Assignment 3

1. What do you understand by ‘A link budget’? explain how would you calculate a link budget for a
wireless communication network, stating the expected approximate values. [10]
2. Explain the significance of DSP in:
a) Radar [6]
b) Image processing [6]
3. Suggest transmission channels that can be used in the following. Give frequencies of the
channels.
a) Fixed telephone network in a community [2]
b) Collection of data from a farm to a remote location. [2]
c) Calling London from Harare [2]
d) Several people in a class sharing a joke [2]
4. Construct a channel model for one of the following situations. Include all the channel
propagation effects expected in the channel. No two groups should choose the same
environmental model. [10]

Environmental Model
Vehicle to vehicle, Urban area, dense traffic, no line of sight

Vehicle to vehicle, urban area, dense traffic, line of sight

Vehicle to vehicle, Urban area, low traffic, no line of sight

Vehicle to vehicle, Urban area, low traffic, line of sight

Vehicle to vehicle, highway, medium traffic

Vehicle to vehicle, highway, low traffic

Node to node, Wireless sensor network in a power plant

Vehicle to roadside sensor, highway

Vehicle to roadside sensor, urban area, line of sight

Indoor to outdoor communication, choose the device

BTS communicating with mobile station

wireless communication from building to building

vehicle to vehicle, area with dense vegetation/ national park

 Vehicle to roadside sensor, urban area, no line of sight

FYI

Free space path loss,

Source: Wikipedia the free encyclopedia.

SNR= signal power(watts)/noise power(watts)

In decibels, SNR= 10log(SNR)