GATE-2013

1. 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
(A) R/10 Hz (B) R/10 kHz (C) R/5 Hz (D) R/5 kHz
Answer: (B)
Exp: Bit rate given = R Kbits/second
Modulation = 32-QAM
No. of bits/symbol = 5 [log
2
32]
Symbol rate =(R/5)k symbols / second
Finally we are transmitting symbols.
B
T
transmission bandwidth
B
T
= R(symbol rate)/ (1++ a)
B
T
= R /5 (1++ a)
For B T to be minimum, a has to be maximum
B
T
= R/5x2 = R/10
Maximum value of a is '1'which is aroll off factor
2. A band-limited signal with a maximum frequency of 5 kHz is to be sampled. According to the sampling theorem, the
sampling frequency which is not valid is
(A) 5 kHz (B) 12 kHz (C) 15 kHz (D) 20 kHz
Answer: (A)
Exp: Given: fm 5kHz
According to sampling frequency
f
s

f
m
fs

10KHz
So, only in option (a) it is less than 10KHz ie., (5KHz)

GATE -2011
1. An analog signal is band-limited to 4kHz, sampled at the Nyquist rate and the samples are quantized
into 4 levels. The quantized levels are assumed to be independent and equally probable. If we
transmit two quantized samples per second, the information rate is ________ bits / second.
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4
Answer: - (D)
Exp: - Since two samples are transmitted and each sample has 2 bits of information,then the
information rate is 4 bits/sec.
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