Assignment (answer any ten questions ) 1.

Give a brief classification of terrestrial wireless system with two distinct salient features and two examples.Or, Write down two salient features of different generations of mobile cellular technologies along with two examples. (15 points) 2. Briefly discuss about the evolution path from 2G to beyond 3G for the following technologies i) GSM ii) IS-95A. (15 points) 3. Write down the complete elaboration of the following acronyms and re order them in ascending order of their data rates (10 points for 5) UMTS ,EDGE, 1xEVDO,HSCSD,GPRS, HSPA, Wimax 4. Compare among GSM, HSCSD, GPRS and EDGE. (15 points)

5. Compare among GSM and IS-95A in terms of Access technique, Modulation, Spectrum, Channel bandwidth, channel/cluster. (15 points) 6. What are the major problems of 1st generation of mobile cellular technologies? (10 points)

Reference[1-6]: sheet 1 , Class note and Ch. 1 (Zhuang)

7. What do you mean by the frequency reuse technique? What we gain what we loose from this technique? (12-15 points) 8. Show that D=R(3N) where symbols have their usual meaning. (10 points) 9. Show that SIR=1/6(Q)n for Omni directional antennas, where the symbols have the usual meaning. (12 points) 10.Show that the larger the value of n, the less the effect of co-channel interference from the 2 nd tier co-channel cells. (10 points) 11.How to reduce the effect of adjacent channel interference? Explain. (15 points) 12.Briefly explain the ways to improve cellular system capacity and coverage. Or, explain how the cell splitting and cell sectorization helps to improve the system capacity and coverage. [15] 13.Discuss about the microcell zoning concept and its advantages.[10] 14.A cellular system having a seven cell cluster layout with Omni directional antenna has been performing satisfactorily for a required signal to interference of 15dB.However due to the need for increasing the number of available channels a. 60o sectoring of the cells has been introduced. b. 120 o sectoring of the cells has been introduced.

By what percentage can total number of channels N be increased assuming a path-loss component=4? [15-20] 15.With the help of illustrative figures explain how the handoff is carried out in cellular systems. Also compare among the handoff strategies in 1g,2g and 3g cellular systems.[15] 16., Draw a 12 cell system structure for 3 and 4 cell reuse patterns and locate the co channel cells.[10] 17.Problem on trunked system sheet #4 and class note.

Reference[7-17]: sheet 2 -6 , Class note and Ch. 5 (Zhuang)

18.Discuss about the advantages of CDMA system. (12 points) 19. Draw the architecture of a IS-95A system and discuss about its different sub-systems briefly. (15 points) 20.With the help of illustrative diagram, show the steps involved in making a call from (15 points each) a. MS to PSTN b. PSTN to MS c. MS to MS. 21.Illustrate steps in Synchronous CDMA for two user system using code (1,-1) and (1,1). Send two different 4 bit numbers simultaneously to two specific users. 22.Briefly explain the Asynchronous CDMA technique. Why it is used in reverse link? 23.What do you mean by orthogonal codes? Generate 8 orthogonal codes and show orthogonality between any two of them. 24.What are the properties of PN codes? Generate a 7 bit long PN sequence showing all the states of the shift registers. 25.With the help of a neat diagram, show the usage of orthogonal and PN codes in CDMA during signal transmission and receiving. 26.Discuss about the CDMA forward channel with illustrative block diagrams.(20 points) 27.Discuss about the CDMA forward channel with illustrative block diagrams. (15 points) 28.Write down a MATLAB code to generate 64 bit Walsh code. 29.Capacity in CDMA system and related math.[ Zhuang chapter 6, art 6.4.1]

Reference[18-29]: sheet 7-9 , Class note.

30.For a (2,1,3) convolution encoder, find out the impulse response of the coder. Using impulse response encode the following bit streams a. 1010101 b. 1100110 c. Do the same for the data in a and b using trellis diagram. d. Decode the following bit streams using trellis diagram. 00 11 10 10 00 01 11 11

31.Demonstrate the viterbi decoding technique for correcting error in a given code stream. Reference[30-31]: sheet 10 , Class note, Ch-11 (schaum series).

32.Find an expression for BER for BPSK modulation technique. 33.What do you mean by PSD of a base band signal? Find out the PSD of BPSK pass band signal.

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a) Show the constellation of this modulation technique. b) Determine the average signal power assuming that all symbols are equally likely to be transmitted c) Determine the average signal power assuming that symbols 000 and 010 have twice as much probability to be transmitted as each of the other three symbols

Pr(000) Pr(= 010) = 2Pr(001) = 2Pr(100) = 2Pr(111)

d)

35.

Let the transmitted signal,

D1 0 0 1 1

D2 0 1 0 1

ai -3 -3 +3 +3

bi -3 +3 -3 +3

Draw the constellation diagram. If signal is received at the receiver, extract the information from the signal using constellation diagram. Let, Es=1/2Emin. 36. Draw the block diagram of a OQPSK transmitter. What is the difference between QPSK and OQPSK modulation technique? Also draw the QPSK and OQPSK output wave form for following bit stream 00101101
Reference[32-36]: sheet 11 , Class note and Zhuang[Chapter 3]