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Official PYQ2008CommunicationsAnalog CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
Consider the amplitude modulated (AM) signal Accos⁡ωct+2cos⁡ωmtcos⁡ωctA_{c} \cos \omega_{c} t+2 \cos \omega_{m} t \cos \omega_{c} t. For demodulating the signal using envelope detector, the minimum value of AcA_{c} should be
Official PYQ2008CommunicationsAnalog CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
Consider the frequency modulated signal 10cos⁡[2π×105t+5sin⁡(2π×1500t)+7.5sin⁡(2π×1000t)]10 \cos \left[2 \pi \times 10^{5} t+5 \sin (2 \pi \times 1500 t)+7.5 \sin (2 \pi \times 1000 t)\right] with carrier frequency of 105 Hz10^{5} \mathrm{~Hz}. The modulation index is
Official PYQ2008CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
A speech signal, band limited to 4  kHz4 \; \mathrm{kHz} and peak voltage varying between +5V+5 \mathrm{V} and −5V-5 \mathrm{V}, is sampled at the Nyquist rate. Each sample is quantized and represented by 88 bits. If the bits 00 and 11 are transmitted using bipolar pulses, the minimum bandwidth required for distortion free transmission is
Official PYQ2008CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
A speech signal, band limited to 4  kHz4 \; \mathrm{kHz} and peak voltage varying between +5V+5 \mathrm{V} and −5V-5 \mathrm{V}, is sampled at the Nyquist rate. Each sample is quantized and represented by 88 bits. Assuming the signal to be uniformly distributed between its peak to peak value, the signal to noise ratio at the quantizer output is
Official PYQ2008CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
A speech signal, band limited to 4  kHz4 \; \mathrm{kHz} and peak voltage varying between +5V+5 \mathrm{V} and −5V-5 \mathrm{V}, is sampled at the Nyquist rate. Each sample is quantized and represented by 88 bits. The number of quantization levels required to reduce the quantization noise by a factor of 44 would be
Official PYQ2006CommunicationsRandom ProcessesMCQ · 1 mark
A zero- mean white Gaussian noise is passed through an ideal lowpass filter of ban width 10  kHz10 \; \mathrm{kHz}. The output is the uniformly sampled with sampling period ts=0.03  msect_{s}=0.03 \; \mathrm{msec}. The samples so obtained would be
Official PYQ2006CommunicationsInformation TheoryMCQ · 1 mark
A source generates three symbols with probabilities 0.25,0.25,0.500.25,0.25,0.50 at a rate of 30003000 symbols per second. Assuming independent generation of symbols, the most efficient source encoder would have average bit rate as
Official PYQ2006CommunicationsAnalog CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
The diagonal clipping in Amplitude Demodulation (using envelope detector) can be avoided if RC time-constant of the envelope detector satisfies the following condition, (here WW is message bandwidth and ωc\omega_{c} is carrier frequency both in rad/sec)
Official PYQ2006CommunicationsAnalog CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
A message signal with bandwidth 10  kHz10 \; \mathrm{kHz} is Lower-Side Band SSB modulated with carrier frequency fc1=106 Hzf_{c 1}=10^{6} \mathrm{~Hz}. The resulting signal is then passed through a Narrow-Band Frequency Modulator with carrier frequency fc2=109  Hzf_{c_{2}}=10^{9} \; \mathrm{Hz}. The bandwidth of the output would be
Official PYQ2006CommunicationsAnalog CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
Common Data for Questions 74, 75: Let g(t)=p(t)∗p(t)g(t)=p(t)^{*} p(t), where * denotes convolution and p(t)=u(t)−u(t−1)p(t)=u(t)-u(t-1) with u(t)u(t) being the unit step function An Amplitude Modulated signal is given as xAM(t)=100(p(t)+0.5g(t))cos⁡ωctx_{\mathrm{AM}}(t)=100(p(t)+0.5 g(t)) \cos \omega_{c} t in the interval 0≤t≤10 \leq t \leq 1. One set of possible values of the modulating signal and …
Official PYQ2006CommunicationsRandom ProcessesMCQ · 1 mark
Statement for Linked Answer Questions 78 and 79 The following two questions refer to wide sense stationary stochastic processes It is desired to generate a stochastic process (as voltage process) with power spectral density S(ω)=1616+ω2S(\omega)=\frac{16}{16+\omega^{2}} by driving a Linear-Time-Invariant system by zero mean white noise (as voltage process) with …
Official PYQ2006CommunicationsRandom ProcessesMCQ · 1 mark
Statement for Linked Answer Questions 78 and 79 The following two questions refer to wide sense stationary stochastic processes The parameters of the system obtained in Q.78\text{Q.78} would be
Official PYQ2006CommunicationsAnalog CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
Statement for Linked Answer Questions 80 and 81 Consider the following Amplitude Modulated (AM) signal, where fm<Bf_{m}<\mathrm{B} xAM(t)=10(1+0.5sin⁡2πfmt)cos⁡2πfctx_{\mathrm{AM}}(t)=10\left(1+0.5 \sin 2 \pi f_{m} t\right) \cos 2 \pi f_{c} t The average side-band power for the AM\text{AM} signal given above is
Official PYQ2006CommunicationsAnalog CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
Statement for Linked Answer Questions 80 and 81 Consider the following Amplitude Modulated (AM) signal, where fm<Bf_{m}<\mathrm{B} xAM(t)=10(1+0.5sin⁡2πfmt)cos⁡2πfctx_{\mathrm{AM}}(t)=10\left(1+0.5 \sin 2 \pi f_{m} t\right) \cos 2 \pi f_{c} t The AM\text{AM} signal gets added to a noise with Power Spectral Density Sn(f)S_{n}(f) given in the figure below. The ratio of average …
Official PYQ2005CommunicationsAnalog CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
Find the correct match between group 11 and group 2.2. Group I …
Official PYQ2005CommunicationsAnalog CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
Which of the following analog modulation scheme requires the minimum transmitted power and minimum channel bandwidth?
Official PYQ2005CommunicationsAnalog CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
A device with input x(t)x(t) and output y(t)y(t) is characterized by: y(t)=x2(t)y(t)=x^{2}(t). An FM signal with frequency deviation of 90  kHz90 \; \mathrm{kHz} and modulating signal bandwidth of 5  kHz5 \; \mathrm{kHz} is applied to this device. The bandwidth of the output signal is
Official PYQ2005CommunicationsRandom ProcessesMCQ · 1 mark
Noise with uniform power spectral density of N0\text{N}_{0} W/Hz\mathrm{W / Hz} is passed through a filter H(ω)=2\mathrm{H}(\omega)=2 exp (−jωtd)\left(-j \omega t_{d}\right) followed by an ideal low pass filter of bandwidth B Hz.\text{B Hz.} The output noise power in Watts is
Official PYQ2005CommunicationsAnalog CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
A carrier is phase modulated (PM) with frequency deviation of 10  kHz10 \; \mathrm{kHz} by a single tone frequency of 1  kHz1 \; \mathrm{kHz}. If the single tone frequency is increased to 2  kHz2 \; \mathrm{kHz}, assuming that phase deviation remains unchanged, the bandwidth of the PM signal is
Official PYQ2004CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
In a PCM\text{PCM} system, if the code word length is increased from 66 to 88 bits, the signal to quantization noise ratio improves by the factor