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QUESTION ONE
(4 Marks)
i. EIA/TIA-232 (2 Marks)
ii. V.35 (2 Marks)
(e) State four benefits of the GSM technology. (4 Marks)
(f) Describe delay distortion as a transmission impairment and explain how it can be
dealt with in a communication system. (4 Marks)
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(g) i. State the Nyquist Sampling Theorem. (1 Mark)
ii. State two ways in which the similarity of the reconstructed signal (at the
receiver) to the original analog signal can be improved. (2 Marks)
QUESTION TWO
(a) The table below highlights wireless technologies that exist on the PAN, LAN and
WAN. Please fill in the blank spaces in the table. (6 Marks)
QUESTION THREE
(a) Discuss any three network quality issues that affect converged networks.
(6 Marks)
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(b) Briefly describe the following types of noise in data communications:
i. Thermal noise (2 Marks)
ii. Inter-modulation Noise (2 Marks)
iii. Crosstalk (2 Marks)
(c) Discuss briefly the importance of error detection and correction, flow control and
recovery in data communications. (5 Marks)
(d) Describe briefly the three standard methods used to connect your computer to
GPRS mobile phone. (3 Marks)
QUESTION FOUR
(a) Describe the sequence of events that occur between computer and modem during
communication. (7 Marks)
(b) Telecommunications and computer networks enable voice, video and data
transfer; in doing so, they enable organizations to optimize their resources by
grouping employees. In relation to this, describe the following:
(c) There are three key factors that influence network uptime/availability. State these
three factors and illustrate how they affect availability. (5 Marks)
(d) Explain briefly the unlicenced frequency bands. (2 Marks)
QUESTION FIVE
(a) Mobile phone networks use the concept of “frequency re-use” in deployment of
their services.
i. Define frequency re-use and give one fundamental requirement that should
govern frequency re-use. (4 Marks)
ii. Determine the portion of the frequency band that can be used in one cell in a
4-cell reuse pattern and 7-cell reuse pattern, assuming a 25 MHz band
allocated to the operator. (2 Marks)
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iii. Define probability of call blocking (2 Marks)
(c) Sketch a diagram showing the basic architecture of a 2G mobile phone network,
giving the function of at least four components of the network. (8 Marks)