Wireless Communication

Chapter: 1, 2 and 3 (2 set)

1. Distinguish between FDD and TDD .08
2. Explain the term roaming .08
3. What is dwell time? Explain mobile assisted handoff (MAHO) technique .08
4. What do you mean by trunking and Grade of Service. Explain. 08,09
5. Define simplex system, half-duplex system and full duplex system.09
6. Explain the call setup process of cellular system.09
7. Write some striking features of 3G wireless network. 09
8. Distinguish between cordless and cellular system. 09
9. What do you mean by control channel and forward channel? 09
10. What do you mean by frequency reuse?09,07
11. Prove that for a hexagonal geometry the co-channel reuse ratio is given by Q=root
(3N) where N=I 09,07
12. Explain the handoff strategies.09
13. Define trunking and grade of service.
14. Write some coverage and capacity improving techniques in cellular system.
Describe one of them. 09,06
15. Discuss the co-channel interference and adjacent channel interference.09,07
16. Show that the frequency reuse factor for a cellular system is given by K/S where
K is the average number of channel per cell and S is the total number of channels
available to the cellular service provider. 09
17. Draw the various 2.5G and 3G upgrades path for major 2G technologies and
explain how these options provide significant improvement in the internet access
over the existing GSM system.08
18. What is wireless local area networks (WLANs) ? Illustrate the evaluation of
IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standards. 08
19. Explain why FM is used rather than AM most mobile radio system today. 06
20. Mention the second generation (2G) cellular networks. 06
21. Explain different channel assignment strategies. 06
22. What is the co-channel reuse of the cluster size 12? 06
23. What is log-normal shadowing? 06

Chapter 4: Large scale path loss

1. Derive an expression for the path loss for free-space propagation model. 09
2. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of the two-ray ground reflection model
in the analysis of path loss.09,07,06
3. If 50 watts is amplified to a unity gain antenna with a 900 MHz carrier frequency,
find i) the received power in dBm at a free space distance of 100m from the
antenna and ii) Pr(10km). 09 Example 4.2 page 109(here 3.2)

4. Show that in the ground model the total electric field at the receiver at a distance d
is given by | Etot(d) |=2 E where the symbols have their usual meaning.
 5. Show that the Brewster angle is given by the equation sin where the symbols have
their usual meaning. Example 4.7 page 168
6. Example 4.6

7. Briefly explain the three basic propagation mechanisms and define Brewster
angle. 07
8. Example math 4.2 109

Chapter 5: Small scale path loss

1. What do you mean by fading? Classify small-scale fading and briefly explain
each of them.08
2. Explain the spread spectrum channel sounding system with proper block
diagram.08
3. A transmitter radiates a sinusoidal carrier of frequencey1850 MHz. For a vehcle
moving at a speed of 60m/h, compute the received carrier frequency if the mobile
is moving directly toward the transmitter.08

4. What do you mean by small scale fading and large scale fading? 09
5. Write most influence factor of small scale fading? 09,06
6. Illustrate Doppler effect. 09,07
7. Write your concept about fast fading channel and show fading channel. 09
8. Describe direct RF pulse system and write the main drawback of this system. 09,
9. Define coherence bandwidth and coherence time. 09
10. Determine the maximum and minimum spectral frequencies received from
stationary GSM transmitter that has center frequency 2000 MHz . Assumming
that the receiver is traveling at the speed of i) 1km/hr ii) 5km/hr. 09 Ex 5.1

11. Describe how speed of mobile influence small scale fading.07

12. What is Doppler Shift. 07
13. Briefly explain the Doppler spread and coherence time parameter. 07
14. Math 5.7 page 207 (here 4.6)

15. Briefly explain the fading effect due to multipath time delay spread.07
16. Mention the different techniques of small scale multipath measurements.07
17. Math Example 5.1

Chapter 7: Equalization, Diversity

1. What do you mean by equalization? 08,07,06
2. Explain frequency diversity and time diversity. 08
3. Briefly discuss the fundamentals of channel coding. Give the example of block
codes. 08
 4. If f=9000 MHz and the mobile velocity ,v =80km/h, find i) maximum Doppler
shitft ii) the coherence time of the channel. Ex. 7.3 page 373

5. Define equalization.
6. Explain linear equalizer with block diagram.07
7. Explain the least mean square algorithm for adaptive equalization.
8. Math Example 7.3 © pate 373
9. Define equalization, diversity and channel coding. 06
10. Explain Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) equalizer with block
diagram. 06
11. Describe the factor used to measure performance of an algorithm for an equalizer.

Chapter 9: Multiple access technique for wireless communication technique

1. Write some feature of CDMA system. 09
2. Describe FDMA and TDMA system. 09
3. A normal GSM time slot consists of six trailing bits 8.25 guard bits 26 trailing
bits, and two traffic bursts of 58 bits of data find the frame efficiently: 09,08,07
4. Discuss the characteristics of speech signals. 0
5. What do you mean by frequency division multiple accesses (FDMA)? Discuss
the main features of FDMA.08
6. Explain space division multiple access (SDMA).08
7. Example 9.2 page 452 ( here 8.2 )