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DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY/JUNE 2009
Eighth Semester
Electronics and Communication Engineering
EC 1451 MOBILE COMMUNICATION
(Regulation 2004)
Time : Three hours Maximum: 100 Marks
Answer ALL questions
PART A (10 x 2=20 Marks)
1. Define coherence bandwidth.
2. Define grade of service.
3. What is meant by soft handoff? What advantages does it have?
4. What are piconets?
5. What is air interface?
6. Draw the frame structure of GSM.
7. What are the advantages of the 2 ray ground reflection model in the analysis of
path loss?
8. What is Doppler shift?
9. Explain adjacent channel interface.
10.In an FDMA system the total spectrum bandwidth is 12.5 MHz. Each channel
is of 30kHz and the guard band is 10 kHz. Find the total number of channels
available in the system.
PART B – (5 x 16 = 80 Marks)
11. (a) (i) Explain the various methods of increasing the capacity of users in
cellular system.
(ii) Show that the frequency reuse factor for a cellular system is given by k/S,
where k is the average number of channels per call and S is the total no
of channels available.
OR
(b) (i) Explain the procedure for making a call from a mobile to another mobile.
(ii) Explain how the interference between the base and mobile transmission
is reduced in PCS.
12. (a) (i) Explain how the diffraction affects the signal propogation using knife
edge diffraction model.
(ii) Explain the propogation of signal in outdoor using Durkin's Model.
OR
(b) What are the types of small scale fading explain each fading effects in
detail.
(ii) Discuss the nonlinear equalization methods using Maximum likelihood
sequence estimation (MLSE).
OR
(b) (i) What are the benefits of RAKE receiver?
(ii) Draw the constellation points of 16QAM signal and derieve the average
probability error.
14. (a) (i) Explain the LPC vocoder and determine the Predictor coefficients.
(ii) Explain the working of GSM codec with block diagram.
OR
(b) (i) Draw the frame structure of TDMA and derieve its efficiency.
(ii) Derieve the equation to calculate the number of users in a CDMA
cellular systems.
15. (a) (i) What are the advantages and disadvantages of WLL.
(ii) Draw the functional block of DECT system and explain its working
principle.
OR
(b) (i) Explain the forward and reverse channel parameters in IS95 CDMA.
(ii) Explain the GSM system architecture and give its protocol specifications.
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