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DIGITAL COMMUNICATION VIVA 
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS 
By Ishan Sharma 
A quick revision of concepts
• 1.Define Modulation.? 
• Ans . Modulation is the addition of information (or the signal) to an electronic 
or optical signal carrier. Modulation can be applied to direct current (mainly by 
turning it on and off), to alternating current, and to optical signals. 
• 
• 2.Need for modulation? 
• Ans 1) TO REDUCE THE ANTENNA HEIGHT 
2) TO MULTIPLEX THE MORE NUMBER OF SIGNALS 
3) TO REDUCE THE NOISE & DISTORTIONS 
4) TO NARROW BANDING THE SIGNAL 
5) TO REDUCE EQUIPMENT COMPLEXITY 
• 
• 3.Define AM? 
• Ans Modulation in which the amplitude of a carrier wave is varied in 
accordance with some characteristic of the modulating signal.
4.Merits and demerits of AM.? 
Ans 
advantages> 
1. It is simple to implement 
2. It can be demodulated using a circuit consisting of very few components 
3. AM receivers are very cheap as no specialised components are needed. 
Disadvantages> 
1. An amplitude modulation signal is not efficient in terms of its power usage 
2. It is not efficient in terms of its use of bandwidth, requiring a bandwidth equal to twice that of 
the highest audio frequency 
3. An amplitude modulation signal is prone to high levels of noise because most noise is 
amplitude based and obviously AM detectors are sensitive to it. 
5.Applications of AM? 
• Ans Broadcast transmissions, Air band radio ,Single sideband, Quadrature amplitude modulation.
6.Define FM? 
Ans frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying 
the instantaneous frequency of the wave 
7.Merits and demerits of FM? 
Ans 
Advantages 
• Amplitude of FM wave is independent of depth of modulation (In AM, it is dependent on depth of 
modulation). 
• In FM, Transmitted power remains same. 
• FM is immune to noise than AM (SNR is high). 
• Noise is lesser for increased frequency deviation. 
• Adjacent channel interference is less in FM than AM (as there are guard bands between FM stations). 
• FM operates at upper VHF and UHF. 
Disadvantages 
• Wider channel -> 7 to 15 times larger than AM. 
• FM transmitter and receiver equipment are complex and expensive. 
• Line of sight -> area of reception is smaller than AM.
8..Applications of FM? 
Ans 1. Magnetic tape storage 
2. FM synthesis 
3. An FM signal can also be used to carry a stereo signal. 
9.Define pulse modulation? 
Ans. A type of modulation in which pulses are varied in some respect, such as width or amplitude 
10. PAM.,PWM,PPM? 
Ans pulse amplitude modulation. Analoge modulation technique. 
pulse width modulation. Analoge modulation technique. 
pulse position modulation. Analoge modulation technique. 
11.Differentiate between phase and frequency modulation? 
Ans. For FM the frequency deviation(maximum instantaneous difference between an FM modulated frequency and 
the nominal carrier frequency. ) is independent of frequency and the phase deviation (In phase modulation, the 
maximum difference between the instantaneous phase angle of the modulated wave and the phase angle of the 
unmodulated carrier) decreases with increasing frequency. 
For PM the phase deviation is independent of frequency and the frequency deviation increases with increasing 
frequency. 
> Pm Used in WiFi, GSM and satellite television
12. Define pulse code modulation (PCM).? 
Ans. digital s/g modulation technique. 
13..Define delta modulation.? 
Ans Scheme in which difference of s/g d(t) is encoded into single bit. 
14. quantization? 
in mathematics and digital signal processing, is the process of mapping a large set of input values to a (countable) smaller 
set – such asrounding values to some unit of precision. 
15. What is slope overload error? 
Ans excessive disparity b/w signal and step is described as slope overload error. 
16. What is granular error? 
Granular noise occurs when the original analog signal has a relatively constant amplitude and the reconstructed signal has 
variations that were not present in the original information signal. 
17. 17.Define adaptive delta modulation.? 
Ans. modification of D.M. is ADM in which step size changes according to increasing probability of slope overload error. 
18.Distinguish between DM and ADM.? 
Ans DM : slope overload error but in ADM: Quantization error
19.Define ASK, PSK and FSK.? 
Ans All are digital modulation schemes. 
ASK refers to a type of amplitude modulation that assigns bit values to discrete amplitude levels 
FSK refers to a type of frequency modulation that assigns bit values to discrete frequency levels. 
PSK in a digital transmission refers to a type of angle modulation in which the phase of the carrier is 
discretely varied—either in relation to a reference phase or to the phase of the immediately preceding 
signal element—to represent data being transmitted 
20.Differentiate ASK and FSK.? 
ANS. 
1. Frequency modulation scheme other is amplitude … 
2. Fsk less susceptible to errors while ask is more.. 
3. Fsk spectrum is 2 x Ask spectrum. 
21.What is meant by PLL? 
Ans A phase-locked loop (PLL) is an electronic circuit with a voltage- or current-driven oscillator that is 
constantly adjusted to match in phase (and thus lock on) the frequency of an input signal 
22.Applications of PLL.? 
Ans 1. Frequency Divider and Multiplier. 
2. PLL Amplifier for Angle Modulated Signals. 
3. Frequency Synthesis and Angle Modulation by PLL.
23.Define pre-emphasis & de-emphasis? 
Ans 
Pre-emphasis: 
Pre-emphasis refers to boosting the relative amplitudes of the modulating voltage for higher audio frequencies from 2 to 
approximately 15 KHz. 
De-emphasis: 
De-emphasis means attenuating those frequencies by the amount by which they are boosted. 
However pre-emphasis is done at the transmitter and the de-emphasis is done in the receiver. 
24.Why is ASK called as ON-OFF keying? 
Ans In its simplest form, the presence of a carrier for a specific duration represents a binary one, while its absence for the 
same duration represents a binary zero. 
25.What are the advantages of digital transmission? 
Ans Produces fewer errors 
Permits higher maximum transmission rates 
More efficient 
More secure 
Simpler to integrate voice, video and data
26.What is meant by frequency synthesizer? 
Ans A frequency synthesizer is an electronic system for generating any of a range 
of frequencies from a single fixed timebase or oscillator. 
27.Applications of frequency synthesizer.? 
Ans . They are found in many modern devices, including radio receivers, mobile telephones, 
radiotelephones, walkie-talkies, CB radios, satellite receivers, GPS systems, etc. 
28.What is meant by line coding? 
Ans Output of the multiplexer (TDM) is coded into electrical pulses or waveforms 
for the purpose of transmission over the channel 
29.Define polar encoding.? 
Ans . The signal does not return to zero, it is either a +ve voltage or a -ve voltage. Polar line 
encoding is also called None Return To Zero (NRZ). 
30.Define bipolar encoding.? 
Ans bipolar encoding is a type of line code, where two nonzero values are used, so that the 
three values are +,-, and zero.example Alternate Mark Inversion (AMI)
31.Define unipolar encoding.? 
Ans Unipolar encoding is a line code. A positive voltage represents a binary 1, and zero volts indicates a 
binary 0. 
32.Define Manchester encoding.? 
Ans. Each bit is transmitted in a fixed time (the "period"). 
A 0 is expressed by a low-to-high transition, a 1 by high-to-low transition 
33. Differentiate between RZ,NRZ,NRZI,AMI codes? 
ANS
Digital communication viva questions
36.Explain ARQ,FEC.HARQ? 
Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ), also known as Automatic Repeat Query, is an error-control 
method for data transmission that uses acknowledgements and timeouts to achieve reliable 
data transmission over an unreliable service. 
forward error correction (FEC) or channel coding[1] is a technique used for controlling errors in data 
transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels. The central idea is the sender 
encodes his message in a redundant way by using an error-correcting code (ECC). 
Hybrid automatic repeat request (hybrid ARQ or HARQ) is a combination of high-rate forward error-correcting 
coding and ARQ error-control. 
37.What is sampling? 
Ans sampling is the reduction of a continuous signal to a discrete signal. 
38.State sampling theorem.? 
Ans . The Sampling Theorem shows that a continuous-time band-limited signal may be represented 
perfectly by its samples at uniform intervals of T seconds if T /is small enough. 
39.What is aliasing? 
Ans .Aliasing is an effect that causes different signals to become indistinguishable when sampled.
• 40.How to avoid aliasing effect.? 
• 1. The easiest way to prevent aliasing is the application of a steep sloped low-pass filter with half the sampling frequency 
before the conversion. 
• 2. Aliasing can be avoided by keeping Fs>2Fmax 
• 41.Define Nyquist Criteria. 
• Ans states that a signal must be sampled at a rate greater than twice the highest 
• frequency component of interest in the signal to capture the highest frequency component of interest; 
• otherwise the high otherwise, the high-frequency content will alias at a frequency inside the spectrum of interest 
• 42.Purpose of sampling? 
• Ans. Sampling is done first so that each sample can be represented by n digits corressponding to 2n levels of quantization. 
• 43. what is DTV? 
• Ans. is the transmission of audio and video by digitally processed and multiplexed signal 
• 44. How many digital television terrestrial broadcasting standards (DTTB) are used? 
• Ans There are four different widely used digital television terrestrial broadcasting standards (DTTB): 
• Terrestrial Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (ISDB-T) 
• Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T) 
• Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC) 
• Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcasting (DTMB)
45. Difference in HDTV and SDTV? 
Ans. HDTV: 720p or 1080i(interlaced video) + 16:9 aspect ratio.( ratio of width to height) 
SDTV: 4:3 aspect-ratio broadcasts, the 640 × 480 format is used in NTSC countries, while 720 × 576 is used 
in PAL countries 
46. What is aperture effect? 
Ans In flat top sampling,due to the lengthening of the sample, amplitude distortion as well as adelay of T/2 was 
introduced.This distortion is referred to as Aperture effect. 
47.How aperture effect can be corrected? 
Ans . Aperture effect can be corrected by connecting an equalizer in cascade with the low pass reconstruction filter. 
48. what is pulse stuffing? 
Ans. Process of adjusting bit rates to make them equal involves adding bits to the slower bit stream in an operation. 
49.Explain nysquist criterion and interval? 
Ans. the Nyquist criterion is often stated as fs > 2B. And 2B is called the Nyquist rate for function with bandwidth B. 
Nyquist interval: The maximum time interval between equally spaced samples of a signal that will enable the 
signal waveform to be completely determined. 
Note 1: The Nyquist interval is equal to the reciprocal of twice the highest frequency component of the sampled 
signal.
50 A law and μ law? 
Ans. An A-law algorithm is a standard companding algorithm, used in European 8-bit PCM digital 
communications systems to optimize, i.e., modify, the dynamic range of an analog signal for 
digitizing. It is similar to the μ-law algorithm used in North America and Japan.
51.Make block diagram of ASK modulator and demodulator? 
52.Make block diagram of PSK modulator and demodulator?
53.Make block diagram of FSK modulator and demodulator? 
54. non-return-to-zero mark (NRZ-M) 
A binary encoding scheme in which a signal parameter, such as electric current or voltage, undergoes a change in a 
significant condition or level every time that a "one" occurs, but when a "zero" occurs, it remains the same, i.e., 
no transition occurs. 
> Can be used for ask generation.
55. why pm is better than fm ? 
Ans . The reason PM is better is because in PM and FM there can be non-zero energy 
produced at 0 Hz, which in FM will produce a shift in pitch if the FM wave is used 
again as a modulator, however in PM the DC component will only produce a phase 
shift 
56. Difference in digital and discrete signals? 
Ans. digital : Representation of a sequence of discrete values 
Discrete : after sampling of continuous signal the individual or distinct packets of 
signals we obtain is called discrete signal. 
57. why we need quantization? 
ANS. After sampling the discrete signal has to be rounded to its nearer digital value. 
hence we go for quantization. 
58.Sample and Hold circuit? 
Ans.
END OF PRESENTATION

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Digital communication viva questions

  • 1. DIGITAL COMMUNICATION VIVA QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS By Ishan Sharma A quick revision of concepts
  • 2. • 1.Define Modulation.? • Ans . Modulation is the addition of information (or the signal) to an electronic or optical signal carrier. Modulation can be applied to direct current (mainly by turning it on and off), to alternating current, and to optical signals. • • 2.Need for modulation? • Ans 1) TO REDUCE THE ANTENNA HEIGHT 2) TO MULTIPLEX THE MORE NUMBER OF SIGNALS 3) TO REDUCE THE NOISE & DISTORTIONS 4) TO NARROW BANDING THE SIGNAL 5) TO REDUCE EQUIPMENT COMPLEXITY • • 3.Define AM? • Ans Modulation in which the amplitude of a carrier wave is varied in accordance with some characteristic of the modulating signal.
  • 3. 4.Merits and demerits of AM.? Ans advantages> 1. It is simple to implement 2. It can be demodulated using a circuit consisting of very few components 3. AM receivers are very cheap as no specialised components are needed. Disadvantages> 1. An amplitude modulation signal is not efficient in terms of its power usage 2. It is not efficient in terms of its use of bandwidth, requiring a bandwidth equal to twice that of the highest audio frequency 3. An amplitude modulation signal is prone to high levels of noise because most noise is amplitude based and obviously AM detectors are sensitive to it. 5.Applications of AM? • Ans Broadcast transmissions, Air band radio ,Single sideband, Quadrature amplitude modulation.
  • 4. 6.Define FM? Ans frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave 7.Merits and demerits of FM? Ans Advantages • Amplitude of FM wave is independent of depth of modulation (In AM, it is dependent on depth of modulation). • In FM, Transmitted power remains same. • FM is immune to noise than AM (SNR is high). • Noise is lesser for increased frequency deviation. • Adjacent channel interference is less in FM than AM (as there are guard bands between FM stations). • FM operates at upper VHF and UHF. Disadvantages • Wider channel -> 7 to 15 times larger than AM. • FM transmitter and receiver equipment are complex and expensive. • Line of sight -> area of reception is smaller than AM.
  • 5. 8..Applications of FM? Ans 1. Magnetic tape storage 2. FM synthesis 3. An FM signal can also be used to carry a stereo signal. 9.Define pulse modulation? Ans. A type of modulation in which pulses are varied in some respect, such as width or amplitude 10. PAM.,PWM,PPM? Ans pulse amplitude modulation. Analoge modulation technique. pulse width modulation. Analoge modulation technique. pulse position modulation. Analoge modulation technique. 11.Differentiate between phase and frequency modulation? Ans. For FM the frequency deviation(maximum instantaneous difference between an FM modulated frequency and the nominal carrier frequency. ) is independent of frequency and the phase deviation (In phase modulation, the maximum difference between the instantaneous phase angle of the modulated wave and the phase angle of the unmodulated carrier) decreases with increasing frequency. For PM the phase deviation is independent of frequency and the frequency deviation increases with increasing frequency. > Pm Used in WiFi, GSM and satellite television
  • 6. 12. Define pulse code modulation (PCM).? Ans. digital s/g modulation technique. 13..Define delta modulation.? Ans Scheme in which difference of s/g d(t) is encoded into single bit. 14. quantization? in mathematics and digital signal processing, is the process of mapping a large set of input values to a (countable) smaller set – such asrounding values to some unit of precision. 15. What is slope overload error? Ans excessive disparity b/w signal and step is described as slope overload error. 16. What is granular error? Granular noise occurs when the original analog signal has a relatively constant amplitude and the reconstructed signal has variations that were not present in the original information signal. 17. 17.Define adaptive delta modulation.? Ans. modification of D.M. is ADM in which step size changes according to increasing probability of slope overload error. 18.Distinguish between DM and ADM.? Ans DM : slope overload error but in ADM: Quantization error
  • 7. 19.Define ASK, PSK and FSK.? Ans All are digital modulation schemes. ASK refers to a type of amplitude modulation that assigns bit values to discrete amplitude levels FSK refers to a type of frequency modulation that assigns bit values to discrete frequency levels. PSK in a digital transmission refers to a type of angle modulation in which the phase of the carrier is discretely varied—either in relation to a reference phase or to the phase of the immediately preceding signal element—to represent data being transmitted 20.Differentiate ASK and FSK.? ANS. 1. Frequency modulation scheme other is amplitude … 2. Fsk less susceptible to errors while ask is more.. 3. Fsk spectrum is 2 x Ask spectrum. 21.What is meant by PLL? Ans A phase-locked loop (PLL) is an electronic circuit with a voltage- or current-driven oscillator that is constantly adjusted to match in phase (and thus lock on) the frequency of an input signal 22.Applications of PLL.? Ans 1. Frequency Divider and Multiplier. 2. PLL Amplifier for Angle Modulated Signals. 3. Frequency Synthesis and Angle Modulation by PLL.
  • 8. 23.Define pre-emphasis & de-emphasis? Ans Pre-emphasis: Pre-emphasis refers to boosting the relative amplitudes of the modulating voltage for higher audio frequencies from 2 to approximately 15 KHz. De-emphasis: De-emphasis means attenuating those frequencies by the amount by which they are boosted. However pre-emphasis is done at the transmitter and the de-emphasis is done in the receiver. 24.Why is ASK called as ON-OFF keying? Ans In its simplest form, the presence of a carrier for a specific duration represents a binary one, while its absence for the same duration represents a binary zero. 25.What are the advantages of digital transmission? Ans Produces fewer errors Permits higher maximum transmission rates More efficient More secure Simpler to integrate voice, video and data
  • 9. 26.What is meant by frequency synthesizer? Ans A frequency synthesizer is an electronic system for generating any of a range of frequencies from a single fixed timebase or oscillator. 27.Applications of frequency synthesizer.? Ans . They are found in many modern devices, including radio receivers, mobile telephones, radiotelephones, walkie-talkies, CB radios, satellite receivers, GPS systems, etc. 28.What is meant by line coding? Ans Output of the multiplexer (TDM) is coded into electrical pulses or waveforms for the purpose of transmission over the channel 29.Define polar encoding.? Ans . The signal does not return to zero, it is either a +ve voltage or a -ve voltage. Polar line encoding is also called None Return To Zero (NRZ). 30.Define bipolar encoding.? Ans bipolar encoding is a type of line code, where two nonzero values are used, so that the three values are +,-, and zero.example Alternate Mark Inversion (AMI)
  • 10. 31.Define unipolar encoding.? Ans Unipolar encoding is a line code. A positive voltage represents a binary 1, and zero volts indicates a binary 0. 32.Define Manchester encoding.? Ans. Each bit is transmitted in a fixed time (the "period"). A 0 is expressed by a low-to-high transition, a 1 by high-to-low transition 33. Differentiate between RZ,NRZ,NRZI,AMI codes? ANS
  • 12. 36.Explain ARQ,FEC.HARQ? Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ), also known as Automatic Repeat Query, is an error-control method for data transmission that uses acknowledgements and timeouts to achieve reliable data transmission over an unreliable service. forward error correction (FEC) or channel coding[1] is a technique used for controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels. The central idea is the sender encodes his message in a redundant way by using an error-correcting code (ECC). Hybrid automatic repeat request (hybrid ARQ or HARQ) is a combination of high-rate forward error-correcting coding and ARQ error-control. 37.What is sampling? Ans sampling is the reduction of a continuous signal to a discrete signal. 38.State sampling theorem.? Ans . The Sampling Theorem shows that a continuous-time band-limited signal may be represented perfectly by its samples at uniform intervals of T seconds if T /is small enough. 39.What is aliasing? Ans .Aliasing is an effect that causes different signals to become indistinguishable when sampled.
  • 13. • 40.How to avoid aliasing effect.? • 1. The easiest way to prevent aliasing is the application of a steep sloped low-pass filter with half the sampling frequency before the conversion. • 2. Aliasing can be avoided by keeping Fs>2Fmax • 41.Define Nyquist Criteria. • Ans states that a signal must be sampled at a rate greater than twice the highest • frequency component of interest in the signal to capture the highest frequency component of interest; • otherwise the high otherwise, the high-frequency content will alias at a frequency inside the spectrum of interest • 42.Purpose of sampling? • Ans. Sampling is done first so that each sample can be represented by n digits corressponding to 2n levels of quantization. • 43. what is DTV? • Ans. is the transmission of audio and video by digitally processed and multiplexed signal • 44. How many digital television terrestrial broadcasting standards (DTTB) are used? • Ans There are four different widely used digital television terrestrial broadcasting standards (DTTB): • Terrestrial Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (ISDB-T) • Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T) • Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC) • Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcasting (DTMB)
  • 14. 45. Difference in HDTV and SDTV? Ans. HDTV: 720p or 1080i(interlaced video) + 16:9 aspect ratio.( ratio of width to height) SDTV: 4:3 aspect-ratio broadcasts, the 640 × 480 format is used in NTSC countries, while 720 × 576 is used in PAL countries 46. What is aperture effect? Ans In flat top sampling,due to the lengthening of the sample, amplitude distortion as well as adelay of T/2 was introduced.This distortion is referred to as Aperture effect. 47.How aperture effect can be corrected? Ans . Aperture effect can be corrected by connecting an equalizer in cascade with the low pass reconstruction filter. 48. what is pulse stuffing? Ans. Process of adjusting bit rates to make them equal involves adding bits to the slower bit stream in an operation. 49.Explain nysquist criterion and interval? Ans. the Nyquist criterion is often stated as fs > 2B. And 2B is called the Nyquist rate for function with bandwidth B. Nyquist interval: The maximum time interval between equally spaced samples of a signal that will enable the signal waveform to be completely determined. Note 1: The Nyquist interval is equal to the reciprocal of twice the highest frequency component of the sampled signal.
  • 15. 50 A law and μ law? Ans. An A-law algorithm is a standard companding algorithm, used in European 8-bit PCM digital communications systems to optimize, i.e., modify, the dynamic range of an analog signal for digitizing. It is similar to the μ-law algorithm used in North America and Japan.
  • 16. 51.Make block diagram of ASK modulator and demodulator? 52.Make block diagram of PSK modulator and demodulator?
  • 17. 53.Make block diagram of FSK modulator and demodulator? 54. non-return-to-zero mark (NRZ-M) A binary encoding scheme in which a signal parameter, such as electric current or voltage, undergoes a change in a significant condition or level every time that a "one" occurs, but when a "zero" occurs, it remains the same, i.e., no transition occurs. > Can be used for ask generation.
  • 18. 55. why pm is better than fm ? Ans . The reason PM is better is because in PM and FM there can be non-zero energy produced at 0 Hz, which in FM will produce a shift in pitch if the FM wave is used again as a modulator, however in PM the DC component will only produce a phase shift 56. Difference in digital and discrete signals? Ans. digital : Representation of a sequence of discrete values Discrete : after sampling of continuous signal the individual or distinct packets of signals we obtain is called discrete signal. 57. why we need quantization? ANS. After sampling the discrete signal has to be rounded to its nearer digital value. hence we go for quantization. 58.Sample and Hold circuit? Ans.