THE UNIVERSITY OF TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

FINAL ASSESSMENT/EXAMINATIONS APRIL 2011

Course Code and Title: ITCT507M Wireless Communications Systems

Programme: Masters of Science

Date and Time: Tuesday 12th April, 2011 Duration: 5:00pm – 8:00pm

PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN THIS

EXAMINATION

Instructions to Candidates

1. This paper has 4 pages and 10 questions.

2. You are required to answer ALL questions.
3. Each question is worth 10 points. The total is 100 points.

Key Examination Protocol

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2. The above mentioned and any other actions which compromise the integrity of the academic
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3. Please be reminded that speaking without the Invigilator’s permission is NOT allowed.

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Question 1

If 20 MHz of total spectrum is allocated for a duplex wireless cellular system and each simplex
channel has 25 kHz RF bandwidth, find:

a. the total number of duplex channels

b. the total number of channels per cell site, if N = 4 reuse is used.

Question 2

Consider a transmitter which radiates a sinusoidal carrier frequency of 1850 MHz. For a vehicle
moving 60 km/hour, compute the received carrier frequency if the mobile is moving

1) directly toward the transmitter

2) directly away from the transmitter
3) in a direction which is perpendicular to the direction of arrival of the transmitting
signal.

Question 3

A TDMA system uses a 48.6 kbps data rate to support 3 users per frame. Each user occupies 2 of
6 time slots per frame. What is the raw data rate provided for each user?

Question 4

If a mobile radio link operates with 30 dB SNR and uses a 200 kHz channel, find the theoretic
maximum data capacity possible. How does your answer compare to what is offered by the GSM
standard, which operates at channel rate of 270.8333 kbps?

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Question 5

For the following bit stream to be transmitted as 8-PSK (see the following diagram), what are the
phase shifts between symbols?

001000111101110011010010101011

Question 6

A DS-CDMA system is expected to have a processing gain of 10 dB. The expected data rate is
9600 bps. What would the chip rate be? If BPSK modulation will be employed, what is the
bandwidth required for transmission using a null-to-null criteria?

Question 7

Which is the following is not TRUE of GSM? Check all that apply.

(a) The uplink and downlink channels are separated by 45 MHz.

(b) There are eight half-rate users in one timeslot.
(c) GSM uses a constant envelope modulation
(d) Soft handoff possible
(e) Use slow frequency hopping
(f) No hard limits on capacity

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Question 8

A cellular service provider decides to use a digital TDMA scheme which can tolerate a signal-to-
interference ratio of 15 dB in the worst case. Find the optimal value N for (a) omni-directional
antennas, (b) 1200 sectoring, (c) 600 sectoring. Should sectoring be used? If so, which case (1200
or 600) should be used? (Assume the path loss exponent n = 4, and consider the trunking effect).

Question 9

How many users can be supported for 0.5% blocking probability for the following number of
trunked channels in a blocked calls cleared system? (a) 1, (b) 5, (c) 10, (d) 20, (e) 100. Assume
each user generates 0.1 Erlangs of traffic. Explain the trunking effect.

Question 10

According the diagram below, please describe spreading and dispreading process.

END OF EXAMINATION

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