Spring 2017 MIMO Communication Systems

Homework Assignment #1
Due Time: 5:30pm on 03/10/2017
(Please turn in your homework in ED717)

Problem 1 (25 points)

(a) Consider a two-path channel with impulse response h(t) = 1 ( )+2 ( 0.032106 ).
Find the distance separating the transmitter and receiver, as well as 1 and 2 , as-
suming free space path loss on each path with a reflection coefficient of 1. Assume
the transmitter and receiver are located 8 meters above the ground and the carrier
frequency is 950 MHz.

(b) Consider a system with a transmitter, receiver, and scatterer as shown in Figure 1.
Assume the transmitter and receiver are both at heights ht = hr = 4m and are sep-
arated by distance d, with the scatterer at distance 0.5d along both dimensions in a
two-dimensional grid of the ground, i.e. on such a grid the transmitter is located at (0,
0), the receiver is located at (0, d) and the scatterer is located at (0.5d, 0.5d). Assume
a radar cross section of 20 dBm2 . Find the path loss of the scattered signal for d = 1,
10, 100, and 1000 meters. Compare with the path loss at these distances if the signal
is just reflected with reflection coefficient R = 1.

Figure 1: System with scatting

Problem 2 (25 points)

This problem shows how different propagation models can lead to very different SNRs (and
therefore different link performance) for a given system design. Consider a linear cellular
system using frequency division, as might operate along a highway or rural road, as shown
in Figure 2 below. Each cell is allocated a certain band of frequencies, and these frequencies
are reused in cells spaced a distance d away. Assume the system has square cells which
are two kilometers per side, and that all mobiles transmit at the same power P . For the
following propagation models, determine the minimum distance that the cells operating in
the same frequency band must be spaced so that uplink SNR (the ratio of the minimum
received signal-to-interference power (S/I) from mobiles to the base station) is greater than
22 dB. You can ignore all interferers except from the two nearest cells operating at the same
frequency.

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 Figure 2: Linear Cells

(a) Propagation for both signal and interference follow a free-space model.

(b) Propagation for both signal and interference follow the simplified path loss model (i.e.,
(2.39) in the slide) with d0 = 85m, K = 1.75, and = 3.25.

(c) Propagation for the signal follows the simplified path loss model with d0 = 100m, K = 1,
and = 3.0, while propagation of the interfererence follows the same model but with
= 4.

Problem 3 (20 points)

Consider a cellular system where the received signal power is distributed according to a
log-normal distribution with mean dBm and standard deviation dBm. Assume the
received signal power must be above 10 dBm for acceptable performance.

(a) What is the outage probability when the log-normal distribution has = 10 dBm and
= 8 dBm?

(b) For = 4 dBm, what value of is required such that the outage probability is less
than 1%, a typical value for high-quality PCS systems?

(c) Repeat (b) for = 15 dBm.

Problem 4 (15 points)

The following table lists a set of empirical path loss measurements:

Distance from transmitter Pr /Pt
5m -70 dB
25m -85 dB
65m -105 dB
110m -115 dB
400m -135 dB
1000m -150 dB

(a) Find the parameters of a simplified path loss model plus log normal shadowing that best
fit this data.

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(b) Find the path loss at 2.5 Km based on this model.

(c) Find the outage probability at a distance d assuming the received power at d due to
path loss alone is 10 dB above the required power for no outage.

Problem 5 (15 points)

Consider a cellular system operating at 950 MHz where propagation follows free space path
loss with variations from log normal shadowing with = 6.5 dB. Suppose that for acceptable
voice quality a signal-to-noise power ratio of 18 dB is required at the mobile. Assume the
base station transmits at 1.5 W and its antenna has a 3 dB gain. There is no antenna gain
at the mobile and the receiver noise in the bandwidth of interest is -10 dBm. Find the
maximum cell size so that a mobile on the cell boundary will have acceptable voice quality
95% of the time.