Umm AlQura University

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Dr. Abdulfattah Noorwali

Assignment # 1

[Submission Date: February 12, 2018]

1. What is the received power (in dB) in free space of a signal whose transmit power
is 1W and carrier frequency is 2.4 GHz, if the receiver is at a distance of 1 mile (1.6
km) from the transmitter? What is the path loss in dB?
2. A voice-grade channel of the telephone network has a bandwidth of 3.4 kHz. (a)
Calculate the information capacity of the telephone channel for a signal-to-noise
ratio of 35dB; (b) Calculate the minimum signal-to-noise ratio required to support
information transmission through the telephone channel at the rate of 9600 bits per
second.
3. (a) Find the average capacity in bits/sec that would be required to transmit a high
resolution B/W TV signal at the rate of 32 pictures per second, if the picture is made
up of 2x10 6 picture elements and 16 different brightness levels. All picture
elements are assumed to be independent and all levels have equal likelihood
occurrence. (b) For color TV, this system additionally provides for 64 different
shades of color. How much more system capacity is required for a color system
compared to B/W system?
4. Given a wireless bridge with 200mW of output power connected through a 100 foot
cable with 6 dB loss to an antenna with 9 dBi of gain, what is the EIRP at the
antenna in dBm?
5. It is desired to send a sequence of computer screen images over an optical fiber.
The screen is 480x640 pixels, each pixel is 24 bits. There are 60 screen images per
second. How much bandwidth is required? Assume 1Hz is required to transmit
1bps.
6. How long does it take to transmit an 8 inch by 10 inch image by facsimile over an
ISDN B channel (64 kbps)? The facsimile digitizes the image into 300 pixels per
inch and assigns 4 bits per pixel. Current FAX machines go faster than this over
ordinary telephone lines. How do you think they do it?
7. A TDM system operates at 100Mbps with a 2ms frame time. Assume that all the
slots are of equal length and that a guard time of 1  s is required between slots. (a)
Compute the efficiency of the system for the case of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100
slots per frame; (b) Repeat (a) assuming a 100-bit preamble is required at the start
of each slot. Compute the efficiency of the system; (c) Graph the results of (a) and
(b).

8. (a) Suppose that 1000 bits of user data are to be transmitted over a 3-hop path in a
packet–switched network as a series of packets, each containing 100 data bits and
10 header bits. The bit rate of the lines is 1kbps and the propagation delay is
negligible. What is the total delay in transmitting the user data?
(b) Suppose that 𝑥 bits are to be transmitted over a 𝑘-hop path in a packet switched
network as a series of packets, each containing 𝑝 data bits and ℎ header bits,
with 𝑥 ≫ 𝑝 + ℎ. The bit rate of the lines is 𝑏 bps and the propagation delay is
negligible. What value of 𝑝 minimizes the total delay.