CS 898T Mobile and Wireless Networks Final Exam - Name:

Spring 2004
Part 1: (96 points - 3 points for each problem)
( D ) 1. Which frequency allocation is not used for the UMTS sandard?
(A) 1900 - 1980 MHz (B) 2020 - 2025 MHz (C) 2110 - 2190 MHz (D) None of the above
( B ) 2. The frequency of 100 cm wavelength is
(A) 30 MHz (B) 300 MHz (C) 3 GHz (D) 30 GHz
( C ) 3. FOMA is a standard for
(A) Cordless phone (B) Trunked radio (C) Mobile phone (D) Wireless LAN
( A ) 4. The antenna size for GSM 900 is about
(A) 8 cm (B) 6 cm (C) 4 cm (D) 2 cm
( B ) 5. Which wave does the cordless phone use?
(A) Sky wave (B) Line-of-sight (C) Ground wave (D) None of the above
( C ) 6. Which does not cause multi-path propagation?
(A) Refraction (B) Reflection (C) Diffusion (D) None of the above
( A ) 7. Which is a not a phase shift keying scheme?
(A) GMSK (B) BPSK (C) QAM (D) None of the above
( B ) 8. A medium can carry 5 Mbaud and use the QAM-16 scheme. What is the data transfer rate?
(A) 10 Mbps (B) 20 Mbps (C) 40 Mbps (D) 80 Mbps
( D ) 9. Which does not use MCM?
(A) HiperLAN2 (B) DAB (C) ADSL (D) None of the above
( D ) 10. Which is not the advantage of cellular systems?
(A) Higer capacity (B) Local interference (C) Robustness (D) None of the above
( D ) 11. Which statement about CDMA is false?
(A) All terminals can be active and uninterrupted at the same time and the same place.
(B) It needs complicated power control.
(C) The cell size is not fixed.
(D) None of the above
( B ) 12. Which is not used in GSM?
(A) SDMA (B) CDMA (C) TDMA (D) FDMA
( A ) 13. Which scheme is a combination of CDMA and TDMA?
(A) SAMA (B) CTDMA (C) PRMA (D) None of the above
( C ) 14. Which is a reservation mechanism?
(A) DSMA (B) RFDMA (C) DAMA (D) None of the above
( B ) 15. Which is an element in GSM NSS?
(A) BSC (B) MSC (C) OMC (D) None of the above
( A ) 16. UMTS uses a constant chipping rate of 3.84 Mchps/s. A channel use the spreading factor
32. What is the transfer rate?
(A) 120 kbps (B) 240 kbps (C) 480 kbps (D) 960 kbps
( C ) 17. Which technology used in UMTS does CDMA2000 belong to?
(A) IMT-DS (B) IMT-TC (C) IMT-MC (D) None of the above
( A ) 18. Which is not the disadvantage of WLANs?
(A) Cost (B) Quality of service (C) Safety and security (D) None of the above

( D ) 19. Which working group standardizes LR-WPAN?

(A) IEEE 802.15.1 (B) IEEE 802.15.2 (C) IEEE 802.15.3 (D) IEEE 802.15.4
( A ) 20. Which is the quality of service standard for 802.11?
(A) 802.11e (B) 802.11f (C) 802.11h (D) None of the above
( C ) 21. Which forms the internetworking unit to other LANs?
(A) Station (B) Access point (C) Portal (D) None of the above
( D ) 22. What data rate doesnt 802.11g support?
(A) 9 Mbps (B) 11 Mbps (C) 36 Mbps (D) None of the above
( B ) 23. Which has the farthest operation range?
(A) 802.11a (B) 802.11b (C) Bluetooth (D) DECT
( D ) 24. Which defines the enhanced security mechanisms for WLAN?
(A) 802.11e (B) 802.11f (C) 802.11h (D) 802.11i
( B ) 25. How many bits of a worldwide unique identifier does a Bluetooth device has?
(A) 32 (B) 48 (C) 64 (D) 128
( D ) 26. How many bits does an parked member address (PMA) in Bluetooth require?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8
( B ) 27. To find new services, which protocol does Bluetooth use?
(A) PLCP (B) SDP (C) LLC (D) None of the above
( C ) 28. Which is used to separate two Bluetooth piconets?
(A) FHSS (B) DSSS (C) FH-CDMA (D) OFDM
( B ) 29. Which is not the reason why the reverse tunneling is required?
(A) Firewall (B) broadcast (C) TTL (D) None of the above
( A ) 30. What is installed in HMIPv6 to support micro-mobility?
(A) MAP (B) CIPGW (C) AR (D) None of the above
( A ) 31. Which preserves the end-to-end TCP semantic?
(A) Snooping TCP (B) Indirect TCP (C) Mobile TCP (D) Transaction-oriented TCP
( C ) 32. Which is a session service in WAP 2.0?
(A) MMS (B) Streaming (C) Push OTA (D) None of the above
Part 2: (104 points)
1. (18 pts.) Briefly explain these terminologies. If they are acronyms, also write what they stand for.
(a) CSMA/CA Carrier Sensing Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) is a protocol
used in wireless networking.
(b) EDGE Enhanced Data GSM Environment (EDGE) is an enhanced version of the Global System
for Mobile (GSM) Communication designed to deliver data at rates up to 384 Kbps and enable
the delivery of multimedia and other broadband applications to mobile phone and computer users.
(c) HAWAII Handoff-Aware Wireless Access Internet Infrastructure (HAWAII) is designed to support transparent mciro-mobility.
(d) OVSF Orthogonal Variable Spreding Factor (OVSF) uses the variable length of orthogonal codes
to separate the different data streams.
(e) L2CAP The Logic Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP) is a data link control protocol
on top of the Bluetooth baseband layer.

(f) XHTMLMP The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language with a Mobile Profile (XHTMLMP)
is the set of markup symbols or codes used for the mobile device.
2. (8 pts.) Complete the following table listing the seven layers in the OSI 7-Layer Reference Model. Then,
identify three of the four layers used in the TCP/IP protocol suite (write TCP/IP beside them). Finally, identify where the following protocols belong: WAE, WCMP, WDP, WTCP, WTLS, WTP, WSP.
Layer
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

Layer Name
Application Layer
Presentation Layer
Session Layer
Transport Layer
Network Layer
Data Link Layer
Physical Layer

TCP/IP suite
TCP/IP

TCP/IP
TCP/IP
TCP/IP

Protocol
WAE
WSP, WTP
WDP, WTCP, WTLS
WCMP

3. (a) (2 points) What is digital modulation?

(b) (2 points) Why is digital modulation required?
(c) (2 points) What is analog modulation?
(d) (3 points) Why a baseband signal cannot be directly transmitted in a wireless system?
(a) Digital Modulation: The digital data (0 and 1) is translated into an analog signal (baseband
signal).
(b) Digital modulation is required if digital data has to be transmitted over a medium that only allows
for analog transmission.
(c) Analog Modulation: Analog modulation shifts the center frequency of the baseband signal generated by the digital signal up to the radio carrier.
(d) There are 3 main reasons why a baseband signal cannot be directly transmitted in a wireless
system.
i. Antennas: An antenna must be the order of magnitude of the wavelength signal in size to be
effective.
ii. Frequency division multiplexing: Using only baseband transmission, FDM could not be applied.
iii. Medium characteristics: Path loss, penetration of obstacles, reflection, scattering and diffraction. All the effects depend on the wavelength of a signal.
4. (a) (2 points) What is CDMA?
(b) (2 points) What is a good code for CDMA?
(c) (3 points) List three advantages of CDMA.
(a)
(b) A good code for CDMA should have a good autocorrelation and should be orthogonal to other
codes.
(c)

5. Consider a sender A wants to send the data bit 1 with key = 101011. Consider a sender B wants to
send the data bit 0 with key = 110101. Assume we code a binary 0 as -1, a binary 1 as +1. Both
signals are transmitted at the same time. The noise to the transmitted signal is (+1, -1, 0, -1, 0, +1).
(a) (3 points) What signal is received by a receiver?
(b) (4 points) What can the receiver detect for sender A and B respectively?

6. (a) (6 points) Describe three security components in GSM.

(b) (4 points) Describe encryption of GSM.

7. (a) (3 points) What is a Bluetooth piconet?

(b) (4 points) Describe 4 types of device specified in a piconet.
(c) (3 points) How a piconet is formed?
(d) (2 points) What is a Bluetooth scatternet?
(e) (3 points) What are two types of links offered by Bluetooth?

8. (8 points) Describe how mobile IP works.

(a) A mobile node has a home agent which is the proxy of the mobile node during its absence from
the home network. It acquires a care-of address that identifies its location in the current network
from the foreign agent.
(b) Each time a user moves the device to a different network, it acquires a a care-of address and notify
its home agent. The home agent then associates its home address with its care-of address.
(c) Traffic for the mobile node is sent to the home network and forwarded by the home agent via
tunneling mechanisms to the appropriate care-of address.

9. (a) (3 points) What is the reaction of standard TCP in case of packet loss?
(b) (3 points) Why is it quite often problematic in the case of wireless networks and mobility?
(c) (3 points) Describe the mechanism, advantages, and disadvantages of using selective retransmission to enhance TCP for mobility.

10. (a) (3 points) What is WAE?

(b) (3 points) List at least three technologies that WAE has integrated.
(c) (2 points) What is the goal of WAE?
(d) (5 points) Show examples of how WAE components can be integrated into existing wireless and
fixed networks.