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The document outlines Homework 5 for the course INFSCI 1072/TELCOM 2700, focusing on radio propagation in wireless networks. It includes questions related to mobile phone system coverage, fading margins, cluster sizes in cellular topology, and path-loss modeling for various frequencies. Students are required to apply the Okumura-Hata model, calculate power levels, and generate plots using R or Matlab.

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The document outlines Homework 5 for the course INFSCI 1072/TELCOM 2700, focusing on radio propagation in wireless networks. It includes questions related to mobile phone system coverage, fading margins, cluster sizes in cellular topology, and path-loss modeling for various frequencies. Students are required to apply the Okumura-Hata model, calculate power levels, and generate plots using R or Matlab.

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INFSCI 1072/TELCOM 2700: Introduction to Wireless Networks

Homework 5

Read the material on radio propagation posted on the web page. Answer the following
questions.

1. Consider a mobile phone system cell using a frequency of 900 MHz providing coverage
to a urban environment like the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. The height of the receiver is
2 meters and the cell site antenna is 34 meters tall. The mobile terminal receivers have
a sensitivity of –90 dBm. Using the Okumura-Hata propagation model determine what
power level the base station must operate at to have a cell coverage radius of 1.6 km.
2. What is the fading margin if the shadow fading component has a standard deviation s =
8 dB and you want to design a system that has 95% coverage at the edge of the cell?
3. If you apply that fading margin to the mobile phone system in Problem 1, at what power
level must the base station operate?
4. Of the following, what values are possible for a cluster size in a cellular topology? Why?
Assume a hexagonal geometry: 8, 21, 23.
5. Consider a digital cellular system that can tolerate a carrier to co-channel interference
ratio (C/I) of 14 dB in the worst case. Assuming that the path loss coefficient is 3.5,
determine the cluster size Nc for frequency reuse.
6. Generate the following plot using R or Matlab: Plot the path-loss assuming the free
space loss model for frequencies of 700 MHz, 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 28 GHz. The
distance between the transmitter and receiver varies from 500m to 10km. Identify the
curves for the various frequencies. In the same plot, show what happens at 700 MHz if
the path-loss gradient changes from 𝛼 = 2 to 4. The x-axis should be in meters and the
y-axis should be the path-loss in dB.

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