Advanced Mobile Communications

U.E.T. Lahore
January 3, 2014
Maximum Marks: 85
105 mins

Question 1:

Time:

[15]

(a) Consider an area with an average multipath delay profile of 0.5 micro sec. Show
that WCDMA with 3.84 M chips/sec will better be able to exploit the multipath
diversity as compared to IS-95 with chip rate 1.2288 Mchips/sec. (2) What is the
minimum path length required for multipath diversity for both systems?
(b). Consider Channelization codes

Cch,4,2 = 1, -1, 1, -1 and Cch,4,3 = 1, -1, -1, 1.

(i) Calculate Autocorrelation?

(ii) Calculate Cross-Correlation?
(iii) Calculate correlation of Cch,4,2 with a delayed version of itself. What result do
you draw from this last step?

Question 2:

[15]

(a). Write the Transport Channels on each of the following messages for RRC
connection setup? How do the UE know that the RRC connection setup message is
destined for itself?

(b).Complete the channel mapping diagram below. Mention bi-directional channels

with double-arrow and uplink channels with reverse arrows;

Question 3

[15]

(a) A UE with IMSI* = 90117 reads the following System Info;

Calculate:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)

After how many milli seconds the mobile will wake up to listen to its
paging indicator in PICH?
Calculate first, second and third System Frame Numbers where UE will
have to wake up and listen to its Paging Info?
Calculate the offset used by UE to index Paging Frame?

Question 4

[20]

(a).Show by calculations which of the following systems are spectrally more

efficient;
i.
ii.

Single Carrier HSDPA Rel 7 (64-QAM)

LTE (Channel BW = 5MHz, Normal CP, 2x2 MIMO)

For required inputs you can refer to the below mentioned tables;

(b). In a single carrier cell, HSDPA with 5 codes is enabled. How many codes are
available at SF=256 for the A-DCHs and non-HSDPA users? Assume only 4 users can
be scheduled for HS-DSCH. Show calculations.

Question 5

[20]

The following measurements are being made by the UE;

(Ec/No) serving = - 11 dB ,
(Ec/No)Nbr_C = - 5 dB

(Ec/No) Nbr_A = - 8 dB, (Ec/No)Nbr_B = - 7 dB,

From SIB3 and SIB11 of the serving cell, the following parameter values have been
read;
sRatSearch = 4 dB
sInterSearch = 6 dB
qQualMin = - 18 dB

qHyst2 = 4 dB
qOffset2 (serving, A) = 2 dB
qOffset 2(serving, B) = 3 dB
qOffset2(serving, C) = 4 dB

(a). With the above measurements, which cell will the UE re-select to ? Give your
calculations.
(b). At what value of Ec/No of serving cell, the UE will start measuring the
neighbouring GSM cells?
(c). Suggest 3 different options for parameter change (s), that will shrink the
serving area of the current cell?
(d). From above mentioned parameters, suggest parameter change that will shift
more traffic from 3G to 2G?
(e) In a busy commercial area, an operator deploys a new cell on second carrier and
wants to keep its serving area restricted to Ec/No = -10 dB. Suggest some basic
parameter values for this cell in order to meet operators criteria.
(f) Draw signaling diagram indicating RRC messages exchanged between UE and
RNC for execution of event 1a. Mark the point where the UE will be in soft/softer HO
state.