22-Elec-B3 Digital Communications Systems: December 2016

Paper format. Professional Engineers of Ontario, Annual Examinations — December 2016, 07-Elec-B3 Digital Communication Systems. Three hours, closed book; a PEO-approved non-programmable calculator (Casio or Sharp approved model) is permitted. Five questions of 25 marks each are printed; any four constitute a complete paper worth 100 marks, and only the first four appearing in the answer book are marked. All five questions are solved here, because the set is a study resource rather than a marked script. Note 1 of the cover page invites the candidate to state any assumption made where a question is open to interpretation — that licence is used explicitly in Question 1.

Reference texts.

• S. Haykin, Communication Systems, 5th ed. — noise and link budgets, information theory and source coding, matched-filter detection, sampling and quantisation.
• B. P. Lathi and Z. Ding, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, 4th ed. — PCM, line coding, optimum binary receivers, error probability.
• J. G. Proakis and D. G. Manolakis, Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms and Applications, 4th ed. — sampling theorem, aliasing, quantisation noise.
• A. V. Oppenheim and A. S. Willsky, Signals and Systems, 2nd ed. — convolution, time reversal, the Fourier view of sampling.