SHIV NADAR

Department of Electrical Engineering

Communication Networks (EED304) - Monsoon 2022
Instructor: Prof. Vinod Sharma

ASSIGNMENT-3

electromagnetic interference?
I. What are the differences between path loss, multipath fading, and
2. What is the role of the beacon frame in 802.11?
between CSMA/CD
3. Why are acks used in 802.11 but not in wired Ethe rnet? What is the difference
andCSMA/CA, andwhy?
4. What is the difference between a master device in a Bluetooth network and an AP in an 802.11
network?

5. What is the role of a Mobile Management Entity (MME) in 4G?

6. What are the three sublayers in the link layer in LTE protocol stack? Describe their functions.
7. Describethe two possible sleep modes in 4G/5G architecture.
8. List important differences between 4G and 5G architecture.

Wi-Fi Problem

9. There are only two nodes, one source and one destination, connected via an 802.11 LAN using
RTS/CTS of packets of all sizes. The source node has a large amount of data to send to the
destination. Nodes are separated by 750m. There is no transmission error. Compute the data
throughput if the packet size is 1100 byte of data, Propagation
speed=310°m/sec, the header size
is 200 bytes, link transmission rate 1IMbps, Ack, RTS, CTS take
200us to transmit.

LTE Problems

10. Consider an LTE DL(Down Link) scenario with

10MH: FDD (Frequency Divison Duplex), 600
frequency bands. 25% capacity is used for signaling and connection management. DL user sends
3x7= 21bits/slot.
(a) Find the maximum bit rate in DL
that the network supports.
(b) Assuming that the voice call uses 10kbps in
cach direction, find maximum number of voice
calls that can be simultaneously
supported the DL.
in
(c) Assuming video teaming connections need
video calls that can be supported 400kbps in DL, plot the region of all voice and
simultaneously in DL.
 frequencies. Tne
uei a scenarioin LTE Network downstream channel with time slots and F
odes A, B. C, and D are reachable from BS (using all time slots andall frequencicS) Win tates
an infinite amount of data for cach
user.
p QMbps. 2.5Mbps, and IMbps, respectively. BS has

(a) Determine the maximum rate at which BS can transmit.

then determine the overall
(0) If each user (station) must get an equal share during cach second,
average rate from the BS.
the data rate of any other node,
(C) If the fairness criterion is that any node can get at most twice
then determine the average rate from BS.

Wireless Network Problem

12. Consider 4nodes A, B,C and D.

Coverage of A Coverage of D

Coverage of 8
Coverage of C

Each node has a supply of infinite messages. If A wants to send a message to D, then it should go
A’B’ C ’ D. Time is slotted. A message takes one slot to transmit. During a slot, a user can
transmit or receive or remain silent. If a node hears two or more transmissions simultaneously, a
collision occurs. There are no errorsin transmission. A central controller can control all nodes.
(a) What is the maximum rate at which node A can transmit to C with no other transmission?
(b) What is the maximum sum transmission rate for the linksA ’ B and D ’ C?
(c) If the transmission is A’ B, C’D, then what is the maximum sum rate?
(d) If the wireless links are changed to wired links, answer all (a)-(c).
(e) If Ack needs to be sent from each destination for each packet, then again solve (a)-(c).