This document is a final exam for a mobile communications engineering course. It consists of 5 questions covering topics like wireless channel modeling, multiple input multiple output systems, cellular network design, and link budget analysis. Students are asked to determine if a random process is wide-sense stationary, derive the signal-to-noise ratio of a multi-antenna receiver, calculate the optimal number of channels for different antenna configurations, determine network capacity and blocking probability for voice traffic, and calculate the minimum transmit power needed for a given coverage range.
This document is a final exam for a mobile communications engineering course. It consists of 5 questions covering topics like wireless channel modeling, multiple input multiple output systems, cellular network design, and link budget analysis. Students are asked to determine if a random process is wide-sense stationary, derive the signal-to-noise ratio of a multi-antenna receiver, calculate the optimal number of channels for different antenna configurations, determine network capacity and blocking probability for voice traffic, and calculate the minimum transmit power needed for a given coverage range.
This document is a final exam for a mobile communications engineering course. It consists of 5 questions covering topics like wireless channel modeling, multiple input multiple output systems, cellular network design, and link budget analysis. Students are asked to determine if a random process is wide-sense stationary, derive the signal-to-noise ratio of a multi-antenna receiver, calculate the optimal number of channels for different antenna configurations, determine network capacity and blocking probability for voice traffic, and calculate the minimum transmit power needed for a given coverage range.
This document is a final exam for a mobile communications engineering course. It consists of 5 questions covering topics like wireless channel modeling, multiple input multiple output systems, cellular network design, and link budget analysis. Students are asked to determine if a random process is wide-sense stationary, derive the signal-to-noise ratio of a multi-antenna receiver, calculate the optimal number of channels for different antenna configurations, determine network capacity and blocking probability for voice traffic, and calculate the minimum transmit power needed for a given coverage range.
Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Subject: Mobile Communication
Research Year: 4th
Time: Three hours University of Kufa / Faculty of Engineering Date: 5 / 8 /2021 Department of Electronic and Examiner: Dr. Hayder Almosa Communications Engineering 2nd Semester 2020-2021, Final Exam, 1st Attempt Note: Answer all questions
Q1) Consider the random process {𝑋(𝑡), 𝑡 ∈ ℝ} defined as
𝑋(𝑡) = cos(𝑡 + 𝑈)
Where U is a random variable uniformly distributed from zero to 2π, 𝑈~𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚(0,2𝜋).
Show that X(t) is a WSS process. (10 marks)
Q2) Consider an L = 3 receive antenna wireless channel with complex fading channel coefficients ℎ1 = 1 + 2𝑗, ℎ2 = 1 + 𝑗, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ3 = 2 − 𝑗. Describe the system model for the multi-antenna channel and derive the SNR with MRC beamformer at the receiver. If the transmit power is 64 dBm, noise figure is 8 dB, K = 1.38*10-23 J/K, T = 300 K, and B = 20 MHz. What is the probability of deep fade and the associated diversity order with MRC at the receiver? (10 marks)
Q3) A cellular service provider decides to use a digital TDMA scheme which can tolerate a signal to interference ratio of 15 dB in the worst case. Find the optimal value of N for (a) omnidirectional antennas, (b) 120° sectoring, and (c) 60° sectoring. Should sectoring be used? If so, which case (60° or 120°) should be used? (Assume a path loss exponent of n = 4 and consider trunking efficiency.). If an intensive propagation measurement campaign showed that the mobile radio channel provided a propagation path loss exponent of n = 3 instead of four, how would your design decisions change? What is the optimal value of N for the case of n = 3? (10 marks)
Q4) A total of 24 MHz of bandwidth is allocated to a particular FDD cellular telephone
system that uses two 30 kHz simplex channels to provide full duplex voice and control channels. Assume each cell phone user generates 0.1 Erlangs of traffic. Assume Erlang B is used. (10 marks) (a) Find the number of channels in each cell for a four-cell reuse system. (b) If each cell is to offer capacity that is 90% of perfect scheduling (90 Erlangs), find the maximum number of users that can be supported per cell where omnidirectional antennas are used at each base station. (c) What is the blocking probability of the system in (b) when the maximum number of users are available in the user pool? (d) If each new cell now uses 120° sectoring instead of omnidirectional for each base station, what is the new total number of users that can be supported per cell for the same blocking probability as in (c)? Page - 1 - of 2 (e) If each cell covers 5 Km2, then how many subscribers could be supported in an urban market that is 50 km x 50 km for the case of omnidirectional base station antennas? (f) If each cell covers 5 Km2, then how many subscribers could be supported in an urban market that is 50 km x 50 km for the case of 120° sectored antennas?
Q5) Consider a mobile radio system at 900 MHz carrier frequency, and with 25 kHz bandwidth, that is affected only by thermal noise (temperature of the environment T = 300K). Antenna gains at the TX and RX sides are 8 dB and −2dB, respectively. Losses in cables, combiners, etc. at the TX are 2 dB. The noise figure of the RX is 7 dB. The required operating SNR is 18 dB and the desired range of coverage is 2 km. The breakpoint is at 10 m distance; beyond that point, the path loss exponent is 3.8, and the fading margin is 10 dB. What is the minimum TX power? (10 marks)
