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This document provides an overview of the course "Wireless Cellular and LTE 4G Broadband" taught at CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore. The course is offered in the 8th semester to Electronics & Communication engineering students. It will be taught over a period of 4 months from February to June 2020. The course covers key topics related to LTE including OFDM, channel coding, multiple access techniques, radio interface architecture, mobility management and radio resource management. It is divided into 5 modules and provides a question bank with questions related to each topic.

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Question Bank: Site&q Wireless

This document provides an overview of the course "Wireless Cellular and LTE 4G Broadband" taught at CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore. The course is offered in the 8th semester to Electronics & Communication engineering students. It will be taught over a period of 4 months from February to June 2020. The course covers key topics related to LTE including OFDM, channel coding, multiple access techniques, radio interface architecture, mobility management and radio resource management. It is divided into 5 modules and provides a question bank with questions related to each topic.

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CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore

Department(s): Electronics & Communication


Semester: 08 Section(s): A,B,C & D Lectures/week: 04
Subject: Wireless Cellular and LTE 4G Broadband Code: 15EC81
Course Instructor(s): Pappa M, Aritri Debnath
Course duration: 10 Feb 2020– 01 June 2020
Course Site: https://sites.google.com/a/cmrit.ac.in/pappa-m/system/app/pages/search?scope=search-
site&q=wireless
https://sites.google.com/a/cmrit.ac.in/aritri-debnath-ghosh/courses/wlte-2
QUESTION BANK

Module 1 – Key Enablers for LTE features

1. List the advantages of OFDM leading to its selection for LTE and explain.
2. Write short notes on multiantenna techniques
3. Explain flat LTE SAE architecture
4. Write the block diagram of end to end architecture of EPC supporting current and
legacy Radio access networks and discuss the elements of EPC

Wireless Fundamentals

1. Explain briefly about the cellular concepts.


2. Explain the following in brief:
(i)Path loss and shadowing (ii) Angular Spread and Coherence distance (iii) Doppler
Spread and Coherence time

3. Discuss the delay spread and Coherence Bandwidth with relevant expressions
4. Consider a user in the downlink of a cellular system, where the desired base station is
at a distance of 500 meters and there are numerous nearby interfering base stations
transmitting at the same power level. If there are three interfering base stations at a
distance of 1km,three at a distance of 2km, and ten at a distance of 4 km. Use empirical
path loss formula to find the signal-to-interference ratio(SIR) when α = 3 and α = 5.
5. Discuss briefly about Statistical Channel models
6. Examine the differences between empirical and semi-empirical channel models
7. Explain with a neat diagram Adaptive modulation and coding.

Module 2 – Multicarrier Modulation

1. How multicarrier concept mitigates inter symbol interference?


2. Explain briefly about basics of OFDM.
3. Illustrate the use of Cyclic Prefix in OFDM and derive the formula for rate Loss
4. With a neat block diagram, explain OFDM Communication system. Also mention the
need of timing and frequency synchronization.
5. What is meant by PAR? Derive the equation for analog and discrete representation of
PAR.
6. Explain briefly about the reduction techniques of PAR.
7. With the help of neat diagrams explain how the timing and frequency synchronization
is performed by the receiver to demodulate an OFDM signal.

OFDMA and SC-FDMA


1. Discuss with a neat block diagram the principle of SC-FDE.
2. Explain with the relevant sketches the different multiple access schemes.
3. Describe the principle of OFDMA in LTE Downlink with relevant block diagrams.
4. Describe the principle of SC-FDMA in LTE Uplink with relevant block diagrams.
5. Explain briefly about OFDMA and SC-FDMA in LTE.

Multiple Antenna Transmission and Reception

1. Show that the received SNR increase linearly with the number of receiver antennas
in the concept of Spatial Diversity.
2. Distinguish between Selection combining and maximal ratio combining in terms of
average received SNR.
3. Write the block diagrams of receive diversity and explain the principle of operation.
4. Explain spatial diversity of multiple antenna techniques.
5. Derive SNR equation by applying the concept of 2 x 1 Space-Frequency Block
coding.
6. Analyze Open-Loop Transmit diversity with the help of 2x2 SFBC, 4X2 Stacked
STBCs and 4X2 in LTE.
7. Compare Transmit and receive diversity.
8. Write short notes on Transmit selection diversity.
9. Explain briefly about DOA based beam steering.
10. Demonstrate with appropriate equations the concept of Open loop and Closed
Loop MIMO.
11. Explain Open-Loop MIMO in spatial multiplexing.
12. Explain the spatial multiplexing MIMD system and the key points of single user
MIMD model.

Module 3 – Overview and Channel Structure of LTE

1. Explain briefly about the design principles of LTE.


2. Explain with a neat sketch the LTE Radio Interface Protocol stack.
3. List and explain briefly about the Components of LTE Network Architecture.
4. Explain the hierarchical channel structure of LTE.
5. Explain the transport channels in LTE.
6. Explain briefly about the different types of channels with a neat sketch illustrating the
mapping between different channels.
7. Analyze and explain the frame structure of LTE Downlink and Uplink.
8. Illustrate the various resource units of OFDMA with a neat sketch of Resource grid.
9. Write short notes on Resource allocation methods in LTE downlink.
10. Write the structure of downlink resource grid and explain the types of resource
allocation.
11. Write the frame structure Type-2 and explain the various fields applicable to TDD
mode.
12. Discuss the Broadcast channels and multicast channels.

Downlink Transport Channel Processing

1. Explain briefly layer mapping and precoding in modulation mapping.


2. Explain briefly about channel coding in downlink transport channel.
3. Explain briefly about open loop and closed loop MIMO techniques.
4. Explain briefly about the role of H-ARQ in downlink.
5. Discuss about the synchronization signals in downlink.

Module 4 – Uplink Channel Transport Processing

1. Explain Uplink control information.


2. Explain the type of Uplink reference signals.
3. With the help of a neat block diagram, explain the SC-FDMA base band signal
generation
4. Explain the seven different transmission modes, defined for data transmission on the
PDSCH channel.
5. Explain in brief Random Access channels in Uplink.
6. Briefly explain the function of H-ARQ feedback in uplink and downlink transmission.

Physical Layer Procedures

1. Discuss the Scheduling and Resource allocation in LTE.


2. Discuss the Random Access procedures in detail.
3. Explain the process of cell search in LTE uplink.
4. Explain in detail about Channel Quality Indicator.

Module 5 – Radio Resource Management and Mobility Management

1. Discuss briefly about the EPS bearer service architecture with a neat sketch.
2. Explain the main services and functions of PDCP sublayer for the User Plane.
3. Explain RRC states and its functions.
4. Explain the data transfer modes and the main services and functions of the RLC
sublayer.
5. Discuss briefly about the functions of MAC Layer along with PDU formats.
6. Describe the various phases of S1 mobility with a neat diagram.
7. Demonstrate the process of mobility management over the X2 interface with a neat
flow diagram.
8. Explain three basic approaches to mitigate ICI in downlink.
9. Discuss the intercell interference coordination in downlink and uplink.

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