Wireless communication CSP-310

Homework Assignment 2

[Submission Deadline: October 28, 2017]

1. Consider a communication system which uses BPSK signalling with average signal power of 100 Watts
and the noise power at the receiver is 4 Watts. Can we use this system for transmission of data? Can
it be used for voice? Now consider there is fading with an average SNR γb = 20dB.
How does your answer to the above question change? Hint: Take error probability with fading as
1/(4γb )

2. Consider a system in which data is transferred at a rate of 100 bits/sec over the channel. Answer the
following
(a) Find the symbol duration if we use sinc pulse for signalling and the channel bandwidth is 10 kHz.
(b) If the received SNR is 10 dB. Find the SNR per symbol and the SNR per bit if 4-QAM is used.
(c) Find the SNR per symbol and the SNR per bit for 16-QAM and compare with these metrics for
4-QAM.
3. Consider a wideband channel with multipath intensity profile.
 (−τ )
e 0 ≤ τ ≤ 20µs
Ac (τ )
0 else
Find the mean and rms delay spreads of the channel and find the maximum symbol period such that
a linearly-modulated signal transmitted through this channel does not experience ISI.

4. Consider a time-invariant indoor wireless channel with LOS component at delay 23 nsec, a multipath
component at delay 48 nsec, and another multipath component at delay 67 nsec. Find the delay
spread assuming the demodulator synchronizes to the LOS component. Repeat assuming that the
demodulator synchronizes to the first multipath component. Also calculate mean and rms delay spread.
Take necessary assumptions (if any)

5. Using the result of the inequality

y 2 ≥ (y − x)2 + x2
Prove that for Q function,
2
Q(x) < e−x , f orx > 0

6. Consider an OFDM system with BW = 10MHz. Let the delay spread be 10 micro-second.
(a) What is the minimum no. of subcarriers required for this OFDM system.
(b) If no. of subcarrier N=1024, what is the channel sub carrier spacing.
(c) What is the duration Tn of the OFDM symbol.
(d) If the time duration of cyclic prefix is 2 micro-sec, What is the loss in the spectral efficiency?