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In PCM the quantization noise depends on
sampling rate
signal strength
number of quantization levels
none of the above
Quantization noise occurs in
FSK
PCM
QPSK
None of above
The modulation method that represents bits as different phase shifts of a carrier is known as
(a)
The number of different phase shifts used in QPSK are
(a)
16QAM technique is based on .......... and ............parameters of carrier signal
amplitude
phase
frequency
In FSK the frequency of sinusoidal carrier is shifted between .......... discrete values, in response to value of digital signal
1
2
3
4
In FSK demodulator, envelope detector are simple (a) which rectify and filter their inputs to generate a dc voltage proportional to ac input.
The baud rate and bit rate for these systems are same
ASK
BFSK
BPSK
QPSK
64QAM
Let us assume using QAM we want to transmit a symbol consisting of 4 bits . So how many different possible symbol can we have
4
8
16
32
64
32QAM technique is based on .......... and ............parameters of carrier signal
amplitude
frequency
phase
Which is called as on-off keying?
Amplitude shift keying
Uni-polar PAM
Amplitude shift keying & Uni-polar PAM
None of the mentioned
FSK reception is
Phase Coherent
Phase non coherent
Phase Coherent & non coherent
None of the mentioned
QAM uses ______ as the dimensions.
In phase
Quadrature
In phase & Quadrature
None of the mentioned
Which has same probability of error?
BPSK and QPSK
BPSK and ASK
BPSK and PAM
BPSK and QAM
Which system uses QAM?
Digital microwave relay
Dial up modem
Digital microwave relay & Dial up modem
None of the mentioned
Modulation process corresponds to ______ the amplitude, frequency or phase.
Switching
Keying
Switching or keying
None of the mentioned
In DPSK technique, the technique used to encode bits is
AMI
Differential code
Uni polar RZ format
Manchester format
In binary data transmission DPSK is preferred to PSK because
a coherent carrier is not required to be generated at the receiver
for a given energy per bit, the probability of error is less
the 1800 phase shifts of the carrier are unimportant
more protection is provided against impulse noise
For the signal constellation shown in the figure, the type of modulation is
QPSK
FSK
ASK
PSK
A DPSK wave is obtained by
BPSK
Differential encoding followed by BPSK
Differential Encoding
None
For coherent FSK modulation probability of error
Pe=21erfc(2NoEb)
Pe=21erfc(21N0Eb)
Pe=21erfc(N0Eb)
None
QPSK uses a phase shift of
π
2π
4π
2π
QPSK uses a phase shift of
π
2π
4π
2π
The Maximum bandwidth is occupied by
ASK
BPSK
FSK
None
In Amplitude Modulation, the instantaneous values of the carrier amplitude changes in accordance with the amplitude and frequency variations of the modulating signal.
a) True
b) False
What is the line connecting the positive and negative peaks of the carrier waveform called?
a) Peak line
b) Maximum amplitude ceiling
c) Modulation index
d) Envelope
What is the line connecting the positive and negative peaks of the carrier waveform called?
a) Peak line
b) Maximum amplitude ceiling
c) Modulation index
d) Envelope
What is the reference line for the modulating signal?
a) Zero line
b) Carrier peak line
c) Modulated peak line
d) Un-modulated peak line
What is the reference line for the modulating signal?
a) Zero line
b) Carrier peak line
c) Modulated peak line
d) Un-modulated peak line
What happens when the amplitude of the modulating signal is greater than the amplitude of the carrier?
a) Decay
b) Distortion
c) Amplification
d) Attenuation
What is the effect of distortion?
a) Total information loss
b) Error information
c) Attenuated information
d) Amplified information
What is the circuit used for producing AM called?
a) Modulator
b) Transmitter
c) Receiver
d) Duplexer
The ratio between the modulating signal voltage and the carrier voltage is called?
a) Amplitude modulation
b) Modulation frequency
c) Modulation index
d) Ratio of modulation
What is the modulation index value if Vmax=5.9v and Vmin=1.2v?
a) 0.5
b) 0.662
c) 0.425
d) 0.14
What is the modulating signal voltage if the maximum and the minimum voltages on the wave was observed to be 5.9v and 1.2v respectively?
a) 2.35v
b) 2.12v
c) 1.85v
d) 3.21v
What is the condition for greatest output power at the transmitter without distortion?
a) Modulating signal voltage > Carrier voltage
b) Modulating signal voltage < Carrier voltage
c) Modulating signal voltage = Carrier voltage
d) Modulating signal voltage = 0
What happens when the amplitude of the modulating signal is greater than the amplitude of the carrier?
a) Decay
b) Distortion
c) Amplification
d) Attenuation
What is the condition for greatest output power at the transmitter without distortion?
a) Modulating signal voltage > Carrier voltage
b) Modulating signal voltage < Carrier voltage
c) Modulating signal voltage = Carrier voltage
d) Modulating signal voltage = 0
What is the maximum frequency deviation allowed in commercial FM broadcasting?
100 KHz
75 KHz
150 KHz
20 KHz
In Frequency Modulation –
Amplitude of the carrier remains same
Frequency of the carrier varies in accordance with the modulating signal
The number of side bands are infinite
Amplitude of the carrier varies in accordance with the modulating signal
A 100 MHz carrier is deviated 50 kHz by a 4 kHz signal. The modulation index is _______.
5
8
12.5
20
FM bandwidth can be approximated by:
Armstrong Rule
Bessel's Rule
Carson's Rule
none of these
FREQUENCY MODULATION
Changing the frequency to increase energy of a electromagnetic wave
A method of transmitting signals by changing the amplitude of the wave
Changing the volume of a broadcast signal
A method of transmitting signals by changing the frequency of the wave
How are amplitude modulation and frequency modulation techniques similar?
Both are used by radio stations to transmit sound.
Both are used by MTV
They modulate frequency
They modulate amplitude
Transmitted power in FM system is
always constant
dependent on the number of sidebands
dependent on the total bandwidth
all of above
What type of wave modulation is represented here?
FM modulation
AM modulation
What type of modulation is represented by this wait?
FM modulation
AM modulation
Spread spectrum modulation involves
1.PN sequence for modulation
2. Large bandwidth
3. Multiple users
1) and 2) are correct
1) and 3) are correct
2) and 3) are correct
All the three are correct
PN sequence at the decoder acts as a locally generated carrier at the receiver and decodes the signal using
Correlator
Adder
Frequency divider
PLL
In spread spectrum technique, the multiple users are assigned
Same spectrum and same PN code
Same spectrum and different PN code
Different spectrum and different PN code
Different spectrum and same PN code
Advantage of using Spread Spectrum modulation is/are
1.Interference rejection capability
2. Frequency planning is not required
3. Resistance to multipath fading
4. ISI is lesser
1) and 2) are correct
1), 2) and 3) are correct
2) and 3) are correct
All the four are correct
Direct sequence spread spectrum demodulation uses
DPSK
FSK
ASK
QPSK
Fast hopping is
More than one frequency hop during each symbol
Hopping rate greater than or equal to information symbol rate
One or more symbols transmitted between frequency hops
Both a) and b)
Slow frequency hopping refers to
One or more symbols transmitted in time interval between frequency hops
More than one frequency hop during each symbol
Hopping rate greater than or equal to information symbol rate
Both a) and c) are correct
The transmission bandwidth of spread spectrum techniques is equal to the minimum required signal bandwidth.
True
False
The transmission bandwidth of spread spectrum techniques is equal to the minimum required signal bandwidth.
True
False
Which of the following is not a property of spread spectrum techniques?
Interference rejection capability
Multipath fading
Frequency planning elimination
Multiple user, multiple access interface
Which of the following is not a characteristic of PN sequence?
Nearly equal number of 0s and1s
Low correlation between shifted version of sequence
Non deterministic
Low cross-correlation between any two sequences
PN sequence can be generated using sequential logic circuits.
True
False
The period of a PN sequence produced by a linear m stage shift register cannot exceed _____ symbols.
2m
m
2m
2m-1
DSSS system spreads the baseband signal by ________ the baseband pulses with a pseudo noise sequence.
Adding
Subtracting
Multiplying
Dividing
Frequency hopping involves a periodic change of transmission _______
Signal
Frequency
Phase
Amplitude
The processing gain of FH systems is given by ratio of _______
Hopping bandwidth and hopping period
Instantaneous bandwidth and hopping duration
3 dB bandwidth and bit rate
Total hopping bandwidth and instantaneous bandwidth
In fast frequency hopping, hopping rate is less than the information symbol rate. State whether True or False.
False
True
Pseudorandom signal ________ predicted.
Can be
Cannot be
maybe
None of the mentioned
The properties used for pseudorandom sequence are
Balance
Run
Correlation
All of the mentioned
If the initial pulse of 1000 is fed to shift register, after how many clock pulses does the sequence repeat?
15
16
14
17
The sequences produced by shift register depends on
Number of stages
Feedback tap connections
Initial conditions
All of the mentioned
The ratio (J/S)reqd gives the measure of
Vulnerability to interference
Invulnerability to interference
All of the mentioned
None of the mentioned
Modulation refers to a low frequency signal controlling the
amplitude of the carrier
frequency of the carrier
phase of the carrier
any of the above
In an AM wave the majority of the power is in
lower sideband
Carrier
Upper Sideband
None of the above
If level of modulation is increased ................ power is increased.
carrier
carrier as well as sideband
sideband
None of the above
At 100% modulation the power in each sideband is ............ of that of carrier.
50%
40%
60%
25%
Overmodulation results in
weakening of the signal
excessive carrier power
distortion
none of the above
The major advantage of FM over AM is
reception is less noisy
higher carrier frequency
smaller bandwidth
small frequency deviation
Which are the additional stages in FM receiver
AF amplifier
limiter
descriminator
selector
None of the above
The antenna length is smaller for FM broadcasting because the wavelength of FM is short
True
False
For FM the value of modulation index can be greater than 1
True
False
AM wave contains three frequencies
True
False
In FM the amplitude of the wave is
remains same as carrier
reduces
increases
none of the above
The bandwidth of AM wave is ....... times signal frequency
0
2
1
4
None of the above
The maximum peak to peak voltage of an AM wave is 16 mV while the minimum peak to peak voltage is 8 mV. Find the percent modulation
33.33%
55%
60%
66%
An AM transmitter supplies 10 kW to the antenna when unmodulated. Determine the total power radiated by the transmitter when modulated to 30%
11%
10.45%
9.5%
12.45%
The r.m.s antenna current of an AM transmitter increases by 15 % over the unmodulated value when sinusoidal modulation is applied. What is the modulation index
0.7
0.5
0.8
1
The r.m.s value of carrier voltage is 100 V. After amplitude modulation by an audio signal, r.m.s value becomes 110.Calculate the modulation index
64.8%
68.4%
66.45%
60%
A certain AM transmitter radiates 8kW with carrier unmodulated and 9kW when the carrier is modulated. Find the percentage modulation
25%
60%
50%
0.5%
By suppressing carrier component from AM wave, we have
SSB
VSB
DSB-SC
DSB-FC
The ring modulator is used for which type a modulation ___
AM
SSB
DSB-SC
VSB
The bandwidth of VSB is ___
fm-fv
fm+fv
fm ±fv
none
For Television signal broad casting the following modulation is useful
SSB
DSB-SC
VSB
AM
The bandwidth of SSB is ___
ωm
2ωm
ωm/2
ωm/4
SSB can be used to transmit
two side bands
one side band
one side band and vestigial side band
Vestigial side band
Vestigial side band signals are detected by
Filters
Synchronous detection
Balanced modulator
None of the above
Phase shift method is
Includes two balanced modulators
Two phase shifting networks
Avoids the use of filters
All of the above
Phase shift method is
Includes two balanced modulators
Two phase shifting networks
Avoids the use of filters
All of the above
Limitations of Frequency discrimination method are:
Cannot be used for video signals
Designing of band pass filter is difficult
Both -option1 and option2
None of the above
The most commonly used filters in SSB generation are
mechanical
RC
LC
low-pass
What is quantization process
Rounding
truncation
Both
none of the above
Aperture effect occurs in PAM which can be avoided by
diversity
equalizer
modulator
Filtering
Aliasing occurs due to
Fs < 2Fm
Fs= 2Fm
Fs> Fm
Fs>= Fm
Nyquist sampling Criteria
Fs> 2Fm
Fs>= 2 Fm
Fs< Fm
Fs>=Fm
Types of Sampling not includes
Impulse sampling
Natural Sampling
Pulse sampling
Flat top Sampling
The sequence of operations in which PCM is done is
Quantization , encoding , Sampling
encoding ,Quantization , Sampling
Sampling, encoding ,Quantization ,
Sampling, Quantization , encoding
In PCM encoding, quantization level varies as a function of ________
Frequency
Amplitude
Square of frequency
Square of amplitude
One of the disadvantages of PCM is
large bandwidth
Very high noise
cannot be decoded
All the above
The error probability of a PCM is
Calculated using noise and inter symbol interference
Gaussian noise + error component due to inter symbol interference
Calculated using power spectral density
All of the above
Quantization noise can be reduced by ________ the number of levels
Decreasing
increasing
doubling
reduced to half
In uniform quantization process
The step size remains same
Step size varies according to the values of the input signal
The quantizer has linear characteristics
Both a and c are correct
Source coding reduces
Redundancy
Average bit rate
Redundancy & Average bit rate
None of the mentioned
The modulation techniques used to convert analog signal into digital signal are
a.Pulse code modulation
b.Delta modulation
c.Amplitude modulation
Both a and b
A signal is measured at two different points. The power is P1 at point first point, and power is P2 at second point. The dB is zero means
P2 is zero
P2 equal to P1
P2 larger than P1
P2 smaller than P1
What is Manchester encoding?
Digitisation of Oasis tracks
A system of representing digital information by transitions
Coding where 1 = on, 0 = off
A filter pipeline
Eye pattern
Is used to study ISI
May be seen on CRO
Resembles the shape of human eye
All of the above
The time interval over which the received signal may be sampled without error may be explained by
Width of eye opening of eye pattern
Rate of closure of eye of eye pattern
Height of the eye opening of eye pattern
All of the above
The criterion used for pulse shaping to avoid ISI is
Nyquist criterion
Quantization
Sample and hold
PLL
The Nyquist theorem
Relates the conditions in time domain and frequency domain
Helps in quantization
Limits the bandwidth requirement
Both a) and c)
Equalization in digital communication
Reduces inter symbol interference
Removes distortion caused due to channel
Is done using linear filters
All of the above
Zero forced equalizers are used for
Reducing ISI to zero
Sampling
Quantization
None of the above
The transmission bandwidth of the raised cosine spectrum is given by
Bt = 2w(1 + α)
Bt = w(1 + α)
Bt = 2w(1 + 2α)
Bt = 2w(2 + α)
A pulse shaping filter should satisfy two requirements. They are
Should be realizable
Should have proper roll off factor
Should be realizable & have proper roll off factor
None of the mentioned
Equalization process includes
Maximum likelihood sequence estimation
Equalization with filters
Maximum likelihood sequence estimation & Equalization with filters
None of the mentioned
Transversal equalizers are ________ and decision feedback equalizers are ______
Feed forward, feed back
Feed back, feed forward
Feed forward, feed forward
Feedback, feedback
For M equally likely messages, the average amount of information H is
H = log10M
H = log2M
H = log10M2
H = 2log10M
The channel capacity is
The maximum information transmitted by one symbol over the channel
Information contained in a signal
The amplitude of the modulated signal
All of the above
According to Shannon Hartley theorem,
The channel capacity becomes infinite with infinite bandwidth
The channel capacity does not become infinite with infinite bandwidth
Has a tradeoff between bandwidth and Signal to noise ratio
The channel capacity does not become infinite with infinite bandwidth and has a tradeoff between bandwidth and Signal to noise ratio
The channel capacity according to Shannon's equation is
Maximum error free communication
Defined for optimum system
Information transmitted
All of the above
The technique that may be used to increase average information per bit is
Shannon-Fano algorithm
ASK
FSK
Digital modulation techniques
Code rate r, k information bits and n as total bits, is defined as
r = k/n
k = n/r
r = k * n
n = r * k
Information rate is defined as
Information per unit time
Average number of bits of information per second
rH
All of the above
The mutual information
Is symmetric
Always non negative
Is symmetric & Always non negative
None of the above
Entropy is
Average information per message
Information in a signal
Amplitude of signal
All of the above
The memory less source refers to
No previous information
No message storage
Emitted message is independent of previous message
None of the above
The expected information contained in a message is called
Entropy
Efficiency
Coded signal
None of the above
In discrete memoryless source, the current letter produced by a source is statistically independent of _____
Past output
Future output
Past output & Future output
None of the above
Huffman coding technique is adopted for constructing the source code with ________ redundancy.
Maximum
Constant
Minimum
Unpredictable
Which type of channel does not represent any correlation between input and output symbols?
Noiseless Channel
Lossless Channel
Useless Channel
Deterministic Channel
In digital communication system, smaller the code rate, _________are the redundant bits.
less
more
equal
unpredictable
Which among the following is/are the essential condition/s for a good error control coding technique?
Faster coding & decoding methods
Better error correcting capability
Maximum transfer of information in bits/sec
All of the above
Select the source coding techniques.
prefix coding
Shannon-fano coding
Huffman coding
All of the mentioned.
_________ is a multiple-access method in which the available bandwidth of a link is shared in time, frequency, or through code, between different stations.
Controlled access
Channelization
Random access
None of these
In _______, the stations share the bandwidth of the channel in time.
None of these
TDMA
FDMA
CDMA
In ________, the available bandwidth is divided into frequency bands.
None of these
TDMA
FDMA
CDMA
TDMA allows the user to have
Use of same frequency channel for same time slot
Use of same frequency channel for different time slot
Use of same time slot for different frequency channel
Use of different time slot for different frequency channels
TDMA is a multiple access technique that has
Different users in different time slots
Each user is assigned unique frequency slots
Each user is assigned a unique code sequence
Each signal is modulated with frequency modulation technique
GSM is an example of
TDMA cellular systems
FDMA cellular systems
CDMA cellular systems
SDMA cellular systems
Preamble contains ________
Address
Data
Guard bits
Trail bits
__________ are utilized to allow synchronization of the receivers between different slots and frames.
Preamble
Data
Guard bits
Trail bits
Because of _______ transmissions in TDMA, the handoff process in __________
Continuous, complex
Continuous, simple
Discontinuous, complex
Discontinuous, simple
_________ synchronization overhead is required in TDMA due to _______ transmission.
High, burst
High, continuous
Low, burst
No, burst
Because of _______ transmissions in TDMA, the handoff process in __________
Continuous, complex
Continuous, simple
Discontinuous, complex
Discontinuous, simple
A TDMA system uses 25 MHz for the forward link, which is broken into radio channels of 200 kHz. If 8 speech channels are supported on a single radio channel, how many simultaneous users can be accommodated?
25
200
1600
1000
In _______, the stations share the bandwidth of the channel in time.
None of these
TDMA
FDMA
CDMA
In ________, the available bandwidth is divided into frequency bands.
None of these
TDMA
FDMA
CDMA
In ______, each station is allocated a band to send its data. In other words, each band is reserved for a specific station, and it belongs to the station all the time.
CDMA
None of these
TDMA
FDMA
FDM consists of
upstream frequency channels
downstream frequency channels
all of above
