National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Department of Electrical Engineering

M.Tech, Mid-Semester Examination, Spring, 2021-22 Session
Subject – Wireless Communication (EE-6102 ) Time Duration-1Hr Total Marks -30
(Answer all the questions)
All parts of a question to be answered in one place.
PART-A

1. (a) Independence of the fading channel is a key assumption is achieving diversity 5

in a multi-antenna system. Based on this, derive the expression for the
probability of deep fade on the system with L independently fading channels.

(b) The wireless AWGN channel comprises of infinite number of fading links. 5

2. (a) Consider an L = 3 receive antenna wireless channel with complex fading 5

channel
coefficients ℎ1 = 1 + 2j ; ℎ2 = 1 + j ; ℎ1 = 2 − j . Describe the system model
for the multi-antenna channel and derive the SNR with MRC.
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(b) What is the SNR required to achieve 𝑃𝑒 = 5 × 10−3 for BPSK in a Rayleigh
fading wireless channel with 30 Rx antennas.

3. Consider an L = 2 receive antenna system with instantaneous channel coefficients 2×5=10

ℎ1 = 2 − 𝑗, ℎ2 = 1 + 2𝑗 and BPSK modulation. Answer the questions that follow.

(a) Assuming optimal combining, compute the transmit SNR required to

achieve an instantaneous BER of 5 × 10−5.

(b) If the fading coefficients are Rayleigh with average power 𝐸{|ℎ𝑖 |2 } = 3,
compute the transmit SNR required to achieve average BER 5 × 10−5 with
optimal combining.

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 National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
Department of Electrical Engineering
M.Tech, Mid-Semester Examination, Spring, 2021-22 Session
Subject – Wireless Communication (EE-6102 ) Time Duration-1Hr Total Marks -30
(Answer any two questions)
All parts of a question to be answered in one place.

PART-B

1. MIMO Capacity Consider the MIMO channel with channel matrix H given as 15

4 −8 0
𝐻 = [3 6 0]
0 0 8

(a) Compute the SVD of the above matrix and illustrate how you would do maximum-
ratio transmission (MRT) in this scenario.
(b) Compute the capacity and optimal power allocation for a total transmit power
𝑃𝑇 = −1.25 dB and noise power 𝜎𝑛2 = 3dB.

2. Considering the following QPSK modulated pilot symbols which are Alamouti-coded 15
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 30 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]

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