Telcom 2700/ INFSCI 1072 Wireless Communications

Homework 2 Due 9/16/08

1. Consider a cellular phone transmits data using QPSK with a channel rate of 50 Kbps, (a)
what is the data rate provided? (b) What is the difference between PSK and QPSK

2. From the Schiller book Chapter 2 problem 9

3. Calculate the Hamming Distance between the following pairs of codewords (a)
00010, 10101; (b) 010101, 110110

4. Consider the (48, 36) block error correcting code used in the downlink control
channel of a cellular system. This code can correct up to 5 bit errors in a block of
48 bits. (a) What is the maximum error burst size that can be tolerated and still
have correct reception of the data? (b) An error burst is usually caused by fast
fading in cellular networks, if the control channel operates at 48Kbps what is the
maximum fade duration that can be tolerated? (c) If the 48 bit blocks are buffered
until 10 blocks are collected and then they are interleaved and transmitted, what is
the maximum error burst size that can be tolerated and still have correct reception
of the data? What is the delay incurred in buffering the data for interleaving and
de-interleaving at a 48Kbps rate?

5. Consider a cellular system that uses frequency hopping and has 124 frequency
channels of spectrum. Below is the hopping pattern for a user in a cell that has 31
frequency channels assigned to it. (a) Is the hopping pattern random or cyclic? (b)
is this a slow or fast frequency hopping system? Why?

Time 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Input data 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
Frequency f f f f f f
1 3 27 28 0 16

Time 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Input data 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
Frequency f11 f3 f2 f14