Set 1
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The bit error probability of a memoryless binary symmetric channel is $${10^{ - 5}}$$. If $${10^{ - 5}}$$ bits are sent over this channel, then the probability that not more than one bit will be in error is ________________
GATE ECE 2016 Set 3
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An ideal band-pass channel 500Hz-2000 Hz is deployed for communication. A modem is designed to transmit bits at the rate of 4800 bits/s using 16-QAM. The roll-off factor of a pulse with a raised cosine spectrum that utilizes the entire frequency band is____________________
GATE ECE 2016 Set 2
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A sinusoidal signal of 2 kHz frequency is applied to a delta modulator. The sampling rate and step-size $$\Delta $$ of the delta modulator are 20,000 samples per second and 0.1 V, respectively. To prevent slope overload, the maximum amplitude of the sinusoidal signal (in Volts) is
GATE ECE 2015 Set 1
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The transmitted signal in a GSM system is of 200 kHz bandwidth and 8 users share a common bandwidth using TDMA. If at a given time 12 users are talking in a cell, the total bandwidth of the signal received by the base station of the cell will be at least (in kHz) ___________________.
GATE ECE 2015 Set 1
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An M - level PSK modulation scheme is used to transmit independent binary digits over a band-pass channel with bandwidth 100 kHz. The bit rate is 200 kbps and the system characteristic is a raised-cosine spectrum with 100% excess bandwidth. The minimum value of M is ___________________________.
GATE ECE 2014 Set 4
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A binary random variable X takes the value of 1 with probability 1/3. X is input to a casade of 2 independent identical binary symmetric channels (BSCs) each with crossover probability 1/2. The output of BSCs are the random variables $${Y_1}$$ and $${Y_2}$$ as shown in the figure. GATE ECE 2014 Set 3 Communications - Digital Communication Systems Question 14 English
GATE ECE 2014 Set 3
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In a PCA system, the signal $$m(t) = \{ \sin (100\,\pi \,t)\, + \cos (100\,\pi \,t\} $$ V is sampled at the Nyquist rate. The samples are processed by a uniform quantizer with step size 0.75 V. The minimum data rate of the PCM system in bits per second is________________
GATE ECE 2014 Set 3
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The input to a 1-bit quantizer is a random variable X with pdf $${f_x}(x) = 2{e^{ - 2x}}\,\,for\,\,x \ge 0$$ and $${f_x}(x) = 0\,\,for\,\,x\, < \,0$$. For outputs to be of equal probability, the quantizer threshold should be _______________.
GATE ECE 2014 Set 2
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Four messages band limited to W, W, 2 W and 3 W respectively are to be multiplexed using Time Division Multiplexing (TDM). The minimum bandwidth required for transmission of this TDM signal is
GATE ECE 2008
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A speech signal, band limited to 4 kHz and peak voltage varying between + 5V and - 5V is sampled at the Nyquist rate. Each sample is quantized and represented by 8 bits.

If the bits 0 and 1 are transmitted using bipolar pulses, the minimum bandwidth required for distortion free transmission is

GATE ECE 2008
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A speech signal, band limited to 4 kHz and peak voltage varying between + 5V and - 5V is sampled at the Nyquist rate. Each sample is quantized and represented by 8 bits.

Assuming the signal to be uniformly distributed between its peak values, the signal to noise ratio at the quantizer output is

GATE ECE 2008
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A speech signal, band limited to 4kHz and peak voltage varying between +5V and -5V is sampled at the Nyquist rate. Each sample is quantized and represented by 8 bits.

The number of quantitization levels required to reduce the quantization noise by a factor of 4 would be

GATE ECE 2008
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In delta modulation, the slope overload distortion can be reduced by
GATE ECE 2007
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In a GSM system, 8 channels can co-exist in 200 KHz bandwidth using TDMA. A GSM based cellular operator is allocated 5 MHz bandwidth. Assuming a frequency reuse factor of 1/5, i. e. a five-cell repeat pattern,, the maximum number of simultaneous channels that can exist in one cell is
GATE ECE 2007
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The raised cosine pulse p(t) is used for zero ISI in digital communications. The expression for p(t) with unity roll-off factor is given by $$$p(t) = {{\sin \,4\,\pi \,W\,t} \over \matrix{ 4\,\pi \,W\,t(1 - 16{W^2}{t^2}) \hfill \cr \hfill \cr \hfill \cr} }$$$ The value of p(t) at $$t = {1 \over {4\,W}}$$ is
GATE ECE 2007
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In a Direct sequence CDMA system the chip rate is $$1.2288\,\, \times \,\,{10^6}$$ chips per second. If the processing gain is desired to be at least 100. The data rate
GATE ECE 2007
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The minimum step-size required for a Delta-Modulator operating at 32 K samples/sec to track the signal (here u(t) is the unit-step function)

x(t) = 125t(u(t) - u (t - 1) + (250 - 125t) (u (t - 1) - u (t - 2 )) so that slope - overload is avoided, would be

GATE ECE 2006
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Choose the correct one from among the alternatives A, B, C, D after matching an item from Group 1 with the most appropriate item in Group 2.

Group
1. FM
2. DM
3. PSK
4. PCM

Group 2
P: Slope overload
Q: $${\mu - law}$$
R: Envelope detector
S: Capture effect
T: Hilbert transform
U: Matched filter

GATE ECE 2004
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A source produces binary data at the rate of 10 kbps. The binary symbols are represented as shown in fig. GATE ECE 2004 Communications - Digital Communication Systems Question 27 English 1 GATE ECE 2004 Communications - Digital Communication Systems Question 27 English 2 The source output is transmitted using two modulation schemes, namely Binary PSK (BPSK) and Quadrature PSK (QPSK). Let $${B_1}$$ and $${B_2}$$ be the bandwidth requirements of BPSK and QPSK respectively. Assuming that the bandwidth of the above rectangular pulses is 10 kHz, $${B_1}$$ and $${B_2}$$ are
GATE ECE 2004
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Three analog signals, having bandwidths 1200 Hz, 600 Hz and 600 Hz are sampled at their respective Nyquist rates, enocodes with 12 bit words, and time division multiplexed. The bit rate for the multiplexed signal is
GATE ECE 2004
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The input to a linear delta modulator having a step size $$\Delta $$ = 0.628 is a sine wave with frequency fm and peak amplitude Em. If the sampling frequency fs = 40 KHz. the combination of the sine-wave frequency and the amplitude, where slope overload will take place is
GATE ECE 2003
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A signal is sampled at 8 KHz and is quantized using 8-bit uniform quantizer. Assuming $$SN{R_q}$$ for a sinusoidal signal, the correct statement for PCM signal with a bit rate of R is
GATE ECE 2003
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If S represents the carrier synchronization at the receiver and $$\rho $$ represents the bandwidth efficiency, then the correct statement for the coherent binary PSK is
GATE ECE 2003
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In a digital communication system employing Frequency Shift Keying (FSK), the 0 and 1 bit are represented by sine waves of 10 KHz and 25 KHz respectively. These waveforms will be orthogonal for a bit interval of
GATE ECE 2000
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Four independent messages have bandwidths of 100Hz, 100 Hz, 200Hz and 400Hz respectively. Each is sampled at the Nyquist rate, and the samples are time division multiplexed (TDM) and transmitted. The transmitted sample rate )in Hz) is
GATE ECE 1999
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The number of bits in a binary PCM system is increased from n to n+1. As a result, the signal to quantization noise ratio will improve by a factor
GATE ECE 1996
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The bit stream 01001 is differentially encoded using 'Delay and Ex OR' scheme for DPSK transmission. Assuming the reference bit as a '1' and assigning phases of '0' and '$$\,\pi $$' for 1's and 0's respectively, in the encoded sequence, the transmitted phase sequence becomes
GATE ECE 1992
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Coherent demodulation of FSK signal can be effected using
GATE ECE 1992
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Source encoding in a data communication system is done in order to
GATE ECE 1992
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For the signal constellation shown in the figure, the type of modulation is ________. GATE ECE 1991 Communications - Digital Communication Systems Question 38 English
GATE ECE 1991
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In a BPSK signal detector, the local oscillator has a fixed phase error of 200. This phase error deteriorates the SNR at the output by a factor of
GATE ECE 1990
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In binary data transmission DPSK is preferred to PSK because
GATE ECE 1989
36
The message bit sequence input to a DPSK modulator is 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1. The carrier phase during the reception of the first two message bits is $$\pi ,\,\,\pi $$. The carrier phase for the remaining four message bits is
GATE ECE 1988
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The transfer function of a zero - order hold is
GATE ECE 1988

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