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CS314 - Introduction to Cellular Networks

Time: 90 min
Marks: 60

1) Which of the following usually stores all user-related data that is also
relevant to GSM mobile systems?

a. VLR
b. HMR
c. CMR
d. SIM

2) In which one of the following codes with specific characteristics can be

applied to the transmission?

a. CDMA
b. GPRS
c. GSM
d. All of the above

3) Which of the following offers packet mode data transfer service over
the cellular network?

a. TCP
b. GPRS
c. GSM
d. None of the above

4) Which one of the following enables us to use the entire bandwidth

simultaneously?

a. TDMA
b. CDMA
c. FDMA
d. All of the above

5) In the Cellular Network, on which of the following, the cell's shape

depends?

a. Political conditions
b. Social Conditions
 c. Environment Condition
d. None of the above

6) In a Cellular network, which of the following is used to use the same

frequency for others?

a. Frequency hopping
b. Frequency reuse
c. Frequency planning
d. None of the above

7) Which of the following uses wireless as the mode of communication for

transferring or exchanging data between various mobiles over a short-
range?

a. Ad hoc computing
b. Mobile computing
c. Bluetooth technology
d. None of the above

8) The main aim of the file system is to support________

a. Transparent access to data

b. Efficient access to data
c. Consistent access to data
d. All of the above

9) In a distributed system, a client sends the request, and the server

provides_____

a. Data
b. Service
c. Information
d. All of the above

10) One of the essential challenges of distributed systems apply to DFS

is/are

a. Migration of data
b. Concurrent access to data
c. Replication of data
d. All of the above
11) Which one of the following can be considered as the features of
CODA?
a. A disconnected operation for mobile computing
b. It is freely available under a liberal license
c. It provides high performance through client-side persistent
caching
d. All of the above

12) Which one of the file systems applies gossip protocols?

a. CODA
b. Ficus
c. Rover
d. None of the above

13) Which of the following modes are supported by the Mio-NFS?

a. Connected
b. Loosely connected
c. Disconnected
d. All of the above

14) Which of the following can be considered as the advantage of using

frequency reuse?

a. The same spectrum can be allocated to the other networks

b. Only a limited spectrum is required
c. Increase capacity
d. All of the above

15) Which of the following can be considered as the primary function of

snooping TCP?

a. To buffer data close to the mobile host to perform fast

local re-transmission in case of packet loss.
b. Congestion control
c. Flow control
d. None of the above

16) In which one of the following, the slow and fast hopping is used?

a. GSM
 b. GPRS
c. FHSS
d. None of the above

17) Mobile Computing allows transmission of data from one wireless-

enabled device to another_

a. Any device
b. Wired device
c. Wireless-enabled device
d. one of the above

18) Which of the following can be considered as the drawbacks of the

Mobile and Wireless Devices?

a. Smaller keypads
b. Consumes power rapidly
c. Requires a big power source
d. All of the above

19) In general, a mobile computing environment can also be considered as

the type of __________ environment.
a. Grid computing
b. Mobile computing
c. Distributed computing
d. None of the above

20) Which of the following is a fundamental principle of wireless

communication?

a. Electromagnetic waves
b. Microwaves
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above

21) Which of the following statements is correct about the FHSS?

a. FHSS is a type of narrowband signal

b. It uses the 78 frequency in the 2.4 GHz
c. It is referred as Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
d. All of the above
22) Which of the following is required to transmit the digital information
using a certain frequency by translating it into an analog signal?

a. Demodulation
b. Modulation
c. QPSK
d. BSPK

23) When was the 2G communication introduced in the market?

a. 1982
b. 1984
c. 1986
d. 1988

24) Which of the following is supported data rates of 4G Networks?

a. 1024kbps
b. 100mbs
c. 200mbps
d. None of the above

25) Which one of the following is considered as the GSM supplementary

service?

a. Emergency number
b. SMS
c. Call forwarding
d. All of the above

26) How many sub-systems are Global Systems for Mobiles?

a. 4
b. 3
c. 2
d. None of the above

27) Which of the following is considered as the heart of the Global

Systems for Mobiles (or GSM)?

a. Networks Switching Sub System

 b. Operational Support Sub-system
c. Base Station Subsystem
d. None of the above

28) The term "HLR" stands for the ______

a. Home Location Register
b. House Location Register
c. Home Live Register
d. None of the above

29) BSC comes under which of the following category?

a. Operation
b. Radio
c. Network
d. Mobile

30) The term TDM stands for___.

a. Time Division Multiplexing

b. Transfer Multiplexing
c. Tedious Division Multiplexing
d. None of the above

31) In which of the following, the single-channel has the ability to carry all
transmissions simultaneously?

a. In the Code Division, Multiple Access (or CDMA)

b. In the Time Division Multiple Access (or TDMA)
c. In the Frequency Division Multiple Access (or FDMA)
d. None of the above

32) In which one of the following times is specifically divided into several
time slots that are in the fixed patterns?

a. CDMA
b. TDMA
c. FDMA
 d. All of the above

33) How many types of security services are provided by the GSM?

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. None of the above

34) In which one of the following, the early FM push to talk telephone
system, was used?

a. Half Duplex
b. Full Duplex
c. Simple Duplex
d. None of the above

35) The paging system can be used for _______

a. Sending numeric messages

b. Audio Calls
c. Sending alphanumeric messages
d. All of the above

36) Which of the following statements about the Half Duplex is correct?

a. It is a type of communication in one direction

b. It is a type of communication in one direction at a time
c. It is a type of by directional communication at the same time
d. None of the above

37) The term _________ refers to transporting a mobile station from one
base station to another base station.

a. Roamer
b. Forward channel
c. Handoff or hand over
d. MIN

38) Which one of the following statements is correct about the PCN?
 a. Wireless concept of making calls
b. Irrespective of the location of the user
c. For receiving calls
d. All of the above

39) The IMT-2000 is a digital Mobile network that functions as the

____________.

a. Cordless
b. Pager
c. Lower earth orbit satellite
d. All of the above

40) Which one of the following can help in avoiding the interference
between the neighboring base station?

a. Assigning different group of channels

b. Using transmitters with the different power level
c. Using different antennas
d. All of the above

41) 3 Marks
Consider a network consisting of 3 clusters. Each cluster uses the
frequency reuse parameters i=1 and j=3 to allocate frequency channel to
the cells in the clusters. You are required to draw cell pattern showing all
three clusters and label the co-channel cells with same name.

42) 3 Marks
Consider a CDMA network which has a chip rate of 384 MCPS (Megachips
Per Second). The network has a downlink spreading factor (SF) of 8. The
channel control overhead is 5%. By considering the given scenario,
answer the following questions:
What will be the symbol rate for downlink channels?

43) 3 Marks
Suppose that the frequency reuse factor is missing from the above
network scenario. You are then required to calculate the frequency reuse
factor, if only two values i.e. i = 2 and j = 1 are given.

44) 3 Marks
Suppose we have an APMS networking with reverse communication band
150 - 250 MHZ. If the width of each channel is 50 KHz. Calculate the uplink
frequency for channel number 10 in an AMPS network.

45) 3 Marks
Suppose a telecommunication company is using the MCS-5 scheme for the
modulation. You are required to write down the Modulation technique
characteristics that relates to MCS-5 scheme.

46) 3 Marks
Write down the most appropriate multiple access techniques used in each
of the below listed cellular systems:
[Link] Mobile Phone System (AMPS)
[Link] System for Mobile (GSM)

47) 5 Marks
Consider a situation where a cellular network is allocated 300 duplex
channels to provide network services in a service region. The company
decides to replicate the clusters 10 times and uses a frequency reuse
factor of 12. The radius of each cell will be 2 miles. For the given scenario,
answer the following questions: What will be maximum number of
channels that the network can use at any given time?

48) 5 Marks
Consider a WCDMA network which uses direct sequence spread spectrum
(DSSS) as a modulation technique to encode the transmitted data in a way
to reduce the noise interference. Now, suppose you want to transmit a 16-
bit data 8B 85 (given in hexadecimal form) over the network. What will be
the output spread data if data is modulated by using the 8-bit spread code
AB?

49) 5 Marks
Suppose a XYZ cellular network company has allocated 720 duplex
channels in a particular region for the perfect network services. The
company wants to replicate the clusters 2 times that utilizes the frequency
reuse factor of 12. The minimum distance that is kept between two co-
channel cells is 18 miles. a)Calculate the total number of channels per cell.

50) 5 Marks
The GSM cellular network is divided into different geographic areas of a
GSM cellular network. You are required to arrange the given areas with
respect to their coverage size starting from smaller to largest.
[Link] area
[Link] service area
[Link] area
[Link] service area