Mid-Semester Examination - September 2017
Department of Electronics Engineering
Digital Communication (EL 342)
Maximum Marks: 25 Duration: 1 Hour
1 a Determine whether there exists a binary source code with codeword lengths: 1, 2,
2, 3 that satisfy the prefix condition. 3
b Find Lempel-Ziv code for the following binary sequence
00011010111110010100000001011111111100000001 5
2 a Keeping n fixed of an (n, k) code if k is increased, what will happen to dmin? 2
b What is the dmin of a (63, 57) Hamming code defined over GF(2)? 2
c What is a cyclic code? Outline the steps of generating a systematic cyclic code. 5
OR
cʹ Four codewords of a linear block code, C, are as follows-
1101000, 0110100, 0011010, 0001101
(i) Show that these 7-tuple vectors are linearly independent.
(ii) Find the remaining codewords of the code C.
(iii) Determine a generator matrix G for the code.
(iv) How many errors this code can correct?
3 Messages m1, m2 and m3 are to be sent over a channel using following signals:
1 0 t T /2
1 0 t T
s1 (t ) , s 2 (t ) s3 (t ) 1 T / 2 t T
0 otherwise 0 otherwise
a Find the appropriate basis for the signal space. 5
b Draw the signal constellation diagram for this problem. 2
c Draw the decision boundaries. 1