National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Department of Electrical Engineering

M.Tech, End-Semester Examination, Spring, 2022-23 Session
Subject – Wireless Communication (EE-6102) Time Duration-3Hr Total Marks -50
(Answer all the questions)
All parts of a question to be answered in one place.
Figure in the right side indicate marks

1. (a) Consider an 𝐿 = 3 receive antenna wireless channel with complex fading 2× 2.5
channel coefficients ℎ1 = 1 + 2𝑗, ℎ2 = 1 + 2𝑗 , ℎ3 = 1 + 2𝑗. Describe
the system model for the multi-antenna channel and derive the SNR
with MRC.
(b) Compute the BER for BPSK communication over a multi-antenna fading
wireless channel with 𝐿 = 4 receive antennas at an SNR of 20 dB.

2. Consider the MIMO channel H given below and answer the questions that follow. 5

1 1
H = [ 2 1]
3 4

(a) Derive the MIMO zero-forcing receiver.

(b) Consider BPSK symbol transmission with unit power for each symbol and
received vector [ 0.8622 −0.6812 −0.3077 ]𝑇 . Decode the transmitted
BPSK vector employing VBLAST SIC and clearly illustrate the process.

3. Consider the following QPSK modulated pilot symbols which are Alamouti-coded 5
and transmitted across a 1 × 2 MISO system.
1
[1 + 𝑗, −1 + 𝑗, −1 − 𝑗, 1 − 𝑗 ]
√2
Compute the least-squares estimate of the channel coefficients if the total transmitter
power is 20 dB and the received pilot outputs corresponding to the Alamouti-coded
pilot inputs are

[11.15 − 0.66𝑗, −2.23 + 2.70𝑗, −13.54 + 0.99𝑗, 3.03 − 2.44𝑗]

4. (a) Justify, why Alamouti code is termed as Orthogonal Space Time Block Code 2× 2.5
(OSTBC). Calculate the net rate of the code.
(b) Consider the 1 × 2 wireless system given as
𝑥1
𝑦 = [1 + 𝑗 3 + 4𝑗] [𝑥 ] + 𝑛
2
Clearly, indicate the processing at the transmitter and the receiver for the
above system with the Alamouti code.
5. Answer the questions below.
(a) Compute the SVD of the following 3 × 2 channel matrix. 5
1 1
𝐻 = [2 −2 ]
3 1
𝑃𝑑
(b) Consider BPSK transmission for the above MIMO system with SNR 𝜎𝑛2
=
10 dB. Derive the MMSE MIMO receiver for the above system.
(c) Compute the MMSE decoded transmit BPSK vector corresponding to the
received vector in the above system be given as

−1.71
[ 12.55 ]
6.08
6. (a) Discuss the OFDM transmitter and receiver schematic with cyclic prefix. 5
(b) Analyze the impact of cyclic prefix on data rate as the number of subcarriers
increases. For an appropriately designed OFDM system, what should be the
length of CP?

7. Consider an OFDM system with total passband bandwidth B = 5 MHz with N = 512
subcarriers. The channel has a maximum delay spread of 𝑇𝑑 = 4 us. Answer the 5
questions that follow.
(a) What is the symbol time of a corresponding single-carrier system?
(b) What is the sample time of the OFDM system and the raw symbol time
without the cyclic prefix?
(c) What is the minimum number of samples required in the cyclic prefix?
(d) If the length of the cyclic prefix is twice the required minimum calculated
above, what is the total OFDM symbol time?
(e) What is the loss in efficiency due to the overhead of the cyclic prefix?
(f) If the modulation employed is 16-QAM, what is the effective bit rate of the
above OFDM system?

8. (a) Explain the reasons for the high PAPR of the OFDM system. Discuss its 4+4
characterization and how it impacts the BER performance.
(b) Compare the Selective Mapping technique for PAPR reduction with the
Partial Transmit Sequence scheme.

9. (a) Discuss the transmitter structure of OFDM based waveform for 5G NR.
What are the challenges for new waveform design. Explain the windowed 4+3
OFDM technique.
(b) Give details of NR frame structure and scable OFDM numerology for NR
air interface. Specify the NR physical channels for both Uplink and
Downlink.

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