Sheet 1 - EE 350 - Fall 2023-2024
Sheet 1 - EE 350 - Fall 2023-2024
Faculty of Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
1. In a certain cellular system, given the average calling time per call is 150 seconds, the
number of available frequency channels is 12 channels and the number of users is 190
users.
i. Find the expected blocking probability of the system.
ii. Now, and for the same number of users, evaluate the additional number of
channels required to reduce the obtained blocking probability by 40%.
iii. For the obtained value for B in part (ii), find the percentage increase in the
number of channels required to increase the number of users by 80%.
3. It is desired to have a co-channel interference (C/I) result from the first tier (in the normal
case of an omni-directional antenna) to be ≥ 20 dB and the loss exponent factor (γ) to be
4.4.
i. Find the optimum reuse pattern needed for the above requirements.
ii. For a reuse distance of 6 km, what must be the value of the radius of the cell?
iii. Now use the designed values to find the interference power associated with certain
carrier power of 5 pW.
iv. Now re-design given that the minimum receiver sensitivity (Rs) = -100 dBm.
4. (a) For a cellular mobile environment, find the optimum frequency reuse pattern (kopt) that
result in a co-channel interference (C/I) >18 dB with a loss exponent factor (γ) of 4.2
and the attenuation factor (α) of 8.
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(b) Find the frequency reuse distance (D) when the radius of the cell (R) is 2 km.
(c) Use the designed values to find the desired transmitted power when the associated
interference at the mobile station is -130 dBm.
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