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EE 476 Wireless Communications

Quiz 1 (10% of the Final Grade)
May 03, 2017
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Q1. (5) A GSM system is to be designed for a 100 km2 city, out of which 16 km2 is the central
area. Assume a frequency reuse factor of N = 7 (with 3-sector sites), available ARFCN from 0 -
20, and the time slot ‘0’ reserved for control and signaling. Find
(a) the geographical cell-site and frequency plan assuming 0.5 km cell radius for the central
area and 1 km for the outskirts
(b) the frequency table for the downlink and uplink spectrum.
(c) Number of customers that can be supported by the whole system assuming all users are
accessing 100% of time
(d) Number of customers per site if each customer is generating 0.1 Erlangs traffic with a
5% blocking probability
(e) Total number of customer supported by the downtown area sites
(f) Total number of customer supported by the outer area sites

Q2. (3) For the convolution encoder given below, find:

(a) The type of the encoder (n,k,m) and the rate
(b) The generator matrix
(c) The output sequence, if the input sequence is given by D4 + D2 +1

Q3. (2) Answer the following short questions:

(a) Which of the following logical GSM channel is used to search a mobile station
(MS) on the downlink (select one answer):
(i)Access grant (AGCH) ii. Paging (PCH)  (iii) Random access (RACH)
(b) How many TDMA frames are there in one traffic multiframe (select one answer):
(i) 25 (ii) 26  (iii) 50

(c) Total time of a TDMA frame is 4.616 ms

(d) A data burst consists of 114 data bits
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=15/0.1

=150

=150x35=5250 =150x28=4200