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Unit 3 - Wireless
Propagation and Cellular Concepts

Course
outline Assignment 2
Due date for this assignment: 2017-08-15, 23:59 IST.
How to access This assignment is based on Lectures 5-9 (Unit 3). Covers
the portal basic cellular concepts, propagation models, antenna gain, Link budget and cluster
design related problems
Overview of
Cellular 1) In lecture 5, the uplink and downlink frequency bands of different 1 point
Evolution and systems were discussed. For a GSM system, the channel bandwidth is 200 KHz.
Wireless
Technologies The downlink frequency is at 955 MHz, then the uplink frequency should be at

820 MHz
Wireless
Propagation 910 MHz
and Cellular 935 MHz
Concepts
None of the above
Lec 5: Basic
2) An isotropic antenna is radiating at a frequency of 9MHz. What is the 1 point
Cellular
Terminology free space path loss at a distance of 3 kms from the transmitter antenna?

Lec 6: 54 dB
Introduction
54 dBW
to Antennas
and 61 dB
Propagation 72 dB
Models
3) Assuming Free space propagation model, If the transmit power is 1000 1 point
Lec 7: Link
budget, mW and the received power is 10-9 mW, what is the distance between the
Fading transmitter and the receiver. The carrier frequency is 900 MHz.
margin,
Outage 26.54 km
Lec 8: 31.6 km
Cellular 3.16 km
Concept
15.43 km
Lec 9:
Cellular 4) Assuming Free Space propagation model, the transmit power is 10 mW 1 point
system
and the received power is 10-7 mW. What is the carrier frequency if the distance
design and
analysis between the transmitter and the receiver antennas is 3 km ?

Matlab basics 561.53 MHz

Quiz : 79.62 MHz
Assignment 2 8.24 MHz
 Lec5_notes 14.35 MHz
Lec6_notes 5) The received power at the receiver is -95 dBm. The distance between 1 point
Lec7_notes the receiver and transmitter is 4 kms and the wavelength of propagation is 0.5
meters. Assuming the free space propagation model, what is the transmitted
Lec8_notes
signal power?
Lec9_notes
10 dB
Feedback for
week 2
10 dBm
5 dBW
Cellular 5 dBm
System
Design, 6) Consider a transmitter antenna. The output power of the transmitter 1 point
Capacity,
amplifier is 30 W and the transmit antenna gain is 15 dB. The feeder attenuation
Handoff, and
Outage is 5 dB. What is the EIRP (Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power)?

25 dBW
25 dB
55 dBW
55 dB
7) IEEE 802.11a (WLAN standard) uses 64 QAM modulation to achieve a 1 point
data rate of 54 Mbps. Suppose an Eb /N0 = 38 dB is required to achieve the
target BER of 10-6 . For this data rate, what is the sensitivity of the receiver, if the
noise figure = 8 dB.

-55 dBm
-67.3 dBm
-80.7 dBW
-75.4 dBW
8) IEEE 802.11a (WLAN standard) uses 64 QAM modulation to achieve a 1 point
data rate of 54 Mbps. Suppose an Eb /N0 = 38 dB is required to achieve the
target BER of 10-6 . For this data rate, what is the sensitivity of receiver, if
receiver has implementation loss of 3 dB and noise figure of 8 dB.

- 53 dBW
-47.7 dBm
-33.7 dBm
-55.3 dBW
1.9)An ultra-wideband (UWB) radio system transmits at a power level of 1 1 point
mW using a BW of 1 GHz. Assume that the transmitted power is uniformly spread
over the utilized BW and that the UWB transmitter is at a distance of 10 m from a
cellular phone. Evaluate if the interference spectral density (Watts/Hz) caused by
the UWB transmitter to a cellular phone with NF = 8 dB is higher/lower than the
Thermal Noise floor (N0). Assume that UWB spectrum overlaps cellular band &
isotropic antennas are used & free space propagation model can be applied.
Carrier frequency = 1.5 GHz

Interference spectral density is stronger than noise spectral density by 20

dB
Noise spectral density is stronger than Interference spectral density by 20
dB
Noise spectral density is stronger than Interference spectral density by 30
dB
Insufficient information to compare the two spectral densities
 10)Assuming Break-point propagation model, calculate the range over 1 point
which signal can be transmitted securely when the total pathloss available is 150
dB. Carrier frequency is 900 MHz and breakpoint dbreak = 100 meters. Path loss
exponent is n = 3.

30 km
41.3 km
12.7 km
8.8 km
11)In lecture 7, gain of a parabolic antenna was defined. Find the gain of a 1 point
parabolic antenna with radius 2 meters and efficiency factor = 0.6. The carrier
frequency is 600 MHz.

36.28 dBi
17.39 dBi
22.6 dBi
25.78 dBi
12)Consider a cascaded system consisting of three amplifiers blocks at the 1 point
receiver. The gain and noise figures of the three blocks are described below.
G1 = 10 dB G2 = 10 dB G3 = 60 dB
F1 = 3 dB F2 = 10 dB F3 = 10 dB
Find the overall Noise figure Foverall of the cascaded system

3 dB
3.5 dB
4.76 dB
5.3 dB
13)Let's say two towers A and B are "d" meter apart with tower A 1 point
transmitting twice as much power as B. There is a user connected to tower A
moving towards tower B. Find the distance from Tower A when the user observes
0 dB Signal to Interference ratio. Consider free space propagation i.e the path
loss exponent = 2.

0.585 d
0.24 d
0.75 d
0.12 d
14)In a city, cell planning is done with clusters of size 4. There are 100 1 point
channels available per cell. Each cluster covers 4 sq.km area. If the city spans
over 100 sq.km then calculate the capacity of the designed cellular system.

5000
10000
1000
12000
15)For questions 15 to 20 use the information described below. 1 point
Consider a cellular network built with 7-cell clusters, as described in Lecture No.
9 / starting from Slide 3. There is no interference across cells within a cluster, as
two cells in a cluster do not share the same channel. However, there is
interference from neighbouring clusters that use the same set of carrier
frequencies but in a fashion that minimizes the maximum interference between
two cells that use the same frequency (Co-channel cells).

Assume that the Base Station transmits at 1W power and a Free-Space-Path-

loss model,
2
(
4d

) ,
R = 1km and Carrier frequency = 2.4 MHz(for the channel of interest)

What is the co-channel reuse ratio for the cellular network.

5.29
4.58
4.24
3.14
16)Calculate the worst-case SINR due to only Tier-1 interferers, without 1 point
any approximations.
Hint: Use a slightly different (u,v) coordinate system from the one described in
class.

5.23 dB
5.44 dB
5.67 dB
Insufficient information
17)What is the worst-case SINR due to only Tier-2 interferers? Choose 1 point
the closest value among the given options. (Hint: Approximate. Calculate
distances from the center of the cells )

3.01 dB
7.2 dB
7.78 dB
8.45 dB
18)What will be the worst-case Tier-1 SINR if the path loss exponent 1 point
increases to 4. Again, choose the closest answer.

17.82 dB
18.7 dB
20.17 dB
Insufficient Information
19)Assume that a thermal noise (AWGN) of -54 dBm is added to the 1 point
signal at the receiver(UE). What will be the Signal-to-Noise(interference+AWGN)
of the user, considering only Tier-1 interferers with path loss exponent = 2.

7.62 dB
4.17 dB
5.23 dB
None of these
20)(19 contd. ) How will the SNR change for the above scenario, if the 1 point
path loss exponent changes to 4.

SNR increases to 17.82 dB

SNR decreases to 3.72 dB
 SNR remains the same
None of the above
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