Sample question on Unit 2: Cellular Theory

Short answer type questions

1. What is a cell? Why a cell is theoretically assumed to have a hexagonal shape?
2. What is a cell cluster?
3. Comment on the relationship between size of a cluster and frequency reuse distance.
4. What is reuse distance? How is it decided theoretically?
5. How does a change in the cluster size effect the system performance?
6. What do you mean by frequency reuse?
7. Define a cellular footprint.
8. What are the two types of channel assignment strategies?
9. What is meant by borrowing in channel assignment?
10. Compare the merits and demerits of fixed and dynamic channel assignment.
11. Write down the steps to locate the co-channel cells in a cellular system.
12. What is frequency reuse ratio?
13. What are co-channel cells?
14. What is co-channel interference (CCI)?
15. What is adjacent channel interference (ACI)?
16. How can CCI and ACI be reduced?
17. What is cell splitting?
18. How does cell splitting increase capacity?
19. What is cell sectoring?
20. Define handoff.
21. What is the difference between hard handoff and soft handoff.
22. What is handoff threshold?
23. What is handoff margin?
24. Comment on the choice of handoff margin for proper handoff operation.
25. Define the following terms: traffic intensity, call set up time, call holding time, call request
rate
26. What is meant by Grade of Service?
27. What is basic difference between Erlang B and Erlang C systems?
28. What is the role of S/I in the design of a cellular system?

Long/Essay type questions

1. Establish the relation 𝑁 = 𝑖 2 + 𝑗 2 + 𝑖𝑗.
2. Establish the relation 𝐷 = √3𝑁
3. Discuss about the two types of channel assignment strategies.
4. What are the two types of interference in cellular system. Discuss about the cause of
interference and its remedy in each category.
5. With a neat diagram explain how a proper handoff can take place.
6. How is handoff prioritized?
7. Discuss how handoff can be managed through the umbrella cell approach.
8. What is cell splitting? Explain how cell splitting is done with a neat diagram.
9. If cell radius is reduced to half of original in the process of splitting, then by how much
should the cell transmit power be reduced?
10. How is cell sectoring implemented? Discuss the effect of cell sectoring on the S/I ratio.