UNIT – V MULTIPLE ANTENNA TECHNIQUES

Assignment Questions

PART-A 10*2 = 20

1. What is meant by spatial multiplexing and spatial diversity? (Nov2018)

2. What is Channel State Information? How is it obtained? (Nov2018)
3. State True or False: Justify your answer:
 Channel knowledge at the transmitter is not required in MIMO channels to extract multiplexing gain.
 Channel knowledge at the transmitter is required in MIMO channels to extract diversity gain. (May2018)
4. List different types of diversity schemes. (May2018)
5. Define spatial multiplexing. (Nov2017)
6. Define receiver diversity. (Nov2017)
7. What is spatial multiplexing? (May2017)
8. What is Channel State Information? What is its benefit? (May2017)
9. How does spatial multiplexing work? (Dec 2016)
10.What is ergodic capacity and outage capacity of a flat fading channel.(Dec2016)

PART-B 05*13 = 65
1. (i) Derive and explain the Capacity of non-fading channels with related sketches.(6)
(ii) Explain Beam forming with neat diagrams. (7)(Nov 2018)
2. (i) Describe Transmitter diversity and Receiver diversity.(7)

(ii) Explain a MIMO system and explain its role in improving a wireless communication system. (6) (Nov 2018)
3. Prove that 2x2 MIMIO system (without Channel State Information) at the transmitter provides the diversity
gain of 4 and array gain of2 using Alamouti Scheme.(May 2018)
4. Derive an expression for the capacity of the following systems.
(a) SIMO system assuming that the channel is known at Receiver.
(b) MISO system assuming that the channel is known at transmitter.
(c) MIMO system assuming that channel is unknown at the transmitter. (May2018)
5. Distinguish between different beam forming techniques. (Nov2017)
 PART-C 01*15 = 15
1.(i) Describe MIMO systems with emphasis on their requirement in a wireless communication environment.
(May2017)
(ii) Describe the concepts of Pre-coding and Beam forming. (May 2017)