Term End Examination - November 2013

Course

: ECE403

Class NBR

: 1648

Time

- Wireless and Mobile Communication

Slot: G1+TG1

Max.Marks:100

Three Hours
(Erlang Chart to be permitted)
Answer ALL Questions
(10 X 10 = 100 Marks)

1.

a)

Why typically digital modulation not enough for radio transmission? What are the general

[4]

goals for digital modulation?

2.

b)

Give an account on multipath propagation.

[6]

a)

What are the benefits of reservation schemes in aloha principle? Explain the explicit and

[6]

implicit reservation scheme.

3.

b)

Explain the hidden and exposed terminal concept.

[4]

a)

A cellular service providers decides to use a TDMA schemes that can tolerate a signal to

[7]

interference ratio of 16dB in worst case. Find the optimum value of cluster size N in case of
(i) Omni directional antenna
(ii) 120 degree sectoring.
(iii) 60 degree sectoring.
(iv) What will be the advantage of sectoring?
b)

List out the advantages of frequency reuse.

[3]

4.

Explain in details how to improve the coverage and capacity of cellular system.

[10]

5.

A total of 24MHz of bandwidth is allocated to a particular FDD cellular telephone system that [10]
uses two 30KHz simple channels to provide full duplex voice and control channels. Assume
each cell phone user generates 0.1 Erlang of traffic. Assume Erlang B is used.
a)

Find the number of channels in each cell for a four cell reuse system.

b)

If each cell is to offer capacity that is 90% of perfect scheduling, find the maximum number of
users that can be supported per cell where omnidirectional antennas are used at each base
station.

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c)

What is the blocking probability of the system in (b) when maximum number of users are
available in the user pool?

d)

In each new cell now uses 120 degree sectoring instead of omnidirectional for each base
station, what is the new total number of users that can be supported per cell for the same
blocking probability as in (c)?

e)

If each cell covers five square kilometres, then how many subscribers could be supported in an
urban market that is 50Km X 50Km for the case of 120 degree sectored antennas?

6.
7.

a)

Derive the path loss expression for the two ray model with antenna gain and expressed in dB.

[10]

A local spatial average of a power delay profile measure at 900MHz is shown in below table1.

[6]

Table 1

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i) Determine the rms delay spread and mean excess delay for the channel.
ii) If the channel is to be used with a modulation that requires an equalizer whenever the
symbol duration T is less than 10

determine the maximum RF symbol rate that can

be supported without requiring an equalizer.

iii) If a mobile travelling at 30Km/hr receives a signal through the channel, determine the
time over which the channel appears stationary.
b)
8.
9.

a)

Explain the factors influencing small scale fading.

[4]

Give an account on GSM architecture.

[10]

i) Explain the GSM frame structure with time duration.

[4]

ii) Write short notes on GSM channel.

[6]
OR

9.

b) i) Explain how CDPD provides mobile packet data connectivity to existing data networks and

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other system without any additional band requirements?

10.

a)

ii) List out the advantages of 4G technology.

[4]

Explain the GPRS architecture reference model in details.

[10]

OR
10.

b)

Explain the basic architecture of the UTRAN network.

[10]

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