A message signal having peak-to-peak value of 2 V , root mean square value of 0.1 V and bandwidth of 5 kHz is sampled and fed to a pulse code modulation (PCM) system that uses a uniform quantizer. The PCM output is transmitted over a channel that can support a maximum transmission rate of 50 kbps . Assuming that the quantization error is uniformly distributed, the maximum signal to quantization

noise ratio that can be obtained by the PCM system (rounded off to two decimal places) is $\_\_\_\_$ .

A 4 kHz sinusoidal message signal having amplitude 4 V is fed to a delta modulator (DM) operating at a sampling rate of 32 kHz . The minimum step size required to avoid slope overload noise in the DM (rounded off to two decimal places) is $\_\_\_\_$ V.

A digital communication system transmits a block of $N$ bits. The probability of error in decoding a bit is $\alpha$. The error event of each bit is independent of the error events of the other bits. The received block is declared erroneous of at least one of its bits is decoded wrongly. The probability that the received block is erroneous, is