EC2401/WIRELESS COMMUNICATION A.R.ENGINEERING COLLEGE VILLUPURAM DEPARTMENRT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING QUESTION BANK SUB.

NAME: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SUB.CODE: EC2401 YEAR : IV

BRANCH: ECE SEM: VII

UNIT I SERVICES AND TECHNICAL CHALLENGE PART - A 1. What are the types of Services? 2. What are the Requirements for the services? 3. What are the benefits of Paging? 4. Write in short about the Worlds first Cellular System. 5. What are the principles of Cellular Architecture? 6. What are the advantages of Digital techniques in cellular Systems? 7. Why 800 MHz frequency is selected for mobiles? 8. What is a page? 9. What are the channels used in mobile communication systems? 10. What are the basic units of a Cellular system? 11. What are the classifications of Wireless technologies and systems? 12. What is base station? 13. What is MSC? 14. What do you mean by forward and reverse channel? 15. Define cell 16. What is foot print? 17. What is channel assignment? What are the types? 18. What are the techniques used to expand the capacity of cellular system? 19. Define frequency reuse ratio. 20. What are the factors to be considered for link budget design. 21. What is meant by frequency reuse? 22. Define FDMA, TDMA and CDMA. 23. What is co channel interference? 24. Define co-channel reuse ratio. 25. Define adjacent channel interference. 26. Define Grade of service. 27. What is blocked call clear system (BCC)? 28. What is blocked call delay system? 29. Define cell splitting. 30. What is sectoring? PART B 1. Discuss on various types of wireless services. 2. List out the requirement of services 3. Enumerate on spectrum limitation 4. Explain about noise and interference limited system 5. Briefly explain the principle of cellular networks. 6. Discuss on: FDMA TDMA CDMA 7. Discuss and explain the multipath propagation 8. Describe in detail about the history of development of Paging and the future

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EC2401/WIRELESS COMMUNICATION Trends of paging systems. Explain in detail about the Standards adopted for Paging Systems. Describe in detail about the Wireless Services and it types UNIT-II WIRELESS PROPAGATION CHANNELS PART-A 1. What are the propagation mechanisms of EM waves? 2. What do you mean by WSSUS channels? 3. What are the merits and demerits of Okumaras model? 4. List the advantages and disadvantage of Hata model? 5. What is the necessity of Link budget? 6. What is propagation model? 7. Define large scale propagation model? 8. What is small scale model? 9. What is free space propagation model? 10. Define EIRP 11. Explain path loss? 12. What is intrinsic impedance& Brewster angle? 13. What is scattering? 14. Define radar cross section? 15. Name some of the outdoor propagation models? 16. What is the function of outdoor propagation models? 17. Define indoor propagation models? 18. Mention some indoor propagation models? 19. Explain small scale fading? 20. What are the factors influencing small scale fading? 21. Define Doppler shift? 22. What flat fading? 23. What is frequency selective fading? 24. Define fast fading channel? 25. Define slow fading channel? 26. Define coherence time, coherence bandwidth? PART-B 1. Enumerate of propagation mechanism. 2. Discuss about propagation effects with mobile radio 3. Explain about channel classification 4. Brief notes about link calculations for various applications 5. What are Narrow band models, explain the significance of each model 6. Discuss on wide band models UNIT III 9. 10. WIRELESS TRANCEIVERS PART - A 1. Write the advantages of MSK over QPSK. 2. Define M-ary transmission system? 3. What is quadrature modulation? 4. What is QAM? 5. Define QPSK? 6. What is linear modulation? 7. Define non linear modulation? 8. What is the need of Gaussian filter? 9. Mention some merits of MSK 10. Give some examples of linear modulation? 11. Define fast fading channel? (16) (16) (16)

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EC2401/WIRELESS COMMUNICATION 12. Define slow fading channel? 13. List the advantages of digital modulation technique? 14. Define digital modulation? 15. What are the types of digital modulation technique? 16. What are the factors that influence the choice of digital modulation? 17. Define Power efficiency? 18. Define constellation diagram? What do you infer from it? 19. Define offset QPSK, differential QPSK. 20. How can we improve the performance of digital modulation under fading channels? 21. List the salient features of MSK scheme. 22. Why GMSK is preferred for multiuser, cellular communications? 23. Compare linear, non linear modulation. 24. Define the term Bandwidth efficiency 25. What is up converter? PART B Draw and explain the structure of wireless communication link Explain the generation, detection and bit error probability of QPSK technique. What are the salient features of offset QPSK? Explain the principle and operation of differential QPSK transmission and reception. What is BFSK? Derive the bit error probability of BFSK and also explain the constellation diagram of it. Explain the generation, detection and constellation diagram of MSK scheme. Enumerate on Gaussian MSK. Why we prefer it for wireless communication? Discuss about the error performance of various modulation techniques in fading channels. Describe in detail about the Digital modulation schemes DPSK and QPSK Describe in detail about the Digital modulation schemes BPSK. UNIT IV SIGNAL PROCESSING IN WIRELESS SYSTEM PART-A 1. What are vocoders? 2. What are the techniques used to improve the received signal quality? 3. What is the need of equalization? 4. What is diversity? 4. Define spatial diversity? 5. Define STCM 6. Define adaptive equalization? 7. Define training mode in an adaptive equalizer? 8. Write a short note on linear equalizers and non linear equalizers? 9. Why non linear equalizers are preferred? 10. What are the nonlinear equalization methods used? 11. What are the factors used in adaptive algorithms? 12. Define MSE in equalizers 13. Write the advantages of LMS algorithm. 14. What are the advantages of RLS algorithm? 15. Define diversity concept? 16. What is tracking mode in an adaptive equalizer? 17. What is fast and slow frequency hopping? 18. Define capacity of cellular systems 19. Define forward channel interference 20. Define adaptive channel allocation

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EC2401/WIRELESS COMMUNICATION 21. What is narrow band system? 22. Define SDMA 23. State some of the features of CDMA 24. Define efficiency of TDMA 25. What are the features of TDMA? 26. What is time division multiplexing? 27. What are the features of FDMA? PART B What is the necessity of diversity techniques? Explain temporal and frequency diversity and how it can reduce fading in a multipath propagation 2. Explain various diversity techniques used in wireless communication. 3. Compare the performance of signal combining techniques. 4. Explain about linear, non linear equalization technique. 5. Enumerate on spatial diversity, angular diversity, and polarizat ion diversity. 6. Explain about micro diversity 7. Explain about macro diversity 8. Discuss on transmit diversity 9. Explain the following diversity technique a. Special b. Temporal c. Frequency d. Angular e. Polarization UNIT V ADVANCED TRANCEIVER SCHEMES PART-A 1. Why the second generation was developed? 2. What are second generation are available? 3. Write advantages 2G over 1G. 4. What are services offered by GSM? 5. What is the function of NSS in GSM? 6. Define Abis Interface. 7. Define an Interface. 8. What is the function of VLR? 9. What are the basic channels available in GSM? 10. Define the bursts. 11. Write types of TCH channels of GSM? 12. What is the need guard period (space)? 13. Why Dummy burst is used? 14. Define burst formatting in GSM. 15. What is the need of pilot channel? 16. What are the supervisory signals are used AMPS? 17. What are the advantages of N-AMPS over AMPS? 18. Define Pico net. 19. What is Bluetooth? 20. What is Scatter net? 21. Identify multiple access techniques used. 22. What is IS 95? 23. Why we go for 3G? 24. What is W-CDMA? 25. What is IEEE 802.11 standard? 1. PART B

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EC2401/WIRELESS COMMUNICATION 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Compare slow FH and fast FH scheme. Explain about CDMA principle, power control Discuss about effects of multipath propagation Enumerate on FDMA principle, transceiver implementation List out the benefits of cyclic prefix in OFDM Detail notes about GSM system overview, physical and logical channels Explain about IS-95 used for wireless communication Discuss about 3G standards WCDMA/UMTS for wireless network. (16) (16) (16) (16) (16) (16) (16) (16)