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ELEC4040 Digital Communication System Design Week 2
1 You want to transmit the word “HOW” using an 8-system.
• Encode the word "HOW" into a sequence of bits, using 7-bit ASCII coding, followed by an
eight bit for error detection, per character. The 8 bits is chosen so that the number of ones
in the 8 bits is an even number. How many total bits are there in the message?
• Partition the bit stream into k=3bits segments. Represent each of the 3-bit as an octal
number (symbol). How many octal symbols are there in the message?
• if the system were designed with 16-ary modulation, how many symbols would be used
to represent the word "HOW"?
• if the system were designed with 256-ary modulation, how many symbols would be used
to represent the word "HOW"?
2 We want to transmit 800 characters where each character is rep-
resented by its 7-bits ASCII code-word, followed by an eighth bit
for error detection, per character, as in Problem 2.1. A multilevel
PAM waveform with M=16 levels is used
• What is the effective transmitted bit rate?
• What is the symbol rate?
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3 We wish to transmit a 100-character alphanumeric message in
2 s, using 7-bit ASCII coding, followed by an eighth bit for er-
ror detection, per character, as in Problem 2.1. multilevel PAM
waveform with M = 32 levels is used.
• Calculate the effective transmitted bit rate and the symbol rate.
• Repeat part (a) for 16-level PAM, eight-level PAM, four-level PAM, and PCM (binary) wave-
forms.
4 An analog signal is sampled at its Nyquist rate 1/T, and quantized
using L quantization levels. The derived digital signal is then
transmitted on some channel
• Show that the time duration, T, of one bit of the transmitted binary encoded signal must
satisfy T ⩽ Ts /log2 L
• When is the equality sign valid ?
5 Determine the number of quantization levels that are implied if
the number of the bits per sample in a given PCM code is (a) 5;
(b) 8; (c) x.
6 Determine the minimum sampling rate necessary to sample and
perfectly reconstruct the signal x(t) = sin(6280t)/(6280t).
7 Consider an audio signal with spectral components limited to
the frequency band 300 to 330 Hz. Assume that a sampling rate
of 8000 samples/s will be used to generate a PCM signal. As-
sume that the ratio of peak signal power to average quantization
noise power at the output needs to be 30dB
• What is the minimum number of uniform quantization levels needed, and what is the min-
imum number of bits per sample dneeded
• Calculate the system bandwidth(as specified by the main spectral lobe of the signal) re-
quired for the detection of such a PCM signal.
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8 A waveform that is bandlimited to 50 kHz is sampled every 10 s.
Show graphically that these samples uniquely characterize that
these samples uniquely characterise the waveform (Use sinu-
soidal example for simplicity. A void sampling at points where
the waveform equals zero.)
9 if the samples are taken 30 us apart instead of 10 us, show graph-
ically that wave forms other than the original can be characterize
by the samples.
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