BansilalRamnathAgarwal Charitable Trust’s

VISHWAKARMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

(An Autonomous Institute Affiliated to SavitribaiPhule Pune University)
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC AND TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Wireless communication – ET 3014 Third Year 2018-19 sem 2

assignment questions
Section 1

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Section 2

31.Using the following data for Groupe Special Mobile/Global System for
Mobile Communications 1800, evaluate the impact of LUs on the radio
resource and calculate the MSC/VLR transaction load using the fluid
flow model.
• Density of mobile in the cell _ 6000 mobiles/km2
• Cell radius _ 1 km
• Average moving velocity of a mobile _ 20 km/hour
• Number of cells per LA _ 8
• Number of LAs per MSC/VLR _ 4

32.Describe mobility models that are used in cellular systems to determine

location updates and number of handoffs.

33.What is mobile registration? Why is it used?

34.Describe different types of registration schemes that can be used in a

cellular system.

35.Describe the main features of the GSM token-based registration

scheme.

36.What is handoff in a cellular system? Why is handoff used?

37. Describe various handoff techniques used in mobile networks.

38.What are the differences between hard and soft handoff methods?

39.Describe the steps used in the handoff process of a cellular system.

40.Develop a flow diagram for an intra-MSC handoff in the CDMA IS-95

network.

41.Why are so many logical channels used in the GSM?

42.Discuss briefly HSDPA for WCDMA.

43.What is the high-speed circuit switched data (HSCSD) in the GSM?

44.What is the role of the general packet radio service (GPRS) in the
GSM?

45.Using the following data for a GSM1800 network, calculate (1) average
busy hour traffic per subscriber, (2) traffic capacity per cell, (3)
required number of base stations per zone, and (4) the hexagonal cell
radius for the zone.
• Subscriber usage per month = 150 minutes
• Days per month = 24
• Busy hours per day = 6
• Allocated spectrum = 4.8 MHz
• Frequency reuse plan = 4/12
• RF channel width = 200 kHz (full rate)
• Present number of subscribers in the zone = 50,000
• Subscriber growth = 5% per year
• Area of the zone = 500 km2
• Initial installation based on a four-year design
• Capacity of a base station transceiver (BTS) = 30 Erlangs

46.Explain forward CDMA channel modulation process.

47.What is CCS? Draw and Explain the CCS network architecture.

48.Explain ISDN along with the block diagram.

49.Draw GSM system architecture and explain various interfaces in GSM.

50.Describe beamforming in the context of MIMO wireless system.

51.Consider the MIMO channel with channel matrix H given as

H = { 2 -6 0 ;3 4 0 ; 0 0 2 } Compute the SVD of the given matrix and

illustrate how you would do maximum ratio transmission in this
scenario ?

52.Consider the MIMO channel matrix H = { 1 3 ; 2 -2 ; 1 1 }

Compute the zero forcing receiver for H.
53.Describe 3 GPP LTE .

54.Explain the frame format of IEEE 802.16

55.What are the different Multiple Antenna Techniques ?