Tutorial 5 - Channel Coding, Error Control - MEng
Tutorial 5 - Channel Coding, Error Control - MEng
Wireless Communication
1. Consider a point-to-point radio link between two highly directional antennas is a stationary
environment. The antennas have antenna gains of 30 dB; distance attenuation is 150 dB,
and the receiver has a noise figure of 7 dB. The symbol rate is 20 Msymb/s and Nyquist
signaling is used. It can be assumed that the radio link can be treated as an AWGN channel
without fading. How much transmit power is required (disregarding power losses at
transmitter and receiver ends) for a maximum BER of 10-5.
(a) When using coherently detected BPSK, FSK, differentially detected BPSK, or non-
coherently detected FSK?
(b) What is the required transmit power if QPSK is used?
2) Consider a mobile radio system using MSK with a bit rate of 100 kbit/s. The system is
used for transmitting IP packets of up to 1000 bytes. The packet error rate must not exceed 10-3
(without the use of ARQ scheme).
(a) What is the maximum allowed average delay spread of the mobile radio channel?
(b) What are typical values of average delay spread in indoor, urban, and rural
environments for wireless communication systems?
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3) What is the theoretical maximum data rate that can be supported in a 200 kHz channel for
SNR=10 dB, 30dB. How does this compare to the GSM standard?
4) Consider the design of the US Digital Cellular equalizer. If f= 900 MHz and the mobile
velocity is 80 km/hr, determine the following:
a) coherence time of the channel.
b) maximum number of symbols that could be transmitted without updating the
equalizer, assuming that the symbol rate is 24.3 ksymbols/sec.
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