Digital Communication Tutorials
Digital Communication Tutorials
Important terms
𝜎2𝐵
Granular Noise 𝑁0 =
3 𝐹𝑠
𝐴𝑚 2
For sinusoidal message signal, Signal Power 𝑆0 =
2
𝑆0
SNR =
𝑁0
3 𝐿2
SNR or SQNR =
[ln(μ+1)]2
For PCM,
Quantization level 𝐿 = 2𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑛 = log 2 𝐿
Step size
SNR
Question 2: A television signal (video and audio) has a bandwidth of 4.5 MHz.
This signal is sampled, quantized, and binary coded to obtain a PCM signal.
(a) What is the sampling rate if the signal is to be sampled at a rate 20% above
the Nyquist rate.
(b) If the samples are quantized into 1024 levels, determine the number of binary
pulses required to encode each sample.
(c) Determine the binary pulse rate (bits per second) of the binary-coded signal,
and the minimum bandwidth required to transmit this signal.
(d) if Framing and synchronizing requires an additional 0.5% extra bits.
Determine the binary pulse rate (bits per second) of the binary-coded signal, and
the minimum bandwidth required to transmit this signal.
Question 3: A signal band-limited to 2 MHz is sampled at a rate 50% higher than
the Nyquist rate and quantized into 128 levels by using a μ-law quantizer with μ
= 127.
(a) Determine the signal-to-quantization-noise ratio.
(b) The SNR (the received signal quality) found in part (a) was unsatisfactory. It
must be increased at least by 15 dB. Would you be able to obtain the desired
SQNR without increasing the transmission bandwidth if it was found that a
sampling rate 5% above the Nyquist rate is adequate? If so, explain how. What is
the maximum SQNR that can be realized in this way?
Question 7: A compact disc (CD) records audio signal digitally by using PCM.
Assume the audio signal bandwidth to be 15 kHz.
(a) What is the Nyquist rate?
(b) If the Nyquist samples are quantized into L = 65536 levels and then binary
coded, determine the number of binary digits required to encode a sample.
(c) Determine the number of binary digits per second (bit/s) required to encode
the audio signal.
(d) For practical reasons, signals are sampled at a rate well above the Nyquist
rate. Practical CDs use 44,100 samples per second. If L = 65536, determine the
number of bits per second required to encode the signal.
[(b)16 binary digits, (c) 480000bits/s, (d) 705600 bits/s)
Question 8: Consider an analog input signal 𝑥(𝑡) = 0.1 ∗ sin(2𝜋 ∗ 104 𝑡)
For a DM system signal is sampled at a rate of 2 ∗ 104 Hz Find out whether
overload distortion occurs for the following step size
• 4mv
• 60mv