UNIT-I SERVICES AND TECHNICAL CHALLENGES PART- A 1. List out the different types of wireless services. 2.

What is the alternative form of WLAN? 3. Differentiate fixed wireless access systems and cordless systems. 4. What are all the requirements for the services? 5. What are all the technical challenges of wireless communications? 6. Define LOS. 7. Define fading. 8. What is mean by irreducible errors? 9. Define frequency reuse. 10. What is mean by noise limited systems? 11. Define link budget. 12. What is the difference between interference and noise? 13. What shapes do cells normally take on? 14. Differentiate packet radio and TDMA. 15. What is the basic principle of CSMA? 16. Define FDD. 17. List the functions of MSC. 18. What is Forward Channel? 19. What is Reverse Channel? 20. . Draw a cell cluster having a size of seven. 21. TDD is only possible with digital transmission. Why?

PART B Explain about different types of services with examples. Explain about the requirements for the services. Differentiate wired and wireless communication. Briefly explain about the fading in multipath propagation. Explain about the spectrum limitations in wireless communication systems. Explain about the noise limited systems. Explain about the interference limited systems. Give short notes on a. FDMA b. TDMA c. CDMA 9. Give short notes on a. Packet radio b. ALOHA c. CSMA 10. Give short notes on Duplexing. 11. Explain about the principles of cellular networks. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

UNIT II WIRELESS PROPAGATION CHANNELS PART A 1. State EIRP. 2. What is Fraunhofer region? 3. What are all the three basic propagation mechanisms? 4. Define reflection. 5. Define diffraction. 6. Define scattering. 7. What is Brewster angle? 8. Draw the two ray ground reflection model. 9. Define multipath waves. 10. What is Doppler shift? 11. Define Doppler spread and coherence time. 12. Write the free space propagation path loss equation. 13. What are the main applications for channel model? 14. List the narrow band models. 15. List the wide band models. 16. What is coherence bandwidth? 17. Define the term propagation models. 18. Compute the Rayleigh distance of a square antenna with 20db gain. 19. Differentiate dB,dBm and dBw. 20. Define path loss. PART B 1. Derive the Free space path loss equation 2. Explain about Outdoor Propagation models. 3. Explain about Indoor Propagation models. 4. Explain about Reflection in Mobile Radio Propagation with the help of Two ray Ground Reflection model. 5. Explain about Diffraction in Mobile Radio Propagation with the help of Knife Edge Diffraction model. 6. Explain in detail about the Factors influencing fading. 7. What are the parameters involved in mobile multipath channels? Describe them in detail. 8. Explain about the narrow band models. 9. Explain about the wideband models. 10. Assuming free space propagation, a receiver is located 10 km away from a 50W transmitter. The carrier frequency is 900MHz,antenna gain at transmitter and receiver is 1 and 2 respectively. Calculate a. Power received at the receiver. b. The magnitude of the E-field at the receiver antenna. c. The power flux density. d. The rms voltage applied to the receiver input. The receiver antenna has 50 impedance and is matched to the receiver.

UNIT III WIRELESS TRANSCEIVERS PART A 1. Define multiplexer. 2. Define digital modulation. 3. Define bandwidth efficiency. 4. Define phase modulation. 5. Differentiate QPSK and OQPSK. 6. Differentiate MSK and GMSK. 7. Define bit error ratio. 8. How can you determine the BER in fading channels? 9. Differentiate frequency dispersion and delay dispersion. 10. Draw the canonical receiver structure. 11. Define noise bandwidth. 12. Write the equation for GMSK bit error rate. 13. What is meant by Intersymbol Interference? 14. Write a brief note about the Gaussian pulse shaping filter. 15. Write a short note on Differential PSK. 16. Write a short note on /4 QPSK. 17. What is meant by absolute bandwidth and half power bandwidth? 18. What is mean by higher order QAM? 19. Define antipodal signals. 20. Define bit error probability. 21. What is meant by constant envelope modulation? PART B Explain the binary frequency shift keying with suitable equations. What is meant by quadrature phase shift keying? Write in detail about the transmission and detection of QPSK signals with block diagrams. 3. Explain the binary phase shift keying and derive the probability of bit error. 4. Write in detail about the detection techniques for a /4 QPSK signal. 5. Explain about the transceiver block structure. 6. Find the 3dB bandwidth for a Gaussian low pass filter used to produce 0 .25 GMSK with a channel data rate of Rb =270 kbps. What is the 90% power bandwidth in the RF channel? Specify the Gaussian filter parameter . 7. Assume that 0= 00. The bit stream 001011 is to be sent using / 4 DQPSK. The left most bits are first applied to the transmitter. Determine the phase of k and the values of Ik and Qk during transmission. 8. Briefly explain about MSK. 9. Explain about the error probability in flat fading channels. 10. Explain about the error probability in delay and frequency dispersive fading channels. 1. 2.

UNIT IV SIGNAL PROCESSING IN WIRELESS SYSTEMS PART A 1. Define diversity. 2. Define correlation coefficient. 3. Define micro diversity. 4. What is mean by spatial diversity? 5. Differentiate temporal and frequency diversity. 6. Differentiate angular and polarization diversity. 7. Differentiate macro diversity and micro diversity. 8. What is mean by simulcast? 9. Define combining diversity. 10. What is RSSI? 11. List out the drawbacks in BER-driven diversity. 12. Define transmit diversity. 13. What is the function of equalizer? 14. Define linear equalizer. 15. Draw the structure of Decision Feedback equalizers. 16. What is channel coding? 17. Differentiate error detection codes and error correction codes. 18. Write the Shannons channel capacity formula. 19. What are types of codes? 20. Define code rate. 21. What are all the characteristics of speech signals? 22. Define vocoders. PART B 1. Briefly explain about the micro diversity. 2. Give short notes on a. Macro diversity. b. Simulcast. 3. Explain about combining diversity. 4. Differentiate block codes and convolutional codes. 5. Briefly explain about the characteristics of speech signals. 6. Explain about the working principle of Vocoders. 7. Explain about the operation of Linear equalizer. 8. Explain about the operation of Decision Feedback equalizer with suitable block diagram. 9. Briefly explain about the frequency domain speech coding. 10. Consider a sub band coding scheme where the speech bandwidth is partitioned into four bands. The table below gives the corner frequencies of each band along with the no of bits used to encode each band. Assuming that no side information need be transmitted, compute the minimum encoding rate of this SBC coder.

Sub band number 1 2 3 4

Frequency band 225-450 450-900 1000-1500 1800-2700

No of encoding bits 4 3 2 1

UNIT V ADVANCED TRANSCEIVER SCHEMES PART A

1. Define spread spectrum. 2. What is mean by frequency hopping? 3. Differentiate auto correlation function and cross correlation function. 4. Define soft handover. 5. How can you increase the capacity in CDMA systems? 6. What is Rake receiver? 7. Define OFDM. 8. Draw the transceiver structure of OFDM. 9. What is mean by cyclic prefix? 10. List out GSM services. 11. List out the interfaces used in GSM. 12. Give the classification of GSM channels. 13. Draw the frame structure of GSM. 14. What type of modulation is used in IS-95? 15. What is the function of data scrambler in IS-95? 16. What are the features of 3G networks? 17. What is UMTS? 18. What is mean by W-CDMA? 19. What are the improvements in cdma2000 1X over 2G and 2.5G CDMA systems? 20. What is mean by TD-SCDMA?

PART B 1. Explain about the frequency hopped multiple access. 2. Explain about the direct sequence spread spectrum with suitable block diagrams. 3. Briefly explain about the effects of multipath propagation on code division multiple access. 4. Explain about the principle of OFDM. 5. Give short notes on a. Implementation of transceivers in OFDM. b. Frequency selective channels in OFDM. 6. Explain about the GSM architecture. 7. Explain about the synchronization in GSM. 8. Explain about the IS-95 mobile station transmitter and IS-95 down link. 9. Give short notes on a. 3G wireless networks b. UMTS 10. Give short notes on a. 3G cdma2000 b. 3G TD-SCDMA