1. Outline the limitations of conventional mobile telephone system.

2. If a total of 30 MHz of bandwidth is allocated to a particular FDD cellular telephone system which uses
two 25 KHz simplex channels to provide full duplex voice and control channels, compute the number of
channels available per cell if a system uses (i)Four-cell reuse (ii) seven-cell reuse (iii) 12-cell reuse.

3. Derive a relationship between desired (C/I) and co-channel interference reduction factor (q) in a 7-cell
frequency reuse regular hexagonal pattern. Assume all cells are of equal size and use Omni directional
antennas at the cell-site.

4. Identify the methods to reduce the co channel interference in cellular communication network.

5. Explain the need of cell splitting. Determine the transmitted power for a new cell after cell splitting.

6. )Determine the number of cells in a cluster for i=2 and j=4 in a regular hexagonal geometry
pattern.(ii)Calculate the distance from the nearest co channel cell for a cell having a radius of 0.64 Km
and a co channel reuse factor 12.

7. Illustrate how the concept of lowering the antenna height affect the co-channel interference for
different cases with relevant figures and equations.

8. A mobile communication system has an allocated number of 1000 voice channels. If the service area
is divided into 20 cells with a frequency reuse factor of 4, determine the system capacity.

9. For a cluster size of 4 and six sector case, find the worst case C/I at the mobile receiver located at the
boundary of its serving cell under the influence of interfering signals from one co channel interfering cell
in the first tier of a cellular system .

10. Why can the actual shape of the cell may not be either a circle or a regular geometrical shape?

11. With a neat diagram explain how a 120 degrees sectoring reduces interference from co channel cells

12. Determine the minimum cluster size for a cellular system designed with an acceptable value of
carrier-to- interference ratio C/I =18 dB. Assume the path loss exponent as 4 and co-channel i
nterference at the mobile unit from six equidistant cells in the first tier.

13. Calculate the number of times the cluster size of 4 have to be replicated in order to approximately
cover the entire service area of 1765 km2 with adequate number of uniform sized cells of 7 km2 each.

14. With a neat diagram Discuss the hand-off scenario at cell boundary.

15. A normal GSM has 3 start bits,3 stop bits ,26 training bits for allowing adaptive equalization,8.25
guard bits and 2 bursts of 58 bits of encrypted data which is transmitted at 270.833 kbps in the channel.
Find (a) number of overhead bits per frame,boh (b) total number of bits/frame (c) frame rate.

16. Explain about GSM Broadcast Control Channel and Frequency Correction channels.
17. With a neat diagram explain the architecture of Global System for Mobile Communication.

18. Explain the Evolution of 2.5 G TDMA standards.

19.With an example, explain the Call Flow in Global system for Mobile Communication.

20. With a neat diagram explain the various interfaces used in Global System for Mobile
Communication.

21. Define multiple Access and write the features of Frequency Division Multiple Access(FDMA).

22. What is the use of control channels and explain GSM common control channels.

23. For given path loss exponent (a) n=4 and (b) n=3 find the frequency reuse factor and the cluster size
that should be used for maximum capacity. The signal to interference ratio is 15 dB is minimum required
for satisfactory forward channel performance of a cellular system. there are six co channel cells in the
first tier, and all of them are at the same distance from the mobile.

24. list and explain the three major categories of GSM Services.

25. Explain about Direct Sequence Multiple access or code division multiple access.

26. Assume a hexagonal pattern cellular system of 32 cells with a cell radius of 1.6 km,a total spectrum
allocation that supports 336 traffic channels, and a reuse pattern of 7. Calculate the total service area
covered with this configuration, the number of channels per cell and a total system capacity.

27. Distinguish between Slow Associated Control Channel(SACCH) and Fast Associated Control
Channel(FACCH) in GSM.

28. With a neat diagram, explain the TDMA frame structure and find the efficiency of TDMA.

29. Write the classification of full rate traffic channels used in GSM and mention the data carrying
capacity of each channel.

30. Draw and explain the Global System for Mobile frame structure.