MAHARAJA AGRASEN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Wireless Communications (ETEC 405)

Last Date: 9th October 2020.
Assignment 1
Q.1 Consider a GSM system with a one-way spectrum of 12.5 MHz and channel spacing of 200 kHz. There are three control
channels per cell and the reuse factor is 4. Assuming an omnidirectional antenna with six interferers in the first tier and
slope for path loss of 45 dB/decade, calculate the number of calls per cell site per hour with 2% blocking during system
busy hour and an average call holding time of 120 seconds. What is the S/I ratio?

Q.2 Consider a GSM system with a reuse parameter C = 3. For this system, 330 channels per cell become available. Assume
that the allowable Erlang traffic load is about the same number. (The reader is encouraged to consult tables or graphs of the
Erlang-B formula to determine the resultant call blocking probability.) Assuming a hexagonal cell model, calculate the
allowable cell radius for a suburban region with a mobile density of 200 mobiles/km2. Repeat for a system with a reuse
parameter of 4. How do these results change for an urban region with a mobile density of 1000 mobiles/km2? In all cases
assume a typical user makes a call once per 15 minutes on the average, the call lasting, on the average, 200 sec.

Q.3 A 7 cell cluster (with N = 7) has 30 MHz allocated to it for forward channels and each channel is 200 kHz. Assume
blocked-called-delayed and a probability of delay of 1%, and each user makes one 10 minute call every 3 hours. (a) What
is the number of users that can be supported? (b) What is P [delay > 10] seconds? (c) What if it was a blocked-calls-cleared
system with QOS of 1%?

Q.4 If a total of 33 MHz of bandwidth is allocated to a particular FDD cellular telephone system which uses two 25 kHz
simplex channels to provide full duplex voice and control channels, compute the number of channels available per cell if a
system uses (a) four-cell reuse, (b) seven-cell reuse, and (c) 12-cell reuse. If 1 MHz of the allocated spectrum is dedicated
to control channels, determine an equitable distribution of control channels and voice channels in each cell for each of the
three systems

Q.5 If a signal-to-interference ratio of 15 dB is required for satisfactory forward channel performance of a cellular system,
what is the frequency reuse factor and cluster size that should be used for maximum capacity if the path loss exponent is (a)
n = 4, (b) n = 3? Assume that there are six cochannel cells in the first tier, and all of them are at the same distance from the
mobile. Use suitable approximations.

Q.6 How many users can be supported for 0.5% blocking probability for the following number of trunked channels in a
blocked calls cleared system? (a) 1, (b) 5, (c) 10, (d) 20, (e) 100. Assume each user generates 0.1 Erlangs of traffic.

Q.7 In practical cellular radio systems, the MSC is programmed to allocate radio channels differently over time for the
closest co-channel cells. This technique, called a hunting sequence, ensures that co-channel cells first use different channels
from within the co-channel set before the same channels are assigned to calls in nearby cells. This minimizes co-channel
interference when the cellular system is not fully loaded. Consider three adjoining clusters, and design an algorithm that
may be used by the MSC to hunt for appropriate channels when requested from co-channel cells. Assume a seven-cell reuse
pattern with three sectors per cell.

Q.8 A suburb has an area of 1500 square miles and is covered by a cellular system that uses a seven-reuse pattern. Each cell
has a radius of four miles and the city is allocated 50 MHz of spectrum of a full duplex channel bandwidth of 60 kHz.
Assuming a GoS (Grade of Service) of 2% for an Erlang-B system and a traffic load per user of 0.03 Erlangs, Calculate:
a) A) The number of cells in the service area b) D) Total number of users that can be served for 2% GoS
c) B) The number of channels per cell d) E) Number of mobiles per channel
e) C) Traffic intensity of each cell