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1. Illustrate the call flow message in GSM and WCDMA.

2. Illustrate the trigger for link addition, deletion and

replacement to the ‘Active set’.

3. Explain and illustrate the Event 1, 2, 3.

4. Explain and illustrate the concept of INTERFREQUENCY

HO?

5. Explain correlation between Ec/No vs. Ec/Io and RSCP

vs. RSSI.

6. State and explain any system messages you know?

7. What are the various contents of measurement reports?

8. The UE send a measurement report to the network and

the network send what to the UE?
 9. How do you solve dropped calls due to “RL to UE
connection lost”?

10. What facilitates a 2G to 3G cell reselection?

11. Explain and illustrate the compress mode concepts.

12. Illustrate the IRAT concepts

13. Explain the procedures of a PS call in GPRS/EDGE and

HSPA?

14. State and explain the RRC Layer functions you know. (
the more the better)

15. What’s the difference between RAB an RB.

16. Which channel has the maximum power in the WCDMA

CS system and what is it used for?
17. Elaborate on the 3 common event types explaining each
one and state which event type is most important for
INTERSYSTEM.

18. What a softer HO and give example?

19. Explain the procedure of INTERFREQUENCY HO?

20. Describe generally the parameters that need to be set for

INTERFREQUENCY HO explaining the function of each
parameter you describe.

21. What is a Spreading Factor and what SF does the AMR

12.2kbps service use?

22. What do you understand by AMR?

23. Describe HSPA and state which of its 2 parts has the
highest data rate?

24. What’s a CODE TREE in WCDMA?

25. What is the data evolution from the GPRS, EDGE, and
HSDPA?

26. How many codes are required to get 7.2Mbps in

HSDPA?

27. What’s a cell’s Maximum Bit Rate and how does it affect
the maximum throughput a UE can get from the cell?

28. Where is the channel resources of HSPA controlled?

29. What is HARQ and explain cell breathing.

30. What do you understand by model tuning and baseline?