GC University, Faisalabad

Department of Telecom Engineering

Assignment-2

Course code: BTE - 473 Course Title: Mobile Communications

Marks: 50

Q. No. 1: (CLO-2, PLO-2)

Consider a 7 cell system covering an area of 3100Km2. The traffic in seven cells is as follows.

Cell No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Traffic 30.8 66.7 48.6 33.2 38.2 37.8 32.6

Each user generates an average of 0.03 Erlangs of traffic per hour, with a mean holding time of 120
seconds. The system consists of a total of 395 channels and is designed for a GOS of 0.02.

Give

a. The number of subscribers in each cell

b. Subscriber density per cell
c. The total traffic (Erlangs)
d. Radius of the cell

Q. No. 2: (CLO-2, PLO-2)

Summarize the performance metrics that are used to make the decision of Handoff during a
mobile unit assisted Handoff scheme.

Q. No. 3: (CLO-2, PLO-2)

Illustrate briefly the practical link budget design using the following path loss models.

a. Log-distance path loss model b. Log- Normal Shadowing

Q. No. 4: (CLO-2, PLO-2)

Illustrate the design challenges in a designing a wireless sensor network.