Q1. Who Manages the Error correction in the LTE data transmission?

1.RRC
2.PDCP
3.RLC
4.MAC

Q2. Whether Carrier Aggregation is used or not, which function is not affected?
1.Physical Layer
2.MAC
3.RLC
4.RRC

Q3. Why is OFDMA not used in the Uplink and SC-FDMA is used instead?
1.OFDMA can not be sent by small devices
2.eNB can only send OFDMA, it can not receive OFDMA
3.UE transmitter design becomes complex to manage high PAPR
4.eNB Can not receive signals with high PAPR

Q4. How many subcarriers are required for PSS and SSS and BCH respectively?
1. 61,61,72
2. 62,62,72
3. 72,72,72
4.62,62,62

Q5. Which statement is false about DCI?

1. PDCCH Message for a power or resource allocation

2. Conveys Downlink and Uplink resource allocation.

3. DCI conveys the ACK/NACK through PDCCH
4. DCI message format is independent of the bandwidth

Q6. Which statement is false about PCFICH?

1. PCFICH occupies 4 REG irrespective of BW.
2. Its content may be 1,2 or at most 3.
3. It consists of 32 bit value.
4. This indicated the area for PDCCH.

Q7. Which statement is false about PHICH?

1. PHICH conveys the ACK/NACKs for every phycal channel transmission.
2. PHICH is in the control region.
3. PHICH may beconfigured in only first symbol only.
4. PHICH may be configured in entire control region.

Q8. What is false about MBSFN and MBSFN region?

1. MBSFN region conveys the MBMS broadcasting.
2. MBSFN Subcarriers are only 7.5Khz wide.
3. MBSFN region will be at least 1 slot equivalent.
4. MBSFN RBs will always have less or equal to 72 REs.

Q9. What is false statement about PSS and SSS?

1. PSS and SSS both occupy 62 resource elements.
2. SSS is in 0th and 5th subframe in FDD and TDD both regardless of Technology.
3. In FDD PSS is in 0th and 5th subframe, in TDD PSS is in 1st and 6th subframe.

4. PSS gives cell group id (0-167) and SSS gives sector id within group id(0-2).

Q10. What is false about OFDMA and SC-FDMA?

1. SC-FDMA has a step of DFT Pre(de)coding, which OFDMA doesn't, and rest is same.
2. OFDMA is Multicarrier but SC-FDMA is not Multi-carrier.
3. SC-FDMA subcarriers PAPR is very minimal.
4. eNB transmits OFDMA, but UE transmits SC-FDMA.

Q11. What is NOT TRUE about Q(in) and Q(out) in Radio Link Monitoring process?
1. When RSRP is between the two, UE may be either in coverage or out of coverage.
2. When RSRP is better than Q-In for certain count, UE is said to be in coverage.
3. When RSRP is Worse than Q-out for certain count, UE is said to be out of coverage.
4. When the RSRP is between the two values the UE will be always be out of coverage.

Q12. What is not TRUE about Transmit Diversity?

1. In all the antennas the same information is transmitted.
2. The diversity information is combined by the receiver.
3. Two antennas information are never multiplied with Precoding Matrix.
4. Two antennas information may be multiplied with Precoding Matrix for interference
minimization
Q13. What is false about C-RNTI?
1. C-RNTI does not change at Handover.
2. At the Randon access process, UE gets the C-RNTI from eNB.
3. C-RNTI for a UE changes with every cell.
4. UE does not have any C-RNTI in the Idle Mode.

Q14. What is not true about Sounding Reference Signal Procedure?

1. SRS is associated with PUCCH and PUSCH.
2. SRS is used for Channel Quality estimation.
3. SRS is used for enhancing power control.
4. SRS is always transmitted in the last symbol of preconfigured subframe.

Q15. What isNOT true about BPSK and QPSK?

1. BPSK modulates 1 bit into a symbol.
2. QPSK modulated 2 bits into a symbol.
3. Entire information in control region uses only BPSK.
4. In the worst conditions, QPSK is used for data transmission, not BPSK.

1 Which may not be part of the CS domain entity - MSC, GMSC, VLR, HSS?

2 What is the difference between RA and LA? Is RA always <= LA?

3 Which is the signalling/service gatekeeper of the IMS when a user requests - P-CSCF, MGCF,
IMS-MGW, S-CSCF?
4 Who acts as mobility Anchor point - eNB, MME, S-GW or P-GW?
5 Who manages the error correction in data transmission - MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC ?
6 What feature of eNB gives direct S5 connectivity to P-GW and to the internet?
7 Does Relay Node have an X2 Interface? What is the limitation?
8 Whether Carrier Aggregation is used or not, which function is not affected - PHY, MAC, RLC,
RRC ?
9 By any mobile, with two antenna in 20Mhz, what is the maximum data block size transmitted
in one millisecond?
10 Why is SC-FDMA used in uplink and not OFDMA.
11 HeNB concentrates the U-Plane links or C-Plane links or both?
12 How many subcarriers are there in a Resource Block and how wide is a resource Block?
13 What is the sampling frequency in LTE and how many times of WCDMA sampling frequency?
14 How many subcarriers are required for PSS and SSS and BCH respectively?
15 What is the smallest time measurement unit Ts in LTE? Show the calculation. How many Ts
are there in 1 subframe?
16 Which Channels/Signals are relevant only in Physical layer and they are not needed and not
mapped in Transport or Logical Channels. List them for DL and UL separately.
17 What is the smallest and largest RB size in LTE and how much Mhz bandwidth does that
correspond to?
18 What is REG?

19 What is CCE? How many CCE's are required to carry PDCCH? Explain different configurations.
20 What is CSI?
21 In normal cyclic prefix, what is the length of the 0th and 1st symbol CP in Terms of Ts? How is
the length of total time if all 7 CPs are added together in a time slot in terms of Ts and seconds?
22 What is UE specific reference signal and when/how is it used?
23 What is DCI?
24 What is ePDCCH and When is it used?
25 What is CFICH and where is it mapped?
26 What is PHICH and
27 How many types of Ref Signals are transmitted in DL. Mention and explain.
28 How many types of Ref Signals are transmitted in UL? Mention and explain.
29 In extended CP. How many resource elements are there in a Resource Block?
30 What is MBSFN and MBSFN region?
31 What is PSS and SSS?
32 What is the minimum bandwidth required for LTE system and why?
33 What is the difference between OFDMA and SC-FDMA? Why OFDMA is not used in both the
directions?
34 What is Q(in) and Q(out) in Radio Link Monitoring process?
35 What is Transmit Diversity?
36 What is Cyclic Delay Diversity?
37 What is RNTI?
38 What is Sounding Procedure?
39 What is the difference between BPSK and QPSK?
40 What is difference between ,16QAM and 64QAM.
41 How do you get the Physical Cell ID from eNB?
42 Who (De)Multiplexes logical channels - MAC, RLC or PDCP?
43 How many RA Preambles are there?
44 Where is duplication detection done - MAC, RLC, PDCP ?
45 What is ROHC?
46 What is Cyphering?
47 What is Integrity Protection?
48 What is difference between Acceptable, Suitable cell?
49 What is Access Class?
50 What is difference between Barred and Reserved Cell.
51 What is the minimum signal level(RSRP) for a cell to be a candidate?
52 What is the "S" criteria.
53 What is "R" Criteria.
54 What is meaning of Q_hyst?
55 What is Q_qualmin & Q_rxlevmin.
56 What is Intial Cell Selection?
57 What is stored Info Cell (Re)Selection?
58 What is CSG cell?
59 What is Ranking?
60 How is reselection done for a CSG cell?
61 What is the criteria to initiate TA Update?
62 What are the logical channels/Message types associated with SRB0?

63 What are logical channels associated with SRB1 and SRB2?

64 What are logical channels associated with DRB and MRB?
65 What is CSG whitelist?
66 Differentiate HPLMN and EPLMN?
67 How does an Relay Node acquire the System Information?
68 When is MIB and SIB1 scheduled in a frame?
69 When is Paging initiated by eNB?
70 When is RRC connection establishment initiated?
71 What is RPLMN?
72 What is Hybrid Cell?
73 For incoming call, who initiates connection release?
74 what are Radio link failure related actions initiated?
75 What are UE actions upon leaving RRC_CONNECTED initiated?
76 What is difference between Serving Cell and Primary Cell?
77 What are the 4 different RRC security keys change on Security Mode?
78 Differenciate between Handover and Cell Change Order.
79 Differentiate between CSFallBack and SRVCC.
80 How many Maximum Serving Cell can be there in total?
81 What does UE extract from the PBCH?
82 What does UE get from tuning to PSS?
83 What does UE get from tuning to SSS?
84 What is Attach?
85 What is detach?
86 When is Identification Request required?
87 What is main difference between eMM Registered & De-Registered states?
88 What are the criteria when I can initiate a Tracking Area Update?
89 What is Registration? What are the triggers for Registrations?
90 Which networks are non-trusted Networks - Wifi, CDMA, Wimax, GSM?
91 In LTE, Handover does not requires Neighbour list to be sent to UE, how?
92 What is Path switch and when does it happen?
93 What is an end marker and when is it used?
94 What is seamless handover?
95 What is Lossless handover?
96 What is RAN sharing?
97 Where is Uu, S1, S5 and S8 connectivity respectively?
98 For Security Authentication, which parameters are sent from MME to the UE?
99 What is an MBSFN Area?
100 What is MBMS Counting?
101 What is ABS in ICIC?
102 What is UE History Information? Who and when does it use?
103 Tracking Area list management is done at eNB or MME?
104 What is the mobility Achor point? S-GW or P-GW or eNB in LTE?
105 Who allocates IP address to the UE? P-GW, MME or IMS?
1 What is the content of the cyclic prefix?
2 How wide is the MBMS subcarrier in kHz?

3 How many symbols are there in 1 millisecond in Random Access subcarrier?

4 What does CSI consist of?
5 What information is derived out of PSS/SSS signals?
6 Where are PSS/SSS mapped in Physical resources?
7 Where is PBCH mapped? How many RB's do they occupy?
8 Describe briefly how, where and how many padding 0 bits are inserted in code
segmentation.
9 Can control information be sent on PUSCH without UL-SCH data?
10 What is the CRC length, total number of segments, Encoder type and Modulation for PBCH?
11 In which CSI transmission case PUCCH is used?
12 CQI is 4 bits. What does 0, 1 and 15 indicate respectively.
13 How many DMRS are there in a RB in a PUCCH of type 1/1a/1b and of type 2/2a/2b?
14 Explain why a mobile with speed more than 500Km/Hour will fail to remain connected with
LTE?
15 What is a preamble format? How many types are there? Explain when which type of format is
suitable?
16 What is the length of preamble sequence in bits and how many RB's are required to send?
17 what are the values transmitted as CSI?
18 What is SRS and where is it physically mapped? Explain.
19 What is sent in DCI format 0?
20 How many symbols and REGs does PCFICH occupy?
21 how many REGs does one PHICH occupy and where in the DL Physical Resource?
22 How many mobiles PHICH can be sent in the same symbol and how are they multiplexed?
23 How is PHICH and CFICH allocated in different cells so that they avoid interference. Show it
pictorially to explain.
24 In case of 4x4 MIMO, how many reference signals are there in an RB?
25 What is the %tage occupied by Ref signals in 4x4 MIMO case?
26 In FDD, the UL and DL frame timing is slightly skewed in time and who is earlier by how
much?
27 Which are the Physical signals sent in UCI?
28 Which are the signals sent in DCI?
29 What are the valid CRC length in bits?
30 For a buffer of length 6140 from MAC (TTI), what is the number of segments? Why?
31 Which channel case Turbo coding is used?
32 which channel case BitRepeatationCoding is used?
33 What is the smallest and biggest segment size for Encoding?
34 For Turbo Encoder - If block size is 80, what is the number of output bits.
35 For Convlutional Encoder- If block size is 80, what is the number of output bits?
36 How many trellis bits are additional terminated with and with which streams?
37 What is Trellis Termination for Turbo Encoder?

38 Total Number of bits G and mapped onto G'=G/(L*M) symbols. What is L and M?
39 For Turbo coding rate matching, data block is to be spread in how many columns?
40 What are the control information multiplexed with data of PUSCH?
41 what are the control information interleaved together with PUSCH?
42 How many Symbols are used for PUSCH in a SRS subframe per subcarrier, including
multiplexed CQI.
43 For DL-SCH, PMCH and PCCH, what is CRC length,number of segments, Encoder type and
modulation?
44 What is the CRC length for CFICH and PHICH respectively?
45 What kind of encoder is used for CFICH and PHICH?
46 For RAR, how many bits is TA?
47 If the TA is 25 in the RAR, what is the TA adjustment required in microseconds?
48 How many bits is TA adjustment for non-RAR Timing Advance?
49 If the TA value is 25(decimal), how much milli/ microsecond timing is to be adjusted?
50 If TA=25, Is the timing to be increased or decreased?
51 Normally, when should the TA adjustment should take place, if you receive it in subframe x?
52 If you receice a Scell Activation or De-activation in subframe x, when should that be effective?
53 In EPRE calculation what is the relationship with Cyclic Prefix?
54 What are the main factors in calculation of Power for PUSCH? List them.
55 What are the 3 parameters, based on which scrambling code is generated?
56 What is the max TPC accumulation(dbm) value in both +ve and -ve direction?
57 What is Power scaling factor?
58 Cell Parameter P(B) is denoted by (B)/(A). What are these 3 parameters w.r.t. symbol EPRE?
59 What is the maximum P(B)?
60 List the parameters UE must have before Random Access?
61 What are the factors which determine the initial RA power?
62 After getting RAR, What do you send to eNB?
63 First L3 message after RAR is sentafter how long delay from RAR?
64 If you do not receive RAR within RAR window, after/before what delay would you retransmit?
65 What is the significance of "UL delay" and "hopping flag" in RAR?
66 What is the max number of DL HARQ processes for FDD and TDD in UL/DL both?
67 How many Maximum bits are there for PUCCH of format 1/1a/1b and 2/2a/2b each and they
are spread in how many symbols?
68 Explain difference between Resource allocation type 0 and 1?
69 What is RBG(Resource Block Group) and size of each RBG?
70 What are the parameters defining the TBS size?
71 What is the minimum(with minimum modulation) and Maximum(with maximum modulation)
TBS (Transport Block Size) for one layer.
72 If for single layer TBS size is "X", will the TBS size be n.X for n layers? Why?
73 What are CSI elements?

74 What is Periodic and Aperiodic CSI?

75 Max how many MACs can be configured for TTI bundling?
76 In a group hopping, how many hopping patterns are there and how many sequence shiftpatterns?
77 For every subframe of PUSCH how is ack/nack sent?
78 for every PDSCH, when/how is the ack/nack sent?
79 List the types of RNTI (with their default values, if any).
80 What are parameters defining SRS?
81 What is the difference between type 1 and type 2 hopping?
82 What is difference between intra-subframe and inter-subframe hopping?
83 What are the 4 configurations of CCE?
84 How will you find number of PDCCH accomodatable in a subframe?
85 What is Common Search space?
86 What is UE-Specific Search Space?
87 How is PHICH assigned on the control region?
88 How is CFICH assigned in the control region?
89 How many PUSCH DMRS RE's are there in a RB in a subframe?
90 Where are DMRS mapped on the PUSCH RB in a subframe?
91 What is cyclic shift?
92 How is cyclic shift it used for PHICH or other control information among UE's?
93 What is the spreading factor used for PHICH after repeat encoding?
94 In PHICH what is the total number of symbols occupied?
95 DL Phy Layer transmission is Synchronous or asynchronous?
96 UL Phy Layer transmission is Synchrnous or Asynchronous?
97 What is semi-persistent scheduling?
98 How many bits are used to send Scheduling Request in PUCCH?
99 How is SR sent and multiplexed with other control information?
100 How many users PDCCH can be multiplexed for format 1 and format 2 respectively on the
same physical resource?
101 In rel-10 how many antenna max assumed for UE?
102 In rel-10 How many antenna max in eNB?
103 How many types of reference signals are there in Downlink? List them.
104 In case of 4 antennas with 4x4MIMO, maximum how many codewords and layers can be
configured?
105 In DRX, What channels does UE monitor in active period?
1 In DRX, What channels does UE monitor in active period?
2 What are the Physical channels through which BCCH is carried through?

3 What are the Logical Channels Carried by UL-SCH?

4 What are the Logical Channels carried by DL-SCH?
5 What Logical channels are carried by PDCCH?
6 What Logical channels are carried in PUCCH Physical Channels?
7 When do you initiate MAC RA Procedure?
8 When is your Temporary C-RNTI gets converted to C-RNTI?
9 How many bits is C-RNTI?
10 How many groups of RA preambles are there in UE&eNB?
11 When is RA-Preamble-Group A picked up?
12 When is RA Preamble group B picked up?
13 During Random Acces, if paging comes, what acrion will UE take?
14 RA-RNTI = 1+t_id+10*f_id.
Explain what is t_id and f_id?
15 How do you know how many RAPIDs are there in RAR MAC PDU?
16 What is MAC-ContentionResolutionTimer
17 What are the parameters in a RAR?
18 What is Backoff indicator in RAR?
19 What is RAR window?
20 If UE doesnt receives contention resolution, when/how will it retransmit?
21 What is HARQ Entity?
22 What is HARQ Process?
23 What is the maximum entity allowed in each UE?
24 How many max HARQ processes required in each UE in FDD?
25 How many max HARQ processes required in each UE in TDD?
26 Why there is a dedicated MAC process for BCH?
27 What is the maximum time a UE will backoff for RA?
28 How many TTI's can be bundled together?
29 In Logical Channel Prioritization, what is Prioritized Bit Rate?
30 What is Bucket Size Duration?
31 What is the start and end activity in Contention Resolution?
32 How much is Bj incremented each TTI?
33 What is Buffer Status Report?
34 What is power headroom?
35 Rewrite channels/data priority order which MAC considers first - CCCH, any other LoCH, BSR,
PHR,BSR with padding.
36 What channels are normally carried by TM?
37 What channels are carried by UM RLC?
38 What channels are carried by AM RLC?
39 Why RLC is recommended to do ARQ and not HARQ?
40 What is polling bit in RLC?
41 What is Poll_SN in RLC?
42 What is sliding window in RLC?
43 If any SN falls outside window, what is the action?
44 What is receiving window?
45 What are the two edge variables describing start/ends of window for AM?
46 What is msg3 buffer in Random Access?
47 How does RLC maintain the re-assembly point each cycle of re-assembly for AM?

48 What does re-assembly units do in RLC.

49 What are the various AM RLC SN sizes possible?
50 What are the various UM RLC SN sizes possible?
51 What is Frame Indicator? What are the possible indicators?
52 What is Resegmentation Flag RF?
53 What do you send in STATUS_PDU?
54 What is LSF Field indicate?
55 What is SO_start and SO_end?
56 What is t_Status_Prohibit?
57 What is Poll_PDU and Poll_Byte?
58 For a single voice call, how many MAC processes, RLC processes and PDCP processes will be
there in one direction?
59 What is PRACH Resource Index?
60 How are Cyphering Keys generated?
61 What are the keys for Integrity and how are they generated?
62 Is ARQ or HARQ implemented in PDCP?
63 What is the maximum size of PDCP SDU recommended?
64 What is COUNT and what is it used for?
65 What is DRB and SRB?
66 When is SRB0 created?
67 When is SRB1 created?
68 When is SRB2 created?
69 What is FMS (First Missing SN)?
70 How is PDCP STATUS PDU sent?
71 What is MAC-I? How does it help?
72 What is ra-PRACH-MaskIndex?
73 What are the various PDCP SN sizes possible?
74 What are the Logical Channels carried through HARQ?
75 What are the Logical Channels NOT carried through HARQ?
76 What are the Physical Channels Terminate at MAC/Physical boundary and are irrelevant to the
upper layers?
1 What does UE get in SIB1?
2 What does UE get in SIB2?
3 What does UE get in SIB3?
4 What does UE get in PCCH?
5 Where is MIB mapped in a frame?
6 Where is SIB1 mapped in a frame?
7 How do you get SIB2 to SIB13 periodicity?
8 What is SI Modification Period?
9 How do you get SI change notified?
10 After System Information, what UE does UE need before Cell Selection?
11 Which access class gives you emergency services?
12 What extra services do you get by AC 11 and 15?
13 How is state "Camped on Any Cell" different from "Any Cell Selection" state?
14 How do you calculate RSRQ?

15 Specify the minimum S for valid candidate Cell.

16 When does UE go from RRC Idle Mode to Connected mode?
17 What is SIntraSearchP?
18 When will UE choose not to perform measurements in Intra-Frequency cells?
19 What is SnonIntraSearchP?
20 When will UE choose not to perform measurement in Inter-RAT/Inter-Freq cells
21 How do you say a mobile is in Medium speed?
22 How do you say a mobile is in High speed?
23 What is T_cr_max, N_cr_H, N_cr_M?
24 What are the mobility scaling factors- sf-high and sf-medium?
25 What is TreselectionRAT?
26 For Cell Re-selection, for best cell ranking, RSRQ is not used, why?
27 When will a UE initiate re-selection w.r.t. time?
28 What is special in the re-selection from a CSG/Hybrid cell to non-CSG cell?
29 What are the L3 BCCH messages in DL-SCH?
30 How many SIB messages are included in an SI message?
31 What is a PF (Paging Frame)?
32 What is PO (Paging Occasion)?
33 How does the UE get the System Information of Serving Cells other than P Cell?
34 How does UE know that there is a change in SI and it needs to monitor and read the SIBx?
35 When is RRC connection reconfiguration initiated?
36 When is Proximity indication initiated?
37 When is Counter check initiated?
38 When is RRC connection re-establishment initiated?
39 When is Radio resource configuration initiated?
40 What are UE actions upon PUCCH/ SRS release request initiated?
41 What are attributes for DRB?
42 What are attributes for SCell?
43 What are attributes for SRB?
44 In ASN.1, what is CHOICE?
45 In ASN.1, what is SEQUENCE?
46 What is measurement gap and how much gap is required to read another cells measurement?
47 What is inactivity timer? What is the value and how is it calculated?
48 How do you define active time in DRX?
49 When does UE go from un-synchronised state to synchronised state?
50 What are the UE radio temporary identities in eNB?
51 What is too late Handover?
52 What is too early handover?