Due on- Tuesday 12 Feb (5pm).

Assignment-1
Instructions:
i. Draw neat and labelled diagrams wherever necessary.
ii. Avoid copy pasting.

1. Explain the importance of multiplexing in wireless communication with example.

2. Why does CSMA/CD fail in wireless networks? Compare it with wired networks.
3. Explain contention based and contention free protocol categorization of medium access
control protocols?
4. Ever wondered why you have to put your phones on "Airplane mode" in flights? State
the reason.
5. Why do we use MIMO model in wireless communication? Explain with examples and
functions.
6. In what way MACAW is different from MACA?
7. A programmer wants to use an established access method. He has relatively low
computational power and he wants the system to cope up with errors. Which access
method best suits his requirements? Why?
8. Explain hidden terminal and exposed terminal problem with the help of diagram.
9. Why Modulation is necessary? Explain the different types of Modulation.
10. Why do some systems have more than one antennas?
11. What are the advantages and disadvantages of cell structure?
12. Explain Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum and Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum.
13. What is the propagation mechanism of EM Waves? Write the increasing order of
detection, transmission and interference ranges of a wireless sender. Why hexagon
shaped cells are used instead of circular?
14. Why mobile network providers install several thousands of base stations throughout a
country (which is quite expensive) and do not use powerful transmitters with huge cells
like, e.g., radio stations?
15. What are the limitations of mobile computing?