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AWGN

GATE Electronics & Communication · Digital Communication - QPSK, BER, AWGN · 2009-2026

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2026 Q44

A QPSK modulated signal from an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel is received with an Eb/No = 8.4 dB at the input of a coherent QPSK demodulator. A maximum-likelihood re...

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2025 PYQ

A source transmits symbol $S$ that takes values uniformly at random from the set $\{-2,0,2\}$. The receiver obtains $Y=S+N$, where $N$ is a zero-mean Gaussian random variable indep...

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2025 PYQ

Consider an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with bandwidth $W$ and noise power spectral density $\frac{N_o}{2}$. Let $P_{a v}$ denote the average transmit power constr...

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2024 Q45

A source transmits a symbol s, taken from {-4,0,4} with equal probability, over an additive white Gaussian noise channel. The received noisy symbol r is given by r = s + w, where t...

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2024 PYQ

A source transmits a symbol $s$, taken from $\\{-4, 0, 4\\}$ with equal probability, over an additive white Gaussian noise channel. The received noisy symbol $r$ is given by $r = s...

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2021 PYQ

Consider a polar non-return to Zero (NRZ) waveform, using +2 V and -2 V for representing binary ' 1 ' and ' 0 ' respectively, is transmitted in the presence of additive zero-mean w...

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2019 Q34

A single bit, equally likely to be 0 and 1, is to be sent across an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with power spectral density $N_0/2$. Binary signaling, with $0 \map...

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2016 PYQ

An analog pulse s(t) is transmitted over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. The received signal is r(t) = s(t) + n(t), where n(t) is additive white Gaussian noise wit...

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2015 PYQ

Consider a binary, digital communication system which uses pulses g (t) and − g (t)for transmitting bits over an AWGN channel. If the receiver uses a matched filter, which one of t...

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2014 PYQ

The capacity of band-limited additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel is given by $$C = \,W\,\,{\log _2}\left( {1 + {P \over {{\sigma ^2}\,W}}} \right)$$ bits per second (bps),...

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2014 PYQ

Coherent orthogonal binary FSK modulation is used to transmit two equiprobable symbol waveforms $${s_1}\,(t)\, = \,\alpha \,\,\cos \,\,\,2\,\pi {f_1}\,t\,and\,\,{s_{2\,}}(t)\,\, =...

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2012 PYQ

A BPSK scheme operating over an AWGN channel with noise power spectral density of N 0 2, uses equi-probable signals $$${s_1}\left( t \right) = \sqrt {{{2E} \over T}\,\sin \left( {{...

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2009 PYQ

A communication channel with AWGN operating at a signal to noise ratio SNR > > 1 and band width B has capacity $${{C_1}}$$ . If the SNR is doubled keeping B constant, the resulting...

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