CME 452 - Digital Communications
Term Project

Fall 2011

Students are instructed to choose one project from the table below.
Submit your selections to me via email at
m.banat@ieee.org in order of preference no later than 30 November 2011. In the email, please give the names and students IDs of all participating students.

Course Instructor: Dr. Mohammad M. Banat

Project No. Project Name Brief Description No. of Students
1 Delta Modulator/Demodulator Distribution of input samples:
Sinewave of frequency 1000 Hz sampled at the Nyquest rate
Uniform [-1,1]
Zero-mean Gaussian with variance equal to 1

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2 Uniform PCM Encoder/Decoder Distribution of input samples:
Sinewave of frequency 1000 Hz sampled at the Nyquest rate
Uniform [-1,1]
Zero-mean Gaussian with variance equal to 1

Number of bits/sample:
4,6,8

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3 Nonumiform PCM Encoder/Decoder Distribution of input samples:
Zero-mean Gaussian with variance equal to 0.01
Zero-mean Gaussian with variance equal to 1

Choose companding method with appropriate parameters

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4 DPCM Encoder/Decoder Distribution of input samples:
Sinewave of frequency 1000 Hz sampled at the Nyquest rate
Uniform [-1,1]
Zero-mean Gaussian with variance equal to 1

Number of bits/sample:
2,3,4

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5 Huffman Encoder/Decoder Distribution of input samples:
Zero-mean Gaussian with variance equal to 1
Zero-mean two-sided exponential with a maximum value of 4

Number of quantization levels:
6,10

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6 M-ary PAM Modulator/Demodulator M=2,4,8,16, equally likely symbols
AWGN, Bit SNR=0:2:20 dB
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7 M-ary QAM Baseband Modulator/Demodulator M=4,8,16,64, equally likely symbols
AWGN, Bit SNR=0:2:20 dB
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8 M-ary PPM Modulator/Demodulator M=2,4,8,16, equally likely symbols
AWGN, Bit SNR=0:2:20 dB
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9 M-ary PSK Baseband Modulator/Demodulator M=4,8,16,32, equally likely symbols
AWGN, Bit SNR=0:2:20 dB
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10 P(e) of M-ary Coherent FSK M=2,4,8,16, equally likely symbols 2
11 P(e) of M-ary Noncoherent FSK M=2,4,8,16, equally likely symbols 2
12 P(e) of M-ary Noncoherent ASK M=2,4,8,16, equally likely symbols 2
13 P(e) of M-ary PSK M=2,4,8,16, equally likely symbols 2
14 P(e) of Square M-ary QAM M=4,16,64 equally likely symbols 2
15 Block Encoder/Decoder Binary PAM
AWGN, Bit SNR=0:2:20 dB
(7,4) Hamming code
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