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This document contains the solutions to an assignment on wireless communication principles for an NPTEL MOOC taught by Associate Professor Aditya Jagannatham from IIT Kanpur. It addresses 25 multiple choice questions related to wireless standards, channel modeling, and error rates. The key topics covered include characteristics of 2G, 3G, and 4G wireless systems, multipath propagation in wireless channels, Rayleigh fading and its effects, and error rate calculations for additive white Gaussian noise channels.

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J e e e E: Solutions To Assignment #1

This document contains the solutions to an assignment on wireless communication principles for an NPTEL MOOC taught by Associate Professor Aditya Jagannatham from IIT Kanpur. It addresses 25 multiple choice questions related to wireless standards, channel modeling, and error rates. The key topics covered include characteristics of 2G, 3G, and 4G wireless systems, multipath propagation in wireless channels, Rayleigh fading and its effects, and error rate calculations for additive white Gaussian noise channels.

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NPTEL MOOC on “Principles of Modern CDMA/ MIMO/ OFDM Wireless Communications”

[NOC15 EC05]

Aditya Jagannatham
Associate Professor
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
IIT Kanpur
[email protected]

Solutions to Assignment #1

1. GSM is a 2G wireless standard. Hence, Ans a


2. GPRS stands for General Packet Radio Service. Ans c
3. Approximate rate of 2G systems is in range 10-200 Kbps. Ans b
4. WCDMA ie Wideband Code Division for Multiple Access is a 3G standard. Ans d
5. HSDPA stands for High Speed Down Link Packet Access. Ans b
6. Approximate data rate of 3G systems is 300 Kbps to 30 Mbps. Ans c
7. LTE ie Long Term Evolution is a 4G standard. Ans a
8. LTE stands for Long Term Evolution. Ans c
9. Approximate data rate of 4G wireless systems is 200 Mbps. Ans d
10. Only voice calling is possible in 2G systems. Ans a
11. The defining characteristic of the wireless channel is multipath propagation, which arises from multiple scatterers in the
propagation environment. Ans c
12. The different multipath components are characterized both by different attenuations and delays. Hence, answer is Both of the
above i.e. Ans c
 j 2f c
1
 j 2f c
1 
j
13. The channel coefficient is given as, 0.5e
4 fc
 0.5e 2 fc
 0.5e 2
 0.5e  j  0.5  0.5 j
1
Therefore, amplitude = 0.5 2  0.5 2 
2
Hence Ans d

3
1 j 
14. As shown above, the effective channel coefficient is  0.5 j  0.5  e 4
.
2
Hence phase = -3π/4. Ans c
15. The process by which channel coefficient is constantly changing is termed Fading. Ans b
16. The probability density function of a Gaussian random variable is

1  x   2 
exp   

2 2  2 2 

Hence, Ans a

a2
17. Distribution of amplitude a of channel fading coefficient is given by the Rayleigh distribution 2ae . Hence, Ans c
18. Distribution of amplitude of Fading channel coefficient is Rayleigh. Ans d

19. Probability that the attenuation is worse than 30 dB can be calculated as follows.

We must have

 
10 log10 a 2  30dB  a 2  103  a  101.5

Therefore, Probability is given by probability that a lies in interval [0, 10-1.5] which is equal to

101.5 101.5
 f A a da   2ae a 2
da
0 0
101.5
a 2 10 3
 e  1 e  1  e 0.001
0

Hence, Ans b

20. The standard wireline channel is modeled as AWGN i.e. Additive White Gaussian Noise channel. Hence, Ans c
21. The acronym AWGN stands for Additive White Gaussian Noise. Hence Ans c
22. The BER of a wireline channel as a function of SNR is Q  
SNR . Hence, Ans d
1
1  SNR
23. A reasonable approximation for BER of wireline channel is e 2 . Ans a
2
24. Approximate BER is AWGN at SNR 15 dB can be calculated as follows.

10 log 10 SNR   15dB  SNR  101.5


1 1
1  2 SNR 1  2101.5
BER  e  e  6.8  10 8
2 2
Hence, Ans c

25. SNR required for BER = 10-7 can be calculated as follows

 
1
1  SNR
BER  e 2  10 7  SNR  2 ln 2  107  30.8499
2
10 log10 SNR   14.89dB

Hence, Ans b

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