TUTORIAL 2

(1) Explain with suitable example the relationship between co-channel reuse ratio, cluster size
and signal to interference ratio.

(2) There are three operators have just been awarded a license to operate a digital Global System
for Mobile Communication (GSM) using GSM1800. The first operator designs the cluster size
layout as shown in Figure Q2 while the second operator uses cell clusters with 60o sectors. The
third operator plans to design using omni-directional antenna clusters with 10 subscribers per
channel. Choose the best operator and verify your design in term of cluster size that can be
supported based on the given data as below:

The path loss,  is 4 and C/Ilthreshold = 15.5 dB must be met using hexagonal shape cellular design.

Figure Q2

(3) Analyze the tradeoff between sectoring and trunking efficiency for a four-cell cluster size. While
sectoring improves capacity by improving SIR, there is a loss due to decreased trunking
efficiency, since each sector must be trunked separately. Consider a wide range of total available
channels per cell and the impact of using three sectors and six sectors per cell.

(4) A certain city has an area of 1,300 square miles and is covered by a cellular system using a
7-cell reuse pattern. Each cell has a radius of 4 miles and the city is allocated 40 MHz of
spectrum with a full duplex channel bandwidth of 60 kHz. Assume a GOS of 2% for an Erlang
B system is specified. If the offered traffic per user is 0.03 Erlangs, compute:

(i) the number of cells in the service area,

(ii) the number of channels per cell,
(iii) traffic intensity of each cell,
(iv) the maximum carried traffic,
(v) the total number of users that can be served for 2% GOS.

(5) A cellular service operator decides to use a digital TDMA scheme which can tolerate a mean
carrier-to-interference ratio of C/Imean=18 dB. Assuming a path loss exponent of =3, find the
optimum value of the cluster size, N, for:

(a) omni-directional antennas (b) 120o sectoring and (c) 60o sectoring

By considering the trunking efficiency, which system will you choose? Will your choice be the
same if:

(a) path loss exponent, =4 ? (b) the C/I given is the worst case scenario and =6?