WC & LTE 4G broadband-15EC81: Module 1: Questions Bank

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

8th SEM E&C:
SUB: WC & LTE 4G broadband-15EC81
Module 1: Questions Bank
Q. No. Topic details RBT
1 Summarize the evolution of cellular technologies.
2 Give the examples of wireless system.
3 List the advantages of wireless communication. Also find its limitations.
4. Compare wireless with wired communication
5 What are the requirements of wireless communications?
6 Define the different communication frequency range in the frequency spectrum.
7 What is ISM frequency band?
8 What are main objectives of cellular communication?
8 What are the basic features of 1G cellular system? Give examples
9 What are the basic features of 2G cellular system? Give examples
10 Compare 1G with 2G cellular system. What are the limitation of 2G?
11 List the technical specification of 1G AMPS system.
12 Write the comparison table of popular 2G cellular system.
13 List the data rate requirements and radio interface of IMT -2000
14 Write the summary tables of major 3G standards.
15 Describe the HSPA and HSPA+.
16 What are the salient features of WiMAX
17 Compare HSPA+ and WiMAX to LTE.
18 Write the performance comparison table of 3GPP standards.
19 Describe the demand drivers for LTE.
20 Outline the key requirements of LTE design.
20* Name the important key enabling radio and core network technologies used in LTE
21* Select the OFDM is most suitable technologies for LTE by its advantages.
22* Why OFDM is not suitable for LTE uplink. How SC-FDMA address this issue?
24* Why multi-antenna techniques choose for LTE standard. What are the different
solution provided by multi-antenna in LTE?
25* What you mean by flat cellular architecture. How 3GPP build flat LTE-SAE architecture
26* Build the Evolved Packet Core architecture (EPC) of LTE by make use of basic radio and
network components and explain.
27 Table the key wireless channel parameters and its symbol.
28 Model and explain the path loss and shadowing.
29 Build the basic model for cellular concept.
30* Define (1) cell (2) cluster (3) frequency reuse (4) co cells (5) co channel reuse ratio
(6) CCI (7) ACI (8) sectoring with respect to cellular system
31* What is sectoring? Explain how cellular capacity can be increase by make use of 120
and 60 degree sectoring cells. Solve how much S/I ratio can be obtain for 60 degree
32* Model the broadband wireless channel for fading.
33* Name the wireless channel parameters. Give the thumb rule for broadband fading in
terms of fading channel.
34* Analyze how operating frequency (fc) and User mobility will effect on Doppler spread
and coherence time in LTE.
35 What are the main purpose of modelling broadband fading channels? Name the major
classes of fading models.

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36* List the pros and cons of statistical channel model? Classify the statistical models.
37* Which are domains to describe the statistical correlation of the received signal?
38* Which are the two effects occurs from fading? Explain.
39* What are empirical channel models? Build LTE models for Path-loss
40* Explain the 3GPP channel models for multipath and scattering.
41* Why we need semi empirical channel models. Illustrate the Pedestrian A, Pedestrian,
Vehicular A and Vehicular B multipath channel included by 3GPP2. ,
42* List the different techniques used to overcome narrowband fading.
43* Analyze the comparison of flat and fading channel performances in terms of BER v/s
SNR by considering m-level QAM.
44* Define spatial diversity? Why it is powerful diversity compare to time or frequency
diversity. How received S/I enhanced in this diversity scheme.
45* Give the roll of coding and interleaving process in LTE transmission. On what basis
coding scheme for categorize.
46* Build a convolution encoder for the coding rate r=1/3 defined in LTE broad cast
channel.
47* What are turbo codes? Explain with relevant block diagram.
48* How to mitigate the fluctuations in the LTE channel over time and frequency. Why
transmission data rate is vary in fading channel. How to solve this issue by using AMC.
49* With relevance block diagram, explain AMC
50* Explain how to mitigate fading in broadband channel.
51* What are equalization? Explain the two major classes of equalization.
52* What are three key design challenges in AMC? Why we need tuning AMC controller.

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 WC & LTE 4G broadband-15EC81: Module 2: Questions Bank

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

8th SEM E&C:
SUB: WC & LTE 4G broadband-15EC81
Module 2: Questions Bank
Q. No. Topic details RBT
1. Explain the concept of multicarrier modulation.
2. What are the purpose of using multicarrier modulation?
3. Name the technologies adopted multicarrier modulation technique.
4. Which are the channel condition are necessary to make ISI free channel?
5. With block diagram explain, Multicarrier transmitter and receiver.
6. How does OFDM work? Explain briefly.
7. Why has there been all the interest in OFDM in the past few years?
8. Name some of the wireless technologies that use OFDM.
9. How OFDM implemented in the real world?
10. With respect to OFDM, explain block transmission with guard intervals.
11. How ISI is removed within each OFDM signal. Explain? (circular convolution and DFT)
12. What is cyclic prefix? Why is it used? Explain in detail?
13. What is the importance of Cyclic Prefix in the OFDM system in LOS channels?
14. Why FFT is used instead of DFT? What are its requirement?
15. What is frequency equalization in OFDM?
16. Write a neat diagram of OFDM system in vector notation and explain its operation?
17. With a neat diagram explain OFDM baseband to pass band transmitter in LTE.
18. Define timing and frequency synchronization and explain in brief.
19. Write the SNR expression for timing synchronization and list the important performance
observation of the expression.
20. Write the equation for SNR loss due to frequency offset and write your remarks.
21. What are the main drawbacks of OFDM?
22. Define PAPR. Explain the PAPR problems? How PAR can be reduced using clipping?
23. Explain quantifying of PAR.
24. Explain LTE’s approach to PAR with graph.
25. Why OFDM is not suitable for LTE uplink. Which is suitable modulation scheme for uplink.
26. Explain SC-FDE with block diagram.
27. Differentiate the performances of SC-FDE and OFDM.
28. Differentiate between design considerations of SC-FDE and OFDM.
29. List the different types of multiple accesses methods.
30. Which are multiple access methods are used in 1G, 2G ,3G and 4G system.
31. Differentiate between random access and multiple access.
32. Explain three multiple access techniques for OFDM systems.
33. What is OFDMA? Explain the working of OFDMA with block diagrams of uplink and
downlink transmitters and receivers.
34. List the advantages and disadvantages of OFDMA.
35. What is SC-FDMA? Explain with uplink transmitter and receiver block diagrams.
36. List the advantages and disadvantages of SC-FDMA
37. Explain the concept of resource block in detail.
38. Name three categories of multiple antenna techniques.
39. What is spatial diversity? Explain the two types of gains achieved in spatial diversity.
40. How to increase the data rate with spatial diversity? Explain.

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41. Explain, how spatial diversity increase the coverage with reduced transmit power.
42. What is receive diversity?
43. Explain the two combining algorithms of receive diversity.
44. Compare selection combing v/s maximal ration combing (MRC).
45. What is transmit diversity? Why it not suitable for uplink?
46. Name the two classes of transmit diversity.
47. Explain open loop transmit diversity. Mention the advantages and limits of transmit
diversity.
48. What is closed loop transmit diversity? Explain its types.
49. Differentiate between transmit diversity and receive diversity.
50. Explain the three approaches for interference suppression and signal enhancement..
51. What is spatial multiplexing?
52. Explain the operation principle with 2×2 spatial multiplexing system.
53. What is MIMO? Name two types of MIMO.
54. List the different techniques used in open loop MIMO?
55. What are the different techniques used in closed loop MIMO?
56. Explain how to choose between diversity, interference suppression and spatial
multiplexing.

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 WC & LTE 4G broadband-15EC81: Module 3: Questions Bank

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

8th SEM E&C:
SUB: WC & LTE 4G broadband-15EC81
Module 3: Questions Bank
Q. No. Topic details RBT
1. List the components of LTE architecture.
2. Write the full form of i). RNC ii) UTRAN iii) E-UTRAN iv). GERAN
3. Find the functional entities of UTRAN and E-UTRAN.
4. Compare the architectural difference between UTRAN and E-UTRAN.
5. Explain the radio interface architectures of UTRAN and E-UTRAN.
6. List and briefly explain the design principles of LTE.
7. Build the LTE end-to-end network architecture and explain each components.
8. Classify the LTE radio interface protocols and identify different layers present.
9. With diagram, explain packet flow in the user plane in LTE radio interface protocol stack.
10. Write the functions of PDCP protocol.
11. List out the different channel types defined in LTE.
12. Construct the LTE radio interface protocol stack and architecture and SAPs between
layers.
13. With the LTE channel structure explain list out the three classes of channels.
14. Describe Logical channels.
15. Explain the classification of Transport channels briefly.
16. Explain special added channel feature of physical channels.
17. Briefly explain channel mapping with the neat diagram
18. Describe the Frame structure type 1 of Downlink OFDMA radio resources with relevant
neat diagram.
19. Build the Frame structure type 2 of Downlink OFDMA radio resources and explain special
sub frames.
20. Draw the structure of downlink resource grid and explain the parameters of resource grid.
21. What do you mean by resource allocation? With an example explain the types of resource
allocation in Downlink OFDMA radio resource.
22. List out the supported SU-MIMO modes of Downlink OFDMA radio resources.
23. Build the structure of the uplink resource grid and briefly explain about the physical
resource blocks for SC- FDMA.
24. Draw the neat block diagram of downlink transport channel processing and identify the 2
different process.
25. List out the channel coding processing steps. Explain each processing procedure.
26. With the neat block diagram explain modulation processing by listing out the processing
blocks.
27. Explain the tail biting conventional coding with data rate 1/3 encoder diagram.
28. What are Turbo codes, explain with relevant block diagram.
29. What is rate matching? What are different ways to achieve rate matching?
30. Mention seven transmission modes defined for data transmission on the PDSCH channel.
31. Classify transmission MIMO modes.
32. Write a short note on i)H- ARQ Indicator(HI). ii) Broadcast channels(PBCH)
iii)Multicast channels
33. What are steps involved in modulation mapping?
34. Explain the concept of resource mapping.
35. Describe the channel encoding and modulation for downlink shared channels.

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36. List the seven different transmission modes defined for data transmission on the PDSCH
channel.
37. Explain down link control channel and its mapping.
38. Describe the ten different DCI formats for different transmission scenarios.
39. Explain the coding and modulation process involved in DCI.
40. Explain the broadcast and multicast channels.
41. Which are the down link physical signals, explain each.
42. Brief the concept of H-ARQ in the down link.

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 WC & LTE 4G broadband-15EC81: Module 4: Questions Bank

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

8th SEM E&C: SUB: WC & LTE 4G broadband-15EC81
Module 4: Questions Bank
Q. No. Topic details RBT
1. Which are design factors are consider during uplink transport channel processing.
2. Which are the two processes involved in channel transport channel processing.
3. Construct the overview of uplink transport channel processing.
4. Explain channel coding processing.
5. What is meant by modulation processing?
6. With a neat block diagram briefly explain generation of SC-FDMA baseband signal
7. Explain channel mapping around the uplink shared channel.
8. Brief the encoding and modulation process involved in uplink shared channels.
9. Explain frequency hopping requirement in LTE uplink channels.
10. Illustrate the frequency hopping on PUSCH channels.
11. Explain different types of transmit antenna selection
12. Write a note on MU-MIMO in uplink
13. Explain the physical layer control information
14. Briefly explain a) UCI on PUCCH b) UCI on PUSCH with UL-SCH data c)UCI on PUSH
without UL-SCH data
15. Explain resource mapping
16. Discuss about 2 types of reference signal defined in the uplink
17. What is reference signal sequence
18. Explain about resource mapping of demodulation reference signal
19. Explain about resource mapping of sounding reference signal
20. Brief out H-ARQ in the UPLINK
21. Explain FDD and TDD mode of H-ARQ in LT uplink.
22. What is meant by H-ARQ feedback for downlink transmission and uplink transmission
23. Explain channel quality indicator feedback
24. Brief out primer on CQI estimation
25. How reporting of CQI,PMI and RI in the time domain are categorized
26. Differentiate between higher layer configured subband and UE selected subband report
27. Explain a) UE selected Subband CQ b) Wideband CQI c) A periodic CQI reporting
28. Summarize UE-Selected Subband feedback
29. What is precode estimation for multicarrier system
30. What is precoding matrix index and rank indication feedback
31. Explain 4 different MIMO modes
32. What is uplink channel sounding
33. Explain buffer status reporting in uplink
34. What is meant by scheduling and resource allocation
35. Explain signalling for scheduling in downlink and uplink
36. Write a note on multiuser MIMO signalling
37. Brief out changes in the signalling structure in semi-persistent scheduling
38. Explain the cell search process in LTE.
39. What do you meant by random access procedure, Why it is needed?
40. Brief out power control in uplink
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 WC & LTE 4G broadband-15EC81: Module 5: Questions Bank
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
8th SEM E&C:
SUB: WC & LTE 4G broadband-15EC81
Module 5: Questions Bank
Q. No. Topic details RBT
1. What is bearer service? Briefly explain relevance of bearer service.
2. Which are two classes of bearer service.
3. Explain in brief EPS bearer service architecture?
4. Explain the divisions between the UE and the core network in the protocol architecture of
LTE?
5. With diagram, brief the user and control plane protocol stack of LTE.
6. Explain Layer 2 structure for downlink with diagram?
7. Explain PDCP functions for the user plane and the control plane with a block diagram?
8. Explain the categories of PDCP PDU? Also explain PDCP data PDU formats for the user
plane and the control plane?
9. Write a short note on Header Compression?
10. Write a short note on integrity and ciphering?
11. Describe MAC/RLC Overview?
12. What are the three different modes in which RLC entity can be operated? Explain in brief?
13. What are the main services and functions of the RLC sublayer?
14. What are the main services and functions of the MAC sublayer?
15. Explain in brief the format of STATUS PDU?
16. Explain in brief the format of a typical MAC subheader?
17. Explain in brief ARQ Procedures?
18. Explain Two RRC states in LTE?
19. What are the main functions of the RRC protocol?
20. Write a short note on Mobility Management?
21. Which are the three different phases involved in Mobility Management? Explain each in
brief?
22. Which are the phases involved mobility management over X2 interface? Explain each in
brief?
23. Explain RAN Procedures for Mobility?
24. Write a short note on Paging?
25. Write a short note on Inter-Cell Interference Coordination?
26. Explain the three basic approaches to mitigate ICI in the downlink?
27. Explain in brief ICI coordination/avoidance?
28. Explain Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission?
29. Explain the basic approaches for uplink ICI mitigation?
30. Explain concept of coordinated multipoint reception.

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