Tutorial-01

Mobile Communication
1. If a transmitter produces 50W of power, express the transmit power
in units of (a)dBm, and (b)dbW.If 50W is applied to a unity gain
antenna with a 900 MHz carrier frequency, find the received power in
dBm at a freespace distance of 100m from the antenna. What is
Pr(10km)? Assume unity gain for the receiver antenna.

2. Given the following geometry, determine (a) the loss due to knife edge
diffraction, and (b) the height of the obstacle required to induce 6 dB
diffraction loss. Assume f=900 MHz.

3. Find the median path loss using Okumura’s model for d=50 km,
hle=100 m, hre=10 m in a suburban environment. If the base station
transmitter radiates an EIRP of 1 KW at a carrier frequency of 900
MHz, find the power at the receiver (assuming a unity gain receiving
antenna).

4. Consider a cellular system operating at 900 MHz where propagation

follows free space path loss with variations from log normal
shadowing with σ = 6 dB. Suppose that for acceptable voice quality a
signal-to-noise power ratio of 15 dB is required at the mobile. Assume
the base station transmits at 1 W and its antenna has a 3 dB gain. There
is no antenna gain at the mobile and the receiver noise in the
bandwidth of interest is -40 dBm. Find the maximum cell size so that
a mobile on the cell boundary will have acceptable voice quality
90% of the time.
5. Consider a cellular system where path loss follows the simplied model
with γ = 6, and there is also log normal shadowing with σ = 8dB. If the
received power at the cell boundary due to path loss is 20 dB higher
than the minimum required received power for nonoutage, find the
cell coverage area.