G H RAISONI UNIVERSITY, AMRAVATI

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

OPEN BOOK TEST - 2 (SUMMER 2024)
B. Tech.
(FOURTH SEMESTER)
Course: Advanced Topics in Wireless Communication Course Code: UIST212
Time: 02:00 Hrs Max. Marks: 50

Course Outcomes (CO):

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to
CO1: Basics of wireless communication
CO2: Capacity of Wireless Channels
CO3: Coding for Wireless Channels
CO4: Adaptive Modulation and Coding, MIMO Communication
CO5: Multiuser Systems Multiuser Channels and Next generation of Communication systems (Beyond
5G, 6G Networks, Technologies such as Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi etc.)
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Instructions to Candidates:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. All questions carry equal marks with no negative marking.
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1. In which year was the first transatlantic radio transmission accomplished?
a) 1896
b) 1901
c) 1920
d) 1945
2.Which organization is responsible for setting global standards for cellular
communication?
a) IEEE
b) ITU
c) 3GPP
d) ETSI
3. Which wireless standard was introduced as a successor to GSM and aimed at
providing higher data transfer rates?
a) CDMA
b) LTE
c) WiMAX
d) Bluetooth
4. What does WLAN stand for?
a) Wireless Local Area Network
b) Wide Local Area Network
c) Wireless Long Area Network
d) Wide Long Area Network
5. Which of the following is not a current cellular communication standard?
a) 4G LTE
b) 3G UMTS
c) 5G NR
d) Wi-Fi 6
6. What is the primary reason for the allocation of spectrum bands for specific
uses?
 a) To prevent interference
b) To increase power consumption
c) To limit data transfer rates
d) To decrease coverage area
7. Which government agency in the United States is responsible for regulatingthe wireless
spectrum?
a) FCC
b) FDA
c) EPA
d) NIH
8. What is the main advantage of 5G over 4G networks?
a) Lower latency
b) Higher data rates
c) Greater coverage
d) Lower cost
9.In satellite communication, what is the purpose of a transponder?
a) To receive signals from Earth stationsb)
b) To amplify and retransmit signals to Earth stationsc)
c) To generate signals for transmissiond)
d) To redirect signals to other satellites
10.What is the primary difference between licensed and unlicensed spectrum?
a) Licensed spectrum requires a subscription, while unlicensed spectrum does
not.
b) Licensed spectrum is reserved for government use, while unlicensed spectrum
is open for public use.
c) Licensed spectrum is allocated to specific users or operators, while unlicensed spectrum
can be accessed by anyone meeting regulatory requirements.
d) Licensed spectrum operates at higher frequencies than unlicensed spectrum.
11. Which of the following is an incorrect statement regarding orthogonal frequency domain
multiplexing (OFDM)?
a) OFDM is more resilient to frequency selective fading.
b) OFDM provides efficient utilization of bandwidth without any intercarrier
interference
c) The use of cyclic prefix reduces the receiver design complexity
d) OFDM has smaller peak-to-average power ratio as compared to single-carrier system
12. Which of the following is NOT correct statement:
a) In TDMA, it is possible to assign multiple channels to a single user
b) In TDMA, large synchronization overhead is required among different users
c) In TDMA system, guard slots are not required
d) TDMA is used in GSM and IS-136 digital cellular standards
13. Which of the following statement is correct;
a) To achieve the same bit error rate, AWGN channel requires less average SNR as
compared to the Rayleigh fading channel
b) To achieve the same bit error rate, the Rayleigh fading channel requires less average
SNR as compared to AWGN channel
c) To achieve the same bit error rate in the AWGN channel, QPSK requires less SNR as
compared to 8 PSK
d) To achieve the same bit error rate in the AWGN channel, QPSK requires more SNR
as compared to 8 PSK.
14. Which of the following is NOT correctly matched with respect to the receiver diversity
combining technique:
a) Selection Combining: The received signal with the lowest SNR is selected
b) Equal gain Combining: Signal copies are combined with equal gain
c) Maximal ratio Combining: Signals copies are weighed and combined coherently
d) Selection Combining: The received signal with the highest SNR is selected
15. Which of the following statement is FALSE:
a) Scattering occurs when the medium through which the wave travels consists of
objects with dimensions that are larger compared to wavelength.
b) Scattering occurs when the medium through which the wave travels consists of
objects with dimensions that are small compared to wavelength.
c) Diffraction occurs when the radio path between transmitter and receiver is obstructed
by a surface with sharp irregularities
d) Reflection occurs when a wave hits a smooth object that is larger as compared to
wavelength.
16. Which of the following is FALSE with respect to modulation:
a) Superimposing a message signal with a carrier wave is known as modulation.
b) In modulation, a message signal is used to modify the characteristics of a carrier
wave.
c) In modulation, the carrier wave is used to modify the characteristics of the message
signal.
d) In modulation, only the amplitude of the signal can be varied.
17. Which of the following statements is correct with respect to Doppler shift:
a) Doppler is zero if the mobile moves perpendicular to the angle of arrival of
transmitted wave
b) Doppler is positive if the mobile moves in direction towards the direction of arrival of
wave
c) Doppler is negative if the mobile moves in direction opposite to the direction of
arrival of wave
d) Doppler spread is the minimum Doppler shift
18. Which of the following statement is correct with respect to small-scale fading:
a) The impact of fading is independent of the symbol period of the transmitted signal
b) The Impact of fading is dependent on the symbol period of the transmitted signal
c) The Impact of fading is dependent on the bandwidth of the transmitted signal
d) Time Dispersion and frequency dispersion are two interdependent channel
propagation mechanism
19. The frequency range of ultra-high frequency band is:
a) 3-30 MHz
b) 30-300 MHz
c) 300-3000 MHz
d) 3-30 GHz

20. Which of the following is not a 2G mobile standard:

a) Global system for mobile communications (GSM)
b) Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA)
c) General packet radio service (GPRS)
d) None of the above
21. What are the problems with higher frequency bands:
a) High antenna height
b) More loss in signal power
 c) Requires more directed antennas
d) Travel longer distances
22. Which of the following is FALSE about channel in wireless communication?
a) It transfers information between the transmitter and receiver
b) It is a propagation medium
c) It is usually modelled as an additive noise component and multiplicative stochastic
random variable
d) None of the above
23. The phenomenon that occurs when the wave travels through a medium that consists of
objects with dimensions smaller than the wavelength is called:
a) Scattering
b) Scattering
c) Diffraction
d) Line-of-sight
24. If 30 W is applied to a unity gain antenna with a 900 MHz carrier frequency, find the
received power in dBm at a free space distance of 200 m from the antenna. Assume unity
gain for the receiver antenna.
a) 51.721 μW
b) 6.499 μW
c) 0.51721 μW
d) 64.99 μW
25. Which of the following are true about the far-field region:
a) It is proportional to the largest physical linear dimension of the antenna (D)
b) It is proportional to the square of the largest physical linear dimension of the antenna
(λ)
c) It is inversely proportional to the wavelength
d) It is proportional to the wavelength (λ)
26. Which of the following statements are true about the two-ray ground reflection model:
a) The received power is proportional to the square of the distance between the
transmitter and receiver.
b) The received power drops proportionally to the fourth power of the distance between
transmitter and receiver after critical distance.
c) The received power is proportional to the gain of transmitter and receiver antennas.
d) The received power is proportional to the square of height of the transmitter and
receiver antennas.

27. The time-invariant channel model corresponds to:

a) No change in signal characteristics with time
b) Only the amplitude of the signal changes with time
c) Only the frequency of the signal changes with time
d) Only the phase of the signal changes with time
28. Flat fast fading refers to:
a) Ts>TcandTs>>στ
b) Ts<TcandTs<<στ
c) Ts>TcandTs<<στ
d) Ts<TcandTs>>στ
29. Frequency selective slow fading refers to:
a) Bs>Bc and Bs<<BD
b) Bs<Bc and Bs>>BD
c) Bs>Bc andBs >>BD
 d) Bs<Bc and Bs<<BD
30. Which of the following statement(s) is/are true
a) Slow fading is a frequency dispersion phenomenon.
b) Frequency selective fading is a frequency dispersion phenomenon.
c) Flat fading is a time dispersion phenomenon.
d) Fast fading is a time dispersion phenomenon.
31. State which of the statements are true corresponding to Rayleigh, Rician, and AWGN
channels:
a) Outage probability is generally higher in AWGN channel compared to Rayleigh
fading channel
b) Outage probability is generally higher in the Rayleigh faded channel compared to
AWGN channel
c) The Rician channel comprises the dominant line of sight component
d) The Rayleigh channel comprises the dominant line of sight component
32. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?
a) Half Duplex transmission enables data transmission simultaneously in both uplink and
downlink directions.
b) Full Duplex transmission enables data transmission simultaneously in both uplink and
downlink directions.
c) Half Duplex transmission enables data transmission in either uplink or downlink
directions at a time
d) Simplex transmission enables data transmission simultaneously in either uplink or
downlink directions at a time.
33. Which of the following statements is correct about Forward error correction?
a) It is used for error correction
b) It is only possible if the reverse channel is available
c) It decreases the complexity of the decoder
d) It decreases the cost

34. Which of the following statements is/are correct if information bits (k) are 4 and code bits
(n) are 7?
a) Parity bits = 3, Code rate=4/7, Redundancy=3/4
b) Parity bits = 3, Code rate=7/4, Redundancy=4/3
c) Parity bits = 4, Code rate=4/7, Redundancy= 3/4
d) Parity bits = 4, Code rate=3/4, Redundancy=4/7
35. The channel symbol for systematic encoding, if the data bits (101) is passed through the
channel encoder with parity bits (110), is: [MCQ]
a) 101101
b) 110101
c) 010110
d) 001101
36. Which of the following statement(s) is/are incorrect about the Single-Parity-Check
Codes? [MSQ]
a) Error correction is possible
b) No error correction is possible
c) It can only detect the presence of even number of bit errors
d) It can only detect the presence of an odd number of bit errors
37. Which of the following is/are the properties of the generator matrix (G)?
a) The generator matrix is not unique
b) The k-row vectors of the generator matrix (G) are linearly independent
 c) The k-row vectors of the generator matrix (G) are linearly dependent
d) The generator matrix is unique
38. What will be the code word matrix dimension, if the generator matrix dimension is 3x6
and the message sequence dimension is 1x3?
a) 1x3
b) 1x6
c) 3x3
d) 3x6
39. Which of the following statement(s) is/are true about the syndrome vector?
a) A syndrome (s) of the codeword (r) is only used for error correction
b) A syndrome (s) of the codeword (r) is used for error correction and detection.
c) A syndrome (s) of the codeword (r) is all zeros if the transmitted codeword is not
corrupted.
d) A syndrome (s) of the codeword (r) is all zeros if the transmitted codeword is
corrupted
40. Which of the following statement(s) is/ are correct?
a) BCH codes are a generalization of Hamming codes.
b) BCH are a class of cyclic codes that does not allow multiple error correction.
c) Golay Codes need a complex decoder compared to Hamming codes.
d) Golay Codes have a low code rate compared to Hamming codes.
41. Which term refers to the simultaneous transmission of multiple signals over a
shared medium?
a) Multiple Access
b) Multiplexing
c) Diversity
d) Interference
42. Which multiple access technique divides the available spectrum into multiple
non-overlapping frequency bands?
a) FDMA
b) TDMA
c) CDMA
d) OFDMA
43. In a cellular network, which direction does the uplink transmission occur?
a) From the base station to the mobile device
b) From the mobile device to the base station
c) From one mobile device to another
d) From the internet to the base station
44. Which part of the communication link is referred to as the downlink in a cellular
network?
a) From the base station to the mobile device
b) From the mobile device to the base station
c) From one mobile device to another
d) From the internet to the base station
45. What is the fundamental difference between 5G and previous cellular standards?
a) Increased data transfer rates
b) Lower latency
c) Enhanced spectral efficiency
d) All of the above
46. Which organization is responsible for defining the standards for Wi-Fi
technology?
a) IEEE
b) ITU
c) ETSI
d) 3GPP
47. What is the fundamental difference between 5G and previous cellular standards?
a) Increased data transfer rates
b) Lower latency
c) Enhanced spectral efficiency
d) All of the above
48. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct about Power-domain (PD)
NOMA:
a) The different users are allocated different power levels within the same time slot/frequency
resource block in PD-NOMA.
b) It uses superposition coding at the receiver.
c) It uses successive interference cancellation at the transmitter.
d) The users are non-orthogonally multiplexed in power.
49. Which of the following is true about adaptive modulation and coding?
a) Adapting to channel fading can increase average throughput.
b) Adaptive modulation does not require a feedback path between transmitter and
receiver
c) If the channel is changing faster, i.e., coherence time is lesser than the time it
takes for the feedback then the adaptive modulation techniques will perform
poorly.
d) It does not explore favorable channel conditions to send higher data rates.
50. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct for MIMO optimal water
filling? [Consider RH is the rank of the channel matrix and is equal to
min(Nt,Nr)where Nt and Nr are the number of transmit and receive antennas]
a) At low SNR, the water filling algorithm allocates approximately equal power
to each of the RH parallel channels, and CMIMO≃RHCSISO
b) At high SNR, the water filling algorithm allocates equal power to each of the
RH parallel channels, and CMIMO≃RHCSISO
c) At high SNR, the water filling algorithm allocates approximately all power to
the strongest of the parallel RH
e) At low SNR, the water filling algorithm allocates approximately all power to
the strongest of the parallel RH channels