WIRELESS COMMUNICATION-ECT402
QUESTION BANK
MODULE 1
1. Give important features of 5G system.
2. Discuss different handoff strategies.
3. What is cell splitting? How does it improve system performance?
4. Determine the total number of channels and capacity for a system consisting of 10
clusters with 7 cells in each cluster and 10 channels
5. Difference between soft and hard handoff.
6. What are the different types of handoff.
7. Explain microcell zone concept in detail.
8. In a given path loss exponent n=4
i) n=4
ii) n=3
find the freq reuse factor and no of cells that should be used for maximum
capacity .Signal to interference ratio is 15dB is required for satisfactory
performance of the system .Assume there are 6 co channel cells.
9. How are co-channel signal-to-interference ratio, cluster size and system capacity are
related to one another in a cellular system ? Explain with necessary equations
10. With the help of neat diagram explain how to improve the capacity of cellular system
by sectoring process.
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11. Explain the different types of interferences.
12. Explain the Umbrella Cell approach.
13. Explain channel assignment strategies.
14. Explain the different methods to improve the capacity of a cellular system
15. Explain the architecture of wireless LAN (WLAN).
16. List three differences between 2G and 3G systems.
17. Compare 1G,2G,3G,4G and 5G.
18. Consider a system with 100 cells. Each cell has c= 20channels.The average user λ= 2
calls/hour. The average duration of each cell (H) is 3 minutes. How many number of
users can be supported if the allowed probability of blocking is 2%. Given value of
A=13 Erlang.
19. Briefly explain trunking and grade of services.
20. Suppose the derived S/I =18dB. Path loss exponent n=4. How much capacity increase
can occure if we use microcell zoning of 3 zones/cell.
21. Compare Wireless LAN and PAN.
22. Explain wireless spectrum allocation and its standards.
23. Explain WIMAX technology
Prepared By: Ms. LAKSHMI PRIYA K
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR –ECE DEPT.
EKC TECHINACAL CAMPUS,MANJERI
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION-ECT402
MODULE 2
1. Explain the effect of multipath propagation using 2-raymodel.
2. Explain the impulse response of a multipath channel.
3. Derive the expression of a free space path loss.
4. A vehicle is travelling at 60 km/hr towards a base station of height 30m. The MS is 1
km from the BS. The frequency of operation is 900MHz .What is the received freq at
the MS.
5. Compare Coherence bandwidth and coherence time.
6. Explain the time dispersive nature of a cellular system.
7. Compare Flat fading and frequency selective fading.
8. Briefly explain the capacity of flat fading channels at different scenarios.
9. If a user is travelling in a car at a speed of 60 miles/ hr is receiving a signal to which
mobile phone with a cutoff frequency of 1.85GHz. Find the Doppler shift and also
calculate the received signal frequency .The antenna of the base station is located at
an angle of 30 degree and the vehicle is moving towards the base station.
10. Give the expression for capacity of flat fading AWGN channel with CSIR. Describe
how it is obtained assuming AWGN capacity.
11. Derive the capacity of an AWGN channel.
12. Derive the capacity of CSI-R
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13. Calculate the mean excess delay ,rms delay spread, and the maximum delay (10dB)
for the ,multipath profile given in the figure below,
14. Explain the effect of multipath propagation using 2-ray model.
15. Explain the time dispersive nature and time varrying nature of a signal as a function
of symbol perios(Ts) and signal bandwidth (Bs).
16. Explain the notion of delay spread and coherence bandwidth.
17. Distinguish flat fading and slow fading.
18. Consider a flat-fading channel with iid channel gains g[i] which can take on values
g1=0.05 with probablity p1=0.1, g2=0.5 with probability p2=0.5, and g3=1 with
probability p3=0.4. The transmit power is 10mW, noise spectral density N0 = 10-9
W/Hz, and channel bandwidth is 30kHz. Assume instantaneous CSI-R, but transmitter
does not have CSI. Compute the capacity of the channel.
Prepared By: Ms. LAKSHMI PRIYA K
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR –ECE DEPT.
EKC TECHINACAL CAMPUS,MANJERI
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION-ECT402
19. Explain the time varrying nature of a cellular system.
20. Explain in detail about the relation between coherence time and Doppler spread..
21. Assuming narrow band fading model, derive statistical characterization of in-phase
and quadrature components of a received signal when an unmodulated carrier is
transmitted.
22. Write short note on multipath fading.
23. Explain the condition for Jensen’s Inequality.
24. Compare small scaling and large scale fading.
MODULE 3
1. Derive expression for average probability of error in BPSK under Rayleigh flatfading
when symbol duration is roughly equal to channel coherence time.
2. With the help of block diagram explain Multicarrier modulation in transmitter and
receiver section.
3. Explain the average error probability of a multicarrier modulation technique.
4. In OFDM , the linear convolution is converted in to circular convolution using cyclic
prefix, explain the process..
5. Explain the OFDM with IFFT/FFT implementation.
6. What is Peak-to-Average Power-Ratio (PAPR) in OFDM system? How can it be
reduced ?
7. Determine the average SNR per bit of BPSK modulation in Rayleigh slow-fading
channel such that 95% of the times, average probability of bit error is less than 10-4..
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8. Explain multi-carrier modulation in OFDM.
9. Define PAPR.
10. Define outage probability.
11. What is the purpose of using cyclic prefix in an OFDM system?
Prepared By: Ms. LAKSHMI PRIYA K
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR –ECE DEPT.
EKC TECHINACAL CAMPUS,MANJERI
