CS 3413 Data Communications, Fall 2004 Practice Problems

  1. What is the period of cos23t?
  2. What is the wavelength of a 2 GHz signal in empty space?
  3. The index of refraction of water is about 4/3. What is the wavelength of a 2 GHz signal in water?
  4. What is the maximum data rate if 16 signal levels are used over a telephone line with a bandwidth of 4 kHz?
  5. What is the maximum data rate of a telephone line with a bandwidth of 4 kHz and a signal-to-noise ration of 30 dB?
  6. Stereo music having a frequency range up to 20,000 Hz is to be converted to PCM using 14 bits per channel. What data rate is needed in bps?
  7. What is the Hamming distance of a code that has an 8-bit message and 1 parity bit?
  8. A code has an 8-bit message and 2 parity bits. The first 4 message bits are checked with one of the parity bits and the last 4 are check with the other one.
  9. A message has 16 bits. Each bit has a probability of .99 of being correct.
  10. A stop-and-wait protocol is used to send 2000-bit frames over a channel with a data rate of 100 kbps.