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GATE Electronics & Communication · Digital Communication - Modulation · 1993-2026

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2026 Q32

A wireless digital transmission scheme is using 16-QAM over an additive white Gaussian noise channel and a maximum-likelihood receiver. Consider the information bit rate from sourc...

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2026 Q46

Consider a real baseband signal x(t) = e^{-2t}, for t (in seconds) ≥ 0. If 99% of energy of x(t) lies within B Hz, then which of the following options is TRUE for the value of B?

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2026 Q55

Let the relevant bandwidth (B) of a digital communication system be 1 MHz and $kT = -174 \text{ dBm/Hz}$, where k is Boltzmann's constant and 'T' is equivalent noise temperature of...

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2025 Q15

Consider an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with bandwidth W and noise power spectral density $\frac{N_0}{2}$. Let $P_{av}$ denote the average transmit power constrain...

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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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2023 Q27

Let m(t) be a strictly band-limited signal with bandwidth B and energy E. Assuming ω₀ = 10B, the energy in the signal m(t) cos ω₀t is

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2023 Q45

Let a frequency modulated (FM) signal x(t) = A cos(ω_c t + k_f ∫_{-∞}^t m(λ)dλ), where m(t) is a message signal of bandwidth W. It is passed through a non-linear system with output...

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2023 Q50

Let x1(t) and x2(t) be two band-limited signals having bandwidth B = 4π × 10³ rad/s each. In the figure below, the Nyquist sampling frequency, in rad/s, required to sample y(t), is

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2023 PYQ

Let a frequency modulated (FM) signal $$x(t) = A\cos ({\omega _c}t + {k_f}\int_{ - \infty }^t {m(\lambda )d\lambda )} $$, where $$m(t)$$ is a message signal of bandwidth W. It is p...

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2021 PYQ

Consider a real-valued base-band signal $x(t)$. band limited to 10 kHz . The Nyquist rate for the signal $y(t)=x(t) \times \left(1+\frac{t}{2}\right)$ is

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2016 PYQ

A speech signal is sampled at 8 kHz and encoded into PCM format using 8 bits/sample. The PCM data is transmitted through a baseband channel via 4-level PAM. The minimum bandwidth (...

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2016 PYQ

Consider binary data transmission at a rate of 56 kbps using baseband binary pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) that is designed to have a raised-cosine spectrum. The transmission ba...

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2016 PYQ

An ideal band-pass channel 500Hz-2000 Hz is deployed for communication. A modem is designed to transmit bits at the rate of 4800 bits/s using 16-QAM. The roll-off factor of a pulse...

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2015 PYQ

Negative feedback in a closed-loop control system DOES NOT

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2015 PYQ

The transmitted signal in a GSM system is of 200 kHz bandwidth and 8 users share a common bandwidth using TDMA. If at a given time 12 users are talking in a cell, the total bandwid...

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2014 PYQ

An M - level PSK modulation scheme is used to transmit independent binary digits over a band-pass channel with bandwidth 100 kHz. The bit rate is 200 kbps and the system characteri...

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2014 PYQ

Consider two real valued signals, $$x\left( t \right)$$ band - limited to $$\,\left[ { - 500Hz,\,\,500Hz} \right]$$ and $$y\left( t \right)$$ band - limited to $$\,\left[ { - 1\,\,...

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2013 PYQ

The bit rate of a digital communication system is R kbits/s. The modulation used is 32-QAM. The minimum bandwidth required for ISI free transmission is

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2010 PYQ

For parallel RLC circuit, which one of the following statements is NOT correct?

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2010 PYQ

The Nyquist sampling rate for the signal $$s(t) = {{\sin \,(500\pi t)} \over {\pi \,t}} \times {{\sin \,(700\pi t)} \over {\pi \,t}}$$ is given by

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2008 PYQ

A speech signal, band limited to 4 kHz and peak voltage varying between + 5V and - 5V is sampled at the Nyquist rate. Each sample is quantized and represented by 8 bits. If the bit...

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2008 PYQ

Four messages band limited to W, W, 2 W and 3 W respectively are to be multiplexed using Time Division Multiplexing (TDM). The minimum bandwidth required for transmission of this T...

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2006 PYQ

The minimum sampling frequency (in samples /sec) required to reconstruct the following signal from its samples without distortion $$x(t) = 5{\left( {{{\sin \,\,2\,\pi \,1000\,t)} \...

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2006 PYQ

Consider two transfer functions $${G_1}\left( s \right) = {1 \over {{s^2} + as + b}}$$ and $${G_2}\left( s \right) = {s \over {{s^2} + as + b}}.$$ The 3-dB bandwidths of their freq...

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2005 PYQ

Which of the following analog modulation scheme requires the minimum transmitted power and minimum channel bandwidth?

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2005 PYQ

A carrier is phase modulated (PM) with frequency deviation of 10 kHz by a single tone frequency of 1 kHz. If the single tone frequency is increased to 2 kHz, assuming that phase de...

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2004 PYQ

A 1 mW video signal having a bandwidth of 100 MHz is transmitted to a receiver through a cable that has 40 dB loss. If the effective one-sided noise spectral density at the receive...

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2003 PYQ

Let $$m\left(t\right)\;=\cos\left[\left(4\mathrm\pi\times10^3\right)t\right]$$ be the message signal and $$c\left(t\right)\;=5\cos\left[2\mathrm\pi\times10^6t\right]$$ be the carri...

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2001 PYQ

The Nyquist sampling interval, for the signal Sinc(700t) + Sinc(500t) is

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2000 PYQ

In an FM system, a carrier of 100 MHz is modulated by a sinusoidal signal of 5 KHz. The bandwidth by Carson’s approximation is 1 MHz. If y(t) = (modulated waveform) 3 , then by usi...

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1999 PYQ

A modulated signal is given by, $$s\left(t\right)=m_1\left(t\right)\cos\left(2{\mathrm{πf}}_\mathrm c\mathrm t\right)\;+m_2\left(t\right)\sin\left(2{\mathrm{πf}}_\mathrm c\mathrm t...

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1999 PYQ

An amplifier is assumed to have a single pole high frequency transfer function. The rise time of its output response to a step function input is 35 nsec. The upper 3 dB frequency (...

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1999 PYQ

The Nyquist sampling frequency (in Hz) of a signal given by $$16 \times {10^{4\,}}\,\sin {c^2}(400t)*{10^6}\,\sin {c^3}(100t)$$ is

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1998 PYQ

From a measurement of the rise time of the output pulse of an amplifier whose input is a small amplitude square wave, one can estimate the following parameter of the amplifier:

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1998 PYQ

For a given data rate, the bandwidth B p of a BPSK signal and the band width B 0 of the OOK signal are related as

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1994 PYQ

The bandwidth required for the transmission of a PCM signal increases by a factor of ________ when the number of quantization levels is increased from 4 to 64.

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1994 PYQ

The 3-dB bandwidth of a typical second- order system with the transfer function $${{C\left( s \right)} \over {R(s)}} = {{\omega _n^2} \over {{s^2} + 2\xi {\omega _n}s + \omega _n^2...

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1993 PYQ

The bandwidth of an n-stage tuned amplifier, with each stage having a band width of B, is given by

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