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THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
ECX6239 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION 2013/2014
Assignment #3
Answer all the questions.




PART A

Q1. What is the motivation behind going for the cellular concept rather than deploying a powerful
single base station at a very high altitude to cover the whole area?

Q2. Highlighting the different multiple access techniques, compare the different generations of
cellular communication systems.

Q3. CDMA systems capacity is limited by noise. Discuss this statement.

Q4. Discuss the advantages in dynamic resource allocation in cellular systems.

Q5. Explain the need for power control and the commonly used approaches for power control in
cellular systems.

Q6. Compare different types of handoffs used in cellular systems. What is the benefit of having many
types of hand offs?

Q7. Compare and contrast the two narrowband wireless concepts Bluetooth and Zigbee under
different layers of the ISO-OSI reference model.

Q8. What is Ultra Wide Band radio? Explain the technology behind this technique and the
applications.



PART B

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a techniques widely used in todays
broadband cellular networks. Completely explain the technical details of OFDM.