ENGD3106 Mobile Communication 2
Coursework Assignment II
2019-2020
Mobile Communication Systems
Issue date: 30/03/2020
Submission deadline: 14/05/2020
Feedback date: 04/06/2020
What to submit: Your coursework must be submitted as a report in Word format to Turnitin. All Matlab scripts used must be included in an appendix at the end of the report. This includes all additional functions you have written as part of your code (if any). Your Matlab code must be well-commented and documented. All references must be in IEEE format. Please note that 5 marks will be allocated to the presentation and organisation of your report.
• For the International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)-Advanced system, the International Telecommunication Union defines the propagation model for a line-of-sight urban macro-cell scenario with a base station antenna height of 25 m and a mobile antenna height of 1.5 m as:
where L is the magnitude of the link attenuation in dB, r is the range in m, and fc is the centre frequency in GHz.
Table 1 shows the link budget for the uplink on a mobile communication system operating on 2.1 GHz.
• Calculate the range of the radio cell based on the link budget given in Table 1.
Link Budget (Uplink)
Value
Transmitter, terminal
Maximum mobile transmission power [W]
0.3
Antenna gain
1.0 dBi
Body loss
-2 dB
Receiver, Base Station
Required Eb/N0 at base station decoder
5 dB
Fast fading margin
-4 dB
Log-normal fading margin
-7.3 dB
Antenna gain
11 dBi
Cable loss
-3 dB
User noise interference margin
3 dB
Processing gain (W /R)
24 dB
Thermal noise
-118.4 dBm
Table 1
[5 marks]
• Write a Matlab code that can calculate the cell radius for a given link budget. Test your code using the parameters in Table 1.
[8 marks]
• LTE (4G) system uses three modulation techniques, i.e. QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM. Discuss the impact of using different modulation techniques on the cell coverage range when all other system setup parameters are the same. Your answer should be supported by recognised publications, preferably from IEEE, that are cited properly using the IEEE referencing style.
Use the Matlab code in b) to demonstrate the impact of different bit rates on the cell radius.
[8 marks]
• GSM systems use Aloha techniques to control the access to radio channels. With Rayleigh fading, the throughput of slotted Aloha S is given by
where G is the average number of all access attempts made in a fixed interval and ≥ 1 is a threshold called capture ratio.
• Find the maximum throughput of slotted Aloha, i.e. the maximum possible value of S.
[5 marks]
• Suppose dB, calculate the maximum value of S.
[2 marks]
• Verify your answer of b) by using Matlab to plot S as a function of G and mark its maximum point.
[7 marks]
• The International Telecommunication Union has defined three scenarios for 5G communication systems:
• Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB)
• Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC)
• Massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC)
Research the literature to review these scenarios highlighting the main applications of each one. Your answer should be supported by recognised publications, preferably from IEEE, that are cited properly using the IEEE referencing style (500 words maximum).
[10 marks]