EE 3320 - Wireless Communication

Assignment 1, Due Thursday 16-01-2020

Instructor: Prof. Mohammed Zafar Ali Khan, zafar@iith.ac.in

1. Draw signal constellation diagrams for the M-PAM, M-PSK, QPSK and M-QAM schemes.
Write the expressions for transmitted and received signals for each scheme for the additive
white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel.

2. Derive expressions of the probabilities of error (bit error rate - BER) for the BPSK and 4-
QAM modulation schemes for the AWGN channel. Perform simulations in Matlab and plot
your simulated curves. Also, plot your derived expressions and verify through simulations.

3. Derive the approximate path loss for the two ray path loss model.

4. For the two-ray model, derive an approximate expression for the distance values below the
critical distance dc at which signal nulls occur.

5. Consider the received signal for the 2 ray model, where u(t) = exp(j2πfs t), G1 = G2 = 1,
d = 10 km, ht = hr = 50 m.

(a) Compute the delay spread. Assuming distance d is uncertain within 1%, what range does
the delay spread lie in?
(b) Compute the phase difference between the signal components in the following cases:
(i)fs = 1m where m is the mid point of the range identified above (ii) fs = 21 m (iii)
1
fs = 100 m. In which of the above cases does the approximation u(t) ≈ u(t − τ ) hold best
and why?

6. Consider the ten-ray model described in Section 2.4.2 of the text.

(a) What average power falloff with distance do you expect for the ten-ray model and Why?
(b) Assume that the transmitter and the receiver are at the same height in the middle of a
street of width 20 m and that the separation between the transmitter and receiver is 500
m. Also, the transmitter is very close to the street (i.e. the height is very low). Find the
delay spread for this model.

7. Consider a cellular system operating at 900 MHz where propagation follows free space path
loss with variations about this path from log-normal shadowing with σ = 6 dB. Suppose that
for acceptable voice quality a signal-to-noise power ratio of 15 dB is required at the mobile.
Assume that the base station transmits at 1 W and its antenna has a 3 dB gain. There is no
antenna gain at the mobile and the receiver noise in the bandwidth of interest is -40 dBm.
Find the maximum cell size so that a mobile on the cell boundary will have acceptable voice
quality 90% of the time.