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Paper Code: MEEC-612

Paper:Cellular & Mobile Communication


INSTRUCTIONS TO P AP ER S ETTERS:

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Maximum Marks : 60

1. Question No. 1 should be compulsory and cover the entire syllabus. This question should have objective
or short answer type questions. It should be of 20 marks.
2. Apart from Question No. 1, rest of the paper shall consist of four units as per the syllabus. Every unit
should have two questions. However, stude nt may be asked to attempt only 1 question from each unit.
Each question should be 10 marks

Unit I
Introduction to Cellular Mobile Systems
A basic cellular system, performance criteria, uniqueness of mobile radio environment, operation of cellular
systems, planning a cellular system, overview of generations of cellular systems.

Elements of Cellular Radio Systems Design and interference


General description of the problem, concept of frequency reuse channels, co-channel interference reduction
factor, desired C/I from a normal case in an omni directional antenna system, cell splitting, consideration of the
components of cellular systems. Introduction to co-channel interference, co-channel measurement design of
antenna system, antenna parameter and their effects,
Unit II

Cell Coverage for Signal & antenna structures


General introduction, obtaining the mobile point to point mode, propagation over water or flat open area, foliage
loss, propagation near in distance, long distance propagation, point to point prediction model- characteristics,
cell site, antenna heights and signal coverage cells, mobile to mobile propagation. Characteristics of basic
antenna structures, antenna at cell site, mobile antennas.
Frequency Management & Channel Assignment, Hand Off & Dropped Calls
Frequency management, fixed channel assignment, non-fixed channel assignment, traffic & channel assignment.
Why hand off, types of handoff and their characteristics, dropped call rates & their evaluation.
Unit III
Modulation methods and coding for error detection and correction
Introduction to Digital modulation techniques, modulation methods in cellular wireless systems, OFDM. Block
coding, convolution coding and Turbo coding. Multiple access techniques: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA;
Time -division multiple access (TDMA), code division multiple access (CDMA), CDMA capacity, probability of
bit error considerations, CDMA compared with TDMA.
Unit IV
Second generation, digital, wireless systems
GSM, IS_136 (D-AMPS), IS-95, mobile management, voice signal processing and coding.
Text Books:
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Mobile Cellular Telecommunications; 2 nd ed.; William, C Y Lee McGraw Hill
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Mobile wireless communications; Mischa Schwartz, Cambridge University press, UK, 2005
Re fe re nce Books
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Mobile Communication Hand Book; 2n d Ed.; IEEE Press
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Wireless communication principles and practice, 2n d Ed, Theodore S rappaport, Pearson Education.
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3G wireless Demystified; Lawrence Harte, Mc. Graw Hill pub.
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Principles of Wireless Networks, Kaveh Pahlavan and Prashant Krishnamurthy: PHI
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Wireless communication theory, Blake, pub: Thomson Delmar 2004

Scheme of Examination for M.Tech.(Regular & weekend) P rogramme has been approved by BoS of USICT on dated
28/05/2012 and AC subcommittee on dated 6th July, 2012 and 5th November,2012. This scheme is effective from academic

session 2012-13.

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