Electronics and Communication Engineering
GATE ECE exam:gate PYQs
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Question 61
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The transition diagram of a discrete memoryless channel with three input symbols and three output symbols is shown in the figure. The transition probabilities are as marked.
The parameter
lies in the interval
. The value of
for which the capacity of this channel is maximized, is ________ (rounded off to two decimal places). 
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Consider communication over a memoryless binary symmetric channel using a (7, 4) Hamming code. Each transmitted bit is received correctly with probability
, and flipped with probability
. For each codeword transmission, the receiver performs minimum Hamming distance decoding, and correctly decodes the message bits if and only if the channel introduces at most one bit error.For
, the probability that a transmitted codeword is decoded correctly is ________ (rounded off to two decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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Consider a channel over which either symbol
or symbol
is transmitted. Let the output of the channel
be the input to a maximum likelihood (ML) detector at the receiver. The conditional probability density functions for
given
and
are:
where
is the standard unit step function. The probability of symbol error for this system is ________ (rounded off to two decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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Consider a real valued source whose samples are independent and identically distributed random variables with the probability density function,
, as shown in the figure.Consider a 1 bit quantizer that maps positive samples to value
and others to value
. If
and
are the respective choices for
and
that minimize the mean square quantization error, then
________ (rounded off to two decimal places). 
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In an electrostatic field, the electric displacement density vector,
, is given by
where
,
,
are the unit vectors along
-axis,
-axis, and
-axis, respectively. Consider a cubical region
centered at the origin with each side of length 1 m, and vertices at
. The electric charge enclosed within
is ________ C (rounded off to two decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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The current population of a city is 11,02,500. If it has been increasing at the rate of 5% per annum, what was its population 2 years ago?
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and
are positive integers and
, then,
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The least number of squares that must be added so that the line P-Q becomes the line of symmetry is ________.

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Nostalgia is to anticipation as ________ is to ________.
Which one of the following options maintains a similar logical relation in the above sentence?
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Consider the following sentences:
(i) I woke up from sleep.
(ii) I woken up from sleep.
(iii) I was woken up from sleep.
(iv) I was wokened up from sleep.
Which of the above sentences are grammatically CORRECT?
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