Quiz No.

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1. A cellular system having a 7-cell cluster layout with omni-directional

antennas has been performing satisfactorily for a required signal to
interference ratio of 16 dB. However due to the need for increasing the
number of available channels, a 60 sectoring of the cells has been
introduced. Assuming a path loss component, = 3, what percentage
can the number of channels mtotal be increased?
2. If a total of 33 MHz of bandwidth is allocated to a particular FDD
cellular telephone system which uses two 25 kHz simplex channels to
provide half duplex voice and control channels, compute the number of
channels available per cell if a system uses
a. 4-cell reuse and 7-cell reuse
b. If 1 MHz of the allocated spectrum is dedicated to control channels,
determine an equitable distribution of control channels and voice
channels in each cell for each of the two systems in (a).