Sample Question Paper 1
Sample Question Paper 1
Sample Question Paper 1
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1. Let X i = (X i , . . . , X j ).
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(a) i. Show that I X 1 , Y1 Ê I (X i ; Yi ) when X 1 , X 2 , . . . , X n are mutually indepen- 2
i =1
dent.
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ii. Show that I X 1 , Y1 É I (X i ; Yi ) when given Yi , X i becomes conditionally 3
i =1
independent with remaining X 1 , . . . , X n ..
n
P ³ n i −1
´ P
n ³ i −1 n
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(b) Show that I X i ; Yi +1 |X 1 = I Yi ; X 1 |Yi +1 . 5
i =1 i =1
2. Albert and Bernard just became friends with Cheryl, and they want to know when her
birthday is. Cheryl gives them a list of 10 possible dates for her birthday: May 15, 16,
19; June 17, 18; July 14, 16; and August 14, 15, 17. Cheryl then tells only to Albert the
month of her birthday, and tells only to Bernard the day of her birthday. (And Albert
and Bernard are aware that she did so.) Albert and Bernard now have the following
conversation:
C 1 → Albert: "I don’t know when Cheryl’s birthday is, but I know that you don’t know
either."
C 2 → Bernard: "At first I didn’t know when Cheryl’s birthday is, but now I know."
C 3 → Albert: "Now I also know when Cheryl’s birthday is."
(a) What is the entropy on the outset of the conversation. 3
(b) What is the entropy after the conversation C 1 . 3
(c) What is the entropy after the conversation C 2 . 3
(d) What is the entropy after the conversation C 3 . 3
(e) Show that Cheryl’s birthday is on July 16th. 3
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3. Consider a channel transition matrix PY|X = 0 1 − λ2 λ2
λ3 0 1 − λ3
(a) Find the channel capacity when λ1 = λ2 = λ3 = 0.1. 3
(b) Find the channel capacity when λ1 = 0.1, λ2 = 0.2, λ3 = 0.3. 3
7. A uniformly distributed source with 100 symbols have to be represented with binary 5
alphabets. Let l i be the length of the binary string for the i th symbol. Propose an in-
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stantaneous coding technique so that the value of 2 can be maximised.
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8. Let X be an RV takes the value from a set {a, b, c} with PMF 41 , 12 , 14 . Y is a uniformly 5
distributed RV takes the value from {0, 1, 2}. Represent X using Y .
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